The flexible working landscape continues to evolve and shift here in the UK. With that comes fresh opportunities, but also challenges for startups and SMEs, says Firmin Zocchetto, CEO at PayFit.
Founders and small business owners are burning out at alarming rates. According to a report by Startup Snapshot in April 2023, 72% of startup founders reported a detrimental impact on their mental health.
Adyen vs Stripe is a big question when selecting the right payment processing solution for startups and SMEs. These two prominent players both offer robust platforms designed to handle the complex needs of modern businesses.
Founder accounts are becoming increasingly powerful in how they help propel a brand’s success forward. Customers want to know the people behind the business as they make more conscious purchasing decisions, plus they like to learn about products via visual content. In fact, nearly half (44%) of people most like to learn about a new product or service via short video content.
Almost £1.5 trillion of global economic value is lost every year through poor contract management. Simply put, the way firms manage their agreements is broken. Small businesses should review how they create, commit, and manage documents as part of their agreement processes if they want to reclaim opportunities for efficiency and growth.
To promote a sustainable and prosperous future through global collaboration, Taiwan has unveiled the Go Green with Taiwan campaign. This initiative encourages participants to submit projects that demonstrate environmental or economic sustainability using products or solutions from Taiwanese companies.
New analysis by the O3 platform, an AI-powered venture classification tool from the University of Oxford and OpenOcean, has uncovered surprising trends in the UK’s AI startup funding landscape. Contrary to popular belief, between 2012 and 2021, AI startups outside London received higher average funding than those within the capital.
The European Commission’s NGI TrustChain initiative has allocated an additional €1.8 million in grants to top European startups to combat online misinformation and identity fraud using blockchain technology. This latest funding round, dubbed ‘democracy grants,’ will support 15 startups from 10 different countries, each receiving up to €117,000. The selection process was highly competitive, with 162 startups vying for the grants.
South Summit, the benchmark meeting for the entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystem, continues to take steps to ensure that innovation and entrepreneurship are available to everyone. In this sense, South Summit has updated its website so that people with disabilities can navigate with full accessibility and without barriers.
Definely, a LegalTech firm based in the UK, recently secured a £585,000 grant from Innovate UK to propel its AI-driven solutions for the legal sector.
Diversity is a word we hear a lot in the context of business and unfortunately, it’s still often used as a tick box exercise for what a company ‘should’ be doing. This typically means a business and its leaders do not recognise the value a diverse, multicultural team can bring to the business.
A lover of the natural world and a lifelong academic of the quantum field, Sabrina Maniscalco stands at the forefront of quantum technologies as one of its brightest minds. Alongside fellow researchers Guillermo García-Perez, Matteo Rossi, and Boris Sokolov, she founded Algorithmiq to solve life sciences’ biggest questions utilising quantum computing.
With a spark for technology and a drive to solve the puzzles of the universe, whilst simultaneously catching the entrepreneurial bug along the way, Daria Stepanova, Co-Founder and CEO of AIRMO, is leading her team in their efforts to monitor GHG emissions and manage climate risk.
SMEs often face the challenge of generating quality leads to fuel their growth. Unlike large corporations with vast marketing budgets, SMEs must be savvy and strategic to attract potential customers. Here are some practical and effective strategies SMEs can implement to boost their lead generation.
Social media is one of the leading ways that small businesses can generate customers and sales. In fact, recent research revealed that over a quarter (28%) of small businesses in the UK now generate more sales from social media than from any other channel, including e-commerce and bricks-and-mortar stores.
In March, the European Parliament made history by adopting the Artificial Intelligence Act, establishing the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for AI.
Angel investment is a great alternative for startups who cannot access debt finance to grow their company. Business angels are private investors who choose to invest directly in private companies in return for an equity stake in the target company and (potentially) a position on the board of directors of the target company.
Milton Keynes City Council is expanding an electric car charging scheme following a successful trial, providing home charging solutions for motorists without driveways. In collaboration with Kerbo Charge, the council initially tested ‘through-pavement channels’ with six families lacking off-street parking.
Network X, the world’s most comprehensive event for the telecommunications industry, will return this October to bring together industry experts to network, connect, and discuss some of the biggest issues and innovations in the field to date.
osapiens, an ESG platform offering compliance and sustainability reporting solutions, has secured $120 million in a Series B funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
