The freelance revolution cuts across every industry, shattering the once-impenetrable walls of corporate hierarchy. From software gurus to PR ninjas, even executive leadership, a vast pool of independent contractors – not employees – now fulfil every imaginable role across companies.
The adoption of AI has fundamentally reshaped how businesses function, and is revolutionising the way organisations operate and innovate.
With 90% of customers choosing products based on recommendations, leveraging your existing customer base is a powerful way to attract new clients and grow your business. Encouraging customers to share their stories about your products or services helps to build a genuine image, which, in turn, draws in new leads.
Project Brains, a Future of Work startup, has proudly announced its receipt of the prestigious Innovate UK Smart Grant for its AI-powered B2B platform, ‘ProdigyPB’. This award represents a significant milestone for the company, addressing the critical skills shortage faced by UK businesses, particularly startups, scaleups, and SMEs.
Female Foundry has announced a partnership with the Google for Startups Cloud Program. This partnership will provide eight innovative female-founded companies going through a six-week Visionaries AI Programme access to a breadth of Google resources designed for early-stage startup founders, including its latest innovations in AI.
Taxfix Group, a European financial platform for digital tax filing, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TaxScouts, a company working in accountant-assisted digital tax filing.
Managing a business requires you to make tough decisions to determine priorities. This is especially true if you’re a startup trying to grow with limited resources. For instance, which programmes should you sustain? Which business operations should you scale down, and what activities should you stop altogether?
Founder of Another Round and former MMA fighter, Max Cotton, has announced the launch of the AI-powered fitness training solution, VOR. The VOR Engine crafts fully personalised workouts for healthcare and fitness professionals to deliver in-person or online.
Over the years, major cities like New York and London have been centres for innovation and development, due to their dense networks of talent, resources and infrastructure. They have largely monopolised access to capital, drawing people from smaller cities and communities to live and work in diverse industries, and cultural centres, helping to foster creativity and collaboration and creating ecosystems where ideas can rapidly develop and scale.
Cluby, a Finnish startup changing the way restaurants connect with its customers digitally, has successfully raised €2.9 million in a seed round.
It’s almost impossible to completely shut yourself off from the potential of AI. Even if you’re not directly thinking about how you can integrate it into your startup, it’s inevitable that your investors are going to be raising questions about how it might become part of your business in the future.
Revyve, a foodTech startup, has innovated a solution to eliminate animal-derived texturisers and additives from burgers while maintaining a meaty bite.
Malverde, a London-based company dedicated to combating fraud and financial crime, officially launched in June.
ULTRA.VC, an EU-based impact accelerator and early-stage investor, released the second cohort of purpose-driven startups at the Demo Day, held in Warsaw on June 27.
New research from Experian has revealed British businesses recognise the critical role effective data governance plays in today’s modern economy but cite inherent obstacles in putting these practices into action.
DeepL has unveiled the global launch of its business translation solution, DeepL Pro, expanding to 165 new markets across APAC, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Antarctic regions and territories.
In the fast-paced world of ecommerce, brands are often struggling to continuously adapt and remain competitive. As global inflation pressures consumer spending and the cost-of-living crisis remains ever-present for so many, UK retailers are facing an 18-month low in non-essential spending, with many Brits prioritising savings over impulse buys.
Kagool has been awarded the UAE 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year for its Generative AI work with the UAE Federal Government.
It’s not news that today’s world of work is evolving rapidly, being shaped by disruptive forces like artificial intelligence. The ability to think like an entrepreneur is critical to success in such an environment – and it can’t be altered or diminished by AI, which will replace 85 million jobs by next year.
YuLife, the tech-driven insurance firm committed to inspiring life, has unveiled the findings of a YouGov survey highlighting the prevalence of burnout in the workplace.
