Digital transactions have the potential to easily eclipse human connections if left unchecked. The concept of ‘customer intimacy’ takes on new significance in modern business, where digital trends are the standard.
A new report, published to mark the inaugural UK Tech Week celebration of tech ecosystems across the UK, shows that South Yorkshire’s tech sector saw record levels of home-grown startup activity and attracted more tech company relocations than ever in 2023.
The business landscape today is highly competitive, and companies must be able to offer something different in order to attract and retain customers. While a product or service may help to secure a buyer’s initial business, there are many other factors that can influence a customer’s decision to remain loyal to a brand.
Sorted, a London-based recycling tech business, has raised £1.65 million in a seed funding round led by Pi Labs. Other investors include the circular economy-focused fund Archipelago Ventures, Circular Plastics Accelerator, Conduit Connect, Antler and angel investors.
With users increasingly favouring mobile applications over computers, attackers are turning their attention toward mobile devices. However, company executives often view security costs as a “necessary evil” due to their indirect impact on revenues. Czech startup Talsec aims to change this perspective by offering specialised tools for app developers that protect against hackers, conceal sensitive information, and detect malicious software. Originating as a spin-off from the Brno-based technology company Monet+, Talsec, after two years of organic growth, has received an investment exceeding 25 million Czech crowns in the first round from London-based Dig Ventures and Czech DEPO Ventures. This funding is intended to accelerate its penetration into the global market and support further development.
The Spanish company PLD Space has attained 120 million euros in funding to date, thus ensuring it can meet its upcoming technological and corporate milestones, culminating in the launch of the MIURA 5 mission at the end of 2025.
Venture capital firm 14Peaks Capital has successfully closed its first fund at $30 million in capital commitments from an impressive consortium of limited partners (LPs), consisting of influential High Net Worth Individuals (HNIWs) and family offices spanning Europe and the United States.
Equispheres has announced it has completed an initial close on its Series B financing totalling approximately C$20 million.
The latter part of 2023 saw UK’s climate tech startups raise all time high levels of VC investment. In 2023, climate tech made up 23% of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into London – twice the amount of 2022.
Overlooking cybersecurity as a small business is not just risky—it’s downright reckless.
That might seem an obvious statement. And you might assume that every business leader understands the gravity of a cyberattack.
After being given the title of ‘most masterful pitch’ by the BBC and securing investments from both Gary Neville and Sara Davies on Dragons’ Den, Lottie Whyte, Co-Founder of MyoMaster, knows how to successfully sell-in an idea.
On the 22nd April, Rare Founders brought together a staggering number of investors and founders under one roof. This created a dynamic environment brimming with opportunity for the founders that had the opportunity to pitch their innovations.
Following the resounding success of its previous editions, the highly anticipated London Climate Technology Show is poised to make its triumphant return to ExCeL London from November 27th to 28th, 2024.
Following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, the Royal Academy of Engineering has received a £150 million endowment from government to launch the Green Future Fellowships programme in 2024.
This Earth Day, BT is announcing a new partnership with the UK Business Climate Hub (UKBCH) that aims to help UK small & medium businesses (SMBs) halve CO2e emissions by 2030 and empower them to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Corporate travel spend in the UK is projected to increase in the next 12 months, with over half (60%) of SMEs planning to spend more on business travel overseas than they did last year, according to new research from corporate travel agency Travel Counsellors for Business.
41% of business leaders have cited the increased movement of Chief Financial Officers to Chief Exec positions as a key instigator of the UK’s current CFO shortage.
Midas, the fintech startup that brought retail investing to millions of people in Turkey, announced that it has raised $45 million in equity funding.
Seven UK scaleups offering innovative technologies for the maritime sector have pitched their offerings to five of South Korea’s largest shipbuilding and ship owning corporations during a trade mission to the UK.
2024 is a year that demarcates some significant anniversaries in the world of technology. 40 years ago, in 1984, Michael Dell founded Dell Technologies as a college student with 1,000 dollars in his bank account. And today, the company is valued at 102 billion dollars, with a philosophy of innovation and risk-taking still driving forwards much of its approach to product development.
