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.
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.
Shipping products efficiently can be a major pain when you’re starting a business, and these problems only intensify as order volumes increase and you have more customer demands to meet.
With more than five million small businesses estimated to be operating in the UK, standing out from the crowd has never been more important.
The dynamic tourism sector is in constant transformation, driven by rapid change and emerging innovations. Technological evolution, a focus on sustainability and changing traveler preferences are setting the future of tourism. To excel in a highly competitive market, tourism businesses and destinations must adapt nimbly to these trends, ensuring their relevance and future success.
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.
A high proportion of businesses have undertaken an AI project in some form, with research from McKinsey revealing that 55% of organisations actively deployed an AI solution last year. However, in order to fully understand what an AI strategy can achieve in a given time period, business leaders must consider which category it falls into.
Manchester-based fintech startup, Lemon, has successfully closed its pre-seed funding round, raising £500,000 to propel the next phase of its development.
Nearly half (49%) of C-suite executives only have moderate confidence in their company’s anti-money laundering (AML) processes, as revealed by a recent survey conducted by First AML, an anti-money laundering scaleup.
DocuWare, a provider of document management and workflow automation solutions announces its acquisition of natif.ai.
Langdock, the platform empowering companies to leverage large language models (LLMs) while staying in control of their data, has raised a $3 million seed round led by General Catalyst alongside La Famiglia.
Salesforce announced that Slack AI, which utilises a company’s conversational data to aid users in working more efficiently and intelligently, is now accessible to all paid Slack customers, with expanded language support.
