South Summit and IE University held the second edition of the ‘Scaleup Series’ in London this week. This international gathering brings together founders and leaders of scaleups, unicorns, investment funds, and corporations in major European cities to explore growth opportunities as well as key investment and innovation trends in the European entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Navigating the intricate landscape of trade marks and brand protection is crucial for startups aiming to carve out a distinctive identity in a competitive market. This article addresses the ten most frequently asked questions by startups about trade marks and brand protection. It provides valuable insights into how emerging businesses can safeguard their innovations, ensure their brand stands out, and avoid common pitfalls.
The numbers are in — last year, the UK’s tech sector ranked number three globally with a valuation of over $1 trillion/£826 billion, solidifying its status as one of the world’s digital giants. Amidst widespread anxieties of a post-Brexit funding downturn, British tech has proved itself remarkably robust.
For most early-stage companies, much of 2023 felt like an especially harrowing series of episodes from a Mr. Robot-ish dystopian narrative. The combination of a recession, layoffs across the tech industry and beyond, SVB and Credit Suisse destabilising the banking sector, inflation in the US, and a general slowdown of financing from the jubilee-like days of 2021-22 feel like a series of heavyweight punches engineered to knock founders off their feet, and then keep them down there.
Any revolution is a major step in change and change is simultaneously difficult and exciting, providing drawbacks and opportunities, often in equal measure. People called the industrial revolution the ‘end of the world’. They asked what would happen to people’s farms and their jobs – the artisan skills – and there was a period of uncomfortable transition, however in reality it opened up opportunities that they had never dreamt of.














