The Evening Standard is thrilled to unveil the SME XPO 2024, a vibrant and all-encompassing platform, a dynamic and comprehensive space dedicated to Powering scaleup businesses. Now entering its third year, the event is scheduled for April 23-24, returning to ExCeL in London. The exhibition brings together a diverse range of businesses, experts, and resources to foster growth, innovation, and collaboration. Registration for the event is now Live, and SME XPO 2024 is FREE to register.
Blackfinch Ventures, the venture capital division of Blackfinch Group, plans to announce its inaugural dividend payment from the Blackfinch Spring Venture Capital Trust (VCT) in April 2024.
Innovation will once again take centre stage at the European Digital Mindset Awards. The eighth edition of the awards, held as part of the Digital Enteprise Show (DES), will recognise the leadership and efforts of those companies and professionals who are committed to adopting exponential technologies in their business model. In this sense, the awards will showcase the best projects that are driving digital transformation in the business world, as well as those that accelerate disruption in customer experience, sustainability, or public administrations.
DigitalOcean Holdings, a developer cloud tailored for startups and expanding digital enterprises, recently unveiled Autonomous, a new managed WordPress hosting service by Cloudways.
British entrepreneur and podcaster Steven Bartlett will participate in South Summit Madrid 2024, the leading meeting of the global ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation co-organised with IE University, to be held between June 5th and 7th in Madrid.
In 2024, employers are being urged to extend their support to employees who have hidden or invisible disabilities, with FDM Group, a company dedicated to bridging the gap between individuals and technology, offering six key tips to facilitate this.
As the festive lights fade and the reality of routine kicks back in for many business owners – now’s a good time to think about what 2024 will bring.
About:Energy, a pioneering firm in battery development software, is set to launch ‘Formula Student: Drive to Recharge’, an ambitious project aimed at bridging the UK’s battery skills gap. This initiative is targeted at fostering the growth of 1,500 battery engineers by 2030.
University College Dublin recently introduced a new accelerator programme aimed at assisting entrepreneurs in developing innovative AI solutions for sectors such as healthcare, cybersecurity, education, sustainability, and finance.
appliedAIstudio has announced it has joined NVIDIA Inception, a programme that nurtures startups revolutionising industries with technological advancements.
In 1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov lost the World Chess Championship to IBM’s Deep Blue. He was, in a sense, one of the first to lose a job to AI. Instead of seeing AI as the enemy, Garry wondered: What if humans and AI could team up?
Recent research conducted by Slack, a productivity platform, in collaboration with the business productivity charity Be the Business, has shed light on the various challenges that confront small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK in 2024.
The 2024 Aurora Tech Award has announced its shortlist of 20 women founders from around the world, each dedicated to addressing gender inequality in the tech sector.
Metris, an AI-driven solar energy platform tailored for commercial property owners, has recently secured £2 million in a pre-Seed funding round.
Sopro, a sales technology expert, has uncovered significant shifts in the effectiveness of various outreach strategies, as detailed in its State of Prospecting 2024 whitepaper.
OctaiPipe, a provider of Edge AI solutions, has successfully raised £3 million in pre-Series A funding, complemented by a £500,000 grant from Innovate UK. This funding round was driven by SuperSeed, and saw the participation of Forward Partners, D2, Atlas Ventures, Martlet Capital, Gelecek Etki VC, and Arm-supported Deeptech Labs.
Sano Genetics, a software company accelerating precision medicine research, has raised $11.4 million in new funding. This round was spearheaded by Plural, with continued support from existing investors such as MMC Ventures, Episode 1, and Seedcamp.
London & Partners, the business agency for the UK capital, recently announced the expansion of its Grow Global programme into two new regions: the West Midlands and Scotland.
Clean energy, hydrogen, carbon capture and alternative proteins will all attract significant investment over the next year, says Marion Jeng, Associate at DAI Magister
In this article, Narai Kim, Director of Intralink Korea, highlights the opportunities for tech scaleups in South Korea and how a new government programme can support them.
