Despite tentative jobs growth, small businesses experienced slow sales growth and rising late payment times in the three months to September, according to the latest data from global small business platform Xero.
At Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) 2023, Adriano Sanchez, Co-Founder of Maphunter talks to Startups Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Anna Wood all about their product which allows tourist to access customisable video content anytime, anywhere, so they can enjoy the freedom to explore the city at their own pace, without limitations, and according to their preferences.
At Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) 2023, Hannah, Accounts Manager at Curated Planet talks to Startups Magazine Deputy Editor, Anna Wood all about their communication product and how it works for travellers and tour operators alike.
At Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) 2023, Thomas Dowson, Director of Archaeology Travel talks to Startups Magazine Deputy Editor, Anna Wood all about their product and how they are assisting travellers with booking their own trips and activities to sites of historical interest.
At Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) 2023, Javier Martínez de Velasco, COO at Artgonuts talks to Startups Magazine Deputy Editor, Anna Wood all about their product and what the future holds for them
Generative AI and the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) leads to unintended alterations in the sentiment of original text, according to leading academics from the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School.
Coventry Building Society Arena, one of the Midlands’ premier event venues, has unveiled a new partnership with sustainability platform, SKOOT.
Startups often start investing in marketing even before the release to boost sales in advance. The question of when to start PR is more complicated and requires more understanding of what to broadcast to your audience.
The government has opened an inquiry into the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) to assess its cyber-resiliency as the UK is highlighted to be the third most targeted globally for cyber-attacks, following the US and Ukraine.
The challenge of hygiene is paramount in medical facilities, necessitating countless hours dedicated to sterilising instruments. This was the situation in Dr. Giorgio Castagno’s dental practice in Valsesia, northern Italy. It took the assistant over six hours daily to sterilise tools and drills. Dr. Castagno identified this not as a minor inconvenience but as a significant issue.
Employment Hero, one of the world’s largest employment management platforms, has announced a Series F growth round of £131 million to fuel its rapid global expansion, following in the footsteps of Atlassian, Xero and Canva.
Multiple startups have been recognised at the Touristech Startup Fest 2023, the global entrepreneurship competition hosted annually by TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit. The event, which has positioned itself as the key event for the tourism and technology entrepreneurial ecosystem, received more than 4,000 applications from startups from countries such as Spain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
MacDonald grew up on a farm in New Zealand and was always active in the environmental scene there. He ended up doing a teacher’s qualification thinking he could go and teach for a period of time while travelling. He came over to London in 1999, teaching Geography and Maths at a school in London, and never left the country! He commented that in 2016 he “wanted to move to an electric car but struggled with being able to charge it. So, I ended up working on a little side project whilst teaching, moved to part-time and eventually left teaching in 2021 and took this on full-time.”
Robert Rizea and Bogdan Demeny are the Co-Founders of Racketpal. As two passionate tennis and squash players, Rizea and Demeny realised there was no obvious and easy way for them to meet other players who were also up for a game. But they knew there had to be a way to fix that. Then one evening in September 2018, the pair were enjoying a pint in The Cleveland Arms in Paddington when the eureka moment struck. They decided it was time to create an app to help racket sports players meet each other, and started working on plans for the app that became Racketpal the very next day.
Upfront Diagnostics, a healthcare company focused on discovering novel biomarkers that can be applied to medical diagnosis, has started the last phase of clinical evaluation of a point-of-care rapid blood test designed to rapidly identify when stroke is caused by a blood clot blocking a main blood vessel within the brain. This is known as large vessel occlusion (LVO).
multifi, a UK startup specialising in finance for small and medium-sized businesses, has secured a substantial capital injection of £10 million from Fasanara Capital, a $4 billion London-based asset manager and technology platform. This initial injection will support the growth of UK businesses that can access a credit facility of up to £200,000 with a fixed monthly access fee of 0.3% and an interest rate of 1.99% per month on used credit.
Finnish biotech startup Enifer has contributed to a new study on farmed salmon that was done in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). The study utilised Enifer’s PEKILO®Aqua mycoprotein, and it was conducted by a group of researchers led by Professor Margareth Øverland.
In this interview series Richard Richie, Managing Partner of Alcon Maddox, gets some of London’s most forward-thinking tech leaders to spill the beans on what is making their companies so successful and what innovations the future has in store.
LG NOVA, LG Electronics’ North American Innovation Centre, has launched the next version of its Mission for the Future programme designed to discover, build and grow highly impactful mission-driven new businesses in collaboration with startups and entrepreneurs.
We all are pretty aware of the fact that the world is now standing face-to-face with numerous pressing environmental challenges requiring urgent action. Ecologists and environmental activists have done a remarkable job to bring these issues up for a global discussion. Climate change, deforestation, air pollution, uncontrollable amounts of waste, and other problems require a collective effort from governments, businesses, and individuals.
