Vagaro, a comprehensive business management platform for the beauty, wellness, and fitness industries has officially launched a partnership with Liberis, a global embedded business finance platform, to offer revenue-based finance to more than 220,000 service providers.
Set against a year of erratic financial challenges, research from Novuna Business Finance reveals that small businesses remain steadfast and resolute in their commitment to being green.
In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that working life certainly looks a lot different. Completely reshaping our formally deep-rooted acceptance of the 9-5 office-based working day; a mixture of at-home and office work, has gained significant traction.
For the modern-day worker, the world should – in theory – be an open playing field of adventure and ambition. But in practice, regardless of how appealing it might sound, it is not always feasible to pack up your belongings, relocate to a new country, and begin your job with zero issues in terms of workplace socialising, engagement and administration.
There is a unique energy within the journey of every startup. The Founder and early team members nurture a mood of mutual determination. Failure is not an option. Disruption is the mindset. All Founders hold these characteristics to be true, it’s a natural state and one of the reasons that they chose to become entrepreneurs.
As a founder in the tech industry, you are probably comfortable with a high degree of risk in your business. However, it’s crucial to consider not only the risks to your business but also the risks to your personal financial wellbeing.
Amazon has confirmed its plans to invest up to $4 billion into AI safety and research startup Anthropic. Anthropic is currently seen as OpenAI’s main rival, and was even founded by former OpenAI employees.
Startups Magazine had the pleasure of conducting a Q&A with John Downie, CEO of SteadyPay. SteadyPay is a UK-based progressive lending platform for people with unstable incomes. The AI-based solution analyses open user data to predict their creditworthiness. According to these forecasts, Steadypay tops up the bank account of a trusted and reliable platform user if their earnings fall below the average monthly income.
Startup founders come from a variety of diverse backgrounds and experiences, yet the majority of VC funding is consistently being awarded to white male founders. This is Venture Capital funding’s biggest issue, and it’s harming and discouraging founders from diverse backgrounds.
Mangopay, a platform-specific payment infrastructure provider and VTEX, the enterprise digital commerce platform for premier brands and retailers, have partnered to offer an integration that will enable marketplace operators to cover both pay-in and pay-out on a single solution.
On Thursday 9th November, 2023, Playfair and 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including Atomico, Creandum, Headline, MMC, Northzone, Octopus, Partech, Plug & Play, SpeedInvest, and TriplePoint will be holding remote office hours for more than 300 female founders from across Europe.
Digma has launched the world’s first Continuous Feedback platform to enable developers to continuously analyse their code at runtime to identify issues and regressions, preventing bad code from making it to production, including GenAI-generated code.
As an owner and director of a small business, it’s always important to stay on top of your company administration to comply with your legal obligations and keep your house in order. One very important aspect of this is your Shareholder Register.
Ubiquity, the global business process outsourcer for industry innovators, announces the publication of a first-of-its-kind whitepaper, aimed at helping European fintech scaleups to leverage outsourcing to adapt to fast-changing market conditions.
Italy’s entrepreneurial roots run deep, spanning industries as diverse as fashion and aerospace. Despite this, many consider the country’s startup ecosystem an under-the-radar gem within Europe, often overlooked despite its growing potential.
A recent job satisfaction survey found that two-thirds of UK professionals have quiet quit their jobs. First coined by disgruntled Gen Z employees, quiet quitting, or the silent resignation, is used to describe employees who are disengaged from work.
Starting a business is like embarking on a voyage, full of uncharted territories and endless possibilities. As you set sail on this entrepreneurial journey, one important aspect which often remains underappreciated is trademark protection.
Financial wellbeing startup Mintago has closed a $4.75 million funding round to further enhance its platform and accelerate its growth across the UK.
Harper James, the commercial law firm purpose-built to enable entrepreneurial and ambitious businesses to succeed, has bolstered its intellectual property and trademark practice with the appointment of three new hires from top-50 law firm Blake Morgan LLP. The new appointments form part of the firm’s ambitious plan to double its number of lawyers by hiring 60 new solicitors by 2025.
Bioniq, a precision health startup, is now offering personalised supplements, Bioniq PRO, for customers from all over the world. The startup expands access to personalised supplements worldwide using its patented algorithm that already leverages data from more than 40,000 people with over 4 million biochemical data points.
