This year’s edition of Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) featured some fantastic traveltech startups on a mission to revolutionise the travel industry. The event finished up with the Touristech Startup Fest, where 40 startups pitched their businesses to a jury of industry leaders and investors. Of those, we have rounded up a highlight list to share these businesses with you.
This is the first of a series of five technology briefings for Startups Magazine readers, in which we will be reviewing the fastest moving and most exciting fields to equip business leaders on how to identify trends that they can leverage in their own business and technology development plans. The series will cover AI, sustainability, security, and eHealth, but we start with the critical and frequently overlooked role of sensors.
A pioneering new semiconductor technology developed by scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has been selected as one of the first twelve UK semiconductor innovations to receive support from ChipStart UK, a new incubator programme set up by Silicon Catalyst.UK and funded by the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
There’s a Big Bang theory to economic growth, which goes much like the one denoting the origins of our universe. For tiny particles clustering together, take university spinouts. As they form into startups (atoms), eventually that concentration, over time, creates something far bigger, at a scale that was once unimaginable (stars and galaxies).
Frame is an AI-enhanced collaboration software with a mission to provide a framework for focus. Project managers utilise Frame as a unified platform to streamline task assignments, centralise communication, and monitor project progress in real-time, ensuring teams stay synchronised and projects remain on track. Remote teams use Frame to stay connected and organised, simplifying collaboration across all their tools in one unified space.
Sometimes, successful startups don’t need to do anything new, they just need to do it better. HumanForest is one such a company taking that route. Rather than reinvent the wheel, they are seeking to make something that already works, better. Bike sharing. Sure, you’ve heard of it, from Santander Cycles to Lime bikes, they lounge on the pavements of major world cities and help everyone from tourists to company execs circumnavigate the city.
In the world of business, intellectual property (IP) has become an invaluable asset. Intellectual property encompasses a wide range of intangible assets which set your business apart, protect your innovations, and contribute significantly to your bottom line. But what kinds of intellectual property does your business need?












