Hexagon’s Sixth Sense Announces Nine Startups to Transform Manufacturing

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the nine manufacturing startups chosen for its third Sixth Sense cohort. The selected companies were chosen from a highly competitive pool of hundreds of applicants, distinguishing themselves with groundbreaking solutions addressing critical manufacturing challenges, with a focus on sustainability and digital reality.

13 startups join Discovery Spark life science programme

Thirteen life science startups have been accepted onto Discovery Park’s new business support programme and competition, Discovery Spark. The eight-week Discovery Spark programme will equip the early-stage companies with the necessary skills to catalyse their business growth plans and gives them the chance to win a business support package worth over £100,000.

Unicorn startup competition: applications open

Sigma Software Group launches the UNICORN Startup Competition for startups from Ukraine and the EU. The contest is structured to guide startups through different stages, offering an intensive two-week program to support dynamic interaction.

Vagaro and Liberis Team Up to Offer Beauty and Wellness Merchants Personalized Access to Finance

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.

Surge in eco-conscious small businesses hits record high

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.

Why you need to maintain an accurate Shareholder Register

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.

The Founders Emotional Journey

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.

The insurance to consider as a startup

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’s $4BN investment in AI startup Anthropic

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.

A Q&A with SteadyPay CEO John Downie

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.

Black Seed: Supporting black founders through funding

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 and VTEX Partner to Elevate Global Marketplace Success 

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.

Edition 10 of Female Founder Office Hours has launched

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 Launches Continuous Feedback Platform to Validate and Improve Developer and GenAI Code

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.

London business districts are on the decline, workplace expert reveals why

With the recent news that HSBC will be moving from their Canary Wharf office and many other businesses following suit, the most popular London business districts have seen a shift in office space demand due to the evolution of work-life practices, such as hybrid working.

MSPs are responsible for addressing generative AI and cloud cybersecurity concerns

With sophisticated cyberattacks increasing worldwide, operators must account for generative AI and the cloud when adopting a holistic, strategic approach to their security needs. MSPs have a role and responsibility in providing support in their onboarding practices.

Funding shortfall puts innovation plans in jeopardy

The fifth annual International Innovation Barometer has been published revealing that a declining global economy has stalled innovation potential. 

Ubiquity launches outsourcing guide for European fintechs

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 startup ecosystem report 2023

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.

Let’s shout about the silent resignation

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.