Santander is offering early-stage startups across the UK the opportunity to win up to £25,000 equity-free funding and business support through the Santander X UK Awards 2023.
I will not be the first to tell you how things are for startups. The rising interest and inflation rates and the turbulent geopolitical situation are pressing, and the business environment cannot help but feel it already.
Data-rich generative artificial intelligence (AI) will drive modern day business automation, says Lee Chin Jian, Vice President at DAI Magister.
Debt funding can be a crucial form of growth financing for start-ups and scale-ups, many founders do not consider it as an option when raising capital. Yet with the right product – and often when combined with equity investment – debt funding can help supercharge a promising company’s growth opportunities, taking them from startup to a market leader.
Public, a US-based multi-asset investing platform, has launched in the United Kingdom, entering its first market outside the United States. With the firm’s UK expansion, Public aims to be the preeminent place to invest in US-listed equities, offering over 5,000 stocks, deep data and insights, and a simple and transparent fee structure with zero commission trading and low FX fees.
BrainBox AI announced the close of its fundraising round at $30 million, furthering its mission of delivering scalable AI-driven solutions to decarbonise the built environment.
Caro Syson, entrepreneur, business coach and founder of Pocket PA, shares her insights on how to kick-start a successful business with the St. James’s Place Financial Adviser Academy
In today’s fast-paced and changeable landscape, cutting through chaos is essential for a business to maintain its competitive edge. Disruption and uncertainty pose significant challenges, making it crucial for businesses to find the right ways to navigate the changing landscape.
Investing in the right work trousers is essential to staying secure and comfortable at work. Whether you work in construction, cargo handling, or any other occupation that requires physical labour, the right workwear can make a big difference to your productivity and overall health. You should certainly ask how protective are work trousers and then decide. This guide covers the key factors to selection of work trousers that prioritise protection without sacrificing style and functionality. Different types of work trousers can be purchased from a provider such as Strauss.
Have you ever wondered about the secret sauce behind successful SEO strategies? Well, I did. After spending more than a decade in the trenches of digital marketing, I stumbled upon the crucial ingredient: author authority. Let me explain why it’s worth more than its weight in gold.
The Scale-Up Institute estimates that the UK’s 34,000 scaleups contribute £1.2 million in turnover and employ 3 million+ people, making these businesses incredibly important for our economy. But as a startup transitions to a scaleup, its brand and business become increasingly visible, so knowing how to behave and communicate is integral to keeping the business operating and thriving.
AWS has announced the 13 startups selected to participate in the AWS European Defence Accelerator, providing solutions to help the European Defence industry enhance its energy resilience, secure information sharing, sensing and decision making, quantum, and cyber resilience for land, air, maritime, space, and cyber domain missions.
ayoba – a communication platform and ‘super-app’ in Africa and small business software company BaseKit, have announced a new partnership to help democratise tech and kick start the dreams of entrepreneurs across Africa.
Orbital Composites (Orbital), an innovative deep tech startup pioneering in-space manufacturing technologies, has announced that it has been awarded a $1.7 million US Space Force SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Direct-to-Phase-II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. The award is intended to further the development of In-space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) of antennas, a groundbreaking area where Orbital Composites has shown exceptional promise.
Small businesses face an uphill battle in capturing the hearts of younger customers, as a mere 22% of Gen Z believe their customer service rivals that of larger competitors.
The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has opened applications for the 2024 cohort of its award-winning TechX Accelerator programme. Clean energy startups from around the world can now apply for a place on the programme and a share of the £1.2 million grant funding available (up to £100,000 for each startup).
Outverse, the community platform for modern SaaS companies, has announced that it has raised $6 million in a seed round led by Wing VC. Also participating in the round are Notion Capital, Seedcamp, Connect Ventures, and Tiny VC.
We’ve all heard the headlines that Zuckerberg’s new social media channel spells the end of Twitter. That the further monopolisation of Meta will provide even greater opportunities for micro-personalisation. That it also brings a new host of data privacy concerns with it too.
With fear-mongering stories appearing in the news, on almost a daily basis, you could be mistaken for thinking it’s an easy job to get your AI solutions communicated to the media. The danger is right now the media is saturated with news on artificial intelligence, both negative and positive, with the former dominating the last few weeks.
Many of the best, most innovative, disruptive, creative, successful companies are founded and run by people who are really good at what they do. People who have spent a long time honing their craft and becoming the ‘expert’ in their field.
