Meet Buddy, your financial companion

Today’s generation are living in a totally transformed financial scenario. With the likes of Apple Pay, digital banking, credit cards, buy-now-pay-later and credit, it’s never been so easy to spend money.

Leveraging artificial intelligence for small businesses

In today’s business landscape, small businesses need every advantage they may get to thrive and stay competitive. This is where the power of artificial intelligence (AI) comes into play. Practical applications of AI for small businesses and AI-powered tools may revolutionize efficiency, elevate customer experiences, and empower intelligent decision-making.

Introducing EnateAI powered by GPT-4

Enate, an operations management SaaS platform, has launched EnateAI powered by GPT-4: a brand-new tool designed to help businesses maximise AI in operations.

How BMW empowers startups
How BMW empowers startups

Startups Magazine Deputy Editor, Anna Wood, attended MOVE, the tech mobility and startups show. Alongside all the exciting products on display, and the many interesting startups the team had the pleasure of speaking to, was the highly anticipated conference agenda.

Aide Health joins DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme

Aide Health, the digital health platform that uses conversational AI to help patients better understand and manage long-term conditions, has announed they are one of the 17 digital health companies selected for DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator programme.

SoleSense for stroke rehabilitation wins award

A startup that is revolutionising stroke rehabilitation has won Best Elevator Pitch at Bristol’s Tech-Xpo 2023 Showcase.

Sweden: a beacon for innovation and creativity

Growing up in the United States with Swedish parents, I have been constantly plagued with one, violently irritable, question: “How’s Switzerland?!”

Where are they now? SEON

We caught up with SEON’s CMO, Matt Davies, to see how the last twelve months have been for him and the company.

NI: Helping engineers solve the world’s toughest challenges

For more than 40 years, NI (formerly National Instruments) has developed automated test and measurement systems that help engineers solve some of the world’s toughest challenges.

Intix welcomes Kurt Florus as Chief Technology Officer

As part of its ambitious growth plans and ongoing global hiring process, data management product company, Intix, has announced the appointment of Kurt Florus as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Google brings its medical LLM to support people during pregnancy, maternity, and beyond 

Soula.care, an AI-powered maternity care solution for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, has partnered up with Google to become one of the first non-medical health solutions to use Med-PaLM 2 (medical language model) for safe communication on pregnancy wellbeing and parenthood topics with the chatbot.

The Importance of End-to-End Encryption for Startups

In today’s digital age, data privacy and security are of utmost importance for all businesses, including startups. According to research, cyber-attacks against small and medium businesses in the UK soared by 15% in 2022, with more than half (54%) of SMEs experiencing some form of cyber-attack last year, up from 39% in 2020. The findings also uncover that 18% of SMEs said their business was not protected with cybersecurity software.

Science Creates Launches Engineering Biology Accelerator Programme

Bristol-based deep tech ecosystem, Science Creates, has launched an engineering biology accelerator programme to support life science start-ups and innovators in developing advancements in healthcare, the environment, and quality of life.

Upp. raises $10m to transform online selling for retailers

Upp., a London-based technology business that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to disrupt how retailers market and sell their products online, has raised $10 million in a Seed funding round led by California based Bonfire Ventures.

Half of SMEs lack a sustainability executive

As many as 2.75 million UK SMEs – 45% – do not have anyone leading their sustainability efforts despite the nation’s small businesses making up 99% of all UK businesses.

Kidovo raises $1.2M funding round

The next generation of children are growing up with digital devices all around them. As a result, they’re spending increasing amounts of time on these devices in passive consumption of content which is leading to a range of development issues.

Fireside chat with Karen Carney, professional women’s football player

Karen Carney is one of the UK’s most popular footballing personalities. A member of England’s team for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which came third place in the tournament, she is now an ITV and Sky Sports football pundit covering men’s and women’s games. Prior to England’s crunch World Cup match with Cameroon, England Manager Phil Neville said: “She’s a big moment player”. Her impressive record at both domestic and international level has seen her twice named as FA Young Player of the Year and she has earned 144 caps for England, the third most capped in history, behind Fara Williams and Jill Scott in both male and female football.

Baking ESG into business: golden shares explained

Tony Chocolonely, the ethical chocolate brand, recently hit the headlines for introducing a ‘golden share’ mechanism to their business to protect the company’s ethical strategy.

How to Use AI to Enhance Customer Experience in Fintech Apps

I will surely not throw a “news bomb” here by saying that venture capital fundraising marketing is going through a bad patch. Yet, some statistics never hurt.

Private sector backed initiative set to turbocharge UK exports with one stop shop

A new private sector-backed initiative is set to turbocharge the UK’s SMEs to increase their footprint and exporting power.