As an owner of a growing business, you’ll no doubt be constantly generating ideas for new business and increased order volumes. In this ongoing quest, with many novel platforms and approaches coming to the fore, it may be easy to lose sight of more traditional routes to sales.
Do you allow flow in your working day and take time away from the screen to connect with nature?
Valuing any business can be a complicated and often inexact procedure, but arriving at a valuation for an early-stage business is so much more difficult.
Nearly one in four UK workers (23%) expect to change jobs within the next twelve months – up from 18% in 2022 – according to PwC’s Workforce Hopes and Fears survey, in a sign that the ‘Great Resignation’ is far from over.
Simpson & Partners, a new British-owned electric vehicle (EV) home charging manufacturer based in the Cotswolds, has reported strong growth since production started in June 2021.
FundMyPitch (FMP), a platform that connects investors with investment-ready companies seeking funds in order to kickstart their ventures, has helped raise nearly £6m in funding for entrepreneurs using its platform in its first year of trading.
How can you ensure that your startup will survive and thrive in the competitive and dynamic market?
While summer 2023 hasn’t officially begun, the prospect of Christmas appears distant. However, for product-based startups, the most significant time of the year for a successful festive season is just around the corner. For many startup brands, the final 6 weeks of the year account for approximately 50% of annual sales but the work to get there starts a lot earlier.
Three in five employees have stated that their mental health has declined this year as a result of workplace stress.
The tech investor, entrepreneur and AI specialist Ian Hogarth has been announced as the Chair of the Government’s Foundation Model Taskforce, reporting directly to the Prime Minister and Technology Secretary.
The venture capital tech ecosystem has been rising to meet several difficult challenges over the course of the last year, and even the last few months. The global chatter is over AI – and rightly so.
Mark your calendars for National Women’s Enterprise Week, taking place from the 19th to the 23rd of June 2023. This is the first nationwide campaign set to honour and empower female entrepreneurship.
Blueshift Memory, designer of a novel proprietary high-speed memory architecture, has signed an agreement with Crypta Labs, developer of a quantum random number generator (QRNG) for resilient encryption, to create a cybersecurity memory solution that will be capable of countering threats from quantum computing.
Finnish Earth observation company Kuva Space has been awarded a five-year commercial contract worth €5M to be the world’s sole provider of hyperspectral data services for the European Commission’s Copernicus Contributing Missions (CCM) programme.
From last weekend, a new test to detect and help prevent early signs of oesophageal cancer has been delivered to NHS patients. The diagnostic company Cyted has launched the Heartburn Health Check programme as part of an NHS-funded rollout, set to benefit more than 80 locations across the UK.
During an anticipated event at London Tech Week, Pally, the latest social connection platform was launched. The AI-powered messaging app aims to revolutionise social interaction, creating seamless channels for maintaining, organising, and enhancing relationships.
The venture capital funding winter has gripped the Fintech startup ecosystem for a year now. But as temperatures in Europe rise, a new season is around the corner for commercially sound businesses too.
The six finalists of the WMF Startup Competition, the largest international startup competition competed on the Mainstage in front of an audience and jury from all over the world. Yalla – selected from thousands of applications from around the world – the winner of the Jury Award, secures the Prize offered by Pegasus Tech Ventures: access to the Startup World Cup Finals, scheduled in San Francisco (USA), with a grand prize of 1 million dollars in direct investment. The Czech startup Cyrkl and the Italian startup Wallife were also awarded.
For the Paris Air Show 2023, SkyReal, a startup specialising in 3D technology and virtual reality (VR) applied to industrial design, will be presenting applications of its turnkey solution that helps decarbonise the aerospace sector.
Xavatar, the AI-driven entertainment tech company has announced a partnership with Fexco Group to deliver payment technology in the Metaverse.
