How to leverage influencer marketing as a tech startup

DUO: Dates Unlike Others is a mobile application designed to add excitement and adventure to couples’ dating lives. Created by Arie and Lauren Burnham Luyendyk, who found love on season 22 of The Bachelor, DUO offers a range of features, date ideas, and date planning, to help couples break out of their dating rut and improve their relationship.

Top tips on best practice for in-house tech business recruitment teams

At a time when the UK’s digital skills gap is wider than ever and great candidates are like gold dust, there is a massive challenge for companies to recruit new staff in the technology sector.

Signs an employee is struggling with their mental health

We’re currently living through challenging times and, at Ben, we’re seeing more and more of our automotive family turning to us for support.

The Business Book Awards: a night for celebration

On the evening of Tuesday 16th May, the winners of The Business Book Awards 2023 were announced at The Drum, Wembley, London.

Repairing the fractured relationship between sales and marketing

You know the phrase ‘two nations divided by a common language’? Apparently coined by George Bernard Shaw about Britain and America, it could just as easily be said about different – and sometimes warring – factions in companies. In particular, sales and marketing. 

Clu targets enterprise growth with new investment round

Clu, a skills based inclusive hiring platform, today announces an investment round of £1.2 million to further progress its goal of becoming a major player within the Talent-Tech market, which is forecast to reach $30 billion by 2033.

UK ranks second in G7 economies for economic impact of entrepreneurship

The UK is fourth in the world and second out of the G7 economies, in a new ranking of the impact of entrepreneurs on their overall economy from Shopify. UK entrepreneurs in Shopify’s ecosystem generated £28.8 billion worth of business activity in 2022 and contributed £14.3 billion in GDP impact.

Hardware Pioneers Max 2023: Where Electronics, IoT Connectivity & Embedded Systems Converge

Hardware Pioneers Max returns to London. This annual gathering, held on 13 July 2023, is dedicated to all those involved in developing connected and smart hardware solutions and bringing them to market.

Hadean and Film Soho producing a metaverse-ready Twiggy documentary

Metaverse company, Hadean, is teaming up with film & TV studio, Film Soho, to produce an interactive virtual documentary about the life of iconic British supermodel, Twiggy. Supported by Epic Games, disguise and AWS, the new partnership employs metaverse technology to deliver a photo-realistic interactive experience to a global live audience of fans, while challenging the boundaries of modern filmmaking. 

Overcoming Anxiety with Mindfulness: Mental Health Awareness Month

It’s Mental Health Awareness month and this year’s focus is on anxiety, something most of us are unfortunately more than familiar with.

Everyone says they love your idea, until it’s time to pay

Turning an idea into a reality is an exhilarating pursuit.

Expansion to a new Erudites Networking London Group

Following on from six years of success and growth of the Erudites Network in New York and throughout the USA, it has expanded to enable members to further connect to a global network; unlocking access to business experts from diverse backgrounds, industries, and organisations. 

TidalSense raises £7.5M

Healthtech company TidalSense has closed a £7.5m fundraising round.

Why ditching ‘founder guilt’ is an act of self-care for your startup

As a founder, you are the driving force behind your business. Particularly in the beginning, the lines between non-work and work life become very blurred, with all of your available time and energy consumed by juggling the myriad roles and responsibilities which fall your way.

Why Raise Equity Funding?
This article is part 8 of 9 in the series Getting funding to scale in 2023

Funding for your business can, in theory, come from many different places.  It can be self-funded from your own resources, otherwise known as bootstrapping, or you can ask friends, family, and others that know you, to assist. 

Getting funding to scale in 2023

Ask any early-stage business owner and they will tell you that getting funding to scale can be tough. Very tough. All will tell you that it takes much more time and effort and takes much longer to complete than they had expected. And all will tell you that raising finance is a massive distraction from actually running and growing the business.

Funding into mum and baby care companies plunges 80% in 2022

Tracxn has released its Tracxn Feed Report – Mom & Baby Care ahead of International Mother’s Day. The report, based on Tracxn’s extensive database, provides insights into the global Mom & Baby Care space.

Making sense of recruitment in startups

I run a recruitment business for startups, typically helping companies 10-50 employees to help them make key hires and scale their team. Our team gets to talk to founders and leaders about their hiring challenges and plans, as well as people that are thinking about their careers and what they would want if they were to take a new role.

Femtech can empower women and their mental health

Femtech is a rapidly growing industry focused on designing technology specifically for women’s health and wellness needs. From period tracking apps to pelvic floor trainers, femtech products have revolutionised the way women approach their health. Femtech has huge potential to make a significant impact on women’s mental health and wellbeing. By providing digital tools and resources that are tailored to women’s unique needs, femtech has the power to transform the way we approach mental health.

WorkHack secures seed round as it helps companies adopt generative AI capabilities

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since its release in November 2022 and companies have been racing to adopt this in some shape or form in their business processes. Helping these companies embrace the opportunity, WorkHack is today announcing a $1.5 million funding round to develop its AI tech layer which allows businesses to deploy safe, thoughtful, and responsible AI functions.