It’s been a bruising few years for the global dealmaking market. Between trade wars, political upheaval, and ongoing economic turbulence, businesses have faced strong headwinds in the past five years, and the economic forecast isn’t looking much calmer.
Anna Jordan builds AI systems to help highway operators improve how roads function, and has been supported by three accelerator programmes led by Connected Places Catapult.
Early-stage venture consultants, Think Partners, have issued an open letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, calling on the UK Government to take urgent action to close the gender gap in business investment – a move that could unlock £250 billion in additional economic growth.
CSEM has announced the four promising entrepreneurial projects selected for its ACCELERATE Programme 2025, an initiative designed to help transform deeptech innovations into market-ready solutions.
The inaugural edition of CARE (Climate Action, Renewable Energy & Sustainability) forum series by Trescon, is set to become the MENA region’s most influential platform for sustainability investment and climate innovation. The forum will unite regional and global leaders driving the Middle East’s clean energy transition. Co-located with DATE, a Digitization, AI & Emerging Tech Summit, CARE MENA will take place on 26th – 27th November at the iconic Madinat Jumeirah.
A UK-wide roadshow celebrating the nation’s favourite small businesses kicks off today, marking the start of the countdown to Small Business Saturday on 6th December 2025.
For the seventh year in a row, the Estonian Startup Awards will celebrate the success and growth of Estonia’s vibrant startup ecosystem. This year, the Estonian Startup Awards 2025 is seeking nominees in 11 impactful categories.
Marketing success has traditionally favoured big budgets and large teams. With the right strategy, small and midsize businesses can now build powerful, data-driven marketing engines that grow with them, using AI effectively to operate at scale. Valuable marketing starts with thinking, not tools. In this piece, Stephen Rumbelow, fractional CMO at The Marketing Centre, explores what this looks like in reality.
Since the launch of Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has been shaping one of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurial transformations.
Most managers don’t hover because they love control. They hover because they care. They want things to run smoothly, for standards to stay high, for the work to shine.
A brand-new guide to support and encourage unemployed people to set up a business has been launched by Start Up Loans, in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC.
RAAAM Memory Technologies, a startup company which developed the next-generation on-chip memory technology, has completed an over-subscribed $17.5M Series A funding round.
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, small businesses are faced with a familiar challenge: a lack of working capital to make the most of peak season sales.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have announced a multi-year strategic partnership that allows AWS’s infrastructure to run and scale OpenAI’s core artificial intelligence (AI) workloads starting immediately.
Rolo Robotics, the robotics startup behind APAC’s first fully autonomous hot food kiosks, has announced the close of an oversubscribed funding round backed by A2D Ventures, BEENEXT, Seedstars, TIS Japan, Antler, Lotus One Investment, and Blueprint Ventures.
New research from Hilton shows that two thirds (66%) of those with a learning disability say their employers have not asked them what they need to succeed in their roles. As a result, nearly six in 10 (57%) feel like the company they work for isn’t equipped to support them.
Gumtree, one of the UK’s most popular online marketplaces, has partnered with Mangopay to power its transformation from a traditional classifieds site into a fully transactional C2C marketplace.
octonomy, the German-founded AI company building agentic systems for complex enterprise support and service workflows, has announced the successful completion of a new seed round totalling $20 million, led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital, with participation from Capnamic, NRW.Bank, and theTechVision Fund. This brings octonomy’s total funding to $25 million since its founding 15 months ago.
Any startup founder will tell you that the early years of building a business are defined by financial uncertainty. Cash flow is inconsistent. Revenue doubles one year, halves the next: that’s just life in the startup trenches. You run lean, you hoard cash, and you survive on adrenaline. Your business is your baby, and every spare penny must be reinvested to fuel its growth.
Change isn’t easy. But here’s a secret: it isn’t rocket science either. In fact, the biggest obstacle isn’t technology, process, or even funding. It’s people and sometimes, the loudest messages about how people are responding to change come not in words, but in silence.
