Following a massively successful inaugural event, Good Hope FM’s ‘Warrior Woman Awards’ will be joining forces with the phenomenal WomenIN Festival 2025, delivering the biggest celebration of women that the Mother City has ever seen and rocking Cape Town on 13 to 14 November at Newlands Cricket Ground.
With capabilities of AI advancing every year, its potential to address challenges once thought unsolvable is rapidly expanding, from the possibility of curing genetic diseases to transforming urban mobility or enabling green data centres. With the global AI market set to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033 (UNCTAD), the race to deploy AI for critical sectors has never been more urgent. Against this backdrop, GITEX GLOBAL 2025 convenes as the world’s largest tech and AI event, with this year’s edition highlighting significant developments in biotech, physical AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and data centres.
The crucial question of how small businesses can effectively scale was given fresh focus this week, as some of the UK’s smallest and most ambitious businesses came together to explore new routes to growth.
Insurgent, a new venture studio, has officially launched to back startups building sustainable, purpose-driven businesses where commercial success, customer value, and planetary health align.
While most founders claim how hard it is to build in the UK, millions of pounds are burned on infrastructure costs alone. The UK is a homeland for 2,300 VC-backed AI startups, including 20 AI unicorns. Europe’s biggest AI market, has reached a combined historical market valuation of $230 billion in Q1 2025 and may lose leadership to one of the highest electricity costs in the EU, rising data and infrastructure costs alone.
No matter which retail executive you talk to, the reaction is the same: “I didn’t think that was possible yet.” While most headlines in tech are dominated by copilots, a quieter but deeper shift is happening in enterprise AI: the rise of agentic systems that don’t just assist, but act. And it’s catching many executives off guard.
The UK and India-based medical travel startup, The Medical Travel Company (TMTC), has raised €3.8 million to bring a new full stack medical solution, offering UK patients world class and affordable treatments in India.
A study released today (7th October 2025) reveals the core traits shared by billion-dollar startup founders across the UK, Europe and North America. Developed in partnership between VC firm Ada Ventures and behavioural scientists at Synaptiq, the study analysed how founders communicate to find a clear psychological profile behind unicorn success. These findings stand to reshape how VCs assess potential, making it easier to spot talent fairly and consistently, without bias towards background or identity.
It takes grit, determination, and drive to set up on your own. And it takes even more to stay afloat, with an eye-watering 60% of businesses failing in their first three years. Perhaps just as much as the brilliant business idea, the difference between success and failure boils down to personal resilience. Just how do you handle those founders’ knock-backs, navigating funding rejections, business pivots, and burnout? Can you pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again?
Experience shows that when we protect business purpose, performance follows. So, how do you hold fast to your values while pushing for higher returns? It starts by refusing to treat growth and values separately.
There’s a silent cost to leadership that no one talks about enough. It’s not burnout. It’s not decision fatigue. It’s identity loss.
Nearly all (95%) UK business leaders say they are committed to building a culture of learning, according to Pluralsight’s 2025 Tech Skills Report, but the research reveals a stark gap between this intention and the reality for learners.
Before providing a funding offer or as a prerequisite prior to payment, venture capitalists will usually conduct due diligence to confirm the details provided by the startup are correct. Whilst most founders understand the broad outline of the due diligence, there are several areas where there is often confusion and misunderstanding which can derail the funding round.
UK credit technology company Abound has passed £1 billion in total lending volume, less than five years after launching.
Tracxn has released its UK Tech 9M 2025 Report, capturing funding and investment activity across the United Kingdom’s technology ecosystem for the first nine months of 2025. The country ranked as the second highest-funded market globally, behind only the United States, with India and Germany following in the third and fourth positions respectively. The period reflected steady funding momentum, marked by billion-dollar rounds, notable sector surges, acquisitions, and IPO activity.
Every business is a tech company now. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling clothes or executing a large-scale green engineering project; you’re ultimately driven by tech. Without it, your company wouldn’t exist in its current form. And yet, with all the advanced tech available, you’re still running your business using spreadsheets. Because they’re familiar, they feel comfortable… And they’re letting your business down. It’s time for a new approach.
As the global digital finance evolution accelerates, Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge returns to Dubai Harbour from 12th – 15th October 2025, convening international innovators, startups, regulators, investors, and tech leaders during Expand North Star, the world’s largest startup and investor connector event powered by GITEX GLOBAL.
OmniShelf, a startup from Singapore, has been named Global Winner of the Startup Competition at South Summit Korea 2025, co-organised by IE University, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government, GBSA (Gyeonggido Business & Science Accelerator), and Unimotto.
Press releases are basically bread and butter for PR, one of the most important aspects used to communicate with the media and public, in order to build lasting relationships, solidify brand identity and shape the reputation of a brand. I’m Stepan Burov, a PR professional with 10 years of expertise, co-founder of 8bitPR agency, and I will share the most exciting new insights and strategies of making effective press releases.
Global capital has turned cautious, which has exposed a simple truth that disciplined teams, who obsess over product and customers, are edging ahead of competition who solely relied on larger cheques. In this article, Nicolai Chamizo explores how lean, founder-led fintech startups are gaining ground, which business models have genuine staying power and how the Nordic ecosystem has become an early proving ground for the next fintech chapter.
