A recent report reveals the strength of investment in the UK’s women entrepreneurs by lenders and investors signed up to the Investing in Women Code, a world-leading commitment to improve access to finance for women-led businesses.
Among mainstream technology companies, the Collision Conference in Toronto may well have an identity problem but for 1,500-plus startups from Canada and around the world, Collision is both a well-known and highly impactful entity.
Much has been written about payment rails in the news lately, as neobanks and fintechs continue to flood the market with new and innovative banking and payment products. Simply put, any business that deals with transactions in any shape or form must also deal with payments, and ultimately, payments rails.
Journee, the online tour operator that matches people with experiential trips to mystery destinations, has secured £1.75m investment.
The 2022 everywoman Awards are now open for nominations until 11th July 2022. Celebrating their 20th year, the awards identify and celebrate inspirational female founders whose innovation, passion and purpose will inspire future generations of entrepreneurial women. Lauded by government with a reception at 11 Downing Street when this ground-breaking programme launched in 2003, business owners recognised by the everywoman Awards have been invited to front UK trade and industry campaigns, to participate in international trade missions as well as to meet The Queen.
Video is one of the most powerful tools that digital marketers have at their disposal. For one, it is an easily digestible format that gives viewers’ eyes a rest from the plethora of text-heavy marketing messages found online. In this sense, it enables target audiences to take a more passive role in the marketing process, merely requiring them to sit back, relax, and be shown why they should buy into a brand’s products or services.
Welcome to a new series of articles for Startups Magazine. In this series we will look at some of the more common challenges that are faced by early-stage businesses and some of the top tips designed to overcome these challenges or, at the very least, to mitigate their worst effects.
Over the past few years, we have been plunged into a working life of makeshift desks, online meetings and working predominantly alone, often from home. Managers and their teams have adapted quickly to conducting the majority of business remotely, becoming rather adept at doing so.
The way we work, interact, and communicate in the workplace has been flipped on its head since the pandemic. And with the shift comes new workplace habits.
Headquartered in Aachen and emerging from stealth mode in May, MachineWare is set to revolutionise semiconductor design with its high-speed functional RISC-V simulator, SIM-V.
Data is often referred to as ‘the new oil’ that is now playing a major part in shaping economies the world over. In today’s digital world, around 85% of organisations see data as one of their most valuable assets. Brian Knudtson, Director of Cloud Market Intelligence at iland reports.
As the saying goes – no-one can whistle a symphony, it takes an orchestra. For all the well-publicised (and valid) advantages of our new-found freedom to work wherever we want, some key elements of our working lives have become a little diminished.
As human beings, we primarily learn from trial and error. If our actions have positive outcomes, we feel compelled to repeat them; a behavioural pattern often driven by incentive and reward. Whether it’s buying one drink to get the second free, or donating old clothes to get money off the next order, incentives are key to understanding people and their priorities.
A nationwide search for the UK’s 100 most inspiring small businesses is entering its final week, as part of major plans to mark the tenth-year anniversary of Small Business Saturday UK.
Google for Startups has announced the 40 Black-led tech startups receiving grants from its $4m (approx £3mn) Black Founders Fund across Europe, created to tackle racial inequality in venture capital funding for startups. The announcement follows a series of launch events across Europe, in London, Paris and Berlin, including a gathering hosted by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at City Hall for a group of London-based founders as part of the capital’s London Tech Week celebrations.
Athlete and investor Chris Smalling has announced the launch of ForGood, a venture capital consultancy investing in companies that are addressing the world’s largest environmental challenges such as climate change.
Just a few years ago, 3D printing was like what the blockchain was a decade ago. Not many knew about it, even fewer understood it, and its application to real-world problems wasn’t very apparent. However, in the past decade, 3D printing has come a long way and 3D printers are becoming common bits of machinery employed by businesses and individuals.
After making a small return last year, 2022 London Tech Week returned with a bang this year, with a new venue, an incredible line-up of speakers and thousands of people and companies there to connect and learn about how technology can make a positive change and impact.
Bringing a minimum viable product (MVP) to market is a landmark moment in the development of any tech startup – and for many founders, it marks the critical first realisation of their idea.
Research from Sodexo Engage reveals just under half (48%) of SME employees admitted to feeling disengaged.
