The UK global tech scene and its future success

With the worst of the coronavirus pandemic seemingly – hopefully – behind us, many of the world’s leading economies are looking for ways to begin recovering and rebuilding from the financial downturn they have experienced as a result.

Silicon Valley Pioneer ‘Drishti’ Wins IERA Robotics Award 2022

This year’s ‘Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation’ (IERA) goes to Drishti, a video analytics company based in Mountain View, California.

Live Tech Games scoops a hat trick at National StartUp Awards

Midlands-founded startup Live Tech Games, now based in London, has been awarded three awards at the Midlands final of the illustrious National StartUp Awards.

How Can A Medical Startup Stand All Challenges

Medical startups are a prospective niche that provides valuable services to people seeking medical help. One of the most successful examples is Bookimed.com. It is a medical tourism startup that assists people from any corner of the globe in finding the best treatment option. People use such services for two reasons: either they look for higher quality or low-cost medical services than those they can find in their own country of residence.

Leading vs Lagging indicators: What’s right for your startup? (Part two)

Hello and welcome back to Part two of our series on Leading and Lagging indicators. In the first part, we covered what leading KPIs are, looked at how they work numerically, discussed why they are a powerful tool for startups, and shared the nuances startup founders should keep in mind while working with leading KPIs

Why businesses should switch to a cloud telephone system

Government lockdowns during the COVID pandemic forced businesses to quickly adapt their working practices, as employees required work-from-home set ups almost overnight, and many companies quickly became reliant on cloud-based technologies to make the shift as smooth as possible.

Boost for tech startups as competition to run support programme opens

Organisations can now apply to deliver a UK-wide programme of activity supporting the UK’s digital and tech startups and scale ups.

Deputy Mayor of London for Business meets latest investees of the London Co-Investment Fund

Rajesh Agrawal, Deputy Mayor of London for Business has met Monday 27th June six of London Co-Investment Fund’s (LCIF) innovative, high impact investees in healthcare, sustainability, and clean transportation.

Report shows progress in boosting investment in UK’s women entrepreneurs

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.

Collision Brings Tech Startups Access to Investors, Partners and Mentors

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.

Tech Nation launches new data-driven growth platform

In light of data outlining the challenge ahead for UK tech, Tech Nation launches its Growth Platform to guide over 6,000 UK tech startups and scaleups through their scaling journey at speed and creating more UK success stories, marking a new chapter for Tech Nation.

Plug and Play UK adds partners for mobility innovation programme

The University of Warwick, Advanced Propulsion Centre, and Zenzic have joined the Plug and Play UK’s Mobility programme, which launches with a kick-off event at Jaguar Land Rover’s research collaboration hub at the National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC). The University of Warwick becomes the programme’s founding academic partner.

trumpet makes some noise with pre-seed funding

London-based B2B sales startup trumpet has secured £1.6m in a pre-seed funding round led by Lightbird Ventures, alongside Triple Point Ventures, Haatch and female-led Anamcara Capital, and a number of high-profile operators from Loom, Cognism and Reachdesk.

Dublin Tech Summit: The big trends and takeaways

If you have not been over to Dublin before, you may not be aware what a hub it is, not just for technology, but also for budding entrepreneurs and the startups community. That is why the Dublin Tech Summit is Europe’s Fastest Growing Tech Conference and full of insight and talent.

Celebrating 20 years of Female Entrepreneurial Success

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.

Five common mistakes brands make when creating video content

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.

Top Tips to Entrepreneurship
This article is part 9 of 14 in the series Kevins Top Tips

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.

Boosting connectivity and wellbeing in global and remote teams

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.

90% of employees say being back in-office is better than expected

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.

MachineWare enables fast RISC-V simulation

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.