As the metaverse becomes the norm, startup brand managers can’t really afford not to embrace 3D brand design for their organisations, it offers businesses a competitive advantage while offering no end of creative possibility in communications.
UK workers want more financial education resources from their employers and believe receiving it as a wellbeing benefit can strengthen their commitment to their jobs, according to the ‘Can We Connect’ report, released today by global financial wellbeing platform nudge Global.
Sustainable parenting platform, YoungPlanet, has seen a 235% increase in app sign-ups during the first five months of 2022, compared to the same timeframe in 2021. The app is used by families across the UK to give and receive pre-used children’s items for free; helping parents to prevent unnecessary landfill waste.
Getting the backing of a Venture Capital Fund (VC) is often a key milestone for any growing business, it is, therefore, important to strategise both your preparation and approach.
May 2022: The key to increasing investment in more female-founded companies is by increasing the representation of female VCs, suggests VC-backed, female-founded retail technology app Slip. Although less than 20% of investors in Slip are female, Co-founder and CEO Tash Grossman believes that increased female investor representation would support the growth of more female-founded businesses.
Salience Labs has raised a seed round of $11.5m to develop an ultra high-speed multi-chip processor combining photonics and electronics to accelerate exponential advances in AI. The round was led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises, with Oxford Investment Consultants, former CEO of Dialog Semiconductor Jalal Bagherli, ex-Temasek Board Member Yew Lin Goh and Arm-backed Deeptech Labs participating.
Given the strong economic barriers to entry in the pharmaceutical sector for new companies, the issuance of K2Z is a step to be able to advance in the project of the fight against cancer from precision medicine and AI. The K2Z Utility Token project is supported by the democratization of its industrial property in NTF format and by a management and research team of international relevance
Did you know, 85% of social media marketers anticipate incorporating new technologies like Virtual Reality, the Metaverse, Cryptocurrencies, and NFTs into their social media strategy within the next year? This is according to Sprout Social’s UK & Ireland Index 2022 released last week.
Award-winning entrepreneur and former Ambassador for Entrepreneurship in the UK, Gerard Jones has launched a digital coach education platform ULearnbly.com which offers online sports coaching courses, mentoring services and exclusive insight interviews to sports coaches across all levels around the world.
Over the last few weeks, we have had the opportunity to speak with tens of startup founders and investors as part of our Private Beta launch for Truealpha.
Over the last 18 months, we’ve seen an unprecedented number of new startups being incorporated despite the backdrop of the COVID pandemic increasing business uncertainty. In fact, the first half of 2021 saw nearly 80 new businesses were created every hour, leading to over 340,000 startups registered in the UK between January and June 2021.
The metaverse is a growing phenomenon. It has a huge variety especially when it comes to investing in the metaverse. We spoke to Grant Blaisdell, CEO of Copernic Space and asked his expert opinion on what we can expect to see with trends in the metaverse and investment.
The shift from selling products in physical stores to selling products online has made digitalisation and optimisation of product information a must for all participants in supply chains, according to Dr Pat Violaris, Managing Director at OneTimePIM.
Obviously as a startup there are a million things that you should be doing. But here is a checklist of ten that you need to prioritise from your never-ending list.
Duolingo has taken the online world by storm with its bold, hilarious marketing on TikTok, racking up an impressive 4.3 million followers. However, it doesn’t stop there. It can teach tech startups a lot, from the importance of gamification to ensuring product engagement. Duolingo is a free language learning website and mobile app allowing users to practice vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation using spaced repletion for 39 different languages. Here, Startups Magazine hears from CEO of AdamFard UX Studio, Adam Fard, discussing the key takeaways from Duolingo for tech companies.
Even though customer service and customer experience are related, they are far from the same. One focuses on human relations, and the other is the sum of a customer’s entire journey with a brand or company.
NASA has selected hundreds of small businesses and dozens of research institutions to develop technology to help drive the future of space exploration, ranging from novel sensors and electronics to new types of software and cutting-edge materials.
In the last two years the digital payments landscape has experienced rapid evolution, which has largely been driven by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now that the UK economy begins to recover from the last two years, it’s evident that consumer expectations around the ease and choice of payment options have changed permanently, and it is essential that SMEs are aware of their demands.
Almost three quarters of entrepreneurs have admitted to dipping into their personal savings in the last month to save their business from going under, according to new research commissioned by the Parliament Street think tank.
Creating and presenting a pitch deck is always a daunting prospect. Especially when you’re new to the process. Just knowing what information to include can be a minefield, let alone how to present it. And while tech advancements have opened the way to multimedia presentations, the question remains whether the likes of GIFs, emojis, and animations are appropriate in a business setting. Can they be used to make your business stand out in the right way?
