A collaboration between Garage Beer Co, Vaayu and Seareg Project sees total emissions generated by the production of ‘Blau’ compensated for through local community-led initiatives to protect and regenerate the Mediterranean sea.
The vast majority of London tech companies still have hardly any female or BIPOC representation at board level, according to new research released today by Tech London Advocates.
Climate change investor, Climate VC, has launched to exert a gigatonne scale impact on climate change in the next decade and influence a sea change in the way the venture capital sector approaches climate investing.
R&D is a valuable relief the UK government offers in order to incentivise businesses to innovate and enhance productivity. The scheme is widely underutilised and over the course of several budgets the Chancellor of the Exchequer has sought to widen the scope for claiming this relief. The most recent changes he made will be implemented from April 2023.
British smart MedTech company NeedleSmart is at the forefront of helping the NHS radically reduce CO2 emissions in its clinical waste disposal by a staggering 95% as part of its Carbon Reduction Strategy, saving £10s of millions in clinical waste destruction.
LinkedIn now has almost 740 million members and over 55 million registered companies. 40% of these users access LinkedIn on a daily basis, which helps the site achieve 1 billion interactions each month. However, most users only spend 17 minutes a month on the platform.
Azimo, a cross border payment startup founded in 2012, focused on low value remittances from Europe to more than 190 countries, has been bought global payroll management firm Papaya Global
Builder.ai has announced an investment of $100m in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, a New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm. The round, which brings the company’s total funding to $195m across three total rounds, includes participation from existing investors in combination with new individual and institutional names that include the IFC & Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo.
MISSION, the incubator programme for early-stage startups with purpose, today opens for applications.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) is hot on the agenda right now. Savvy startups are putting socially conscious activities at the centre of their work as more and more investors have ESG as a priority.
Global law firm Ashurst announces the 16 FinTechs and GreenTechs who have been selected as the next cohort of FinTech Legal Labs.
Entrepreneurs across five of the world’s biggest investment hubs have said they are ready to turn down funding from investors without adequate sustainability practices, new research shows.
Caterpillar, the digital rewards app for health promotion, education and behavioural change, has received £450,000 in funding from investors including Jenson Funding Partners, the venture capital firm. The healthtech company will use the funds to add new features to the app, expand the range of loyalty schemes it offers, and for other areas of business development.
Automotive giants like Ford, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes and many more are announcing their move to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) often referred to as EVs. The UK government is also signalling its intent to encourage BEVs by promising £450m to be spent on boosting public charging stations by 2030 to reach their 300,000 target.
Vodafone has named Jenk Oz, the 16-year-old founder and CEO of social enterprise company Thred Media, as the winner of the latest edition of its Shout Out for Small Businesses competition.
International Women’s Day may have taken place a few weeks ago on the 8th of March, but that doesn’t mean the conversation has to stop there. It is so important that although we highlight this day and all it stands for, we take this further and action all these thoughts and ideas.
Latest round takes Vampr’s total funding to over $3.3m, in line with explosive user growth; hosting 1.4m users worldwide and brokering over 7m professional relationships
ICT Spring is a centrepiece of Luxembourg’s event calendar and one of the top European tech conferences. Organised by Farvest and hosted next June 30th and July 1st at LuxExpo the Box, the event will inspire delegates across a variety of important topics. Key areas of focus are the fast growing FinTech industry, innovations and technologies building the future of the economy, European Sovereignty in Data & Cloud, Supply Chain initiatives, IT Security, HealthTech, entrepreneurship as well as Space technologies.
Agmis has launched an accelerator programme for early-stage European startups. The programme aims to convert promising ideas into minimum viable products in three months. Startups can apply for up to 200,000 Euro investment delivered on a code for equity basis or as a financial investment.
The partnership will see AS Monaco and Capital Block work together to further engage with the club’s passionate fans and develop the club’s NFT community, enabling fans to own and collect some of the club’s most famous moments.
