Vet-AI, the veterinary healthtech scale-up behind the Joii Pet Care paltform, announced independent benchmarking results revealing its proprietary LLM outperforms Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT in clinical accuracy and triage effectiveness.
Despite advances in digital tools, a new study from Employment Hero reveals that thousands of UK SMEs are stuck in the past when it comes to payroll.
The innovation efforts of many organisations are failing not because of a lack of ideas, but because of how those ideas are measured and managed. That’s the central argument of ‘Expected Value: The System to Align Innovation, Strategy, and Value Creation’, a new book by Simon Hill, CEO of global innovation scaleup Wazoku.
Digital Catapult has welcomed nine AI-first startups to its accelerator programme to drive the practical application of deep tech innovation in the agrifood sector and enable participating companies to scale successfully.
Over a third of SMEs (35%) say they are actively using AI technology, up from 25% in 2024 – according to research by the British Chambers of Commerce, in partnership with Intuit, the global financial technology platform.
UK-based startup, Super6, raises £1.1 million to unlock one of the last foundational technologies of the new global energy system
On Long Beach Island, New Jersey, something fascinating happens every Saturday. It’s turnover day. Rental homes flip. People rush in with fresh excitement, or out, determined to make the most of their final moments. It’s a whirlwind of energy, anticipation, and urgency.
Duel, the Brand Advocacy platform helping retail brands including Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria’s Secret, and Abercrombie & Fitch, has raised $16 milion in a Series A round.
Arcade, the management company behind The Sidemen, announced a seven-figure strategic investment from talent- and IP-led group Lumina Media.
Sunhat, the startup helping enterprises automatically validate and share ESG and vital non-financial data, announced €9.2 million in Series A funding.
How you introduce your product to the market can shape your startup’s growth trajectory. Freemium and free trial models are two of the most popular approaches allowing businesses to attract users and encourage full adoption.
Dutch foodtech scale-up Revyve has raised nearly €24 million in Series B financing, bringing its total capital raised to more than €40 million. The investment will accelerate the company’s commercial rollout of functional yeast proteins designed to replace eggs and additives in mainstream food categories.
Scindo, a UK-based startup developing a data-rich AI platform to discover and design next-generation enzymes, has raised £4 million in funding co-led by Kadmos Capital and Clay Capital, with participation from PINC, the venture arm of international food and beverage company Paulig, and existing investors Synbioven, AgFunder, SOSV, Farvatn Venture and Savantus Ventures. The investment will accelerate Scindo’s mission to enable bio-based ingredients and sustainable chemistry across multiple high-value sectors.
Sunhat announces €9.2 million in Series A funding. The round was led by CommerzVentures, with participation from existing investors Capnamic, EnBW New Ventures, xdeck, and WEPA Ventures.
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of cybersecurity – and deepfakes are fast becoming one of the most disruptive threats.
A new report from Lockton ‘From gut-feel to data-driven: Overcoming blind spots in SME benefits strategy’, reveals that seven out of 10 (69%) of SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) leaders are now using AI tools like ChatGPT to shape their employee benefits strategy.
DRUID AI announced it has secured $31 million in Series C financing to advance the global expansion of its enterprise-ready agentic AI platform under the leadership of its new CEO, Joseph Kim. The strategic investment, which will advance DRUID AI’s mission to empower companies to create, manage, and orchestrate conversational AI agents, was led by Cipio Partners, with participation from TQ Ventures, Karma Ventures, Smedvig, and Hoxton Ventures.
Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has advised Tide on its $120 million Series C follow-on funding round led by TPG and The Apax Digital Partners.
Duel, the leading Brand Advocacy platform helping leading retail brands including Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch grow through their own fan and creator communities instead of traditional advertising, has raised $16 million in a Series A round. The funding was co-led by Molten Ventures and Bright Pixel, alongside existing investor Peter Bauer, founder of Mimecast.
Futurail has announced the closing of a seed round, bringing total funding to €7.5 million. The round was co-led by Asterion Ventures (Paris) and Leap435 (Munich), joined by EIT Urban Mobility and US investors Zero Infinity Partners and Heroic Ventures.
