For years, job hopping was hailed as the fastest route to a higher salary. But new figures suggest that advantage is vanishing, making the latest workplace trend ‘job hugging’ (staying loyal to one company) a more rewarding career move.
Jam 7, creator of the Agentic Marketing Platform (AMP), has closed its seed funding round led by Stephen Altman, founder of New World Private Equity Partners. The investment will accelerate Jam 7’s mission to transform how B2B tech companies innovate, compete, and grow.
“The companies that thrive in this new era will not be the ones that hand over the keys to an algorithm. They will be the ones where leaders treat AI as a force multiplier,” writes Alexander Walsh, Co-Founder and CEO of Oraion
French entrepreneur Garance Locatelli is making city cycle networks easier to navigate with a subway-inspired wayfinding system, developed through a programme delivered by Connected Places Catapult.
As the seasons change, many Brits will be experiencing colds, coughs, and flus over the next few weeks. Working while sick, otherwise known as presenteeism, costs employers around £24 billion annually, according to Deloitte, due to reduced productivity, prolonged illnesses and leaving employees to work through a reduced capacity.
UK investors are no longer just backing innovation, they’re actively directing it. That’s according to new research from EmpowerRD, which revealed the vast majority (97%) of investors are now directly shaping the R&D strategies of the businesses they fund, cementing their role as key architects of the UK’s innovation economy.
Survey results show that 75% of Make UK Defence members exhibiting at DSEI have increased their headcount in the last twelve months. Three in eight respondents noted an increase in at least 10% headcount, 18% of respondents grew by a quarter or more, while a handful of respondents even noted doubling their headcounts.
When Eoin Bara was trying to distribute his award-winning Mór Irish Gin internationally, he discovered something shocking: the $1.6 trillion alcohol industry still runs on emails, phone calls, and spreadsheets.
Most founders I meet believe PR is only possible when you have “real news”: a funding round, a product launch, a partnership, an acquisition. The problem? These moments don’t happen every month. In fact, for most startups, they’re rare.
Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the national economy, comprising a staggering 99.8% of all businesses. However, despite their importance, the majority of these SMEs are not exporting.
Ask any AI founder what keeps them up at night, and you’ll hear many of the same stories. Hidden infrastructure costs that blow up the burn rate without warning. Waiting weeks, or even months, for GPU capacity to come online. Scrambling to navigate compliance requirements that feel like a full-time job. These aren’t abstract problems. They are everyday hurdles that can delay product launches, frustrate investors, and stretch teams thin.
Launching a startup is a balancing act. You’re driving product development, fundraising, sales, and recruitment, often simultaneously. But for many non-technical founders, the most challenging area isn’t fundraising or sales. It’s building the product itself, especially when outsourcing to software consultancies.
Confidence has become one of the most important currency markers in the workplace. Yet recent research – conducted by social research agency Hark – reveals that one in 10 children already feel a complete lack of confidence by the age of 13 in their ability to build a future career.
Start Up Loans reports that this summer has seen the highest number of loans taken out by founders over the past four summers. This growth comes despite reports indicating low levels of business confidence, highlighting that UK small business founders accessing the programme remain undeterred and keen to start up new ventures.
Perfat Technologies, a food deeptech company pioneering healthy and functional fat alternatives and a member of EIT Food Rising Food Stars, has raised €2.5 million in Series A financing to scale production, grow its team, and launch innovative healthy lipid-based solutions, to address the problem of harmful saturated and tropical fats without compromising taste or texture.
BT has opened its test and integration facility, the largest in Europe, to cybersecurity innovator Sitehop to test its quantum-resistant encryption technology on the replica BT network, in a first of its kind proof-of-concept.
The startup dream is sold as a sprint to success, a flash of inspiration, a flurry of funding rounds, and an eventual big exit. But the reality? It is a long game that will stretch your resilience, test your decision-making, and reshape who you are as a leader.
With more than half of founders experiencing burnout last year, the rise in corporate wellness is less of a surprise, and more of a relief.
Messium, a UK agritech innovator using hyperspectral satellites and AI-driven crop growth models to solve the challenge of nitrogen efficiency in farming, has secured a £3.3 million seed investment.
One Carbon World (OCW) will be the official climate impact partner of the upcoming Carbon Markets Africa Summit (CMAS) taking place in Johannesburg from 22 to 23 October.
