Bobacino, a startup bringing the unique boba tea experience to a growing audience of boba aficionados and new enthusiasts through advanced artificial intelligence, automation and robotics – launches on StartEngine to target a market set to hit $8.4bn by 2024.
Startups from around the world are being called on to apply to join the first investment portfolio of the Venture Studio from Crisis. The Studio will invest in, support and scale ventures that help accelerate the end of homelessness.
Nozzle.ai, an eCommerce and advertising optimisation platform for Amazon, has raised $2.6m (£2m) in funding from Parkwalk Advisors, The Angel CoFund (ACF), UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF), and a syndicate of eCommerce-expert angel investors.
The payment practices of big businesses during the pandemic have been revealed in a new report which calls for legislated ‘fair buyer’ 30 day payment terms, as part of a plan to support SMEs in their economic recovery.
Thinking about starting a business? We spoke to Ollie Collard, Virgin StartUp advisor and founder of Enterprise Orchard, to find out what you need to consider first.
In the UK alone, there are hundreds of thousands of new businesses opened up each year, and it’s a number that’s only getting bigger. Whether your startup is based around technology, products or services, these businesses represent a massive part of the UK industry. With the rapid growth and an increasingly tech-savvy approach to getting things done, startups in the UK are the perfect fit for the growing number of apprentices. Here are just some of the main reasons why startups and apprentices are the perfect fit for one another.
Startup founders tend to share a common personality trait – one which makes them the ‘doers’, the kind of person who believes in action and knows that ‘if you want a job done properly, you do it yourself’.
With CES ‘going virtual’ for 2021, one might think that opportunities for startups to launch their public and media presence in conjunction with the world’s largest showcase of consumer technology might fall by the wayside, but according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), just the opposite is true.
For everyone around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of all of our lives. But what lessons have we learned about virtual verses reality? In many ways, it is those that work that have seen the largest changes. Before 2020, the chances are that if you asked your boss if you could work from home they would have come up with many reasons why it was not possible and, if you were allowed, it would only be very rarely, and you would be made to feel as though you had been given a great favour.
Ziglu celebrates its Mastercard debit card launch by donating the price of a meal to Fareshare every time a customer uses their card for their supermarket shop online and in store, regardless of the size of the transaction until the end of the year.
Most businesses have a website. Fact. But what role does it play in the overall strategy of your business? Now that global business is going through one of the toughest and most challenging times, you might need to blow the cobwebs off your website as it could be what actually saves your business.
Video technology and AI specialist, One Big Circle, has secured significant investment and growth thanks to the addition of David Harris and Toby Hughes to the board.
UENI believes every small business should have a high quality online presence that can sell products and accept bookings, that is why their mission is to give all business owners a website for FREE.
Amidst a coronavirus second wave, a study has found that 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers more often – with 60% of respondents only asking carers how they are ‘now and again’, ‘rarely’ or ‘almost never’; leaving carers at risk of feeling forgotten.
EIT Digital has awarded the five best European deep tech companies in the online finals of the EIT Digital Challenge scaleup contest 2020.
Online payment orchestration innovator, BRIDGE is celebrating success, having been awarded Payment Startup of the Year at the highly-regarded, international Payment Awards 2020.
You’ll have a difficult job browsing content platforms nowadays without coming across articles focusing on – or at least alluding in some way to – the working from home revolution. A whole host of companies, including Twitter, have announced that they will allow staff to continue WFH permanently if they wish, following its success throughout lockdown.
If your business is doing well in the local market it is normal for the entrepreneur to think of expanding the business internationally to attract new prospects. You will find many advantages of taking your business forward internationally including newer opportunities in the sales and growth sectors and there are more opportunities to make your business more competitive in your niche market.
Customer service organisations need to prioritise business continuity plans to ensure their customer service efforts remain unaffected by any future disruption. That means investing in digital contact centre technology to emerge from the disruption with both customers and employee satisfaction intact.
London Food Tech Week – the week-long festival and showcase of the latest food trends and companies using technology to transform the food and drink ecosystem – will return virtually from 16th-20th November 2020 with a game changing line-up.
