Nu Quantum has raised £2.1m in Seed funding in a round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Ahren Innovation Capital, IQ Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet Capital have also followed-on from the company’s pre-Seed investment round last September, with Seraphim Capital joining as a new investor.
Global aerospace and defence accelerator, Starbust has announced its expansion into India to engage directly with vibrant local aerospace and defence startups and facilitate communication between aerospace and defence corporates and innovative startups within domestic and global landscapes.
Some people are doing very well out of the pandemic – the fraudsters. That’s because the chaos COVID-19 has caused makes it far easier for them to operate. Have you increasingly been asked to provide personal data to strangers since March? Have you changed any of your habits? Gordon Ramsey himself couldn’t have created a more perfect recipe for rising fraud. How can you make yourself as safe as possible and if you have been a victim, what should you do next?
A cohort of 18 women who are incubating their startups through SETsquared Bristol’s Enterprising Women programme, supported by NatWest, will showcase their new products and services at a blended pitching event on 27th October 2020.
For the first time, an insurer in Spain – Admiral Seguros, the Spanish subsidiary of global insurer Admiral – is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create damage valuations and to generate an offer of immediate payment on damaged vehicles.
At Relative Insight, we’ve always held the conviction that language provides a critical source of insight that’s often overlooked, and our mission is to help our customers drive value from all those language data sources that they’ve got floating around in their organisations, not doing much.
People all over the world are spending more time online and brands have quickly shifted their strategies to adapt to this new normal. However, all that time online means that consumers are now facing a barrage of visual clutter from competing companies.
Applying for jobs, let alone during a pandemic, can be an extremely time-consuming and stressful job in itself. It’s crucial to ensure that amongst a sea of other applicants, you tailor your CV for success – especially now that employers will likely be hiring remotely.
With societies across the globe still some way off returning to the ‘old normal’, many businesses are set to continue suffering from the impacts of COVID-19.
Weather Flare is gearing up for their debut launch of their one-stop health app dedicated to supporting those suffering from chronic pain through immediate, tailored, and expert support. The intuitive app makes tracking and communicating chronic pain symptoms in relation to specific weather conditions easy, simple and accessible.
Will working from home become the new normal? Yes, according to The Case for Remote Work, a new report from think tank, The Entrepreneurs Network, by innovation economist, Dr Matt Clancy. Reviewing a wide range of research from across economics and social science, it argues that the business case for remote work has improved significantly over the past decade.
Huboo, the UK full-stack, software driven fulfilment provider, has announced that it has raised £14m, led by European technology VC Stride. Founded in 2017, Huboo uses unique ‘micro hub’ technology to enable online retailers of all sizes – a £27bn market – to access a complete end-to-end fulfilment operation within minutes.
It is estimated that less than one percent of all UK venture funding is awarded to all-female teams. A figure which Fund Her North – a collective of 28 women with a combined investment power over £250m – just won’t accept for the 51% of women in the UK.
A London-based business growth agency is celebrating after recently scooping two prestigious awards in a week.
Konglomerate games is a video games company specializing in providing healthcare and other serious game development or gamification services. What that means for us, is taking the best bits of video games and applying them to other non-video game scenarios like education, where the main focus isn’t only entertainment. Our current project is a video game designed around the physiotherapy care of children with cystic fibrosis.
Red Bull Basement 2020 is a forward thinking initiative for student innovators in all areas of study to innovate, collaborate and help improve student life. The program, expanding to more countries than ever in its third year, encourages student entrepreneurs across the UK to take a look at all aspects of life on campus and in their communities, and imagine creative ways to do things better.
Online conferences and events aren’t new, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought them from a niche activity to a mainstream channel. In the absence of in-person events and conferences, online ones are providing one of the best ways for startup founders to meet one another, learn from each other, and gain inspiration for building their businesses in a safe, socially distanced manner.
For years now, there has been a huge demand for developers, all with different skillsets, from coding specialisations to full-stack backgrounds. And this is unsurprising, as until recently, many startup accelerators and incubators were hesitant to accept companies without technical co-founders or a built MVP.
Only one in five women in the UK hold investments… why? In the first of this three-part series I’ll be exploring this question and sharing some of my experience working in the male-dominated world of finance.
This week saw the national final of Santander’s Emerging Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship Awards 2020. Since May, 81 businesses from Santander’s network of 85 partner universities have been put through their paces during a series of expert-led online workshops and webinars, covering a range of topics under four key themes – money, management, marketing and motivation.
