Strategies of the top-performing SMEs

New research by Ipsos and American Express Global Business Travel explores the key strategies of high-performing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), offering insights into the characteristics that differentiate the strongest-growing companies.

Two in five UK small businesses don’t celebrate their own successes

Xero has published new independent research revealing UK small businesses are missing out on the benefits of celebrating key achievements. The research showed that milestones often go unrecognised with only 43% of small businesses believing that it’s important to acknowledge wins, while two fifths (40%) admit they never celebrate, citing they’d never thought about doing so (64%).

How SMEs lose a day a week to admin and what to do about it

If you run or manage a small business, chances are you didn’t get into it for the admin.

7 website elements that build customer trust in a startup

Consumer trust is essential for startups looking to achieve successful online sales. However, new companies lack established businesses’ brand awareness and proven track record. A website is often a customer’s first impression of a business, so it had better provide all the essential information they must know about an unfamiliar brand.

Builder.ai: how it went from unicorn to bankruptcy

Founded in London in 2016 as Engineer.ai by Sachin Dev Duggal, Builder.ai aimed to make custom software development as simple as ordering a takeaway. The proposition was straightforward: a non-technical customer could describe an app or website they wanted, and Builder.ai’s platform would assemble it from pre-built feature blocks, with human oversight and AI guidance.

Over a third of UK professionals start work earlier or finish later every day

With cost-saving still top of the agenda, and hiring plans remaining curtailed, new Robert Walters’ data reveals how professionals are working extra hours just to keep up.

StartUpNV sponsoring third annual Startup Week, Las Vegas

StartUpNV, a nonprofit statewide incubator and accelerator for Nevada-based startups, is again sponsoring the Las Vegas edition of Startup Week, Wednesday, 17-20th September.

Class privilege: the last DEI taboo?

Picture a glossy glass-walled office in the city.

Everyone’s impeccably dressed, their lanyards swinging as they head to meetings, their conversations filled with deals, strategy, and … Oxbridge anecdotes.

This article is part 2 of 6 in the series Diversity Disrupted: challenging outdated narratives
Imran Gadzhiev, Creator of Axonera — Axon BCI Platform: Why He’s Bringing Brain Interfaces Out of the Lab and Into the Real World

At the intersection of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, one of the most promising tech frontiers of the next decade is rapidly taking shape. According to Grand View Research, the global market for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) is valued at over $2.4 billion today and projected to grow to $6.5 billion by 2030. Once limited to research labs and clinical institutions, BCIs are now becoming accessible to indie developers, startups, and even hobbyists — thanks to non-invasive EEG headsets, Bluetooth protocols, and open-source machine learning tools.

The Legal Challenges of Family Tech: Mihail Touretskiy on Authorship, Ownership, and Privacy

Collaboration tools have revolutionised how teams and companies work together, but when it comes to families — the most personal and enduring “teams” in our lives — technology still hasn’t caught up.

Better Medicine raises €6M, expands AI model for kidney cancer detection

Better Medicine, a startup developing AI-powered diagnostic tools for radiology, has raised €1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Soulmates Ventures, with participation from Specialist VC, UT Ventures, and several angel investors.

Cocreatd launches NineSixteen Studios to transform tech content

NineSixteen Studios is the latest venture launched from cocreatd. Founded with Ben Kaluza, one of the UK’s leading tech content creators (900k followers), and serial entrepreneur Jono Fereday, NineSixteen Studios helps tech companies produce premium creator content that people actually want to watch.

Oxford Ionics delivers quantum computer to UK National Quantum Computing Centre

Oxford Ionics has announced that it has delivered and installed a full-stack quantum computer, called Quartet, to the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).

Closing the productivity gap: why Europe must modernise workplace technology

Productivity growth in Europe is uneven and slowing – a trend that shows no signs of improving. As hybrid work becomes the norm and economic pressures intensify, many organisations are asking a fundamental question: why isn’t productivity keeping pace with expectation?

Investor updates without panic: storytelling under pressure

Every founder knows the feeling. An investor update is looming. The numbers are solid (ish), the story feels messy, and you’ve rewritten the deck twelve times trying to make it all make sense.

This article is part 4 of 9 in the series Founder Forward
Month of anomalies: July’s unlikely moves in European tech

July in European tech didn’t follow familiar playbooks. From polarising deal sizes and sector shakeups to grant funding stepping into the spotlight and regulators breaking seasonal patterns, the month revealed a handful of market anomalies that deserve a closer look.

Perplexity bids more than its worth to acquire Google Chrome

AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited all-cash takeover offer of Google’s Chrome internet browser for $34.5 billion.

Daye launches pain-free at-home hormone testing

In response to growing interest in hormonal health, female health platform Daye has announced the launch of its comprehensive at-home hormone testing service. The service features an innovative, pain-free blood collection method, designed to make the process of testing much simpler and more intuitive.

VentriJect raises €1.7M for cardiorespiratory fitness expands

A Danish medtech startup behind a technology that accurately measures cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) has just closed a €1.7 million funding round following expansion into several European markets.

Wave Photonics launches PDK Management Platform

Wave Photonics has announced the launch of its PDK Management Platform to integrate foundry PDKs with EDA tools, provide ready-calculated S-Parameters for circuit simulation, and provide easy access for designers.