Geospatial AI startup, EvaluateLocate, has completed a £300,000 seed investment round at a valuation of £2.75 million. The company is also simultaneously bringing to market its subscription app for the UK, the first territory in a planned global roll-out.
Four in five (81%) UK CISOs believe DeepSeek – the China-based AI chatbot raising global security concerns due to its data handling practices and vulnerability to misuse – must be urgently regulated by the UK Government before it sparks a full-scale national cyber crisis, according to Absolute Security’s UK Resilience Risk Index Report.
The Norrsken Foundation has announced that Norrsken Evolve has completed an oversubscribed first close of a €57 million fund. The fund will be spearheaded by three General Partners: Johan Attby, Alex Bakir, and Rebecka Löthman Rydå.
When Transreport was founded, the concept was driven by a simple but powerful vision: to connect the world by unlocking access to travel and experiences for everyone, everywhere.
A new type of technology is being trialled on the Tonbridge to Hastings railway line to help keep trains running in hotter weather, and more reliable journeys for passengers and freight customers.
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.
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%).
If you run or manage a small business, chances are you didn’t get into it for the admin.
As always, businesses and inventors are at the forefront of innovation and contribute to the development of technologies. However, all progressive innovations, whose popularity grows rapidly, require regulation. The true revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is proof of this truth. Despite the great potential of AI, its rapid development also presents an important question of how we can ensure safety, ethics, and the protection of rights in this new technological reality.
Healthtech is booming big time. But once you build a good-to-go MVP and land your first users, you have a horde of challenges to tackle.
A long-term and potentially critical development is underway in the world of AI – the emergence of AI browsers. Recently launched products from the likes of Perplexity AI and The Browser Company, along with rumours of an OpenAI competitor, have put the topic of AI browsers on the agenda. This matters because, if executed correctly, AI browsers have the potential to become a linchpin development in the shift to agentic AI.
Marketers may never feel they’ve fully cracked search, but just as strategies were starting to settle, along comes AI to quietly disrupt search completely. A drop in brand website search traffic later and we’re no longer experimenting with AI search – we’re right in the thick of a transition period.
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, a nonprofit statewide incubator and accelerator for Nevada-based startups, is again sponsoring the Las Vegas edition of Startup Week, Wednesday, 17-20th September.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
