New research reveals US President Trump’s tariffs have shrunk exporting appetite for over half of UK SME leaders.
These days, gifting really matters. Whether it’s for employees, clients, customer service wins, or branded merch, it plays a big role in how your business is seen. But the costs can add up quickly, especially if you’re a startup trying to make a big impression on a small budget. The good news is that with the right approach, you don’t need to spend a lot to create meaningful impact.
At surface level, your average Taylor Swift fan listens to her new music, catches a tour date if lucky, and owns some merch.
The UK remains one of the most attractive launchpads for international tech startups and scaleups. With a mature tech ecosystem, high media visibility, and access to capital, it’s little wonder that companies from across Europe, the US, and beyond have it on their roadmap. Yet while the opportunity might be significant, so too are the risks of your launch missing the mark.
In the early days of a startup, hiring feels like building the plane mid-flight. You need people, fast. But not just any people.
We’ve glamorised burnout for far too long. In the entrepreneurial world, being ‘busy’ has become the gold standard. Stress is seen as a natural by-product of success, and exhaustion is practically a badge of honour.
Chris Smith, Co-Founder of Bloxx, a startup company built to reimagine how homeownership works – without mortgages, without interest, and without the assumption that renting must be forever, stepped away from a two-decade career in banking, armed with industry insight, knowledge that the industry as it stood could not serve the next generation, and an idea to change that.
Data is driving everything in businesses from everyday operations to long-term strategy, making the quality of that data increasingly important. While organisations across industries are investing in analytics platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital transformation initiatives, many are still overlooking a foundational question: can we trust the data we’re using?
Sava Technologies, the London-based startup pioneering real-time molecular health monitoring, has raised $19 million in Series A funding, following promising early results from its clinical trial.
The UK government has launched a new global research initiative to tackle one of AI’s most urgent and technically complex challenges: ensuring that advanced systems behave in ways aligned with human values.
Despite the growing global attention on AI and its impact on businesses, Cloud transformation also ranks as a critical priority for UK tech leaders, according to new research from Coursera, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), the VC firm investing in the UK’s highest-potential deeptech and life sciences companies, is committing at least £100 million to invest in spinouts from the University of Cambridge.
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent roughly 80% of the Travel & Tourism sector: an astonishing testament to their collective impact.
The Government has launched its Small Business Plan, supporting the UK’s smaller firms by unlocking access to finance, enhancing business skills, and opening up opportunities for entrepreneurs.
The percentage of small businesses working on new initiatives to power future growth has fallen to a four-year low (65%) and is significantly down on the start to the year (71% for Q1 2025), according to research from Novuna Business Finance.
In today’s overcrowded digital landscape, building a successful brand isn’t just about visibility. It’s all about meaning, too. The businesses that win aren’t always the biggest ones and they are certainly aren’t the loudest, they’re the ones that connect most deeply. They make people feel something. They understand their customers better than anyone else and they show up online with confidence and purpose.
Founders are decision-making machines. From choosing your next feature to picking between two good-enough hires, your day is a stream of judgment calls, big and small. The problem? That stream becomes a flood. The more decisions you make, the worse they get.
New research from leading employment platform Employment Hero has highlighted that payroll compliance is a considerable risk for small businesses – 84% have admitted to payroll errors and more than a third have faced fines costing them thousands of pounds.
iwoca’s latest SME Expert Index reveals that the Labour Government has had a negative impact on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during its first year in power, according to SME finance experts.
In 2016, WASP first introduced the Shamballa project, inspired by the ideal of peace and harmony embodied in the legendary place of Tibetan tradition. The goal was ambitious: to turn that ideal into reality through the conscious use of an emerging technology: 3D printing. The project was conceived as a space dedicated to research, where 3D printing would be used to address the fundamental needs of human beings: food, housing, health, energy, work, and culture.
