Startups

Jedsy unveils new drone for lab sample deliveries

Jedsy has announced the launch of its latest drone model, the Jedsy X, designed to revolutionise the delivery of laboratory samples. This innovative drone promises to transform urban and rural logistics and significantly improve operational efficiency under challenging conditions.

Tom Skinner Launches The Manifestation App with manifestation experts

Tom Skinner, entrepreneur and former contestant on The Apprentice, has joined forces with Robert Hisee, UK Unconscious Mind Therapist, and Ted Lawlor, manifestation expert known as ‘The Manifestation Guy’, to introduce The Manifestation App.

UK-based Werover digitises wind energy industry and transforms asset monitoring

Wind turbines are colossal structures equipped with blades that spin when the wind blows. This motion turns a generator inside the turbine, converting the kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy. Each turbine is connected to a grid that distributes electricity to homes, businesses, and industries. Wind energy is a renewable resource, it’s clean and doesn’t produce greenhouse gas emissions, and it is environmentally friendly.

Pranjali Awasthi: From Coding at 7 to Founding Delv.AI at 16

Pranjali Awasthi is a remarkable young entrepreneur who founded Delv.AI, an AI startup, at the young age of 16.

Sersha’s Ruth Guest: A New Era in Social Media Safety for Pre-Teens and Families

Ruth Guest is the Founder and CEO of Sersha, a platform that is delivering simplified social media training for pre-teens and their families. Recently, Guest was crowned the winner of the Square Root Solutions and Factory44 Start-App Competition, which offered early-stage startups and entrepreneurs the chance to win a €20,000 prize package to bring creative apps or website concepts to fruition.

Hive Five: top startups to buzz about this World Bee Day
Hive Five: top startups to buzz about this World Bee Day

On World Bee Day, more attention is being drawn to the urgent need to protect these vital pollinators. Amid growing concerns over declining bee populations, a new wave of innovative startups is emerging, dedicated to supporting and revitalising bee health.

Dealing with stress as an entrepreneur: part three
This article is part 5 of 5 in the series Dealing with stress as an entrepreneur

Over the last two articles we discussed how to identify the problems that cause stress and then how to measure their severity.

tiney raises £7.2m Series A to fix the childcare crisis

Tech-enabled childcare startup, tiney.co, set up by the founder of Teach First, has raised a £7.2m ($9m) Series A round led by Mustard Seed Partners and joined by PortfoLion, Sparkmind, and Rubio.

7 startups selected to reshape the Agri-food sector

ICONE, a project by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) promoting the competitiveness of Cambodian businesses, and Eatable Adventures, a Foodtech accelerator, collaborate to drive innovation in the agri-food sector in northwest Cambodia.

Lightstate reveals electrifying vision for EV charging

Lightstate, a rapidly expanding clean energy technology firm, has revealed an ambitious new strategy for EV charging infrastructure in the UK.

Top pitching startups of SIM: day two

The second day of pitching battles at the Startups & Investment Matching (SIM) conference was as fierce as the first! Once again separated by sector, day two saw healthtech and wellbeing, security and prevention, and agritech and & foodtech startups take to the stage to present their innovations.

The digital nametags we’ve always needed

Boomerang, a UK based startup focused on sustainable solutions, has launched an innovative new product, the BoomerangTag – a physical label with a QR code on it.

Plotline raises $2.6m as it harnesses AI to boost adoption

Plotline, a startup enabling consumer app companies to rapidly and effortlessly customise their apps, has raised $2.6 million from Elevation Capital to improve user adoption and loyalty in the super app era.

Top pitching startups of SIM: Day One

At the Startups & Investment Matchmaking (SIM) conference in Porto, the pitch battles have been intense. Separating startups by sector, three lucky startups per industry got the chance to pitch before an audience of investor jurors, hoping to secure funding for their innovations.

SHEIN ranked most successful startup of the decade

SHEIN is the most successful startup of the decade, ranking in the top three for valuation, public perception, growth, and number of employees.  

EIT Food Accelerator Network announces new cohort of agrifood startups

EIT Food has announced its new cohort of 58 startups for the EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN), one of its entrepreneurship programmes.

Vivalyx secures seed financing to improve donor organ quality

Aachen-based Organ Vitality Tech company Vivalyx has received an investment of €5.4 million led by TechVision Fonds (TVF) and Brightlands Venture Partners (BVP) in an oversubscribed seed financing round.

The Skyrora’s the limit for the UK space company

Private Scottish aerospace company, Skyrora, is dedicated to becoming the first UK private orbital launcher from UK soil.

IMRO Teams Up with Audoo to Boost Public Performance Royalties in Ireland

IMRO, the Irish based, international performing rights organisation, has announced a partnership with Audoo, the music recognition technology company on a mission to revolutionise public performance royalty distribution.

Kuva Space snapshotting earth to improve our awareness

Have you ever been told you are “too close to the matter” to give a full or unbiased overview? What you are being told is you need to give the matter some space to see things clearer. Kuva Space is literally doing that.