Startups
HiBob, the modern HR platform’s next-generation human capital management that is delivering remarkable work experiences for dynamic, mid-sized multinationals has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 2022 Best Inventions. The annual list features exceptional innovations that make the world a better, smarter and more gratifying place to live.
Nuance Hearing, a leading provider of focused listening technology, today announced that it has received an honourable mention in Fast Company’s second annual Next Big Things in Tech list, honouring technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries—from agriculture and environment to productivity and artificial intelligence.
Ctrl Alt, the app that enables investments in alternative assets with as little as £10, will launch on the 17th of November, it was announced today. Founded by an experienced team of financial services and technology experts, Ctrl Alt is set to change the alternative investment universe by providing its users access to assets that have so far been available to only the wealthiest in society.
Air pollution is the most-pressing environmental health crisis of our time with approximately nine in 10 people around the world breathing unclean air. Helping to spotlight this existential threat, cleantech startup Airly is today announcing a $5.5M series A funding round as it targets cleaning the air by understanding the exact sources based on sensor data and comprehensive actionable insights.
The UK Government’s 2022 tech scale-ups programme, the Tech Rocketship Awards, reached its conclusion today. The Awards identified the brightest and best tech companies and will accelerate the global growth of its winners, through curated programmes connecting them with the UK’s ecosystem of investors, incubators and High Potential Opportunity (HPO) clusters.
With many UK singletons looking to ‘reset’ their relationship and dating lives, amongst a sea of challenging online behaviour, fake profiles, and inauthentic connection, ZiP Video Dating app has launched with a promise of ‘what you see, is what you get’ – via in-app video profiling designed to combat ‘catfishing’, inaccurate imagery and promote inclusivity and safety.
If anyone had suggested only a few years ago that it is a realistic proposition to float a psychedelics company on any of the London markets that suggestion would likely have been met with derision. Commentators would have pointed to a lack of understanding and therefore acceptance of psychedelics in the investment community and to potential problems under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA).












