Startups

Darwinium, a pioneering new Customer Protection Platform, has today announced a seed funding round of $10 million USD led by Venture Capitalist firm Blackbird alongside Airtree. The initial funding round, raised to elevate the global launch of the company into the security and fraud sector, will be targeted towards both product and customer expansion. Additional funding was supported by several prominent angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Fagnan.

HumanForest are pleased to reconnect its environmentally conscious community with Earth & Wheat, to promote the need to reduce food waste and the positive impact it can have on the planet.

Admiral Money – a subsidiary of Admiral Group PLC, a specialist in car insurance, home and travel insurance, insurtech, personal loans and legal services – has chosen OCR Labs Global as its digital identity verification provider to enhance and accelerate its onboarding process.

After growing a business, there will come a time when any founder must build a team to take the company to the next level. However, it can be difficult to recruit and to know what to look for in candidates at such a crucial stage. In addition, building a team requires entrepreneurs to become leaders, an evolution that can be as difficult as knowing who to hire.

Curating content to optimise leads is a cost effective tactic for lean marketing budgets. And what’s more, Google’s recent core web vital update has placed engaging, relevant and quality website copy as a major factor in its search criteria. 

Thirty-one per cent of employers have no plans to offer fertility support, according to new research1 undertaken during September 2022 by digital health app, Peppy. Peppy believes this approach may have a detrimental impact on an employer’s ability to both attract and retain staff of child-bearing age, as well as reflect poorly on their overall brand.

Harper, a company pioneering new science in mental health, from identification to personalised care, is launching Tune by Harper. The first of its kind, Tune’s wellness kit uses a lollipop to test saliva for multiple evidence-based markers of health, providing an accurate and objective measure of wellbeing when combined with digital assessments.

Collctiv, a group payment app that allows friends, families, businesses, charities, and community groups to collect money together, has launched today in  the USA.   

Venture Capital firm, QVentures announces key management hires and appoints Andrea Acerbi as Partner. New senior hires to the QVentures team are Ranjeet Sandu, joining as Chief Operating Officer and Nick Hill, joining as Principal to expand QVentures’ footprint of working with Family Offices.

Humm Care is a health-tech app offering personalised and curriculum based medical and non-medical support through the family building journey.

The starting phase of a business is not easy, and there are many important legal matters to settle before you get started. This article will outline some of the key legal considerations you need to remember when establishing a business, from selecting the right business structure to registering your business and complying with relevant regulations.

If you’ve recently started a business and you’re now looking to grow, the time will soon come where you may look to expand your team and your collective skillset to improve your chances of success.  

Starting a business can be an exhilarating experience but it also comes with a large share of stress and pressure. This is true for the entrepreneur at the top of the management structure and the shop floor worker. The health and well-being of you and your employees can be an asset to your startup, or a liability. It depends on how you manage yourself and your business. 

Healthtech startup Sleepwave is providing more ways to help people wake up fresh with the launch of its haptic smart alarm for the Apple Watch. Sleepwave is a revolutionary motion-sensing smart alarm and sleep tracking app that addresses an overlooked area of sleep health: the quality of our morning wake up. 

For the eighth time, the international Formnext Start-up Challenge has recognised young companies from the world of additive manufacturing for their innovative business ideas and technical developments.

PocDoc, the digital health platform and leading personal diagnostics provider, today announces that it has secured the CA mark of approval for its world-first, smartphone-based test for cholesterol. 

Maslife, the world’s first ever financial app that addresses the direct link between mental, physical, and financial health has launched as a UK first. 

Hoxton Farms has announced a $22 million Series A round to build a pilot facility for producing cultivated fat: the missing ingredient necessary to make meat alternatives delicious, realistic, and versatile. After receiving regulatory approval, Hoxton Farms will sell cultivated fat as a B2B ingredient for meat alternatives.

HumanForest, London’s most sustainable and affordable eBike operator, with its daily 10 minutes free, is leading innovation within the micro-mobility sector, integrating a new style of eBike into their existing fleet.

On-demand vinyl platform, elasticStage, has announced the opening of its new North-West London production and R&D facility. The 10,000 square foot facility will house its revolutionary, patent-pending technology that is set to change the vinyl market as we know it. The British tech startup has garnered interest and support from across the music, tech, engineering, automation and printing industries, and is also revealing the first names of industry veterans proudly joining its advisory board – Paul Smith, Aron Priest and Charles Grimsdale.