Anna Wood

Anna Wood is the Editor of Startups Magazine. She joined the team in June 2023 as Deputy Editor, and has since been promoted to Editor of the publication. When it comes to the startup sector, Anna has a keen interest in spacetech, biotech, medtech, anything that flies, and shining a light on the gender and diversity funding gap. Outside of work hours, you can find Anna tucking into a book, a nice meal, and playing her Switch!

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London fintech firms KoinKoin and SR FINANZMANN close $2m funding round

London FinTech firms KoinKoin and SR FINANZMANN, have closed a $2 million private funding round in major boost to their corporate OTC business for foreign exchange and digital assets.

Jasper SME Hub Targets 50,000 African Businesses for Growth

Jasper SME Hub, a prominent accelerator and educational institution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has unveiled an ambitious plan to bolster the expansion of 50,000 Nigerian businesses by 2025.

ID Logistics join forces with Dexory to deploy ASTRID

Dexory, a company in AI and robotics innovation, has partnered with ID Logistics as part of the ID Logistics’ ASTRID initiative, introducing Autonomous Stock Taking Robots designed for rapid inventory management.

Fiverr’s Winter Product Release: Packed With New Features

Fiverr, the platform revolutionising the collaboration landscape, has unveiled its Winter Product Release, marking the first of its significant updates in 2024.

Vanta Unveils New Enterprise Offerings

Vanta, the trust management platform, has announced several growth, product and partner milestones showcasing the company’s continued acceleration as the platform of choice pioneering the next generation of Governance, Risk, and Compliance capabilities.

Volt and Bumper partner to bring open banking to major car dealerships

Volt, a global platform for real-time payments, has entered into a strategic alliance with Bumper, a specialised payment solution for car dealerships, to exploit the advantages of open banking and instantaneous transactions, enabling customers to seamlessly pay for car deposits, maintenance, components, servicing, and even complete vehicle purchases.

Club Employés and Weavr collaborate to give employees control over benefits

The European employee benefits platform, Club Employés, has formed a partnership with embedded finance experts, Weavr, to introduce a debit card solution tailored for employee benefits.

4 things a PropTech VC won’t tell you

At ISE 2024, Jim McHale, CEO and Founder of Memoori, shared the four pieces of information that PropTech VC’s won’t tell startups…

UK Space Agency backs Messium

An agritech startup, dedicated to mitigating global agricultural waste, has garnered support from Space Park Leicester.

Top edtech startups at Bett UK 2024

In the bustling halls of Bett UK 2024, the general consensus is that the edtech landscape is bright, with such a vibrant array of innovation and skill on display at the show.

Centre for Sustainable Innovation launches in Salford

Salford Business School has launched its latest project: the Centre for Sustainable Innovation (CSI). Based in the Maxwell Building on the University of Salford’s Peel Park campus, the Centre is not only a physical space for partners to utilise, but also a resource that aims to bring together the worlds of academia and business.

Make Llum BCN’24 a part of your ‘Destination for Innovation’ experience at ISE 2024

Prepare for an electrifying fusion of artistry and technology as Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), the global hub for professional audio-visual (pro AV) and systems integration, announces its third-year sponsorship of the dazzling Llum BCN’24 light arts festival.

OpenDialog raises over $8m to make conversational AI safe for regulated industries

OpenDialog, a conversational AI platform catering to regulated industries, has successfully secured over $8 million in a Series A funding round.

Women entrepreneurs programme returns to Southampton Science Park

Female founders in the fields of science, digital, and technology, based in the South, are invited to participate in a women-only business support initiative spanning two days at the University of Southampton Science Park, scheduled for the 6th and 7th of March.

DigitalOcean’s Cloudways launches Autonomous

DigitalOcean Holdings, a developer cloud tailored for startups and expanding digital enterprises, recently unveiled Autonomous, a new managed WordPress hosting service by Cloudways.

How to support employees with invisible disabilities in 2024

In 2024, employers are being urged to extend their support to employees who have hidden or invisible disabilities, with FDM Group, a company dedicated to bridging the gap between individuals and technology, offering six key tips to facilitate this.

About:Energy launches ‘Formula Student: Drive to Recharge’

About:Energy, a pioneering firm in battery development software, is set to launch ‘Formula Student: Drive to Recharge’, an ambitious project aimed at bridging the UK’s battery skills gap. This initiative is targeted at fostering the growth of 1,500 battery engineers by 2030.

appliedAIstudio joins NVIDIA Inception

appliedAIstudio has announced it has joined NVIDIA Inception, a programme that nurtures startups revolutionising industries with technological advancements.

Scaling roadblocks revealed as 58% of UK SMBs fear 2024 stagnation

Recent research conducted by Slack, a productivity platform, in collaboration with the business productivity charity Be the Business, has shed light on the various challenges that confront small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK in 2024.

Metris Energy raises £2m to ‘power up’ the UK’s £22B solar economy

Metris, an AI-driven solar energy platform tailored for commercial property owners, has recently secured £2 million in a pre-Seed funding round.