UniTaskr, a digital platform for student and graduate freelancers, recently announced a substantial seven-figure investment, marking a significant milestone in its growth trajectory.
Selected from nearly a thousand entries, 11 extraordinary women from across the country have been unveiled as the 2023 winners in the UK’s longest-running recognition programme for female entrepreneurs.
Businesses are making positive strides towards overcoming the historical lack of diversity within the tech workforce, as data suggests that more than half (52%) set diversity targets (up from 46% last year).
Research from the Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA) reveals how successful VCT companies have been in identifying the next generation of ambitious British businesses. Polling from 119 fast-growing, VCT-backed firms demonstrated that 90% of firms surveyed are looking to expand overseas.
Businesses in the North of Tyne area, Gateshead, and Sunderland with ambitions to grow can apply to a brand-new funding scheme, the Business Growth Fund which aims to support businesses on their unique journeys to success.
UK university spinouts have received another boost as Science Creates seals a £8.5 million deal to open its third state-of-the-art deep tech incubator in Bristol.
BugBiome has been announced as the winner of the Discovery Spark life science business support programme at the GIANT Health Healthcare Investment Show on 5th December.
One year on from the launch of Chat GPT, new data from Slack based on 10,000 global workers (including 1,000 the UK) reveals that UK companies believe there is greater urgency to adopt Generative AI at work than US companies – yet uptake remains cautious in both markets.
Harriet, the groundbreaking full-stack AI solution designed to ready companies’ internal data for the AI revolution, relieve People teams of their daily administrative burdens, and provide personalised HR assistance to every staff member, has successfully raised a £1.2 million pre-seed funding round.
Slush is one of the world’s biggest startup and tech events, held annually in Helsinki, Finland. Over the days, Helsinki became a bustling hub of activity, with startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and many more flocking to the beautiful city to attend this event and make connections within the industry.
Rotor Technologies, a player in autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, has announced the launch and commencement of production for the R550X, the market’s largest uncrewed civilian helicopter.
A problem-led approach, i.e. offering a menu of therapies and services, rather than taking a holistic solution-led approach, risks letting people down, says RedArc, the nurse-led health and wellbeing company.
Klarytee, a software platform dedicated to embedding security within data for large organisations handling sensitive information, has successfully completed a £700,000 pre-Seed funding round.
Slush is one of the world’s biggest tech startup events, so there was no way Startups Magazine was going to miss out on the 2023 edition of the event!
Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms to solve the most complex problems in life sciences, has successfully run one of the largest scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM’s hardware.
Graduates of the University of Cambridge’s highly acclaimed entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship programme, ‘impulse’, continue to excel as the enrolment period for the 2024 cohort opens.
The City of Helsinki and the startup event Slush have continued to share a common goal. They aim not only to support the startup field but also to increase international industry operators’ awareness of Helsinki, which was highly ranked for its startup ecosystem and quality of life.
GoMetro, a rapidly expanding South African tech firm specialising in fleet management, has recently completed a £9 million Series A funding round.
VivaCity, the transport technology scaleup, has recently declared a strategic alliance with Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). This partnership aims to enhance road safety in the West Midlands.
Scaling up a business is no easy feat, and can present the founder with many hurdles to overcome. But scaling is a journey worth taking, as it takes your startup to new heights. A fantastic example of this is Monzo.
