Wales Tech Week has unveiled BT as the partner for the summit’s Connectivity Zone, reaffirming its commitment to advancing digital transformation and innovation within Wales’s technology industry.
In increasingly fractured workplaces, where remote working is now an employee expectation, new research by 438 Marketing, which specialises in cultural transformation within businesses, has found that many employers are failing to engage with their internal audiences, within and beyond the day job, where poor comms and outdated use of technology are commonplace.
Electric Sheep, an AI tech startup in visual effects (VFX), has announce the close of an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round of half a million dollars. The round was filled by AI focused VCs, led by Dasein Capital (US), and backed by Spatial Capital (US) and Look AI Ventures (Czech Republic).
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced that it has invested in Advanced Ionics, a high efficiency, low-temperature water vapour electrolysis technology startup company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Phasecraft, a startup led by top academics developing quantum algorithms, has raised a £13 million Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley deeptech VC, Playground Global. AlbionVC also joined the round along with participation from existing investors Episode1, Parkwalk Advisors, LCIF, and UCL Technology Fund.
Fiverr, the company reshaping global collaboration, has unveiled the next phase of its partnership with England and Arsenal football star Bukayo Saka, which centres around the launch of Ideatorr, a brand-new incubator programme.
Enterprises that successfully embed AI across all business functions will see their long-term value spike, says Lee Chin Jian, Vice President at DAI Magister
George Richardson is the CEO and Co-Founder of AeroCloud Systems, a provider of operation automation software for small to medium-sized airports worldwide. Prior to his startup venture, Richardson was a young professional sports car endurance racing driver.
Integrated drug formulation and clinical trials company, BDD has secured a further round of investment for £2 million to aid the company’s expansion in response to growing demand for both its patented drug delivery technology and specialist clinical trial services.
The unification of food and technology has given rise to an array of innovative startups. These businesses are reshaping the way we produce, distribute, experience, and even think about the food that we eat.
Zain Ali is the CEO and Co-Founder of Centuro Global, a global expansion management platform. Founded in 2020, Centuro Global enables businesses and their workers, wherever they may be, or would like to be in the world, access to the support they need to launch, operate and scale efficiently.
Big tech was back in fashion for investors in Q2, according to the latest analysis from smart money app Plum.
Simply Business, one of the UK’s largest providers of small business insurance, has announced the launch of its annual Business Boost competition, which will award a £25,000 cash prize to the winner.
According to new research from GRiD, the industry body for the group risk sector, affordability – competing with budget for other business needs – was cited as the biggest challenge in supporting the health and wellbeing of staff, by 30% of employers. However, 98% of those that measure the impact to the business in supporting staff say it is positive.
Rodez Aveyron Football (Rodez AF) has entered into a strategic collaboration with Wiremind to upgrade its ticketing management and operations. This partnership heralds a new era for the club’s ticketing system, as they integrate the all-encompassing ticketing management platform, EVENTORI, into their existing system.
Global hygiene and health company Essity has partnered with FemTech Lab to support startups in the area of women’s health, hygiene and wellbeing this Autumn 2023.
Advanced Ionics, the developer of a new category of hydrogen electrolysers useful for expanding green hydrogen production, closed a $12.5 million Series A financing led by bp ventures, with additional investors including Clean Energy Ventures, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and GVP Climate.
UNTIL, home to London’s health and wellness professionals, has announced Steven Bartlett as the company’s new Marketing Co-Founder following his latest investment into the sector, worth £3.5 trillion globally.
AI could have a greater impact on the UK than the Industrial Revolution and play a key role in accelerating government decisions, according to Deputy PM Oliver Dowden. Reports from earlier this year found that around the world, as many as 300 million jobs could be impacted, generating new ones or wholly automating them.
Robin AI, the legal AI startup, has introduced The Legal Dictionary, a free tool available to anyone who needs access to high quality, common legal clauses for their commercial agreements. The Legal Dictionary was generated using a large language model (LLM), that has been fine-tuned with proprietary contract data, and then verified by Robin AI’s in-house team of legal experts.
