Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has announced it has made an €11.4 million investment with Lakestar, a European venture & growth capital firm specialising in technology.
Bridgio Tech Accelerator, in collaboration with Infineon Technologies, is announcing the launch of the second batch of the Industry-Focused Pre-Acceleration Program.
Inephany, an AI optimisation startup, has announced the close of a $2.2 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-powered optimisation platform, which promises to revolutionise how neural networks – including Large Language Models (LLMs) – are trained and fine-tuned.
Global marketplace and destination for branded pre-loved fashion, eBay, is investing $300,000 into Refiberd in its ongoing efforts to support fashion startups to scale circular solutions through its global Circular Fashion Fund programme.
UK fintech startup Altery has announced its partnership with UnionPay International as a principal member, following the official approval on 13th September 2024.
Litera, in association with the Technology in M&A Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s M&A Committee, has released new data revealing UK firms currently use AI-based technologies to complete around half (49%) of their Merger & Acquisition (M&A) engagements and 61% at firms where M&A is the majority of their work.
To help research institutions guard against self-plagiarism, research image integrity software provider Proofig AI has launched MyDatabase, a repository designed to protect the originality of research by preventing the unintentional reuse of your own published images.
As the UK government continues to implement its AI Opportunities Action Plan, British business leaders are pinning their hopes on technological innovation alongside HR strategies, such as offering hybrid work, to boost employee morale and productivity, according to research by Celonis, the global company in Process Mining and Process Intelligence.
The UK Government is investing £121 million in quantum technology, a novel technology with huge potential, to tackle crime, fraud and money laundering, bolstering the UK’s world-leading research programmes.
What happens when a software engineer is also an amateur DJ? Dancefloor, the platform that encourages dance music fans to discover new DJs and club nights in their city! “We exist to get people dancing,” explained Ben King, the Founder and CEO of Dancefloor.
UK fintech, Marshmallow, announces that it has raised $90 million worth of funding from Portage, BlackRock, and Columbia Lake Partners. The raise comes three years after the business’ Series B, in which time, it has almost doubled its valuation to just over $2 billion.
Mindset AI, an embedded AI agent platform, has raised £4.3 million in funding to expand its operations in the UK and open an office in Chicago, US.
KÄÄPÄ Biotech, a biotechnology company that researches, innovates, and develops functional mushroom products, has announced it has closed a €900,000 strategic investment from PeakBridge, a pioneering global fund manager in agri-food and a member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity partnership.
As salaries continue to be stretched thin by a high cost of living and with National Insurance tax hikes placing more pressure on company budgets – many professionals are being driven to clock into a ‘5-9’ after their ‘9-5’.
Revenir, the UK fintech specialising in automated tax reclaim solutions, has announced a new partnership with US-based financial technology company, Karta, representing Revenir’s first partnership outside of Europe.
CUTISS, a late-stage clinical biotech at the forefront of tissue therapeutics and regenerative medicine, has announced a strategic partnership with Tecan, a global company in the development, production, and distribution of automation solutions for the life sciences and diagnostics sector.
Quantum industry professionals are overwhelmingly optimistic that quantum utility will be achieved within the next decade, research from Economist Impact today reveals.
Tracxn has released its Q1 2025 UK FinTech Funding Report, capturing the funding dynamics in the country’s financial technology space. The UK fintech ecosystem emerged as the second highest funded fintech ecosystem globally after the US in Q1 2025. Despite this ranking, the sector experienced a significant contraction in overall funding compared to previous quarters and the same period last year.
RanMarine’s speciality lies in creating waterborne robots, also known as Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs), that focus on cleaning floating pollution out of waterways, both inland and coastal.
Vienna is the heart of Austria, but the second-largest city, Graz, is a gem in itself. Its historic city centre is one of the best preserved city centres in Central Europe, and in 1999, it was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Graz was also designated the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2003. The city is filled with natural beauty and culture and should be top of people’s tourism wish list.
