Paige Hookway

Paige graduated from the University of Greenwich in 2014 with a 2:1 in English Literature. She joined Startups Magazine in February 2022 as Managing Editor and has a keen interest in the latest technology developments and promoting engineering as a viable career option for the younger generation. 

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Digital talent shortages continue to impede UK SME growth

A recent UK SME survey found that 29% of those surveyed said the ongoing shortage of skilled workers poses a high or very high risk for their business – so much so that their digital modernisation ambitions have stalled, due to a lack of job-ready digital talent.

Heather Delaney: working with startups around the world

Heather Delaney, Founder, and Managing Director of award-winning communications consultancy Gallium Ventures is an expert in growing brands and launching products or services, creatively. Heather specialises in building and fixing global organisations and startups alike — from their communications strategy to product development and everything in between.

Support for UK fintechs with new FinTech Growth Fund

UK FinTech Growth Partners will launch the FinTech Growth Fund, the first investment fund of its kind focused on supporting growth stage fintechs as they scale.

Startup pens generative AI success story with NVIDIA NeMo

Machine learning helped Waseem Alshikh plough through textbooks in college. Now he’s putting generative AI to work, creating content for hundreds of companies.

Microsoft is helping startups to build, grow, and scale

Microsoft UK supports startup scaleups, software companies, digital native businesses – you name it! – across each stage of their life cycle and makes sure that startups, in particular, have the right pathways to learn and leverage the best that the company has to offer.

Where are they now? BrainBox AI

Startups Magazine caught up with BrainBox AI, a company using predictive and self-adapting AI to optimise buildings and make them smarter, greener, and more efficient, to hear about the company’s progress over the last 12 months.

Lessons learnt on the journey to success

Amelia Sordell, Founder of Klowt, the personal branding agency, and Hustle Awards judge, started her business in a small corner of her bedroom in the middle of a pandemic. Now, the business is getting ready to move into its fourth office in less than three years with a plan to reach £20 million in revenue by year seven.

Blueshift Memory: accelerating memory access

Blueshift Memory is a proprietary new architecture design enabling up to 1,000 times faster memory access.

Sprive: The AI mortgage assistant

Sprive is an app that can save you £000s by helping you pay off your mortgage faster and making sure you’re always on the best deal. And it’s completely free!

Lilium successfully arranges $192 million capital raise

Lilium, developer of the first all-electric vertical take-off and landing jet, has successfully arranged a capital raise for a total amount of $192 million.

BrainBox AI announces $10 million investment

BrainBox AI announced the close of its fundraising round at $30 million, furthering its mission of delivering scalable AI-driven solutions to decarbonise the built environment.

FuturePlus selected to consolidate and improve sustainability practices across UK sites

FuturePlus has been chosen by Atlas FM, a UK facilities management company, to help change its approach to sustainability and social impact.

Sustainable pet food pioneer latest winner of Impact HERE Award

FuturePlus and Outernet have announced sustainability-focused pet food pioneer Grub Club as the winner of the second Impact HERE Award (formerly the Outernet Impact Award).

Boosting sustainability in facilities and asset management worldwide

FuturePlus and International Real Estate Partners (IREP) have forged a new strategic partnership to help businesses around the world to put sustainable practice at the heart of their facilities and building management practices.

Distil.ai, the customer data platform that helps boost online sales, raises £1.1m

Distil.ai – a customer data platform that helps e-commerce businesses to understand customers’ behaviour and boost sales – has raised a further £1.1m in a funding round led by Mercia Ventures and supported by angel investors.

User experience in the Metaverse

The intriguing sphere of the Metaverse has captivated the minds of digital enthusiasts worldwide.

50% of traditional UK enterprises consider themselves ‘tech companies’ since pandemic

The pandemic years forced traditional industries to digitise their operations at speed, but three years on, non-tech enterprises across the UK – from sectors including finance, advertising, manufacturing, and more – are actively embracing the ‘tech mindset’ more than ever.

isla partners with Event Sustainability Live

Event Sustainability Live (ESL), which makes its debut at ExCeL, London in November, has announced an associate partnership with isla, which was put together by sector professionals in 2020.

Decarbonisation challenge offering $1M pilot prize for startups and SMEs

The Decarbonisation Technology Challenge is a global competition to find innovators that are reshaping the global energy landscape.

Plexal opens Cyber Runway applications for cyber startups and scaleups

The UK’s cyber accelerator, Cyber Runway, delivered by Plexal and funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in partnership with Deloitte and the Centre for Secure Information Technologies, is accepting applications for its Grow and Scale streams, with submissions open until 14th August.