Clue, the female-founded, female-led, period tracker and reproductive health companion, announces it has achieved record female investor participation in its crowdfunding campaign conducted via Crowdcube.

As the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to transform industries becomes more apparent, and market growth projections rise, trust in the technology is emerging as a crucial factor that may impact its adoption. However, despite the anticipated steady increase in market value, trust in AI systems varies significantly across different nations.

Calling all founders! If you have a disruptive idea that you want to get in front of an audience of investors, changemakers and potential customers, TNW Conference 2023 is the place to be. TNW’s yearly flagship event once more supports founders in their quest to find funding by putting their startup in the spotlight. Will you meet your next backer? We’ll do the intros, so you can work your magic!

June 19-23 sees the launch of National Women’s Enterprise Week (NWEW), the first ever UK wide celebration of female led businesses. 

Climb23, a brand-new business festival aimed at bringing the investment ecosystem and tech startup and scaleup community together, will take place in Leeds on May 23-24. Hosted by Investor Ladder, the event will provide content-rich sessions and networking opportunities to help investors and businesses overcome the challenges faced when accessing potential beyond their own local networks – and accelerate investment into regional ecosystems.

Global employee pay company, CloudPay, has partnered with the global reward and recognition platform, Perkbox, to empower HR leaders across the globe, by offering their employees financial flexibility and control.

Craft, the company building the future of documents, has revealed their top tips for finding a job you will actually love. 

For most startups, breaking into the enterprise market can be a challenge. The sales cycles are long, regulatory compliance is daunting, and making sure your product can handle the scale and reliability that enterprise buyers demand can be tough.

South Summit Madrid 2023, co-organised by IE University, has announced the 100 finalists of its Startup Competition, which this year has broken its record of participation. The finalists, from 21 different countries, will compete to be crowned the most innovative startup in the world during the eleventh edition of the event, which will take place from 7th to the 9th of June at La Nave in Madrid.

Building on a range of existing small business broadband propositions, Virgin Media O2 introduces an all-new Flex offering. The new scheme enables small business customers to move between broadband package options, allowing customers to dial their broadband package up or down according to their needs.  

Over 10 million Brits lack basic digital skills to get online, preventing them from accessing education, digital healthcare, online banking and other essential day-to-day activities.

Ulaa, a privacy-centred browser by Zoho Corporation launched, built specifically to help users protect their privacy with pre-built capabilities to block tracking and website surveillance.

In the UK in April, small businesses with one to nine employees had 2,100 fewer job vacancies compared to the previous official benchmark of 150,000 in March’s Vacancy Survey, published by the Office for National Statistics. That’s a monthly decrease of -1.42% to 147,900 job vacancies, a smaller decrease than in March, when the Index predicted a drop of -4.98%.

Climate tech VC fund Systemiq Capital has officially welcomed Matthew Goldstein as General Partner and Lydia Guett as Head of Growth.

By reaching its sizeable funding target nine days ahead of schedule, Frost’s Seedrs campaign has reaffirmed the growing demand for tech-forward solutions, which can help individuals to get a better grip on their bills amidst the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

Rimac Technology announces its entry into the stationary energy storage systems (ESS) market with a new brand, Rimac Energy.

Mia-Platform, an end-to-end platform builder that empowers businesses to smoothly create cloud-native applications, has extended its partnership with London-based RegTech startup, docStribute, to launch a new application for financial services businesses to offer faster, more secure lending. 

The Mainstage schedule of the 11th edition of the WMF, International Trade Fair and Festival on Tech and Digital Innovation, promises to be full of authoritative voices and unmissable moments. In fact, from June 15 to 17, 2023, dozens of speakers and guests from all over the world will bring visions, studies, and new insights for the future to the main stage of the event, which is preparing to welcome more than 60,000 participants and a parterre of more than 1.000 speakers from 85 countries at the Rimini Expo Centre.

Europe’s premier climate technology conference & tradeshow is all set to become better and bigger than ever before with the confirmed participation of many industry giants from across the world. Aiming to expedite the shift towards a carbon-neutral economy, the 2nd edition shall take place at the ExCel London from 26-27 September 2023, bringing together the focussed audience of 5000+ industry professionals including policymakers, innovators, business leaders, startups, investors and other important stakeholders to discuss and showcase innovative solutions that help mitigate the climate crisis.

The online competition for attention and engagement has never been more intense. And the rapid rise of AI is exponentially increasing the tension, bringing things to a game-changing level. To stand out from the crowd and compete, leaders need to get their personal and business brands AI-ready.