Hoxton Farms, the London-based biotech developing cultivated animal fat, has opened its pilot facility to advance research, scaleup production and develop prototypes with customers. Signalling the next phase of growth, the new site in the heart of London’s Old Street is the UK’s first pilot production facility for cultivated animal fat.

Tide, the business financial platform, has reached a significant growth milestone. The business now boasts a 10% market share of all UK small businesses with more than 550,000 customers (members).

OmniIndex, the secure web3 data platform, has announced a world-first deal with Future-X Education and Cross River State in Nigeria to secure the data of every student in the state with blockchain storage and fully encrypted analytics.

The UK Government is set to launch a new £2 million funded AI and innovation business advisory to help organisations mitigate AI risks and bring innovations to market quicker.

Electric vehicle (EV) charging network startup, GoPlugable has been named the overall winner of the 2023 INVENT Awards, becoming the first Greentech winner of the competition in ten years.

Encompass, the provider of the dynamic Know Your Customer (KYC) process automation platform, has been recognised as a winner of the ‘Discover Perfect Pitch’ competition as part of Sibos 2023 – one of the leading financial services events.

Tech-powered commercial insurance broker, Hubb, has now rebranded as Taveo.

According to new customer data from embedded banking provider, BankiFi, businesses from a wide range of sectors continue to trust payment links such as SMS, email, and QR codes when requesting payment on invoices, particularly when the relationship between buyer and sellers is already known.

With sophisticated cyberattacks increasing worldwide, operators must account for generative AI and the cloud when adopting a holistic, strategic approach to their security needs. MSPs have a role and responsibility in providing support in their onboarding practices.

A business comparison site has launched to eliminate the confusion and stress experienced by small business owners when choosing services like broadband, insurance, and energy tariffs.

Ubiquity, the global business process outsourcer for industry innovators, announces the publication of a first-of-its-kind whitepaper, aimed at helping European fintech scaleups to leverage outsourcing to adapt to fast-changing market conditions.

Financing goods is an understandable practice – especially for high-value items that you or your business may struggle to pay off in one go.

The fifth annual International Innovation Barometer has been published revealing that a declining global economy has stalled innovation potential. 

Harper James, the commercial law firm purpose-built to enable entrepreneurial and ambitious businesses to succeed, has bolstered its intellectual property and trademark practice with the appointment of three new hires from top-50 law firm Blake Morgan LLP. The new appointments form part of the firm’s ambitious plan to double its number of lawyers by hiring 60 new solicitors by 2025.

Digma has launched the world’s first Continuous Feedback platform to enable developers to continuously analyse their code at runtime to identify issues and regressions, preventing bad code from making it to production, including GenAI-generated code.

Mangopay, a platform-specific payment infrastructure provider and VTEX, the enterprise digital commerce platform for premier brands and retailers, have partnered to offer an integration that will enable marketplace operators to cover both pay-in and pay-out on a single solution.

Amazon has confirmed its plans to invest up to $4 billion into AI safety and research startup Anthropic. Anthropic is currently seen as OpenAI’s main rival, and was even founded by former OpenAI employees.

Set against a year of erratic financial challenges, research from Novuna Business Finance reveals that small businesses remain steadfast and resolute in their commitment to being green.

Vagaro, a comprehensive business management platform for the beauty, wellness, and fitness industries has officially launched a partnership with Liberis, a global embedded business finance platform, to offer revenue-based finance to more than 220,000 service providers.