Highlighting breakthrough startups, LG NOVA, LG Electronics’ North American Innovation Centre, announced the winners of the Startup Pitch Competition at its annual Innovation Festival in October 2023.

Making truly plug-and-play robotics technologies accessible to every company is the goal of Paderborn-based startup Unchained Robotics. The automation platform covers over a dozen robotics manufacturers, finally offering SMEs broad-based access to standard robotics.

Celebrating its eleventh year in the UK, Small Business Saturday has become a well-established fixture in the business calendar. New analysis conducted by Clover in the UK indicates that the marketing initiative is yielding positive results for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

The National Enterprise Network (NEN), the country’s representative of enterprise support for startup, small, and micro-businesses, has released the results of its 2023 Business Barometer, one of the country’s largest surveys of new startups and early-stage businesses.

Kickstart Innovation selected 46 startups and intrapreneurship teams out of over 1,000 applications from 62 countries for its 8th Kickstart innovation programme, an 11-week initiative in collaboration with organisations, cities, foundations, and universities.

Resolve Ventures, an Irish development and growth capital fund management company led by managing partners David Scanlon and Alan Costello, proudly announces the launch of its new 'Climate Impact Fund,' following successful support from the Irish Innovation Seed Fund.

EMV Capital, the VC investor specialising in early-stage high-growth deep tech companies, is delighted to announce that it has led the completion of a £3.5 million investment round into its portfolio company Q-Bot, a developer of robots for use in the construction and retrofit industry.

The twelfth iteration of South Summit Madrid, co-organised by IE University, is scheduled to take place in Madrid from the 5-7th June, 2024.

Garage+, a leading, zero-equity startup incubator supported by the Epoch Foundation, is launching its 2023 Open House in Taipei, Taiwan on 6th December 2023.

VivaCity, the transport technology scaleup, has recently declared a strategic alliance with Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). This partnership aims to enhance road safety in the West Midlands.

GoMetro, a rapidly expanding South African tech firm specialising in fleet management, has recently completed a £9 million Series A funding round.

The City of Helsinki and the startup event Slush have continued to share a common goal. They aim not only to support the startup field but also to increase international industry operators’ awareness of Helsinki, which was highly ranked for its startup ecosystem and quality of life.

Graduates of the University of Cambridge's highly acclaimed entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship programme, ‘impulse’, continue to excel as the enrolment period for the 2024 cohort opens.

Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms to solve the most complex problems in life sciences, has successfully run one of the largest scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM’s hardware.

Discovery Park Ventures (DPV) has recently announced an increase in its early-stage life science fund from £1 million to £3 million.

KleanBus, a pioneer in bus repowering since 2021, has announced the next phase of its business growth with the launch of KleanDrive, an umbrella company under which it will offer its electrification technology across the entire transportation industry.

As the entrepreneurial landscape continues to evolve, the much-anticipated return of the Hustle Awards in 2024 promises to recognise and honour the relentless spirit, innovation, and remarkable achievements of entrepreneurs worldwide. Presented by Startups Magazine, the Hustle Awards are set to acknowledge the extraordinary efforts and successes of those who dare to push boundaries and redefine industry standards.

Berlin-based food technology company Milano Vice has raised a $9 million Series A round to expand its innovative, new restaurant model.

With approximately one in sevem individuals in the UK being neurodivergent, according to the Local Government Association, designing an office space for inclusion and neurodiversity is crucial. Tailoring the environment to accommodate diverse cognitive perspectives promotes employee well-being and taps into the unique strengths of a neurodiverse workforce, fostering a culture of creativity, productivity, and belonging.

The Consumer Technology Association announced that Qualcomm, a global leader enabling intelligent computing everywhere, will keynote at CES 2024. President and CEO Cristiano Amon will join Emmy Award-winning FOX Business Network anchor Liz Claman for a keynote conversation on January 10.