The Paybase team recently launched the Founders’ Workshop - a community of early-stage and established business founders in the platform economy. The latest event focused on the pressing issue of disintermediation and user retention: when users connect on a platform but transact independently outside it.

With an office already in Tel Aviv, the Israeli-founded business travel management platform, Arbitrip is now opening up a London office to expand its European market share. Its exciting new expansion now means that the tech startup is ready to rapidly drive its footprint across Europe. 

One of the UK’s largest universities has put sustainability firmly on the agenda, by measuring one of the most ambitious sustainability programmes in higher education and seen staff make significant societal and environmental savings.

London-based startup CLiKD Dating App has founded a competition as part of its mission to help people find love in the capital city, but also to help raise money for the charity Relate.

Having worked across a number of industries such as manufacturing, food-servicing, software, cosmetics, plastics and engineering, The Leyton Group sets out to help companies generate bottom-line savings. But how did Leyton emerge from CES as a true champion for developing companies?

Google for Startups has completed a number of cohorts now based around different areas in the startup world, some of the most recent ones including African and Women, but now the organisation has issued a call to startup founders from across the UK. Its new UK Immersion Cohort brings a 12 week programme designed to bring the best of Google and the London startup ecosystem to tech companies from all over the United Kingdom.

Described as the world’s most important mobility event, MOVE is just around the corner and promises even more disruptive technologies and innovation to drive much-needed change. Taking place at ExCeL on the 11-12th February, MOVE focuses on models, technology and sustainability, and also has a section dedicated to startups.

Digi-Key to launch Startups Survival Guide magazine and serve as Platinum Sponsor for Hardware Massive’s CES startup event.

Solutions to tackling waste plastic were the focus of four eco-inventors who went head to head at Plus X Brighton Disruptors finals this November 12 at Untapped Brewery in Brighton.

The spirit of innovation in Britain was alive and well on 26 November as four Modern British Inventors showcased their new products at the Central Research Laboratory (CRL) Demo Day.

"Sustainable businesses are riding the wave of social consciousness to raise finance from a crowd of 'woke' consumers'," says Koodoo, the new equity crowdfunding platform and app that connects sustainable businesses with people who want to invest in the future of the planet.

Startups gain valuable benefits and access through 4YFN, the official platform of emerging technology companies at MWC-Los Angeles.

Security Matters, an Australian-listed Israeli tech solutions company with clients in the electronics, minerals, plastics, security, and agriculture industries, has a solution used in security and defence that can help reduce the volume of garments and textiles that are incinerated or landfilled every year.