To celebrate a decade in business this month, digitalbeans is supporting local businesses to invest in digital and keep growing in spite of tightening COVID restrictions.

Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has unveiled its list of the high growth technology businesses joining the 2020 ‘Scale Up Club’, which celebrates the most ambitious and promising companies in Europe.

The winners for this year's highly anticipated Diversity in Tech Awards (DITA) in association with Microsoft for Startups have been announced. The virtual event took place yesterday, Tuesday 10th November 2020.

OVHcloud have announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate French and European organisations’ ability to digitally transform and reimagine their business. The partnership aims to bring cutting-edge technologies, built on trusted infrastructure, to European organisations to help them meet their growing needs for strict data controls, security, transparency and privacy while deploying cloud native applications. OVHcloud will introduce a new Hosted Private Cloud offering by bringing Google's open source-compatible Anthos technology to its own highly scalable dedicated infrastructure, fully operated and managed in Europe by OVHcloud teams.

As interest in sustainable investing continues to grow apace, Clim8 Invest (Clim8), a digital investment platform to help consumers invest exclusively in companies focused on tackling the climate crisis, has raised a further £2.4m in funding.

Over 1.5 million UK SMEs have stopped trading internationally this year which could cost the UK £20bn, due to the impacts of COVID-19 and uncertainty around Brexit. New research released by British fintech, Currensea reveals that of the 80% of British SMEs (4.72 million businesses) that trade internationally in any given year, 1.18 million have had to pause directly because of the global pandemic and a further 283,000 because of Brexit.

Sage has announced five new strategic partnerships that will help small businesses and their accountants stay in control of their business. As a result of the partnerships, the five new and innovative apps, fully integrated with Sage Accounting, will allow small businesses to get compliant, stay organised, get paid fast, gain full visibility of cash flow, and engage their employees.

Looking to start or grow a business? Need to learn the tools and tips for thriving in the digital economy? Want to tap into the exciting world of Startups? If there’s one thing The Festival of Enterprise virtual events are becoming famous for, it’s providing practical suggestions, systems, knowledge and advice that are simply plug’n’play for your business – no matter what you do! 

London is quickly cementing itself as a top global hub for impact tech, according to the latest data from London & Partners and Dealroom.co, showing that VC investment into London’s purpose-driven tech companies has increased by almost eight times between 2015 and 2020.

P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator powered by Barclays Eagle Labs and the UK’s largest healthcare charity, Nuffield Health, has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and adoption of precision medicine innovations into the independent and public sectors of the healthcare system. This partnership aims to deliver better care faster.

Paid is launching to help enterprises transform supplier management with its next-generation procurement platform. Paid announces its £2.2m seed funding round led by top early-stage tech investors Crane Venture Partners, along with participation from Seedcamp, Techstars and notable angel investors, including Angel Invest Ventures’ Jens Lapinski, GoCardless and Nested Founder Matthew Robinson, Outrun Ventures founder Chris Adelsbach (in a personal capacity), and former Microsoft head of corporate strategy, Charles Songhurst.

Despite being arguably one of the UK’s youngest tech sectors, Gaming has risen in prominence in the past five years - employing a combined 47,000 professionals directly and indirectly across related industries (such as merchandising or eSports).

Vantage Health has been selected for the 2020-21 DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme. One of 20 digital health SMEs selected for the 12-month programme, the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator aims to speed up the adoption of technology in London’s NHS, relieving high pressure on services and empowering patients to manage their health. For every £1 spent on the Accelerator programme, it is estimated £14.50 is saved for the NHS.

You’ll have a difficult job browsing content platforms nowadays without coming across articles focusing on - or at least alluding in some way to - the working from home revolution. A whole host of companies, including Twitter, have announced that they will allow staff to continue WFH permanently if they wish, following its success throughout lockdown.

Online payment orchestration innovator, BRIDGE is celebrating success, having been awarded Payment Startup of the Year at the highly-regarded, international Payment Awards 2020.

EIT Digital has awarded the five best European deep tech companies in the online finals of the EIT Digital Challenge scaleup contest 2020.

Amidst a coronavirus second wave, a study has found that 68% of people believe they should ‘reach out’ to carers more often - with 60% of respondents only asking carers how they are ‘now and again’, ‘rarely’ or ‘almost never’; leaving carers at risk of feeling forgotten.

UENI believes every small business should have a high quality online presence that can sell products and accept bookings, that is why their mission is to give all business owners a website for FREE.

Video technology and AI specialist, One Big Circle, has secured significant investment and growth thanks to the addition of David Harris and Toby Hughes to the board.

London Food Tech Week - the week-long festival and showcase of the latest food trends and companies using technology to transform the food and drink ecosystem - will return virtually from 16th-20th November 2020 with a game changing line-up.