Lightstate, a rapidly expanding clean energy technology firm, has revealed an ambitious new strategy for EV charging infrastructure in the UK.

The second day of pitching battles at the Startups & Investment Matching (SIM) conference was as fierce as the first! Once again separated by sector, day two saw healthtech and wellbeing, security and prevention, and agritech and & foodtech startups take to the stage to present their innovations.

Boomerang, a UK based startup focused on sustainable solutions, has launched an innovative new product, the BoomerangTag – a physical label with a QR code on it.

Plotline, a startup enabling consumer app companies to rapidly and effortlessly customise their apps, has raised $2.6 million from Elevation Capital to improve user adoption and loyalty in the super app era.

At the Startups & Investment Matchmaking (SIM) conference in Porto, the pitch battles have been intense. Separating startups by sector, three lucky startups per industry got the chance to pitch before an audience of investor jurors, hoping to secure funding for their innovations.

SHEIN is the most successful startup of the decade, ranking in the top three for valuation, public perception, growth, and number of employees.  

EIT Food has announced its new cohort of 58 startups for the EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN), one of its entrepreneurship programmes.

Aachen-based Organ Vitality Tech company Vivalyx has received an investment of €5.4 million led by TechVision Fonds (TVF) and Brightlands Venture Partners (BVP) in an oversubscribed seed financing round.

Have you ever been told you are "too close to the matter" to give a full or unbiased overview? What you are being told is you need to give the matter some space to see things clearer. Kuva Space is literally doing that.

With many elements of our modern world revolving around extraterrestrial components, such as satellites, the importance of such technologies cannot be underestimated. We rely on them for information they provide to us on Earth, but also for insights into the devices themselves.

Providing high-quality, reliable, and persistent monitoring in an accessible package, Rafal Modrzewski, CEO and Co-Founder of ICEYE, and his team are ensuring that nothing goes unnoticed when it comes to catastrophe monitoring around the globe, at all times.

Private Scottish aerospace company, Skyrora, is dedicated to becoming the first UK private orbital launcher from UK soil.

IMRO, the Irish based, international performing rights organisation, has announced a partnership with Audoo, the music recognition technology company on a mission to revolutionise public performance royalty distribution.

Showerkap, a UK-based tech startup, has developed a water management system that allows organisations to monitor and conserve water usage while encouraging users to adopt more sustainable habits that decrease water consumption, carbon emissions, and costs.

Award-winning UK gynaecological health company Daye is launching its new workplace app, Daye for Work.

Space data company Blue Skies Space has secured over £2m in funding to accelerate the launch of its science satellites, to help the world’s research communities in their quest to solve the biggest questions in the universe.

Intel Ignite, Intel’s global startup accelerator programme for early-stage deeptech startups, is launching its second cohort in the United Kingdom on April 24th.

Midas, the fintech startup that brought retail investing to millions of people in Turkey, announced that it has raised $45 million in equity funding.

An Estonian startup operating in the data protection field, GDPR Register, is developing an AI-based solution that helps companies escape the time-consuming routine obligations arising from the General Data Protection Regulation.

From This is Your Life to Who Do You Think You Are? Brits have long been fascinated by the life stories and family history of others.