Login Just one in three UK businesses prepared to handle employee wellbeing concerns The number of employees voicing wellbeing concerns is on the rise, but a significant number of organisations and managers are ill-prepared to address them, according to new research from Mintago. HR 1 year ago
Login AI Summit a ‘moment of critical importance’ for UK Tech Nation and a group of tech leaders have labelled the AI Safety Summit on November 1st and 2nd a ‘moment of critical importance’ for the UK in an open letter addressed to Rishi Sunak. News 1 year ago
Login The stumbling blocks of science commercialisation and how to avoid them Dr Renos Savva, Head of Innovation at Discovery Park, shares his experiences working with early-stage life science companies and what founders can do to give their innovation the best chance of successful commercialisation. Features 1 year ago
Login Small businesses linking carbon reduction to business benefits New research from Novuna Business Finance indicates encouraging signs in small business attitudes, revealing a substantial shift towards prioritising sustainability and a growing recognition of the business benefits it brings. News 1 year ago
Login Raixer at Tourism Innovation Summit 2023 At Tourism Innovation Summit (TIS) 2023, Jon Marco Esteban, Founder of Raixer talks to Startups Magazine's Deputy Editor, Anna Wood all about their product, smart locks, and how they are helping apartment managers who accommodate tourists. Startups 1 year ago
Login Generative AI Distorts Human Sentiment, according to academics Generative AI and the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) leads to unintended alterations in the sentiment of original text, according to leading academics from the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School. News 1 year ago
Login Government launches cyber-resiliency inquiry The government has opened an inquiry into the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) to assess its cyber-resiliency as the UK is highlighted to be the third most targeted globally for cyber-attacks, following the US and Ukraine. News 1 year ago
Login Employment Hero announces £131M series F round Employment Hero, one of the world’s largest employment management platforms, has announced a Series F growth round of £131 million to fuel its rapid global expansion, following in the footsteps of Atlassian, Xero and Canva. Funding 1 year ago
Login When is it time to start PR for a startup? Startups often start investing in marketing even before the release to boost sales in advance. The question of when to start PR is more complicated and requires more understanding of what to broadcast to your audience. Brand 1 year ago
Login Twinco secures €50m from BBVA to power supply chain finance There is a staggering $2.5 trillion global trade finance gap that mainly affects SMEs in emerging countries, limiting their ability to access new business opportunities. Helping businesses to bridge this finance gap, supply chain fintech Twinco Capital announced on Tuesday, in the sixth edition of the Valencia Digital Summit (VDS), it has secured an additional €50 million facility with BBVA Spark to accelerate growth. Funding 1 year ago
Login Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology launches Crypto Dashboard The Crypto Dashboard, created by the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School, has been launched to revolutionise monitoring capabilities for various cryptocurrency assets, providing users with enhanced real-time insights and advanced analytics. News 1 year ago
Login Human trials for brain implants get the go ahead Elon Musk’s biotech startup, Neuralink, has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruiting for its first human clinical trial. Neuralink is set to begin offering brain implants to paralysis patients as part of its PRIME study. News 1 year ago
Login Nodum: charging ahead MacDonald grew up on a farm in New Zealand and was always active in the environmental scene there. He ended up doing a teacher's qualification thinking he could go and teach for a period of time while travelling. He came over to London in 1999, teaching Geography and Maths at a school in London, and never left the country! He commented that in 2016 he “wanted to move to an electric car but struggled with being able to charge it. So, I ended up working on a little side project whilst teaching, moved to part-time and eventually left teaching in 2021 and took this on full-time.” Startups 1 year ago
Login Where are they now? - Racketpal Robert Rizea and Bogdan Demeny are the Co-Founders of Racketpal. As two passionate tennis and squash players, Rizea and Demeny realised there was no obvious and easy way for them to meet other players who were also up for a game. But they knew there had to be a way to fix that. Then one evening in September 2018, the pair were enjoying a pint in The Cleveland Arms in Paddington when the eureka moment struck. They decided it was time to create an app to help racket sports players meet each other, and started working on plans for the app that became Racketpal the very next day. Startups 1 year ago
Login The resilience of Ukraine and its startup ecosystem Famous for its historical cathedrals, stunning beaches, and captivating capital city, Ukraine is a country of rich culture. Home to some incredible unicorns, including GitLab and Grammarly, Ukraine is the leading startup hub in Eastern Europe and ranked 49th globally. Well-known in several verticals including fintech, artificial intelligence and Blockchain, Ukraine has become a global defence tech hub offering game-changing products and solutions. Features 1 year ago