Former Everton and Norwich player Steven Naismith has invested a six-figure sum in sportstech platform ScribePro. The ex-footballer is backing the medical app and online portal that logs real-time interactions between athletes and clinicians.

Applications are now open for Purina Europe’s BetterwithPets Prize (BWPP). Nestlé Purina Petcare Europe is calling for organisations and social entrepreneurs who help improve the health and wellbeing of people in vulnerable situations to apply for the prize.

AI-powered lending technology platform Abound has more than doubled revenue in a year and delivered a twenty-five-fold increase in profit.

upLYFT, a startup in the smart technology sector, is excited to announce the successful completion of a £500,000 investment through the Deepbridge Capital UK Innovation Seed Fund, alongside TIME Interconnect (HK) Limited.

UK rental services provider, Housing Hand, has partnered with tech startup VerbaFlo, the conversational AI platform for businesses, to unlock faster, smarter conversations with students and partners at every touchpoint.

Patrick Murray is a seasoned scaleup CFO at The CFO Centre with deep expertise across technology, life sciences, green tech and AI. Drawing on over 30 years of experience, he shares the most common financial missteps made by early-stage tech startups – and how to steer clear of them.

Starting a business is always a leap of faith. But for refugees from Artsakh – an ethnically Armenian region forcibly depopulated in 2023 – it's often a matter of survival. If you're starting over after a career setback, bootstrapping a business during inflation, or trying to harness the power of AI, you may have more in common with these refugee founders than you think.

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the workplace at unprecedented speed, new insights from Instant Offices suggest that Gen Z employees are already embracing AI tools far more fluently than many of their employers, highlighting a critical knowledge and leadership gap that UK businesses must urgently address.

Finnish hyperspectral satellite and AI-powered insights company Kuva Space is launching a pilot with the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) to test the use of hyperspectral satellite data and AI-driven insights in improving the monitoring and identification of algae blooms in Finland’s lakes and coastal waters.

Entrepreneurs have more choice than ever before when it comes to where to set up their business. The UK’s business taxation regime means the country is becoming less attractive to startups and entrepreneurs and, as a result, more UK businesses – especially in the highly mobile services sector – are considering their options when it comes to where to locate their business.

New research shows a growing wave of anxiety amongst office workers. As more firms order workers back to the office, more than a third (36%) of European workers worry that being 'out of sight' means that they are 'out of mind' when it comes to career progression or advancement opportunities, a figure which is even more pronounced in the UK (40%).  

London-based Zango has raised $4.8 million in a round led by Nexus Venture Partners. Other participants in the round include South Park Commons, Richard Davies, CEO of Allica Bank, Alan Morgan, former head of Financial Services at McKinsey (EMEA), Mark Ransford, Notion Capital, No Label Ventures, and Start Ventures.

Robert F. Kennedy captured the essence of breakthrough thinking: "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'"

AI fluency is now a standard requirement in technical roles, according to developer hiring platform Yotewo. The company reports that 85% of full stack and backend job briefs submitted to its platform over the past six months included a specific request for AI-related skills, such as prompt engineering, OpenAI API integration, or proficiency with tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude.

Gen Z workers are eager to bring AI into the workplace, but they’re not blindly buying into the buzz, according to a new survey from UKG which shows younger employees are leading the AI learning curve but are also questioning whether their employers truly understand the technology.