I will not be the first to tell you how things are for startups. The rising interest and inflation rates and the turbulent geopolitical situation are pressing, and the business environment cannot help but feel it already.

Debt funding can be a crucial form of growth financing for start-ups and scale-ups, many founders do not consider it as an option when raising capital. Yet with the right product – and often when combined with equity investment – debt funding can help supercharge a promising company’s growth opportunities, taking them from startup to a market leader.

It has been announced that two new Dragons will be joining Dragon’s Den in the upcoming series.

Elon Musk: billionaire entrepreneur, Tesla CEO, SpaceX CEO, Twitter Owner, and now Owner of newly launched AI startup, xAI.

We've all heard the headlines that Zuckerberg's new social media channel spells the end of Twitter. That the further monopolisation of Meta will provide even greater opportunities for micro-personalisation. That it also brings a new host of data privacy concerns with it too.

The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has opened applications for the 2024 cohort of its award-winning TechX Accelerator programme. Clean energy startups from around the world can now apply for a place on the programme and a share of the £1.2 million grant funding available (up to £100,000 for each startup).

Many of the best, most innovative, disruptive, creative, successful companies are founded and run by people who are really good at what they do. People who have spent a long time honing their craft and becoming the ‘expert’ in their field.

Businesses within nearly every industry are already reaping the benefits of strategic automation and, increasingly, we are seeing the public sector follow in the footsteps of their private sector counterparts.

With fear-mongering stories appearing in the news, on almost a daily basis, you could be mistaken for thinking it’s an easy job to get your AI solutions communicated to the media. The danger is right now the media is saturated with news on artificial intelligence, both negative and positive, with the former dominating the last few weeks.

On the back of a momentous start to 2023, embedded banking platform BankiFi has denounced three common myths around a new breed of digital only neobanks that continue to persist despite ample evidence to dispel them.

Intema, an international Deep Tech accelerator, announces a new online, equity-free programme for Generative AI startups and mature companies to prepare them for a successful launch in the corporate environment.

The gaming sector is a behemoth, projected to be worth $300bn-plus by 2025, with upwards of 90% of UK children aged between three and fifteen actively engaged in gaming. However, amid concerns of cyberbullying, addiction and negative stereotypes, a non-profit organisation called Tales of Us (Tales) has emerged as a trailblazer. Led by Eva Vonk and Stefanie Plattner, Tales seeks to revolutionise the gaming market by prioritising collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity.

Don’t Buy Her Flowers is founded on thoughtfulness. The core idea is to create thoughtful gifts, and our customers are conveying empathy in sending one of our gift boxes.

Pink Salt Ventures, the UK venture capital firm solely focused on funding female founders, announces the results of a survey of its founder community - which reveals startling new data and attitudes about how male and female founders are treated by investors - and the consequences.

The Black British Business Awards (BBBAwards) have announced the 2023 finalists ahead of their 10th Anniversary ceremony in October of this year.