Picture a glossy glass-walled office in the city.

Everyone’s impeccably dressed, their lanyards swinging as they head to meetings, their conversations filled with deals, strategy, and ... Oxbridge anecdotes.

Consumer trust is essential for startups looking to achieve successful online sales. However, new companies lack established businesses' brand awareness and proven track record. A website is often a customer's first impression of a business, so it had better provide all the essential information they must know about an unfamiliar brand.

In response to growing interest in hormonal health, female health platform Daye has announced the launch of its comprehensive at-home hormone testing service. The service features an innovative, pain-free blood collection method, designed to make the process of testing much simpler and more intuitive.

Oxford Ionics has announced that it has delivered and installed a full-stack quantum computer, called Quartet, to the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).

Close Brothers Invoice Finance has launched a new team – called ‘Scale Up’ – to help support startups and smaller SMEs with facilities up to £350,000, and prepayments of up to 100% to maximise liquidity from day one.

Wave Photonics has announced the launch of its PDK Management Platform to integrate foundry PDKs with EDA tools, provide ready-calculated S-Parameters for circuit simulation, and provide easy access for designers.

Tide has become the first UK provider of business cards to remove printed numbers from its cards – eliminating its own exposure to several major types of card fraud that rely on visible card details.

Definely, an AI-powered legaltech company that enables lawyers to efficiently and accurately review complex contracts, has launched ‘Cascade’. The product detects and tracks the ripple effects of changes across entire contracts, helping improve document quality, reduce risk, and streamline drafting and review workflows.

Biology graduate Rosie Richardson became fascinated by human behaviour and the role technology can play in keeping people safe. Now she is driving the development of a system that spots potential hazards at train stations to provide early alerts for rail staff to keep passengers secure, with the help of Connected Places Catapult.

New data from the British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans programme, which provides finance and support to start up and early-stage businesses, shows a year-on-year increase in the value of finance being accessed.

Belgian spacetech startup EDGX has closed a €2.3 million seed funding round to accelerate commercialisation of EDGX Sterna, a next generation Edge AI computer for satellites.

Three pioneering healthtech companies are set to accelerate their growth and market impact thanks to investment from STAC, Scotland’s accelerator for smart, connected, and deeptech startups.

Sânziana Foia is the Founder and CEO of Papcup, and she is on a mission to give women across the globe autonomy over their own bodies – by giving them freedom and choice when it comes to how and where they have their smear tests.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the name for a group of common lung diseases, and it is one of the major challenges in respiratory healthcare. According to the World Health Organization, COPD was linked to 3.5 million deaths in 2021 and is the fourth leading cause of death globally, while in the UK, it contributes to approximately 30,000 deaths every year.

According to iData research, in 2023 alone, 15.2 million laparoscopic procedures were performed globally, while the Royal College of Surgeons of England cite that in the UK, 60,000 gall bladder removals are performed annually, but given the scope that laparoscopic procedures cover, this number is likely to be much higher.