Santander is offering emerging startups across the UK the opportunity to win up to £25,000 in funding and business support through the Santander X UK Awards 2024. The Santander X UK Awards are one of the UK’s largest early-stage business pitching competitions, having provided over £1 million in vital funding and business support to thousands of UK businesses to date.

It was November. I'd just come back from almost two weeks in the Canary Islands. I should have felt refreshed and ready to get back into work at Hustle House – the people development consultancy I founded with my friend.

Super-Sub, an independent Australian sports and culture business, partnered with UK sponsorship insights platform Luscid to enable brands to make smarter and more impactful partnership decisions by addressing the lack of data in the Australian sports and entertainment rights market.

Plend chose Lenvi, experts in loan software and servicing, to deliver Standby Servicing.

AWS has long supported startups. “It’s a very long-term mission. We’ve been working with startups at AWS since the very beginning. The first services launched in 2006 were for startups, and so we have this rich DNA and history of supporting these customers that remain very important to AWS today. The team is here to support their success,” explained Kellen O’Connor, the General Manager of the AWS Business for Startups in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Ecommerce has become fiercely competitive, especially after COVID-19 since most businesses have started selling online. To stand out in this overcrowded space, attracting and retaining customers is a tough job. 

It's still possible to prevent the most severe consequences of climate change, but it will require bold and decisive action.

Finnish mycoprotein company Enifer announced the completion of a funding package to start constructing a unique food-grade mycoprotein factory in Kirkkonummi, Finland.

Northern Ireland’s Boyce Precision Engineering (BPE) transformed its purchasing, stock holding, and customer auditing processes by adopting the Forterro MRP solution, 123Insight. This resulted in a 20% year-on-year growth and a 25% reduction in stock.

NEC X, the Silicon Valley innovation accelerator backed by NEC’s advanced technologies, announced a new investment in Verdi Expeditions, the world’s first scalable platform for farm automation and personalised plant healthcare.

There are plenty of workspaces out there, many are generalist, but some are niche to specific sectors. And that is exactly what Scale Space has done. Scale Space is a community for businesses looking to scale.  

Digital Catapult, the UK authority on advanced digital technology, welcomed eight new companies onto the ImmexCity programme to drive the adoption of immersive solutions across key sectors. The latest cohort aimed to further cultivate immersive entrepreneurship in the North East, with solutions ranging from heritage conservation projects to mental health empowerment initiatives.

Nory, the AI-powered operating system for hospitality businesses, secured $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, bringing its total raised to $25 million, following a 400% revenue growth in 2023. Existing investors Cavalry, Playfair, Samaipata, and Triplepoint also participated in the round.

New research has revealed significant concerns about the future threat posed by AI and machine learning to privacy.

KARRI, a startup developing a smart walkie-talkie for children, has raised £775,000 in pre-seed funding.