Legal complexity is one of the biggest hidden barriers to growth for UK startups and SMEs. GitLaw, founded by UK entrepreneur Nick Holzherr, has raised a $3 million pre-seed round to power the launch of its agent – part of GitLaw’s platform built for startups and small businesses, not law firms – that helps teams draft, review, and negotiate contracts in minutes, for free.

A slowdown in cost increases across Western Europe, alongside rising prices in parts of Eastern Europe, is creating a more varied picture of affordability for expats and remote workers, according to bunq’s latest findings from the Working Abroad Index 2025. With the global digital nomad community now exceeding 40 million, borderless living has become an established part of modern work life.

Swiss battery startup BTRY AG has raised $ 5.7 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The funds will accelerate the industrialisation of its ultra-thin solid-state batteries – a new category of energy storage combining fast charging, extreme temperature stability, and intrinsic safety in one of the world’s thinnest formats.

As startups scale remotely, the real challenge isn’t productivity. Often, it’s trust, cohesion, and clarity across distance. Leading a team you may never meet, spread across time zones and cultures, demands more than digital tools. It requires founders to intentionally design cultural practices and shared norms that sustain collaboration over time.

As International Stress Awareness Week takes place, new research from global hiring platform Indeed highlights a significant gap between UK employees’ aspirations for workplace happiness and their current experiences of work wellbeing.

LambdaVision, a biotech innovator leveraging microgravity to manufacture its investigational protein-based artificial retina to help patients regain sight lost to retinal degenerative diseases, has closed a $7 million seed funding round co-led by Seven Seven Six and Aurelia Foundry Fund, with additional support from Seraphim Space, providing runway into 2027.

Fashion technology startup Fit Collective, founded by Savile Row-trained designer Phoebe Gormley, has raised £3 million in pre-seed funding, marking the largest round ever raised by a solo female founder in the UK.

Since the launch of Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has been shaping one of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurial transformations.

Most managers don’t hover because they love control. They hover because they care. They want things to run smoothly, for standards to stay high, for the work to shine.

CSEM has announced the four promising entrepreneurial projects selected for its ACCELERATE Programme 2025, an initiative designed to help transform deeptech innovations into market-ready solutions.

A UK-wide roadshow celebrating the nation’s favourite small businesses kicks off today, marking the start of the countdown to Small Business Saturday on 6th December 2025.

Human Health, the patient-first precision health platform founded by former Canva product leaders dedicated to giving everyone access to personalised healthcare, has secured £4.1 million from LocalGlobe, Airtree, and Skip Capital. The Seed round also saw participation from notable angels, including Arvind Rajan (Cricket Health), Eric Salama (former Kantar CEO) and David Shein (GP at OIF Ventures).

mimic, a Zurich-based robotics company, has raised $16 million in funding led by Elaia, alongside Speedinvest, to deploy its frontier physical AI across industries, enabling robots to handle complex, dexterous tasks that conventional machines cannot.

At CES Unveiled Europe, E-magy and Rebel Cactus announced the signing of a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a customised lithium-ion battery cell for Rebel Cactus’s next-generation children’s smartwatch.

A survey of 1,000 CFOs and senior finance leaders across the UK and Ireland has revealed the growing strain facing finance professionals, with almost all (99%) saying they work evenings or weekends, and nearly two-thirds (64%) doing so often or always.