Activate Studio opens winter cohort application for early-stage tech startups for winter 2021.

AppFollow, the leading app review insights and management platform released findings from a new research report: 'Reputation Management for Mobile Apps | Rating & Reviews in 2021', which extensively examines the unmet demand for stellar customer experiences across all mobile applications, including a lack of sufficient customer support and not taking on board requested features or reported issues.  

Over 90 local SMEs join the all-in-one business dashboard tool myDATA3 within the first weeks of launch.

Award-winning Australian shin splints treatment, Solushin, announces its partnership with Osgo, an educator and distributor of medical products in the United Kingdom.

Richard Godmon, a tax partner at top 25 accountancy firm, Menzies LLP gave some insight on the implications of the Chancellor’s announcements for UK businesses as they get on the road to recovery, after pandemic-related disruption.

The post pandemic budget failed to deliver the shot in the arm many entrepreneurs were hoping for, a business leader has warned. Toby Harper, the CEO of Harper James Solicitors, said the Chancellor’s announcements didn’t match the ambition many business owners would have liked to see. 

Welcoming today’s budget announcement, which commits additional funding to skills development, trade bodies and professional associations across the UK are calling on the government to support industry-led jobs and skills training programmes – to address the UK’s digital skills crisis and strengthen its economic recovery from coronavirus.

Weaver Labs, a UK startup that is driving growth through connectivity, will work in collaboration with OroraTech as part of a Track & Trust consortium led by Datarella.

BJSS and Northcoders to offer Birmingham SMEs 10 fully-funded digital skills programmes.

 

As COVID restrictions are lifting and the world is opening back up again, businesses are keen to get back to travelling.

Following on from the easing of national lockdown restrictions in April, Real Business Rescue have released their quarterly Business Distress Index for Q2 (April - June 2020), uncovering a post-pandemic health check on SMEs in the UK. You can view the full report here. 

Europe’s largest Business Show is back for 2021, returning to London’s ExCeL on the 24th & 25th of November, helping small businesses grow and develop. The 43rd edition of the show will reveal the secrets of business adaptation, innovation and survival as we recover from the pandemic.

Human Performance specialists Virti have launched an AI-powered feedback suite of tools designed to help businesses meaningfully engage with and learn from their employees. 

The Big Score, organised by Startups.be ScaleUps.eu in collaboration with VLAIO and Voka, welcomes 35 project leaders from international organisations who will present their operational challenges in full transparency to hundreds of impactful startups, who will be able to explain their technology live or remote. A unique format and a win-win where companies like AB InBev, Nestlé, Procter and Gamble, Toyota, Engie, Dow and Volvo can discover niche solutions that make their processes more climate friendly. And the startups? They can score the deal of a life time.

Local citations and Amazon PPC complete the top three skills searched for by UK businesses, as it seems businesses and workers look to a much more digital future. 

Believed to be the UK’s first online ante and neonatal clinic, Naytal, gives women instant access pregnancy and for postnatal healthcare.

The future belongs to those who can tell their story. The founders of Lone Design Club Accelerates and 5 Stories are partnering to help fashion businesses build that future.

The UK’s longest running index of disruptive new startups, the Startups 100, has released its 2021 lineup and named Multiverse, the startup launched by Euan Blair, as number one.

Playfair Capital, Tech Nation and Google for Startups are joining forces for the sixth edition of their Female Founder Office Hours initiative. This event will be the largest yet, with over 300 female founders and 120 VCs from some of the world’s leading funds, and expected to be as big as success as past years, as data from the previous five events shows that over 27% of companies that have attended have gone on to secure funding from VCs, angel investors or other sources.

Chosen from over 150 international submissions, eight seed and early-stage innovators from around the world went head-to-head for a chance to work with the UK’s leading retailer, in the Tesco Agri T-Jam Final with World Agri-Tech on Monday October 18.