The last 12 months has seen an unprecedented surge in the geopolitical urgency of the climate crisis. Greta Thunburg, Australian wildfires and Arctic warming has a created a tipping point in public perceptions of the climate crisis.

As a proud partner for Startups Magazine, Business Mix is an innovation consultancy based in Shoreditch in London and Singapore, and has supported the magazine for sometime now. 

China’s rapidly growing economy has gathered much interest about the practices and philosophies that support Chinese business. This intrigue is mainly derived from the West. The nature of globalisation for Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) has also significantly affected European economies and societies. In light of this, this piece intends to explore the Chinese concept of guanxi and how this can aid better business relations.

CerbAir offers complete Anti-Drone solutions to secure sensitive sites and events against malicious drone use. With a number of detection and counter-measure systems already installed around the World, the French leader in Anti-Drone systems announced the conclusion of a 5.5 million € round of financing.

UNLEASH, the largest and fastest growing global network of HR and technology decision makers, startups, visionaries, and disruptors, has announced the first-look at its Spring 2020 conference in London.

Disruptive, next-gen online booking tool partners with global TMC to unleash the benefits of best-in-class travel management for the SME market. taptrip, part of the Barclays Techstars Accelerator is currently the most disruptive name in online booking, has entered into a new partnership with the leading corporate travel and events business and pioneers of technology, the ATPI Group, which will roll out in the UK from March 2020, with Benelux, France, India and Asia set to follow later in the year.

For its forth edition, President and COO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is set to land at Dublin Tech Summit (DTS) this year. The Summit which is taking place in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 from the 22nd-23rd April 2020 will bring over 10,000 attendees from over 70 countries and 200 high profile speakers to Dublin.

Founded in Singapore in 2017 by Magnus Grimeland and a team of Google, Spotify, MIT and Harvard alumni, Antler is a global startup generator and early stage VC that is building the next big wave of tech.

Lancashire-based Get Work, a service that generates local leads for tradespeople, has received a £100k loan from NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance, a product managed by GC Business Finance & MSIF and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).

 

Global technology and media festival NewCo, has announced the return of its London event, which will take place from the 11-13th March across several city locations.

The Central Research Laboratory (CRL) has announced the launch of its 7th world leading accelerator programme, which celebrates five years supporting early growth stage product pioneers.

The average startup creates twice as many jobs as the average SME in our country. Nearly nine out of ten SMEs are sole traders, within startups that is only 1.4%

Taking place on the 11th and 12th March at the Smart IoT show, part of the London Tech Show and co-located with a number of other events, is the Digital Catapult's Future Networks Lab Challenge, which is an opportunity for IoT startups will respond and pitch directly to industry challenges set by leading partners Siemens and Arrow Electronics. 

The Paybase team recently launched the Founders’ Workshop - a community of early-stage and established business founders in the platform economy. The latest event focused on the pressing issue of disintermediation and user retention: when users connect on a platform but transact independently outside it.

With an office already in Tel Aviv, the Israeli-founded business travel management platform, Arbitrip is now opening up a London office to expand its European market share. Its exciting new expansion now means that the tech startup is ready to rapidly drive its footprint across Europe. 

One of the UK’s largest universities has put sustainability firmly on the agenda, by measuring one of the most ambitious sustainability programmes in higher education and seen staff make significant societal and environmental savings.

London-based startup CLiKD Dating App has founded a competition as part of its mission to help people find love in the capital city, but also to help raise money for the charity Relate.

Having worked across a number of industries such as manufacturing, food-servicing, software, cosmetics, plastics and engineering, The Leyton Group sets out to help companies generate bottom-line savings. But how did Leyton emerge from CES as a true champion for developing companies?

Google for Startups has completed a number of cohorts now based around different areas in the startup world, some of the most recent ones including African and Women, but now the organisation has issued a call to startup founders from across the UK. Its new UK Immersion Cohort brings a 12 week programme designed to bring the best of Google and the London startup ecosystem to tech companies from all over the United Kingdom.

Described as the world’s most important mobility event, MOVE is just around the corner and promises even more disruptive technologies and innovation to drive much-needed change. Taking place at ExCeL on the 11-12th February, MOVE focuses on models, technology and sustainability, and also has a section dedicated to startups.