Disruptive food tech start-up provides unique investment opportunity as business sets sights on nationwide expansion and a £3m gross merchandise value in 2022

Effectively managing mental wellbeing at work is an area of growing importance for many business owners, as the impact of the last year and a half continues to take its toll on the employment market.

Transformational small business data provider, Uplinq Financial Technologies (Uplinq), has now fully launched its service to customers and sales partners worldwide.

Over half of the UK’s small and medium size businesses have a positive financial outlook for 2022 despite increased levels of debt, reveals Legal & General research

Performance Management is a vital part of business success. It can often be neglected by hard-working, high-paced, multi-tasking business owners, but it is a key part of employment for any business and mastering it will help your employees to work at their best to grow your business. 

The idea of Blue Monday (17th Jan) has persisted in culture despite it now being widely dismissed as pseudoscience and a clever PR trick. It suggests that our fears and anxieties culminate on one specific day, when in reality they fluctuate throughout the year.

Electronics design and software team, Ignys who were also nominated for Start-up Electronics Business of the Year, have been awarded the highly prestigious Design Team of the Year award at Elektra - the electronics industry’s biggest ceremony in over 18 months. Fresh off the back of The AI Journal’s Global Excellence Awards, where Ignys scooped Small Sized Company of the Year, the Nottingham-based team took home this top prize.

Kolabtree’s scientific freelancer Dr. Ahmed Elewa, discusses securing funding for his startup Colorna that provides a rapid OTC test for COVID-19, and his intriguing past research that includes studying how salamanders grow their arms back.

Digital Horizon has launched its capsule collection of digital clothing designed for the venture capital investor of the future. The limited-edition collection is available on OpenSea. Investors and partners of Digital Horizon will receive an NFT as a gift, with a limited number of additional NFTs of the collection available for the wider public to purchase. In addition, the collection can be tried on via Texel’s Telegram bot.

Startups in a good place with huge investment seen throughout covid-19 pandemic, with the second quarter of 2021 seeing a record amount of dollars invested

For many businesses, the days of going into the office five days a week are over for good. Numerous studies have shown that those able to work from home are just as productive, if not more so, than in-person workers.

Welsh technology firm BrandLab360 has launched ‘Maison Too Faced’ – a first-of-its-kind virtual reality shopping experience for Estée Lauder Companies brand, Too Faced

Demand for digital skills is rapidly growing as businesses in every sector find new innovative ways to use technology to their advantage. However, mounting evidence shows that sufficient job requirements are not being met to effectively bolster the number of workers in the rising digital economy. 

69% of respondents in a survey conducted by Solopress in November 2021 said that the pandemic accelerated innovation within their business.

All in one loyalty e-wallet app has over 250 brands signed up, including Sky, eBay, Selfridges and HelloFresh

HumanForest creates its new Challenges Scheme to encourage sustainable wellbeing amongst its riders. These Challenges will measure three key metrics; CO2 saved, time spent outdoors and kilojoules of energy burnt

Fresh YouGov data reveals the nation’s dream and nightmare bosses

Sky Connect launches its full fibre capability, offering small businesses uniquely flexible ultrafast business broadband, Sky Connect believes small businesses deserve better: better service, better products and better technology

If you have a startup located in popular cities, investing in security enhancements is wise. Places abundant with new businesses are witnessing a rise in crime, from night time raids to property damage.

The matter of race discrimination in the workplace has once again been thrust back into the spotlight following a leaked report into Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s treatment of English cricketer Azeem Rafiq showed major failings in how it handled Rafiq's historical allegations of racism.