Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced today that it has completed a $129 million Series E funding round.

Elite Business, the business publication dedicated to inspiring Britain’s SMEs, is back with another special Elite Business Live at the SME Xpo.

Liverpool City Region is spearheading a new approach to funding businesses with social missions,  to directly address the chronic underfunding of the UK’s social enterprises. 

Quality Engineering consultancy Roq has released a whitepaper called From Recruiting To Onboarding to share best practice for tech recruitment for in-house talent teams.

In 1921 Napoleon Hill, author of ‘Think and Grow Rich’ wrote the ‘Magic Ladder to Success’.

With the threat of a recession this year significantly reduced, new research from Novuna Business Finance suggests a mixed picture of optimism and caution amongst small business owners' plans for the next three months.

European digital health company AccYouRate, developer of wearable technology, is stepping up the commercialisation of e-Shirt – a 100% textile smart T-shirt which enables continuous real-time monitoring of bio-vital body signals in ordinary living conditions and activity.

Fourthline, the RegTech leader that provides AI-powered and compliant KYC and AML solutions, has raised €50m from Finch Capital and other new and previous investors. 

This is the third in our series tracing the progress of a start-up's first new technology product from detail design through to volume production.  

The pace at a fast-growth startup is, well, fast. Adaptability is key. Agility is paramount. After all, startups are founded, backed and made up of ambitious people with big dreams. They all want to realise those dreams, often with restricted budgets and limited time to prove a concept to potential investors. As fascinating as this business journey can be, it demands patience and perseverance from the people working in it. 

In healthcare, the consequences of human error can be fatal. With NHS resources already strained, hospitals require training programmes that deliver for both staff and – crucially – patients.  

We’ve got a femtech problem. Impressive startups such as Elvie and Flo have rightly garnered the headlines.

WUKA was born out of my desire to create a brand that empowers everyone that experiences menstruation so that nothing, especially not their period, would hold them back. I also wanted to address the environmental damage single-use period products have on the planet. 

In logistics, we are accustomed to adapting to the unexpected - as we did nearly three years ago with the onset of the pandemic when we were forced to react swiftly and decisively to accommodate explosive new demand in B2C e-commerce.

IONETIC, the UK startup specialising in electric vehicle (EV) battery pack technology, is further strengthening the expertise of its senior leadership team with the appointment of automotive executive, Dr. Andy Palmer, as its Chairman.  

Surging oil prices are likely to mean higher interest rates for longer as the price rally adds to inflationary pressures, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.

We work with businesses that are just getting started or just hitting a period of growth every day and one common frustration among passionate owners is servers: what they are when they are needed, and how to go about getting one. 

Something needs to change, and every business leader knows it. The world, as configured today, is at odds with a thriving, livable planet in the future.

Seventeen exciting and innovative startups are joining the fifth cohort of the Exchange programme with plans to scale, grow and raise funds over the next six months.

Through or own business, we’ve come to realise that a lot of people change – sometimes pretty dramatically, and almost always for the better – when they have kids.