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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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

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.

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

Solivus’ crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube has raised over £2.6m from over 1,000 investors

Growing anxiety amongst Britain’s younger workforce, as more report isolation and stress since the start of the pandemic. 

Many business owners and entrepreneurs are likely to cite their parents as the inspirational force behind their career path, but for myself and Mirthy Co-Founder Dhruv Haria, it was a specific and pivotal point in our parents’ lives that provided the inspiration for the business – retirement.

London’s tech ecosystem shows signs of maturity with rapid increase in unicorns, megarounds and exits following a record year for VC investment

Koia, an investment platform which is bringing alternative assets to Europe, is announcing a $1.4m pre-seed round.

Two thirds of 16 to 35-year-olds stated they have experienced one form of harassment over a 12-month period. Similarly, one in two women stated they feel unsafe walking alone after dark in a public place. It is no wonder that from a young age, ways to ensure my safety were drilled into me.

Lloyd’s Lab is once again seeking applications from innovative start-ups with solutions for the insurance industry – this time with an extra focus on decarbonisation and supply chain.

Large-scale global events such as last year's COP26, are an opportunity to take stock of how far we’ve come, and more importantly the mountain we still need to climb, in the fight against climate change. Events like this also act as a catalyst for both encouraging action and changing the way in which we think and talk about those actions - in other words, evolving our communication around sustainability. 

Almost half (42%) of UK employees dream of owning their own business 

UK tech sector achieves best year ever as success feeds cities outside London: more VC investment, more unicorns, more jobs, more futurecorns