On Thursday 20th April, 2023, Playfair Capital and 150 of the world’s leading venture capital funds, including Amadeus, Atomico, Balderton, Cherry, Creandum, Notion, LocalGlobe, Partech, Point9, Octopus, and Seedcamp will be holding remote office hours for more than 300 female founders from across Europe.

Emma Jones, CBE, founder of Enterprise Nation, said: “Increasing digital capacity is a key driver of productivity and growth. 

Cooley has partnered with Femtech Lab, a leading femtech accelerator, to support innovative high growth femtech companies as they develop and scale.

Venture Capital firm, QVentures, announces their latest pre-seed fund investment into Presentient Technologies, a software platform developing innovative tools for companies running clinical trials.

Keeping employees happy to commit and grow within a business should be a core aim of HR teams. However, it has been reported that nearly half of employees leave their role because they do not feel appreciated - particularly during the first quarter of the year when people naturally look for change.

brandXchange, a web 3.0 consultancy today announced that it has acquired specialised health, fitness and leisure agency aim Content Marketing and Public Relations (aim). 

Niyo Bootcamps is to run its inaugural DistruptHER Talent Expo on 31 March 2023 to help improve the number of black women working in tech.

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A record 45% of total funds raised by companies at tech incubator SETsquared Bristol were led by women, according to their 2022 impact results.

Glovo, one of the world’s leading multi-category apps, has today announced the launch of Impact Fund, a first-of-its-kind in the rapidly growing delivery industry where a small amount of Glovo’s earnings from every order will be dedicated to boosting Impact & Sustainability projects.

StudentFinance, a career mobility platform that helps people upskill for new career opportunities in the most in-demand market sectors, such as data, technology, engineering, artificial intelligence and climate/green economy; has raised €39m in Series A funding to provide access to skills-based training in Europe.

OnePlan, the world’s leading live event site and venue planning platform, today announced it has raised $6M in a new strategic investment led by Elysian Park Ventures and Verance Capital.

ChangeNOW, the largest event of solutions for the planet, today revealed the 25 nominees for its Women Shaping Our Future programme, which aims to shine a spotlight on women set to have a significant positive impact on the world over the next 10 years.

Key figures from the cyber security industry will gather to address parliament this month to discuss the UK’s readiness to defend itself against the growing threat posed by ransomware.

Just one week to go until startups magazine exhibits at the 2023 Cloud Expo at the Excel Centre in London on March 9th, at 11:15am, get your tickets here!

Following reports that white collar workers are allegedly now under threat by AI, specialist recruitment firm, Robert Half, has argued that the right implementation of this tech will in fact help both save and create new, higher skilled jobs, rather than replace people altogether. 

eTEU, a SaaS platform that removes the need for physical shipping paperwork, has secured a new round of funding from early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners alongside Larix Equity, Pinto Ventures, and a number of angel investors including Nils Wemhoener, former Head of Logistics for Amazon Europe, Joao Monteiro, former VP of New Business at Kuehne + Nagel and Sandi Fatić, Co-founder of Calimero and first infrastructure engineer at NEAR Protocol.

Now in its fifth year, World Summit AI Americas will return to Montréal on 19th and 20th April 2023 and once again bring together global AI leaders from enterprise, big tech, startups, academia, law, government and investment to tackle the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.

Cambridge will host the inaugural Cambridge Tech Week (CTW23) from 8-12 May 2023, celebrating the ideas of the future in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and quantum technologies.