London-based supply chain startup, Kavida.ai, has secured a further £900,000 investment to enhance its platform with artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.

AI has emerged as a prominent focal point in the minds of startup businesses in 2023. The remarkable advancements in AI are impossible to overlook, capturing global attention and dominating headlines worldwide. Around 15% of all businesses have adopted at least one AI technology, which translates to 432,000 companies.

Munich-based startup Sizekick has launched a new AI technology to reduce size-related returns in e-commerce. The artificial intelligence tool, backed by strategic partner and investor Hohenstein, has attracted well-known brands and retailers.

Onfido, a global player in automated digital identity verification, has announced that they have partnered with 0xKYC, an innovative startup bringing zero-knowledge proof identity solutions to Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs).

Studies have shown that micromanagement has a detrimental effect on employees – the Journal of Experimental Psychology reported that employees who feel they are being micromanaged perform at a much lower level.

Fresh off the opening of Huckletree Oxford Circus (which is already at 80% occupancy), the innovator in curated coworking spaces, Huckletree, has announced it is moving to two of London’s most enviable postcodes: Liverpool Street and Kensington as part of expansion plans, taking their total footprint to over 250,000 sq ft in the UK and Ireland.

Global survey results from IE University, #WorkAnywhere and Remote have revealed office workers are experiencing the highest levels of burnout and lowest levels of happiness and job satisfaction. This is when compared to remote and hybrid workers – indicating that the office environment isn’t the effective separator between life and work that many believe it to be.

Climate-tech company Pledge is rolling out its carbon emissions measurement, reporting, and offsetting solutions for Canadian freight forwarder, Synergie Canada.

In the dynamic world of startups, many embark on their entrepreneurial journey driven by a compelling idea and unwavering passion. Teams invest their valuable resources—time, money, and talented individuals—wholeheartedly into bringing that idea to life. However, the unproven road they tread carries inherent risks and uncertainties. Is it truly worth sacrificing one's life savings and devoting endless hours to an idea that may not yield the desired outcomes?

"It is becoming more difficult to find employees, especially for physically demanding and at the same time monotonous tasks. The turnover of skilled workers is particularly high in these types of tasks," says Gerhard Müller, responsible for the regions Germany, Austria and Switzerland within KUKA's robotics division.

One of the things you need to set in motion as an early part of your journey is set up the indicators you will use to measure progress and ensure that lessons are continuously captured as new iterations of your product or service emerge.

Twilio, the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands, has announced it will enable companies to create personalised, customer-aware experiences powered by OpenAI.

Small Business Britain’s popular ‘Small and Mighty Enterprise Programme’ is being expanded to help 1,000 more small businesses across the UK as applications open for its next round.

Around two-thirds (67%) of tech workers in the UK believe women are the answer to bridging the tech talent gap, yet only 40% stated their company has a plan to improve the gender split in their IT teams, according to research.

Almost half a million new startups have already been launched and registered with Companies House, new figures show. 

Talking about your mental health with your boss can be a difficult conversation to have, but it can be worth the effort if you’re struggling with your wellbeing.

Silicon Catalyst has announced the winners of the just-concluded ‘Silicon Startups Contest’ in partnership with Arm. The top winner was Equal1 from Ireland, and the two runners-up finalists were SpiNNcloud from Germany and weeteq from Scotland.

Meta’s launch of Threads(.com) has seen traffic to a Slack competitor, also named Threads(.net), explode from 88,011 monthly visits to over 10 million in two weeks, according to analysis of SimilarWeb data.

Singapore witnessed a successful convergence of global tech leaders, cutting-edge innovation and insightful deliberations on the latest trends that dominate the emerging technology space. Day 1 of the World AI Show, World Blockchain Summit and World CX Summit (#TresconABC) concluded with resounding success at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, whetting the appetite of attendees for an even more exciting Day 2.

TechChill, the Baltic-born startup conference, is returning to Milan for the second time on September 25-27, 2023. This comes at a crucial time of self-discovery as the Italian startup ecosystem shifts its focus more toward international markets – welcoming international investors, media, and entrepreneurs into its community.