Global marketplace and destination for branded pre-loved fashion, eBay, is investing $300,000 into Refiberd in its ongoing efforts to support fashion startups to scale circular solutions through its global Circular Fashion Fund programme. 

What happens when a software engineer is also an amateur DJ? Dancefloor, the platform that encourages dance music fans to discover new DJs and club nights in their city! “We exist to get people dancing,” explained Ben King, the Founder and CEO of Dancefloor.

As salaries continue to be stretched thin by a high cost of living and with National Insurance tax hikes placing more pressure on company budgets – many professionals are being driven to clock into a ‘5-9’ after their ‘9-5’.

Every great startup begins with a “why.” For viAct, that why echoed loudly across dusty construction sites, roaring factory floors and oil rigs lost on the horizon – “Why are we still risking lives in the age of AI?”

Revenir, the UK fintech specialising in automated tax reclaim solutions, has announced a new partnership with US-based financial technology company, Karta, representing Revenir’s first partnership outside of Europe.

The startup Atacama Biomaterials was the winner of the fourth edition of the Startup Competition of South Summit Brazil, the leading meeting of the entrepreneurial ecosystem co-organised by IE University and the Government of Rio Grande do Sul, which was held between April 9 and 11 in the city of Porto Alegre.

It started with severe insomnia. At my worst, I was only getting two hours of continuous sleep a night, and that’s on the good days. This went on for 18 months. 18 months of broken nights, waking up more exhausted than I’d gone to bed, and trying to navigate my life through a fog of fatigue so intense, I sometimes couldn’t even remember what day it was.

The UK Government is investing £121 million in quantum technology, a novel technology with huge potential, to tackle crime, fraud and money laundering, bolstering the UK’s world-leading research programmes.  

Billions of dollars, pounds, euros, and yen are being poured into the development and productisation of quantum computing, with China hosting an estimated funding of £13.3 billion, Europe at £7.2 billion, the US at £2.1 billion, Japan at £1.8 billion, and the UK at £1.3 billion in 2022.

Tracxn has released its Q1 2025 UK FinTech Funding Report, capturing the funding dynamics in the country's financial technology space. The UK fintech ecosystem emerged as the second highest funded fintech ecosystem globally after the US in Q1 2025. Despite this ranking, the sector experienced a significant contraction in overall funding compared to previous quarters and the same period last year.

RanMarine’s speciality lies in creating waterborne robots, also known as Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs), that focus on cleaning floating pollution out of waterways, both inland and coastal.

Climatetech is an umbrella term for technological solutions that have been built to address the climate crisis. It can include solutions built to support decarbonisation, the energy transition, and reducing emissions. Startups within this space are working in a variety of sectors, such as electric vehicles, sustainable foodtech, battery recycling, clean energy solutions, and biomaterials.

If you’re a startup founder in the UK, you probably over-index in hard work, determination, and resilience. Data from Statista shows that over 90% of startups in the UK fail in their first year. And only 39% of startups launched between 2019 and 2022 are still in business.

April is Stress Awareness Month, and as a Stress to Success Mentor and a Creative Workshop Facilitator, I am passionate about supporting people – mainly purpose driven individuals – to release overwhelm and stress in order to support them to live their calmest and most fulfilled life.

Four in 10 (43%) of UK businesses and 30% of charities experienced a cyberattack or data breach in the last 12 months, according to the latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey. While this marks a slight decrease from last year’s 50%, the threat level for medium and large businesses remains alarmingly high.

When you’re in growth mode, paying yourself often becomes an afterthought, caught between reinvesting in your business, managing expenses, and holding your breath until the next big sale. But what if you didn’t have to choose between growing your business and getting paid fairly.

The UK’s SME XPO is back for 2025, a dynamic two-day event dedicated to powering scale-up business success. The show promises a transformative experience for entrepreneurs and innovators with an exhibition bringing together a diverse range of businesses, investors, from early stage/ angel investors to VCs, as well as resources to foster growth, innovation, and collaboration.

As a Communications and PR expert with over two decades of experience across the public, private, and third sectors, I’ve learned that great communication isn’t just a business asset – it’s a wellbeing essential.

The ABB Startup Challenge is an annual competition held by ABB to develop novel solutions for the most pressing energy challenges of our time.

The Sustainable Times EIS Forum, taking place on 24th April 2025 at The Royal Institution, is fast approaching. This week, the four innovative companies set to pitch have officially been announced. From radical renewables to character-fuelled kidswear, the latest cohort at the EIS Forum are out to disrupt industries, drive sustainability, and deliver serious returns.