Despite inflation reaching record levels coupled with great economic uncertainty, women in the UK  built more businesses last year than ever before, a figure that we at SME XPO stand proudly behind, especially with International Women’s Day just around the corner.

Agmatix, a start-up AgTech business specialising in turning agronomic big data into powerful models and insights, today announces a partnership with NASA Harvest - NASA’s global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium - to support crop production in a sustainable way at the field level and mitigate the impact of climate change.

Olympia London is delighted to announce the dates for the launch of a new international climate event this year: Innovation Zero – Climate & Clean Tech Congress

Intergiro, a leading European Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform based in Sweden, announces its partnership with Retreeb, a Swiss payment solution empowering consumers to support social causes.

CryptoMonday.de predicts that the global Fintech market will grow to nearly $0.5 trillion by 2025.

FDM Group, the FTSE 250 global leader in the recruit, train and deploy sector, has concluded its SheLivesTech digital skills bootcamp, hosting 40 female students to celebrate their certification.

The fifth edition of the largest European event of entrepreneurship and technological innovation in Latin America mobilises corporations, investors, accelerators, startups, and media during its activities in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Self-employed, micro-enterprises and startups from Castilla y León will also participate.

With the theme of International Women’s Day 2023 being ‘embrace equality’, Towergate Health & Protection is asking employers to support the equality of female employees working abroad. 

Following the announcement of impressive growth in the past year, Weavr has confirmed the acquisition of B2B Open Banking platform, Comma Payments, in a first-of-its kind deal within the world of embedded finance. 

MEplace, a London-based early years nursery group promoting both mental and physical health, has raised £1.2 million in seed funding from leading consumer investor Active Partners.

Small Business Britain has launched a new support programme, in partnership with Lloyds Banking Group,  aimed at helping small businesses in difficulty survive the challenging economic period.

By now, it’s pretty well known that there’s a demand for data skills. I might even go as far as saying that some people are a little sick of hearing it… but it’s an unavoidable truth. The government estimates that companies are recruiting for approximately 200,000 roles with hard data skills. And this isn’t slowing down - the need for data skills is set to continue rising in the coming years.

The proportion of British microbusinesses owned by women has surged during the cost-of-living crisis and since the start of the pandemic, new data from GoDaddy shows.

The UK is facing a healthcare crisis and clinicians at Health Tech Enterprise’s MedTech FUTURES Conference, held on 1 March 2023, highlighted the need for technological solutions to meet the current, unmet clinical needs within the NHS and ensure it delivers world-class care for major health problems.

Reed has announced an exciting new partnership with career coaching platform Propelelo.

Female entrepreneurs are still underrepresented in business, but the numbers are growing. The Rose Review Progress Report 2022 showed that more women than ever are creating new businesses.

N1 fintech fund invested in SteadyPay, a British progressive lending platform with a Co-founder from Ukraine. European venture funds such as Ascension, The Future Fund, and others have already invested in this fintech.

Kirstie Donnelly MBE, CEO of City & Guilds: “International Women’s Day is a day to celebrate the success stories of women across the globe. And the success stories are aplenty."

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.