As many as 70% of UK leaders are optimistic about their business performance in 2025. However, fiscal challenges – including inflation (42%), high energy bills (36%), and high business taxes (35%) – threaten to derail this. This results in 76% of UK financial decision-makers saying they are experiencing unprecedented levels of pressure as they attempt to navigate macroeconomic uncertainties.

A sharp rise in AI-generated content is prompting global consumers to call for greater transparency from businesses, according to RWS’s global research. Over 80% of consumers believe that AI-created material – including text, images and video – should be clearly labelled, while 62% say that such transparency would increase their trust in a brand, according to research involving 5,000 consumers.

Nisien.AI a Welsh artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in Cardiff, has received investment from the British Business Bank’s £130 million Investment Fund for Wales via Foresight Group and the Development Bank of Wales, in a joint investment.

For decades, the boardroom has been a space of power, influence, and decision-making at the highest levels. But despite progress in leadership representation, women still hold just 23.3% of board seats globally. We talk about gender equity in the C-suite, in venture capital, in entrepreneurship – but what about at the top of corporate governance?

With International Women’s Day approaching, the internet will soon be flooded with posts about its significance. But in many countries, this global celebration of women has only fairly recently become a major calendar date. For many of us, therefore, it’s not entirely clear how best to celebrate it.

“First they say you’re crazy, then they fight you and then all of a sudden, you change the world.” So said Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos entrepreneur whose vision of a finger prick blood testing revolution ended up with investors losing millions and her imprisoned on an 11-year sentence for fraud.

The employment landscape in the UK is set to undergo significant changes in 2025. According to LinkedIn's recent "Jobs on the Rise 2025" list, which highlights the 25 fastest-growing roles, new job opportunities are emerging rapidly. From Artificial Intelligence Engineers to Partnership Development Managers, advances in industries such as artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability are driving the demand for new skills and creating job roles at an unprecedented rate.

The UK has dropped to 18th place in PwC’s Women in Work Index, marking its worst ranking for workplace gender equality in ten years. A ‘sluggish’ pace in closing the gender pay gap and declining female workforce participation have pushed the UK further behind its peers, now ranking second-worst among G7 nations, behind Canada.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has called for the UK to go “further and faster” on economic growth in the wake of recent market uncertainty. For businesses, particularly SMEs, this means navigating an increasingly complex financial landscape while tackling mounting challenges, from economic volatility to rising cyber risks. In turbulent times, one crucial yet often overlooked factor in securing sustainable growth is insurance.

Fiverr announces the launch of Fiverr Go, an AI platform that fundamentally redefines the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence, enabling freelancers and creators to grow their business exponentially while retaining full creative rights.

Needle, an AI-powered search and agent development platform, has raised $2.2 million seed funding in a round led by 468 Capital and Presight Capital. The funding will expand Needle’s engineering team, strengthen its core technology, and accelerate its go-to-market initiatives.

South Summit and IE University have unveiled the new Advanced Entrepreneurship Program, aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in transforming their ideas into sustainable and scalable businesses. This initiative reinforces the collaboration between both institutions to foster the global entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.

When I started researching to write my book (Doubt~less, Do more) I found that I wasn’t the only one that had let self-doubt get in the way of what I wanted to build in my business and I knew that I wanted to help people to doubt themselves less and do more with their businesses. What I didn’t realise was, in writing the book I would have to really look at all the angles that doubt had got in my way in the past, and how I then had to move through this to build my own self-belief whilst I was writing the book.

Less than six months after securing €9.3 million in funding, Constellation Technologies & Operations (CTO) is delivering on its ambitions. The startup is developing a constellation of VLEO satellites to enable telecom operators to provide high-speed, low-latency internet access from space – just as they do today with terrestrial networks. CTO has unveiled its first regenerative operational payload, the Early Test.

The Worshipful Company of Entrepreneurs, the City of London's newest livery company, and the Company of Entrepreneurs Trust were delighted to showcase the progress and early impact of their annual Entrepreneurs’ Award in Social Innovation (EASI) and announce an exciting collaboration with the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers, to an invited audience at Drapers’ Hall in the City of London.

In an age where technology shapes much of our everyday lives, businesses must keep up with innovations to meet the demands of tech-savvy consumers. 

While few of us would ever actively try to imperil our organisation’s digital coherency or security, many of us do this every day by installing new software our IT teams know nothing about.

The Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA) celebrated the 30th anniversary of the UK’s Venture Capital Trust (VCT) scheme at a landmark event held at the House of Lords, reflecting on three decades of investment, innovation, and economic growth.

The Aurora Tech Award has unveiled its 2025 finalists. The annual award spotlights outstanding female founders in emerging markets, celebrating visionary women entrepreneurs who are redefining the technology landscape.

Innovation is a powerful driver of national economic growth. HMRC, having long recognised the role that tech companies play in the GDP engine, continues to support this output with its R&D relief scheme.