In July 2025, MIT revealed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return on their generative AI investments. Generative AI has undoubtedly changed the state of play – providing detailed answers, fast research and surface-level insights – but it was never the endgame. It was the opening move.

Imagine two companies. Both proudly report £20 million in annual recurring revenue. To the outside world, they look identical. But look a little closer, and the story changes.

Starting and sustaining a business in the UK can be challenging. Each year, thousands of new ventures are launched, yet the majority struggle to survive. According to the Enterprise Research Centre's latest report, of the startups founded in 2020, fewer than half (47%) were still operating three years later, and only one in ten will reach their 10th anniversary.

Watching the Victoria Beckham documentary felt less like guilty pleasure celebrity binge-watching and more like a mirror for some of the conversations that I have been having with CEOs around the world on females in leadership positions.

roclub announces it has raised $11.7 million to fuel its next stage of growth. The Series A round was led by Smedvig Ventures and YZR Capital, with participation from existing investor Speedinvest and angel investors.

Startups Magazine is excited to announce that we will once again be exhibiting at The Business Show on the 12th and 13th November. Come by stand B1000 and be one of the first to pick up a copy of the brand new November/December issue!

The Freedom Business Summit returns for its 7th edition, this time with a bold new focus: Southeast Asia (SEA) as the rising hub for relocation, investment migration, and borderless business.

It’s not easy being an early-stage business in today’s current economic environment, and businesses of all sizes are waiting in anticipation to see how changes within the Budget will impact them.

Queen Mary University of London has launched a new spinout, Procyon Diagnostics, to take omics-based single cancer early detection tests from research to reality. Cancer causes over a quarter of deaths in England, and early detection offers the best hope of survival.

Dracula Technologies has announced the completion of its Series A extension round, bringing the total Series A funding to €30 million. This marks a key milestone in the company's mission to eliminate batteries from billions of connected devices worldwide.

New research paints a stark picture: UK businesses are now facing a sick leave crisis that costs upwards of £20,000 per worker for long-term absences. The root causes are clear burnout, stress, and a growing sense of disconnection among employees, especially pronounced in frontline managers and younger professionals. This is not just about days lost to illness; it is a crisis of workplace wellbeing that threatens organisational productivity, innovation, and morale.

Cambridge is now the UK’s most investible hub for science, according to a new data report which reveals how the Cambridge region has had the highest growth of any UK region outside the capital in the last decade and attracting unprecedented levels of international capital.

A well-structured partnership agreement is vital to the survival of any startup. When enthusiasm and innovation take centre stage, legal detail often falls behind. Many founders focus on growth and funding, overlooking how ownership, governance, and intellectual property are defined.

When engineers powered up JUPITER at Germany’s Jülich Research Centre, the machine quietly made history. Built by the French technology group Atos through its product brand Eviden, JUPITER is Europe’s first exascale supercomputer – and one of only a handful worldwide capable of processing more than one quintillion (or one billion billion) calculations per second.

What makes Natalya Segal stand out isn’t only her record of invention – it’s her remarkable way of thinking. She has spent her career turning complex ideas into human-centred tools: from early wearable patents that prefigured today’s smart rings, to AI systems supporting IVF clinics worldwide, and now to a fully remote, contactless brain–computer interface that reads neural activity through light. Her work bridges disciplines (connects the dots that before that seemed unrelated) yet remains anchored in a deeply human-centric question: how can technology expand our capabilities while staying true to our needs?

The venture capital landscape is undergoing a profound structural shift, one that necessitates a strategic re-evaluation of capital deployment strategies. For the last decade, the industry trended toward the generalist mega-fund, vehicles designed to capture every stage and sector. Today, however, that model is facing structural pressures.

HMRC’s Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (MTD ITSA) represents one of the most significant changes to UK tax administration in recent years. Sole traders, landlords, and freelancers with an income of £50,000 who previously filed a single annual tax return will instead be required to provide quarterly digital updates, along with a final end-of-period statement, using HMRC-compatible software.

Content marketing has been something of a golden child for companies, recently. SMEs and other firms have been happy to invest heavily in the likes of online articles and blogs, video, e-books, and research reports with the aim of driving customer numbers. According to my company’s research, 91% of marketers have increased their content budgets since 2020

The Framing Effect is all about perception. The way you frame or present the same thing changes how people perceive it. Customers don’t just react to the facts; they react emotionally to how those facts are shown. The roots of the idea go back to the work of Tversky & Kahneman (1981), applied in marketing by Ries & Trout.

Here's an uncomfortable truth many founders discover too late: you've built something brilliant, gained traction, assembled a talented team – but when it comes to raising your next round, finding the right investors feels like searching in the dark. Meanwhile, investors complain they can't discover quality deal flow outside their usual networks.