The new Government-backed Lilac Review, which aims to address and overcome the inequality faced by disabled entrepreneurs, has boosted its Steering Group with the appointment of two further disabled founders, as it tracks significant progress since launch.

Tech companies across South Yorkshire will be the first to benefit from Venture.Community, an industry network with startup and scaleup acceleration, launched as part of UK Tech Week celebrations in Sheffield.

UserHub, a User-Based Billing Platform built for B2B SaaS, has secured $3.2 million in pre-seed funding.

Space data company Blue Skies Space has secured over £2m in funding to accelerate the launch of its science satellites, to help the world’s research communities in their quest to solve the biggest questions in the universe.

Intel Ignite, Intel’s global startup accelerator programme for early-stage deeptech startups, is launching its second cohort in the United Kingdom on April 24th.

Sorted, a London-based recycling tech business, has raised £1.65 million in a seed funding round led by Pi Labs. Other investors include the circular economy-focused fund Archipelago Ventures, Circular Plastics Accelerator, Conduit Connect, Antler and angel investors.

With users increasingly favouring mobile applications over computers, attackers are turning their attention toward mobile devices. However, company executives often view security costs as a "necessary evil" due to their indirect impact on revenues. Czech startup Talsec aims to change this perspective by offering specialised tools for app developers that protect against hackers, conceal sensitive information, and detect malicious software. Originating as a spin-off from the Brno-based technology company Monet+, Talsec, after two years of organic growth, has received an investment exceeding 25 million Czech crowns in the first round from London-based Dig Ventures and Czech DEPO Ventures. This funding is intended to accelerate its penetration into the global market and support further development.

The Spanish company PLD Space has attained 120 million euros in funding to date, thus ensuring it can meet its upcoming technological and corporate milestones, culminating in the launch of the MIURA 5 mission at the end of 2025.

Equispheres has announced it has completed an initial close on its Series B financing totalling approximately C$20 million.

Overlooking cybersecurity as a small business is not just risky—it’s downright reckless.

That might seem an obvious statement. And you might assume that every business leader understands the gravity of a cyberattack.

The dynamic tourism sector is in constant transformation, driven by rapid change and emerging innovations. Technological evolution, a focus on sustainability and changing traveler preferences are setting the future of tourism. To excel in a highly competitive market, tourism businesses and destinations must adapt nimbly to these trends, ensuring their relevance and future success.

Following the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, the Royal Academy of Engineering has received a £150 million endowment from government to launch the Green Future Fellowships programme in 2024.

This Earth Day, BT is announcing a new partnership with the UK Business Climate Hub (UKBCH) that aims to help UK small & medium businesses (SMBs) halve CO2e emissions by 2030 and empower them to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Following the resounding success of its previous editions, the highly anticipated London Climate Technology Show is poised to make its triumphant return to ExCeL London from November 27th to 28th, 2024.

Corporate travel spend in the UK is projected to increase in the next 12 months, with over half (60%) of SMEs planning to spend more on business travel overseas than they did last year, according to new research from corporate travel agency Travel Counsellors for Business.

Midas, the fintech startup that brought retail investing to millions of people in Turkey, announced that it has raised $45 million in equity funding.

Seven UK scaleups offering innovative technologies for the maritime sector have pitched their offerings to five of South Korea’s largest shipbuilding and ship owning corporations during a trade mission to the UK.

Manchester-based fintech startup, Lemon, has successfully closed its pre-seed funding round, raising £500,000 to propel the next phase of its development.

Nearly half (49%) of C-suite executives only have moderate confidence in their company's anti-money laundering (AML) processes, as revealed by a recent survey conducted by First AML, an anti-money laundering scaleup.

DocuWare, a provider of document management and workflow automation solutions announces its acquisition of natif.ai.