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. 

Over the past 18 months, Treble Peak has secured partnerships with leading private equity managers, including Passion Capital, Headway Capital, DN Capital, Episode 1, Seraphim Ventures, and Hanover Investors.

We’ve glamorised burnout for far too long. In the entrepreneurial world, being ‘busy’ has become the gold standard. Stress is seen as a natural by-product of success, and exhaustion is practically a badge of honour.

Tracxn just released its Q1 2025 United Kingdom Tech Funding Report, revealing that the country ranked as the 2nd highest funded globally in the quarter, behind the United States and ahead of India and Germany.

South Summit Brazil, the leading event of the entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystem in Latin America co-organised by IE University and the Government of Rio Grande do Sul, inaugurated its fourth edition yesterday, Wednesday, April 9, in the city of Porto Alegre. South Summit Brazil 2025 will bring together the main protagonists of the global entrepreneurial ecosystem in Porto Alegre until tomorrow, Friday 11, which with this new edition consolidates its position as the capital of innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin America.

For most people, the idea of starting their own business is a daunting enough challenge to overcome. It’s only once it’s up and running that it becomes clear the greater challenge will be growing the business and, even more specifically, taking it from the startup to the scaleup stage.

Small businesses in London are the most worried in the UK (78%) about current economic instability including US tariffs and the prospect of tax rises later in the year – according to new research out this week from Novuna Business Finance.

Ryft announced a successful £5.7 million Series A round to fund the development of technology that will empower acquiring banks, like Clearhaus, to compete with Stripe Connect, Adyen, and similar payment providers in the market.

Trint has secured a growth funding package from Virgin Money’s Venture Debt team. This investment will further accelerate Trint's growth and help enhance its technology, solidifying its position as one of the leaders in the media and broadcasting industry.

Following the success of last year's inaugural event, renowned entrepreneur Sháá Wasmund MBE and Scott English, Brand Director at CE Marketing Group (CEMG), announce the return of "The Rise of the Female Entrepreneur" (RISE), a transformative annual convention designed to empower women to grow, scale, and successfully exit their businesses. The event is set to take place on the 9th May 2025 at Howden, One Creechurch Lane, London.

Conduit, the AI-powered operating system revolutionising residential property management, has secured $3.1 million in seed funding to expand its full-cycle tenant engagement platform worldwide, with a new focus on hotels and long-term rentals.

An invention that enables smartphones to film grassroots football matches by automatically following the play has won a share of £72,000 at a University of Bristol pitching competition.

Small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK are being given a unique opportunity to give back on a global scale by joining an exclusive club launched by SOS Children’s Villages, the charity focused on supporting children and young people who don’t have, or are at risk of losing, parental care.

TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives markets, announced a $25 million Series B investment led by Citadel Securities. BlackFin Tech and existing investors also participated.