Design is more than what meets the eye. It has the power to influence, shape perceptions, and guide decision-making - for businesses, that’s pivotal. A thoughtfully designed digital product or service can resonate with users on a deeper level, establishing meaningful connections.

When a startup or growth company is looking to raise investment, the choices can seem quite slim.

Beginning a new business can be thrilling for entrepreneurs. With so many things to do and plenty to look forward to, most things boil down to having a budget. If the budget is stretched to its limits, keeping a tight rein on your outgoings isn't just wise but key to the company's longevity.

 

When I look at the tech startup landscape today, I wonder how different my career might have been if I had been born 20 years later.

It’s no secret that AI technologies are enabling cyber criminals to carry out more sophisticated, slicker scams than ever before.

There are around 28 million adults in the UK living with chronic pain. Pain has a huge impact on quality of life and work. Our PAW Toolkit developed at the University of Nottingham, aims to help employees with managing their condition and accessing help when it’s needed.

FundOnion has officially launched its AI-backed business finance comparison site for small business loans.

Tomoro, an AI enterprise set on reducing the business working week to just three days by 2029, has commenced operations in the UK.

The Chancellor is poised to reveal a new initiative in his Autumn Statement this week, aimed at fostering and attracting UK-based technology investors to support commercially viable UK innovations.

Sweden emerged as the third-largest market in climate tech funding, witnessing a 224% surge in investments this quarter, according to a recent BloombergNEF report.

Over the past eight years, fintech has experienced a remarkable surge, with disruptors challenging traditional finance and instigating a wave of customer-centric innovation. However, the fintech domain now confronts an unprecedented challenge, as it can no longer remain immune to a tumultuous and deteriorating macroeconomic environment.

The advent of accessible AI tools – such as ChatGPT - has led to a growing number of people experimenting with and adopting these technologies in their daily lives. As AI technology continues to evolve rapidly and become more widely used, these tools will likely remain part of our lives for the foreseeable future. 

The European startup landscape is set to receive a significant uplift in generative AI capabilities through a collaborative effort. NVIDIA, in partnership with cloud service provider (CSP) Scaleway, is providing startups with access to essential resources like GPUs, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and tools for enhancing large language models (LLMs) and generative AI development.

Amidst economic uncertainty, businesses find themselves at a critical crossroads where unwavering focus must converge with the readiness to seize opportunities.

Lynx, an AI software provider specialising in fraud detection and prevention, announced a €17 million (£15 million) Series A funding round led by Forgepoint Capital, a venture capital firm focused on cybersecurity and digital infrastructure software.

IridescentBio, a pioneering techbio startup, is making waves in the Biopharma R&D sector with its innovative approach that combines chemistry and physics.

YouLend, a company in global embedded financing, and Plaid, renowned for its data network facilitating consumer banking connectivity, have disclosed in their recent whitepaper that their collaboration has significantly increased SME lending approval rates to 90%.

A poll of 2,000 adults found 49% love the idea of being their own boss, with 45% becoming more determined to start their own business since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lauren Neal is an award-winning chartered engineer, consultant and author whose strategies can help organisations foster a culture where people from all backgrounds are in positions where they can develop, where they are engaged, and where they are enabled to showcase their skills and talents.

Eigen Technologies, a global provider of intelligent document processing (IDP), has announced the release of Eigen 6, the latest version of its no-code artificial intelligence (AI) platform.