The use of finance apps jumped by almost two-thirds in 2022 – with boomers the fastest growing demographic, reveals new data from one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory, asset management and fintech organisations.

Dexory, an intelligence and robotics company, has announced they have a new round of angel investors. This follows significant investment in 2022, when they secured $13 million (£11 million) in a seed round led by Swiss venture capital firm Lakestar.

Today at the European Innovation Council Summit, Wolves Summit, Acceler8 and Anthology Ventures announce the launch of Ventures Thrive - a new pan-European venture building studio to accelerate deeptech startups with equity-free funding and a curated growth programme. The initiative is funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and is set to address funding shortages and growth difficulties among deeptech startups in CEE. 

Sam Martin-Ross is Managing Director of Digital Uncut, a digital marketing agency that delivers data-driven campaigns for scale-up businesses. We sat down with Sam to discuss the different components of SEO, and how B2B firms can develop an effective SEO strategy to generate leads.

Global Executives, experts and leaders will take stage, as we return with the 7th Edition Connected Banking Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on March 7, 2023. The Connected Banking Summit Series focuses on building future-oriented banking models by accelerating the pace of digital transformation and delivering a delightful customer experience in line with policy and regulations while ensuring the highest standards of privacy and security.

The term PLG (product-led growth) has been gradually gaining popularity over the past few years, to a large extent thanks to the success of companies such as Slack, Dropbox, Calendly, Miro and ClickUp.

Building on the success of its launch event, the Evening Standard’s SME XPO 25-26 April 2023 at ExCeL London, once again invites founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders to attend an action-filled two-day programme and exhibition connecting the scaleup community, a vital part of the UK economy.

VoIP provider Ringover has announced the launch of Cadence, its new multi-channel sales prospecting product designed to meet the requirements of SMEs.

The independent venture capital platform for transformative real estate technologies PT1 - PropTech1 Ventures has completed the first closing of its Fund II, with a target size of €100 million. €44 million has already been raised in the first closing, which is more than three times the volume of the first closing of the first fund.

Smart Retail Tech Expo is the event you need to be attending in 2023 if you want to see the most innovative and progressive technologies designed to revolutionise the retail sector. Will you be going on the 28th Feb & 1st March at the ExCeL in London? By securing a FREE ticket, you will be immersed into the ultimate platform for technologies designed to revolutionise the retail sector!

Digital health encapsulates everything from wearable devices and telemedicine, to mobile health and personalised healthcare. With continued labour shortages, clinician burnout at a record high and healthcare strikes continuing into 2023, startups that utilise technology will be one step closer to addressing these challenges.

Global business events organizer and consulting firm Trescon has appointed renowned industry professional Naveen Bharadwaj as its Group CEO to lead Trescon and its associated business entities such as World Blockchain Summit (WBS) – the world’s longest running blockchain summit series; IIFF – India’s premier international furniture and interior fair; and Demandify – a B2B demand generation and media vertical assisting in scaling marketing campaigns and strategies for technology companies globally. Naveen will focus on growing Trescon’s current business events in the emerging tech space such as blockchain, fintech, metaverse, AI, data and cybersecurity into new markets while also conceptualizing and launching new business lines on priority.

Given how unpredictable and tumultuous 2022 has proven to be, it has never been more important for businesses to make the most of their marketing budgets through strategic campaigns as we move into the New Year.

Step Conference, the leading technology festival for emerging markets, launches its 11th Edition to be held on 22-23 February 2023 in partnership with Dubai Internet City, the Middle East’s largest technology hub and a member of TECOM Group PJSC.

While Saudi Vision 2030 sets the pathway to propel the Kingdom far into the future, every sector and stakeholder is critical in translating big-picture thinking into day-to-day transformative processes. To this end, and as part of the progress of economic diversification, the Saudi Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector has gradually gained traction to drive more than 25% of the Kingdom’s GDP.

Paige West speaks with Weezy VR about their first interactive app for travel.

Paige West speaks with Piano LED all about their plug and play interactive system.

Paige West speaks with Meropy about developing agriculture robotics.

Paige West speaks with I-Percut all about their new smart boxing technology.

Paige West speaks with ACWA Robotics all about robots made for waterpipes and it's water saving technology.