Cornerstone Photonics Innovation Centre (C-PIC), the UK’s dedicated Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) for silicon photonics, has partnered with Future Worlds, the University of Southampton’s startup accelerator, to launch a dedicated Silicon Photonics Stream at an upcoming Future Worlds Bootcamp, taking place on 29–30 November 2025.

A lack of confidence in sales and marketing is the biggest hurdle for aspiring entrepreneurs in the UK, preventing many from launching their dream businesses, according to the Start Gap Report.

In today’s venture world, deals move at lightning speed, but what if founders could match that pace in the way they pitch?

Early-stage venture consultants, Think Partners, have issued an open letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, calling on the UK Government to take urgent action to close the gender gap in business investment – a move that could unlock £250 billion in additional economic growth.

Bumblebee Power, an Imperial spinout pioneering next-generation wireless charging, has been awarded funding support by the UK Space Agency for a project with MDA Space, a trusted mission partner to the rapidly growing space economy, to advance the use of wireless power in space.

It’s been a bruising few years for the global dealmaking market. Between trade wars, political upheaval, and ongoing economic turbulence, businesses have faced strong headwinds in the past five years, and the economic forecast isn’t looking much calmer.  

Anna Jordan builds AI systems to help highway operators improve how roads function, and has been supported by three accelerator programmes led by Connected Places Catapult.

The inaugural edition of CARE (Climate Action, Renewable Energy & Sustainability) forum series by Trescon, is set to become the MENA region’s most influential platform for sustainability investment and climate innovation. The forum will unite regional and global leaders driving the Middle East’s clean energy transition. Co-located with DATE, a Digitization, AI & Emerging Tech Summit, CARE MENA will take place on 26th - 27th November at the iconic Madinat Jumeirah.

A brand-new guide to support and encourage unemployed people to set up a business has been launched by Start Up Loans, in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC.

RAAAM Memory Technologies, a startup company which developed the next-generation on-chip memory technology, has completed an over-subscribed $17.5M Series A funding round.

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday fast approaching, small businesses are faced with a familiar challenge: a lack of working capital to make the most of peak season sales.

For the seventh year in a row, the Estonian Startup Awards will celebrate the success and growth of Estonia’s vibrant startup ecosystem. This year, the Estonian Startup Awards 2025 is seeking nominees in 11 impactful categories.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have announced a multi-year strategic partnership that allows AWS’s infrastructure to run and scale OpenAI’s core artificial intelligence (AI) workloads starting immediately.

Rolo Robotics, the robotics startup behind APAC’s first fully autonomous hot food kiosks, has announced the close of an oversubscribed funding round backed by A2D Ventures, BEENEXT, Seedstars, TIS Japan, Antler, Lotus One Investment, and Blueprint Ventures.

New research from Hilton shows that two thirds (66%) of those with a learning disability say their employers have not asked them what they need to succeed in their roles. As a result, nearly six in 10 (57%) feel like the company they work for isn’t equipped to support them.  

Gumtree, one of the UK’s most popular online marketplaces, has partnered with Mangopay to power its transformation from a traditional classifieds site into a fully transactional C2C marketplace.   

Marketing success has traditionally favoured big budgets and large teams. With the right strategy, small and midsize businesses can now build powerful, data-driven marketing engines that grow with them, using AI effectively to operate at scale. Valuable marketing starts with thinking, not tools. In this piece, Stephen Rumbelow, fractional CMO at The Marketing Centre, explores what this looks like in reality.

Any startup founder will tell you that the early years of building a business are defined by financial uncertainty. Cash flow is inconsistent. Revenue doubles one year, halves the next: that's just life in the startup trenches. You run lean, you hoard cash, and you survive on adrenaline. Your business is your baby, and every spare penny must be reinvested to fuel its growth.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare. From diagnostic imaging to patient monitoring, AI systems are being deployed to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and access to care. But in a field where lives are at stake, innovation cannot come at the expense of safety. This is why regulation in AI health technology is not a bureaucratic obstacle, but a foundation for trust and sustainable adoption.

Change isn’t easy. But here’s a secret: it isn’t rocket science either. In fact, the biggest obstacle isn’t technology, process, or even funding.  It’s people and sometimes, the loudest messages about how people are responding to change come not in words, but in silence.