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Global Tech for Good initiative seeks innovative startups and scaleups that are creating positive social impact and enhancing people's lives through tech. The competition, now in its third year and backed by Empact Ventures and Hays has put the spotlight on a number of innovative tech start-ups and scale-ups across the UK and Europe. Last year’s overall champion was MediSieve who have dev...
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Innovative Czech fintech startup 4Trans raises investment to expand first of its type AI driven factoring services across Europe. 4Trans, a fintech specialising in financial products for supply chain and logistics companies, has secured a €18 million investment from backers including Atmos, Tera Ventures, and Lighthouse. Impact investment fund management firm based in the UK, Advance Glob...
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Edinburgh-based life science company Cytomos secures funding to support further development of its innovative cell analysis tech. Cytomos, an Edinburgh-based life science company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells, has secured £1.6m funding to progress the development and qualification of its novel cell analysis platform, Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS...
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  Ethical Equity and Streets Consulting join forces to deliver Founder Workshop to help close the inequality gap in startup to scaleup funding. Ethical Equity, the UK’s first ethically compliant investment platform, today announced a partnership with Streets Consulting, the financial services and technology business development, marketing and communications consultancy, to deliver a o...
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Fancy being featured in this year’s SmallBiz100, which showcases the best of Britain’s vibrant small business community? There's just a couple of days left to do just that! A nationwide search for the UK’s 100 most inspiring small businesses is entering its final days, as part of major plans to mark the tenth-year anniversary of Small Business Saturday UK. Brilliant small bus...
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Screenloop secures major investment to support further development of its AI-driven recruitment platform that helps companies build the best teams and removes unconscious bias. Good news from Screenloop, the hiring intelligence platform that helps teams hit their recruitment targets faster whilst delivering an enhanced candidate experience, having just announced that they have raised a $7M...
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  New research from School of Marketing reveals the impact that Covid-19 has had on key business sectors in the UK. A study by marketing training hub School of Marketing analysed the latest ONS and government data on the number of businesses that were born and died in the last eight business quarters after the pandemic (from Q2 of 2020 to Q1 of 2022) and compared this with the eight quart...
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  Amazon Joins Forces with Celebrity Entrepreneurs to Host Interactive Livestream to Help Young, Budding Business Owners Grow Their Businesses. Amazon announces the launch of Small Business, Big Dreams: an interactive, virtual livestream aimed at helping up-and-coming entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. The livestreamed discussion will explore the future of young entrepreneurship and ho...
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The lowdown on the innovative young visionaries that are in the running for this year's Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs. The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE), in collaboration with MeWe360, have announced this year’s finalists for the annual awards programme that aims to uncover the UK’s brightest young entrepreneurs aged 18-30 years ...
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  Geneva-based B2B2C startup Imverse secures major investment for its innovative volumetric content and live holograms technology. Imverse, a B2B2C company providing volumetric pixel (voxel) solutions, has secured $4.8 million to develop its software platform, expand its team and roll out its products globally.  The CES2021 Best-of-Innovation award winner has created a game-chang...
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Innovative German SaaS startup OKAPI:Orbits secures investment to support its mission of securing efficient and safe operations in space. OKAPI: Orbits, a startup providing space traffic management software to coordinate and optimize operations of satellites, rockets and sensors, has raised a €5.5m seed funding round led by San Francisco based  MunichRe Ventures, the venture capital a...
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Scottish startup Earth Blox secures investment to support global expansion and further development of its no-code earth observation software. Great news for Scottish tech firm Earth Blox with the announcement that it has secured £1.5m funding from Archangels to expand its global reach and further develop its no-code Earth Observation (EO) cloud-based SaaS. Earth Blox ...
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