Author Archives: FHA Admin

Xona Space Systems raises $1m pre-seed round from 1517, Seraphim Capital, Trucks Venture Capital and Stellar Solutions

| May 14, 2020

In the U.S. alone, over $300 billion of economic impact per year relies on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), yet the only signals available to the public are unprotected, imprecise, and susceptible to disruption from easily obtainable jammers and spoofers. The reliability and performance of satellite navigation needs to drastically increase to support modern industries […]

Mandiant Security Effectiveness Report 2020

| May 5, 2020

  The report summarizes the results of thousands of tests performed by experts from the Mandiant Security Validation (previously known as Verodin) team. The tests consisted of real attacks, specific malicious behaviors, and actor-attributed techniques and tactics run in enterprise-level production environments representing 11 industries against 123 market-leading security technologies — including network, email, endpoint, […]

MMC Ventures research concludes activity and investment remain strong in the UK blockchain ecosystem, despite “crypto winter”

| April 30, 2020

The report “Crypto Winter or Crypto Spring? Reasons to be Optimistic on the UK’s Blockchain Ecosystem” shows that between January 2017 and December 2019, UK blockchain companies raised £1.2 billion via ICOs compared to £525 million invested in equity. The cheap access to capital, combined with a lack of in-depth understanding, contributed to the ICO-craze […]

Coronavirus: what happens when a global pandemic hits a $31 billion proptech company?

| April 29, 2020

We have heard countless stories about how businesses small and large have been affected by the global Covid-19 outbreak. Travel firms and those in the hospitality industry have been hit hardest, with international travel bans essentially freezing the market. In fact, this travel ban has brought one of the darlings of Silicon Valley, the world-famous […]

SkyCell raises $62 million in growth funding to accelerate global reach

| April 28, 2020

The growth funding will be used to expand SkyCell’s global footprint, with particular focus on the US and Asia. This follows an acceleration in business relating to world healthcare concerns as more pharma companies need to protect their crucial supply chains, with Q1 revenues up 3x from the previous year. Modern pharmaceuticals have changed and […]

Global tech community pulls together to help solve COVID-19 with open-source collaboration

| April 27, 2020

There is an incredible surge of experts wanting to offer their time, skills and resources to help in this crisis. The Coronavirus Tech Handbook creates a free online library (like Wikipedia) where technologists, doctors and other specialists can find projects, share best practice, and communicate. This prevents skill practitioners and volunteers wasting critical time solving […]

British Business Investments commits £10m to Startup Funding Club

| April 23, 2020

The commitment will be managed by SFC and invested alongside the SFC SEIS & EIS Funds as well as the SFC Angel Network. SFC intends to deploy the commitment in over 100 early stage businesses across the UK to deliver almost £30m of new funding for start-up and scale-up businesses across all sectors. The announcement […]

inploi expands employment platform to facilitate redeployment of displaced workers into essential industries

| April 22, 2020

Technology start-up inploi has expanded its online platform to stimulate workforce mobility during the current crisis by connecting jobseekers displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic with employment opportunities in essential industries across the UK. Initially focused on the hospitality sector – and already used by more than 100,000 people to find work with major employers including […]

Winner of Hack from Home event develops privacy-forward ‘traffic light’ app to help end Coronavirus lockdown

| April 16, 2020

The event took place remotely on Saturday 4th April and Sunday 5th April and was organised by Dataswift alongside world-renowned partners including NHSX, The Ethical Tech Alliance, HAT-LAB, Case Western Reserve University’s xLAB, and the Cleveland Clinic’s Hwang Lab.    A UK-launched initiative, united by a global ambition to halt the spread of COVID-19, the […]

The saying goes: It’s PR, not ER – but amidst the coronavirus, this isn’t always true

| April 3, 2020

We’re fortunate at FieldHouse. We’ve always said that in the end we’re all just people and laptops, so making the move to remote working wasn’t too difficult for us. For many other businesses, it’s not as easy as that. In the grand scheme of things, what we can offer may only help a handful of […]

Brookfield Asset Management Buys into Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, acquiring 50% Stake from U+I and Harwell Oxford Partners Ltd

| April 2, 2020

The acquisition comes at a critical time for the UK economy and property market, with many deals being put on hold due to the coronavirus crisis. This is Brookfield’s first step into the UK’s knowledge economy, which will accelerate the expansion of Harwell’s unique real estate portfolio, comprising flexible hybrid offices, laboratories and advanced manufacturing […]

Qarnot Computing closes Series B funding round at €6 million to accelerate its growth

| March 31, 2020

Qarnot is the first company to offer climate-conscious, high performance cloud computing. Qarnot sells cloud computing capacity to clients and uses the wasted heat generated from its computer servers to heat buildings and water sustainably. Data centres – that are mostly owned by ‘Big Tech’ companies – consumed about 3% of the world’s total energy supply […]