Leading fintech payments and credit company MarketFinance has partnered with Funding Options to join its real-time lending platform, Funding CloudTM. Funding CloudTM enables lenders to bridge the SME funding gap by providing businesses with the best finance options on the market, at speed and powered by technology. MarketFinance has strengthened its finance origination capability […]
Edinburgh, 07 June 2022: Skyrora has appointed a new Chief Operations Officer, Lee Rosen, Colonel, US Air Force (ret), ex-VP of Mission and Launch Operations, and Customer Operations and Integration at SpaceX. As a SpaceX veteran of over 150 missions, Rosen brings his extensive operational expertise as the company aims to be the first UK company to […]
You’ll have heard it said, “cycling is the new golf”. For decades, deals got inked on lush green courses, connections were forged between members in the club house, and talk of handicaps, birdies and corporate trips to The Open were commonplace for those who wanted to get on in business. There’s nothing wrong with golf […]
To say the economic outlook is gloomy would be an understatement. Look around the UK and reasons to be cheerful are few and far between. Inflation is at a forty-year high, energy prices are soaring, and many supply chains are fragile, clogged up, or just broken. While a recession isn’t here (yet), companies should be […]
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Tech.eu Summit in Brussels. The panel was titled ‘Diversity & Inclusion: from buzzwords to real action’ and was based on the depressing statistics that roughly 1-2% of venture capital investment into startups makes its way to women-founded startups, 5-6% went to mixed-gender founding teams, and […]
Edinburgh, 23 May 2022: Rocket company Skyrora has successfully completed and documented a 70kN rocket engine test, marking a key milestone in its contract under the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support Programme (CSTS). Being a part of this initiative is paramount to Skyrora’s journey, as it unlocks the next round […]
Fintech’s proprietary real-time lending platform Funding CloudTM a key revenue driver as SMEs turn to alternative lenders to support post-Covid recovery. Digital finance platform Funding Options has appointed Malcolm Leach to its management team as CTO, continuing its mission to bridge the SME funding gap by providing businesses with the best finance options on the […]
Edinburgh, 27 April 2022 – British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant the licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe’s largest-ever rocket launch, originally set for September 2021. With the launch from Husavik, Iceland – for which it built Europe’s largest mobile spaceport – Skyrora had been ready […]
Cambridge, 21st April 2022: Speechmatics, the leading speech recognition technology scaleup, has today made a major step in delivering truly comprehensive speech recognition by adding Entity Formatting functionality to its Autonomous Speech Recognition (ASR) software. Tackling one of machine learning’s biggest challenges, using Inverse Text Normalization (ITN), the software’s ability to consistently and more accurately […]
Secure platform allows you to share personal information with companies quickly, easily and safely to bypass institutional bureaucracy Arbor Steel has raised £200,000 in a pre-seed funding round to bring its digital identity citadel to customers. Developed following a £100,000 InnovateUK Grant, the platform provides a secure and efficient way to share personal data and […]
The second investment in just eight months will enable Vaayu to scale its world-first product footprinting technology Vaayu, the climate tech startup that helps retailers reduce their carbon footprint in real-time, has closed an $11.5 million seed funding round led by Atomico, with follow on from CapitalT and participation from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s firm […]
The 360-degree streaming platform supports remote teaching of hands-on subjects, without the need for expensive headsets, with notable projects involving Everton FC, AstraZeneca and Nestle Focus MRS, a mixed-reality virtual learning platform, has secured a £150,000 seed investment from Jenson Funding Partners, the startup investment firm. The technology is designed to enhance the teaching of […]