PR and communications was always at the forefront of my mind when thinking about what to do after university, as I love everything to do with media, writing, and networking. However, it wasn’t until I took a deeper dive that I realised that there is PR for everything. I studied politics, so naturally thought that […]
I was excited to make the move from Churt in the Surrey Hills to the big city, but I seemed to always be waiting for the perfect opportunity and the right time. Excluding the three years I spent living in Sydney, Australia, during my childhood – mainly spent surfing and picking up that desired Aussie […]
Birmingham and Porto-based biomedical startup Adapttech has raised £2.25 million from investors, including Mercia Asset Management, ACF Investors, Wren Capital and Wealth Club. The company has also rolled out a new range of products that will make it faster and easier to fit lower-limb prostheses and improve patient outcomes. The extra cash will be […]
A collaboration between Garage Beer Co, Vaayu and Seareg Project sees total emissions generated by the production of ‘Blau’ compensated for through local community-led initiatives to protect and regenerate the Mediterranean sea. Barcelona-based craft brewery, Garage Beer Co, is proud to present the world’s first carbon neutral beer using blue removal technology, with its latest […]
Award-winning hybrid studio and digital fitness platform BLOK has secured £3.75m in a funding round led by ACF Investors, with additional investment from Elcot Capital and The Santon Group. The funding round also included investment from the UK government’s Future Fund, Crowdcube and angel investor Rob Wirszycz, who will be joining the business as Chairman. […]
Award-winning edtech games company, Kuato Studios, and children’s charity, Starlight, team up to help children in hospitals through a Nintendo Switch™ game UK edtech company, Kuato Studios, has partnered with a children’s charity which uses play to support children in hospitals across the UK. Through their shared ethos of the power of play, 100% of […]
Leveraging his background in talent development and product management, Harry Novic developed the Rocky.AI solution to provide individuals a pocket-sized career coach Rocky Robots, the digital coaching startup designed to guide and motivate young professionals, has closed a £300,000 pre-seed investment from Jenson Funding Partners alongside other investors. The company is the developer of Rocky.AI, […]
This principle is at the heart of journalism. A single fact or data point on its own is meaningless. Several facts or data points might be meaningful to the right person, but only if that person has the context and knowledge to fit them together. The beauty of journalism is taking those facts and data […]
Guy Rigby, 68, and David Murray, 56, have become the oldest pair ever to row across any ocean – in ‘The Entrepreneur Ship’, a 24 foot rowing boat – alongside 35 other teams at this year’s Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Chartered accountant Guy, founder and Chair of the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Smith & Williamson, […]
After being on hiatus for 2020, Slush made a triumphant return to the events calendar this year. Carefully scaled back compared to previous years, around 8,000 lucky ticket holders from the technology and investment ecosystem descended on Helsinki at the start of December. Despite developments around the Omicron variant and somewhat challenging circumstances, this year […]
Margaret Zablocka founded Onoco in 2020, realising offerings to support parents through children’s early years were causing confusion and unfit for modern-day family setups Onoco, the parenting app designed to help organise families through planning, documenting infant care and tracking their development, has raised £150,000 from Jenson Funding Partners as part of an ongoing pre-seed […]
The root of my answer to the “Why FieldHouse?” question lies during my final semester at university. All of my peers had made decisions about their post-university life; conversations had shifted away from the normal bustle of student life to excitement of future grad schemes or life plans, but that was not the case for […]