The City & Guilds Group, a developer of learning technologies that works with more than 200 companies worldwide to help develop a more skilled workforce, has made an investment into HT2 Labs, a research and development company for workplace digital learning, through its recently set up £2.5 million-pound New Venture Fund. HT2 Labs works alongside …
Tech IPO fever in 2017?
Tech IPO’s, a bit like reason, restraint, and subtlety, fell off a cliff in 2016. For starters, we didn’t get one until April – Dell-owned Secureworks’ stock opened for trading on NASDAQ at $13.89, just under the IPO price of $14. And in the US, there were only 10 more all year. There were 43 …
New Retail Fund from Russia That Plans To Invest $3bn In The Retail Stars Of Tomorrow Will Be Headquartered In London
Letter One, an investment company who describe themselves as “a partnership of successful entrepreneurs and international businesspeople” has launched a new investment vehicle, L1 Retail, which consists of a $3 billion dollar fund to back “a small number of retailers that have the potential to become market leaders in their segments and markets”, across Europe. …
Social Impact To The Fore As Legatum Center Holds Its First UK Conference At Level 39
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT in Boston was set up as a fellowship program to help MIT students build and scale their ventures through “principled, entrepreneurial leadership”. The center also provides seed grants and travel expenses for “students looking to explore and experience global innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE) opportunities”, as well as …
Clozer Offers Businesses Route To New Markets With Local Sales Team
Businesses seeking to expand in the New Year have been given a new route to market thanks to dedicated sales platform Clozer. The innovative sharing economy website gives ambitious firms access to a local sales team anywhere in the world that can deliver results by converting prospective customers to firm clients thanks to their sales …
Exclusive! Lady Barbara Judge Opens Up On Why She Is Backing HR Tech Start-up bob; “We’re Done Celebrating Start-ups, Let’s Get To Work!”
The thing about London; it’s full of smart people. Everywhere you look, on the tube, the buses, in the taxis and Ubers; every office and every shop is crammed full of smart people, going about their business. So, when a new phenomenon, the world of tech start-ups, starts to grow up around the Old Street …
Get Your Free Desk At The Trampery Republic – London’s Newest, And Hottest Space For Creatives?
London-based bootstrapping entrepreneurs tired of skipping meals and working out of cramped, expensive offices with questionable hygiene are being given a chance to secure one of twenty free desks at a luxurious new co-working space next to East India DLR station, with 9,00 square feet of workspace, and a wrap-around roof terrace offering spectacular views …
London-Based 4th Generation Italian Fashion House Wants You To Design Your Own Shirts Using Gesture Control and AR
Just when you thought men’s grooming was destined to be something we could only read about in Victorian novels, a bygone service from a bygone era, London-based shirt makers Neronote have decided to reinvent it. As you can see from the video below, Neronote are predicting that gesture control and AI will allow the world …
Your.MD, The AI Health Platform & App Wants To Be Everybody’s OneStop, Personalised, Digital Health Consultant!
Your.MD, a health-tech start-up that was founded in Oslo, Norway by CEO Matteo Berlucchi but is now headquartered in London, announced today that it has added 12 additional leading digital health service providers to its One Stop Health platform. The company, who raised $5m of funding in January last year in a round led by …
Love Stand-Up? Love TV? Then You’ll Love “Stand Up Comedy Focused Online Video On Demand Platform” Next Up!
Fans of TV could be forgiven for thinking there were only a handful of funny people in the UK – Frank Skinner, Michael McIntyre, Graham Norton, that bloke off the GoCompare ads who wears a tux and sings opera, the cast of “Have I got News For You” and that guy who is travelling around …
6-Month-Old Start-up Pimloc Is Ready To Employ Machine Learning and AI To Protect Private Users & Businesses’ Visual Media Online
The “Faustian Pact” that users of online services are often forced to agree to “without fully comprehending the implications of doing so” has inspired a London based entrepreneur to create Pimloc, a tech start-up that is “developing a suite of image and video management solutions for business and private users who want their private images …
The Fickle Fortunes Of London’s Start-up Accelerator / Incubators Laid Bare As Hackney Council Pushes Business Rates Up by 46%
The story of Second Home Many amongst London’s start-up eco-system were in celebratory mood last week as Creative accelerator Second Home, led by ex-Special Advisor for tech to David Cameron and columnist Rohan Silva, secured £20m investment from Bebo founder Michael Birch, Facebook investor Yuri Milner and the Sainsbury family, to expand its business model …
So You Think You’re A Morning Person? Test Your Mettle At Morning Gloryville’s “Rave Your Way Into The Day” Next Wednesday At Oval Space!
“Woke up…got out of bed…dragged a comb across my head…” for many of us, the Beatles had it more-or-less right. Mornings are for falling out of bed semi-conscious, scraping toothpaste off your suit as you speed walk / run to the tube or bus, consuming copious amounts of coffee and getting away with being disagreeable …
A New Food Delivery Service Is Coming To London That Aims To Empower The Industry By Charging Businesses Less For Listings
It’s a crowded space with high-profile stories of both success and failure – now a new start-up, HeyMenu, is planning to enter London’s unpredictable food delivery market, starting on 1st December. HeyMenu say that their proposition “is to provide up to 90% lower costs to takeaway restaurants than competitors, including zero commission”. …
Are You A Foodie Start-up Founder Hungry For Success? Try The JustEat Food Tech Accelerator!
Just Eat, the disruptive food delivery service-cum-Tech “unicorn” which has spawned a thousand copy-cat companies, from mega-bucks success stories like restaurant food delivery service Deliveroo and Delivery Hero on the continent, to nearly-made-its like Pronto and TakeEatEasy, and still hanging-in-there rivals like Hungry House, has decided to share the secrets of its start-up success – …
What is TechDay And Why Are 7,500 People – Including 200 Start-ups Going To Be Attending On October 27th?
TechDay is coming – even by London start-up standards October 27th represents a special date for your diary. “Meet the entire London start-up community”, the flier exclaims; “build the relationships you need for growth with the 200 start-ups and 7,500 press, investors, & early adopters attending TechDay.” …
Softbank To Launch Tech Fund In London Backed By Saudi Investment Fund That Could be Worth Up To $100 Billion
London’s start-up scene has received a huge boost in the form of news that Softbank are to launch a tech fund: the Softbank Vision Fund, set to be managed from London, which could attract enough investment to pump $100 billion into tech start-ups. …
From The Makers Of Candy Crush – Get Ready For Shuffle Cats! King Launches Its First Ever, London Themed, Live Multi-player Card Game
London start-up fanciers will doubtless be aware of the fable of Melvyn Morris, and not least because it is a heart-warming tale of a humble, hard working techie founder making a fortune, then another, and another, each one exponentially larger than the last. A young Morris founded a dating site called uDate.com, where worked alongside …
Rocket Internet Investment Arm Leads £9m Series A Into Recruitment Contract Finance Provider Sonovate, Who Also Raise £5m Debt Financing
Global Founders Capital, a VC firm based in Munich and backed by the Samwer brothers, founders of Rocket Internet, has led a Series B investment round into Sonovate, a leading recruitment finance provider. Dawn Capital have also participated in the round. The funding is split between £9 million in equity funding and £5m in debt …
IoT Investor / Incubator Breed Reply Announces Latest Start-up Investments, Launches Latest “Best in Breed” Start-up Search
Breed Reply, the investment arm of Reply, who support the Telco, Media, Banking, Insurance and Public Administration sectors with new communication channels and digital media, announced today that they have reached agreement with 4 London Based, early stage IoT start-ups, to provide investment and support. …