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| 25.06.2025 | £7.5 million Longitude Prize on ALS launches | LONDON, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Longitude Prize on ALS, a £7.5 million global challenge prize, has launched to incentivise and reward cutting edge AI-based approaches to transform drug discovery for the treatment of ALS (amyotroph... |
| 19.11.2024 | London-based DEScycle secures €12.2 million to advance e-waste metal recycling | DEScycle, a deep tech startup specialising in metal recycling from electronic waste, has raised €12.2 million in a Series A round. Leading the investment were BGF and Vorwerk Ventures. Cisco Investments, Kadmos Capital, and Nesta also parti... |
| 30.08.2024 | Nandi Proteins Secures £500,000 for Egg White Replacer for “Undesirable Ingredients” | Food science innovator Nandi Proteins has secured over £500,000 in funding through a convertible loan from investors including Nesta, the UK’s social innovation agency, and Scottish Enterprise.
The new capital will support the development o... |
| 17.07.2024 | Berlin-based VARM gets €5.7 million to bridge the skills gap in insulation efforts | VARM, a pioneering insulation startup, has announced it has secured €5.7 million in seed funding, led by Emerge and Pale Blue Dot, with additional support from noa (formerly A/O), Foundamental, and previous angel investors. This investment ... |
| 10.06.2024 | After raising €145M, Sweden’s Aira secures €200M to remove this one huge barrier to heat pump adoption | Read this article in:
Stockholm-based Aira, a clean energy tech company, recently announced that it has secured €200M in debt commitments from BNP Paribas to facilitate the installation of Aira Heat Pumps in thousands of homes across German... |
| 10.03.2024 | The women in AI making a difference | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| 09.03.2024 | The women in AI making a difference | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| 22.02.2024 | The women in AI making a difference | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| 20.02.2024 | The women in AI making a difference | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| 17.02.2024 | The women in AI making a difference | To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish seve... |
| 09.10.2023 | Germany’s VARM raises funds to train insulation installers and boost energy efficiency in homes | Read this article in:
Berlin-based VARM, an insulation startup that aims to drive household decarbonisation, announced on Monday, that it has secured a seven-figure pre-seed funding round. The amount has not been disclosed.
VARM says that t... |
| 30.11.2022 | Nesta's VC arm just launched a $60 million fund to back social and climate impact startups. We got an exclusive look at the 13-slide pitch deck it used to sway its board. | The Nesta Impact Investments team. Nesta Impact Investments This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The VC arm of the UK's social innovation agency Nesta just launched a £50 milli... |
| 02.10.2022 | Заблуждения программистов о почтовых адресах | У всех легковых автомобилей четыре колеса. Исключение из этого правила: Reliant Robin.
Если у автомобиля больше четырёх колёс, то это грузовик, автобус или вообще автопоезд. Исключение найдётся и здесь: Mercedes-AMG G 63 6x6.
Попытка описат... |
| 13.06.2022 | Sky backs Founders Factory as it rolls out £100 million-fund for climate tech | UK-based Founders Factory has unveiled a £100-million venture fund to give a boost to early-stage climate startups. Backed by the British media giant Sky, the Planet Fund will focus on broad sustainability themes, including decarbonisation,... |
| 13.06.2022 | UK’s Sky Group to anchor new €116.5M fund powered by Founders Factory to back planet-positive tech | UK-based Sky Group announced on Monday that it is anchoring a new £100M (approximately €116.57M) ‘operator-first’ venture capital fund called Planet Fund. Powered by London-based Founders Factory, the fund will back early-stage entrepreneur... |
| 18.10.2021 | Founders Factory and Nesta to launch startups tackling UK’s social and environmental problems | UK startup studio Founders Factory and UK innovation agency Nesta are joining forces to create startups to tackle social and environmental problems in the country.
The partnership, dubbed ‘Mission Studio’, will tackle such problems a halvin... |
| 20.07.2021 | July 2021: a month in review | 2021 continues to be an exceptional year for tech, and since my last update, we’ve been through a month of significant developments, growth and exciting news. My monthly updates are a mix on what the company has been up to, and what’s been ... |
| 31.05.2021 | Why Do Board Directors And CEO’s Need To Value Sustainability And AI Relevance? | Leadership makes all the difference in advancing AIgetty |
| 12.05.2021 | Now more than ever, corporates want to work with start-ups | More and more corporates now want to work with start-ups, particularly at the earlier stages, a report from accelerator programme MassChallenge has suggested.
The study, titled The State of Startup/Corporate Collaboration 2016, interviewed ... |
| 12.05.2021 | Alternative finance market set to double in 2015, study finds | The alternative finance market is set to double in size next year, with the sector as a whole set to reach a value of £4.4bn, according to a new study.
Research published today by innovation charity Nesta in conjunction with the University ... |
| 12.05.2021 | 25 best corporate brands for start-ups to work with revealed | The first-ever ranking of the top European corporations working with start-ups has been unveiled today by UK innovation foundation Nesta and the Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), in association with official media partner Startups.co.uk.
An... |
| 17.03.2021 | Toward a New International Order for the Digital Economy | The Biden administration has inherited a number of policies from the Trump administration that will shape the course of the U.S.-China relationship. Many policies, such as the tariffs imposed on Chinese goods, will remain in place as the ne... |
| 26.01.2021 | After The Storm—Boost For U.K. Startups Focused On Post Pandemic Recovery | Ravi Gurumurthy, chief executive of NestaNESTA - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
| 21.01.2021 | Money Flows To Govtech—Has A Cinderella Sector Been Invited To The Ball? | StateUp founder and director, Tanya FilerStateUp |
| 29.12.2020 | Meet The Women Leading The Fight For More Women In AI | In order to create meaningful change in the lives of women, it is important that we take the “women supporting women” concept one step further, and become strategic in our support. The exciting potential of women in AI is that their presenc... |
| 09.12.2020 | Nesta Reveals Rapid Recovery Challenge Semi-finalists | Nesta has revealed the 14 semi-finalists for its £3 million Rapid Recovery Challenge.
The challenge aims to provide financial backing for solutions which will help improve access to jobs and financial support for those impacted by Covid-19.... |
| 14.10.2020 | Open Up 2020 Challenge Winners Revealed | Four open-banking fintechs have been named winners at the £1.5 million Open Up 2020 Challenge.
Mojo Mortgages, Moneybox, Plum and Wagestream will each receive a £150,000 prize to grow their solution to help more people manage their money – ... |
| 21.09.2020 | DAOs Will Never Govern the World (at This Pace) | The enthusiasm for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) continues to gain momentum as the crypto industry recognizes that monetary systems need governance.
Yet, the gap between promise and implementation is demonstrated by the inci... |
| 16.09.2020 | How Data Centralization Ends by 2030 | The next 10 years will witness the systematic manipulation of human life at a scale unrivaled in history. For all the recent controversies over privacy and surveillance, the real threat is ahead of us.
Unless new approaches to online identi... |
| 20.07.2020 | Can Next-Gen Philanthropists Finance The Transition To A Sustainable Post-Covid Economy? | Who will finance the transition to a more sustainable post-Covid economy?Getty |
| 09.07.2020 | The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings | Innovation Spreads Throughout The World Post-Silicon ValleyGetty |
| 07.07.2020 | China and AI: What the World Can Learn and What it Should be Wary of | China. Shutterstock |
| 07.07.2020 | China and AI: What the World Can Learn and What it Should be Wary of | China. Shutterstock
by Hessy Elliott
China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. While the US still leads in absolute terms, China appears to be making more rapid progress than ei... |
| 22.06.2020 | AI and Machine Learning Are Changing Everything. Here’s How You Can Get In On The Fun | There isn’t a new story every week about an interesting new application of artificial intelligence and machine learning happening out there somewhere. There are actually at least five of those stories. Maybe 10. Sometimes, even more.
Like h... |
| 26.05.2020 | Corporate innovation weekly: Autonomous planes, Sweden’s foodtech valley | Agriculture Growth advice
Leaps, Bayer’s strategic investment vehicle, took part in the $6m Series A funding round for Apollo Agriculture, a Nairobi-based commercial farming platform that gives small farmers advice and access to finance. Av... |
| 15.01.2020 | Visa’s new monopoly | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to receive future editions.
Visa’s $5.3 billion acquisition of fintech startup Plaid is a very big deal. The o... |
| 03.01.2020 | AI Weekly: Celeste Kidd on how to close the AI research gender gap | This week, VentureBeat published a collection of predictions about where machine learning is heading in 2020 from industry leaders like PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala, IBM Research director Dario Gil, Nvidia machine learning research dire... |
| 03.01.2020 | AI Weekly: Celeste Kidd on how to close the AI research gender gap | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This week, VentureBeat published a collection of ... |
| 23.11.2019 | Startups in Helsinki and Stockholm lead Nordics on global outlook | Whether or not a startup scales has a lot to do with their motivation. A new report -— published by Nesta as part of the Startup Europe Partnership -— shows that there is substantial variation in entrepreneurs’ motivations to grow and seek ... |
| 19.08.2019 | AI is in Danger of Becoming too Male – New Research | Artificial intelligence. Andrey Suslov / Shutterstock.Com |
| 19.08.2019 | AI is in Danger of Becoming too Male – New Research | Artificial intelligence. Andrey Suslov / Shutterstock.Com
by Juan Mateos-Garcia
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming smarter every day, beating world champions in games like Go, identifying tumours in medical scans better than ... |
| 08.03.2019 | Trailblazing women of UK tech: Mursal Hedayat | At the age of three, Mursal Hedayat came to the UK with her “kick-ass engineer” mother. They were refugees. Mursal and her mum were warmly welcomed to the UK, but the employment opportunities afforded to her talented mother in Afghanistan, ... |
| 18.09.2018 | Cambridge scientist wins £15,000 as part of nationwide Inventor Prize competition | Cambridge scientist wins £15,000 as part of nationwide Inventor Prize competition
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The search to find Britain’s budding new inventors, life-hackers and DIY disrupters is over as Nesta and BEIS reveal the winner of The Inventor Pri... |
| 23.07.2018 | Drone development should focus on social good first, says UK report | A UK government backed drone innovation project that’s exploring how unmanned aerial vehicles could benefit cities — including for use-cases such as medical delivery, traffic incident response, fire response and construction and regeneratio... |
| 09.07.2018 | Nicola Sturgeon Launches £172,000 ShareLab Scotland Fund | The ShareLab Scotland Scheme is now calling for individuals, social enterprises, charities and community groups to apply for grants of up to £33,000. The £172,000 scheme, which will be run by Nesta, a UK innovation foundation, is looking to... |
| 25.06.2018 | Il presente e il futuro dell’intelligenza collettiva | Martedì 26 giugno, presso la Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli di Milano, alle ore 18:30, si terrà l’incontro pubblico “Intelligenza come scelta. Il presente e il futuro dell’intelligenza collettiva come veicolo per soluzioni comuni”. Oltr... |
| 28.05.2018 | 80% of applications for $400 000 Fall Armyworm Tech Prize are from Africans | A $400 000 competition which aims to find digital solutions to identify, track and protect crops from the armyworm — which has devastated agricultural produce across the continent — has received 228 applications from entrepreneurs and innov... |
| 28.05.2018 | 80% of applications for $400 000 Fall Armyworm Tech Prize are from Africans | A $400 000 competition which aims to find digital solutions to identify, track and protect crops from the armyworm — which has devastated agricultural produce across the continent — has received 228 applications from entrepreneurs and innov... |
| 26.01.2018 | Britain’s new inventors: Cambridge’s Nawar Al-Zebari and his new, smart catheter | Britain’s new inventors: Cambridge’s Nawar Al-Zebari and his new, smart catheter
26-01-2018
Innovation foundation Nesta, supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), is today announcing 10 finalists, from... |
| 19.12.2017 | SAP, Telefónica and Virgin awarded as the corporates most actively supporting European startups | Yesterday, Tech.eu attended an event in Brussels organised by open innovation advisory firm Mind the Bridge and UK-based innovation foundation Nesta, meant to highlight and award the corporates that are doing the most to support startups ac... |
| 27.11.2017 | UK to give police new powers to ground drones | The UK government has announced it will introduce draft legislation in the spring aimed at preventing unsafe or criminal use of drones.
Last year it ran a public consultation that recommended addressing safety, security and privacy challeng... |
| 21.11.2017 | The language of jobs: Tech North’s digital jobs workshop | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Last last month, we hosted a distinguished group of organisations who work in the field of skills. We wanted to understand how Tech North’s digital jobs pilot, which will help u... |
| 15.11.2017 | How can collaborative technology solve social challenges? | How can collaborative technology solve social challenges?
15-11-2017
Nesta, the global innovation foundation, is once again calling for ideas. The second round of its ShareLab Fund, launched this week, will support and fund ideas that use c... |
| 26.09.2017 | Could GovTech become bigger than FinTech? | GovTech is gaining momentum as it is passing from an emergent state and is poised to go global, it could be in a similar position to FinTech 5 years ago, according to a report GovTech: an Emergent Sector Revolutionising Public Services. Glo... |
| 22.08.2017 | Sumdog Secures £1.4m in Funding for Global Expansion | Edinburgh-based education technology firm Sumdog has secured £1.4m in funding from Nesta Impact Investors and the Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise.
Last year, Sumdog’s innovative games-based system engaged... |
| 14.04.2017 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Happy Friday!
This week, Tech.eu tracked 10 technology M&A transactions and 52 tech funding deals totalling €298 million in Europe, Turkey and Israel.
Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, al... |
| 14.04.2017 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | This week, Tech.eu tracked 10 technology M&A transactions and 52 tech funding deals totaling €298 million (about $316 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.
Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:
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| 14.04.2017 | These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This week, Tech.eu tracked 10 technology M&A transactions and 52 tech funding deals totaling €298 million (about $316 million) in E... |
| 09.04.2017 | Europe funds another data accelerator to get startups tackling societal problems | A new European Commission-funded startup accelerator, Data Pitch, is being launched today with the aim of connecting established businesses and organizations with lots of data with startups that might be able to help them unlock the value o... |
| 14.03.2017 | How to take AI far beyond gaming | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capital investments in artificial intelli... |
| 14.03.2017 | Generation of Creators | You can see these instincts playing out on a range of platforms. On YouTube, kids aren’t just propelling the rise of a new wave of influential stars; they’re shooting and producing videos, and running their own channels.
Minecraft fans are... |
| 28.02.2017 | UK’s long-delayed digital strategy looks to AI but is locked to Brexit | The UK government is due to publish its long awaited Digital Strategy later today, about a year later than originally slated. Existing delays having been compounded by the shock of Brexit.
Drafts of the strategy framework seen by TechCrunch... |
| 26.01.2017 | Nesta announces the Inventor Prize | Nesta announces the Inventor Prize
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Nesta is working with the Government's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to pilot an ‘inventor’ prize that will inspire and harness the potential of the UK’s home-... |
| 26.01.2017 | Nesta announces the Inventor Prize | Nesta is working with the Government's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to pilot an ‘inventor’ prize that will inspire and harness the potential of the UK’s home-grown inventors and stimulate user-led innovat... |
| 11.01.2017 | Nesta launches a new £10k challenge for young tech pioneers | Nesta launches a new £10k challenge for young tech pioneers
11-01-2017
Nesta has teamed up with IBM to launch Longitude Explorer, a £10k competition for secondary school pupils aged 11-16, which aims to develop science, technology, engineer... |
| 11.01.2017 | Nesta launches a new £10k challenge for young tech pioneers | Nesta has teamed up with IBM to launch Longitude Explorer, a £10k competition for secondary school pupils aged 11-16, which aims to develop science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills. It's calling on young people to come up wi... |
| 20.12.2016 | UK Equity Crowdfunding Market Introduction and Size | Share
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As a concept, equity crowdfunding took off in the UK in 2011 with the launch of Crowdcube. Since then, new equity crowdfunding platforms have been fast appearing on the UK funding scene, and they have captured ... |
| 08.12.2016 | Stockholm Syndrome | When it comes to tech startup co-working spaces, Stockholm has an embarrassment of riches – and not just in numerical terms (there are thought to be at least 20 in the city), but in the sheer variety of what’s on offer too. Whether founders... |
| 18.11.2016 | London retains Europe’s startup city crown; Cambridge ranks 12th | London retains Europe’s startup city crown; Cambridge ranks 12th
18-11-2016
London remains the best city in Europe for digital entrepreneurs because of its access to capital, vibrant entrepreneurial culture and access to a skilled workforce... |
| 29.09.2016 | How Equity Crowdfunding Could Level the Playing Field for Female Entrepreneurs | In the beginning, raising money for my startup was tough going. I pitched dozens of middle-aged men on the unique value of my dating app, in which members play games to assess personality and compatibility. When I stepped into the room with... |
| 30.08.2016 | Creative industries fuel UK’s local economies | Creative industries fuel UK’s local economies
30-08-2016
The creative industries are playing an increasingly important role in local economies across the country, according to new research published.
New research from Nesta and Creative Eng... |
| 07.07.2016 | New mobile game takes on threat of global antibiotic resistance | New mobile game takes on threat of global antibiotic resistance
07-07-2016
A new game has just been released, which sees players face off against a major threat to global health. Launched by the Longitude Prize - a five year, £10 million ch... |
| 07.07.2016 | New mobile game takes on threat of global antibiotic resistance | A new game has just been released, which sees players face off against a major threat to global health. Launched by the Longitude Prize - a five year, £10 million challenge to tackle the issue of antibiotic resistance - Superbugs challenges... |
| 09.06.2016 | Cisco top Europe’s 25 Corporate Startup Stars ranking in Berlin | Cisco has come out on top of Europe’s 25 Corporate Startup Stars, a ranking of corporates working with startups.
The rankings, by Nesta and the Startup Europe Partnership (SEP), were revealed today at the Startup Europe Summit in Berlin.
Ci... |
| 20.04.2016 | Copenhagen Rising | Istedgade in Vesterbro, Copenhagen
Tine Thygesen, founder of Founders House
Founders Reception in Copenhagen, hosted by Index
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| 17.03.2016 | Scaling Together: new report explores how corporates and startups can work together | Nesta and the Startup Europe Partnership have a released a new report that explores how corporates can collaborate with startups (and vice versa) in a meaningful way.
Put together in collaboration with The Scale-up Institute and titled ‘Sca... |
| 10.03.2016 | Disruptors are Getting Disrupted: How Will You Position Your Company? | Crowdsourcing isn’t a buzzword, neither is the sharing economy, crowdfunding, blockchain or collaborative economy—they’re already part of our lives. The cumulative disruption of these crowd-powered paradigms will have a significant influenc... |
| 22.01.2016 | Journalism failed – not Bitcoin | Mike Hearn, one of the core developers of Bitcoin, recently wrote a Medium post in which he publicly announced that he will no longer be taking part in Bitcoin development and that “the bitcoin experiment has failed.”
A New York Times arti... |
| 28.11.2015 | How Education Will Be Smarter, Less Intrusive, And Able To Respond To How You Feel | Amar Kumar Contributor
Amar Kumar is the SVP of Efficacy & Research at Pearson.
Impatience characterizes the technology sector’s approach to education. Disruption is taking place in all other sectors of society — so, why not education? ... |
| 26.11.2015 | Introducing LiFi, a technology 100 times faster than WiFi | Share this article:
In recent years, speed has become an integral part of the internet and computing; faster processors, 5G internet connectivity and now LiFi — which is a short form for light fidelity — has come to stay. What is LiFi?
Simp... |
| 05.11.2015 | Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club join forces | Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club join forces
05-11-2015
Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club are joining forces in a merger that will give many more young people the opportunity to learn how to make things with computers.
Raspberry Pi... |
| 26.10.2015 | Do tech accelerators have a sexism problem? | Airbnb, Dropbox and Reddit are all companies that emerged out of tech accelerators. These incubators of talent have been a crucial component in turning tech start-ups into businesses that can stand on their own two feet. As well as giving n... |
| 22.10.2015 | Cambridge one of the best EU cities for digital entrepreneurs | Cambridge one of the best EU cities for digital entrepreneurs
22-10-2015
Cambridge is number 11 in Europe for digital entrepreneurs, according to a new index that measures what startups and scale-ups say is important to them.
The European D... |
| 05.10.2015 | Tech Nation: Make Your Voice Heard and Be in With a Chance of Going to SxSW | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
We’ve got some big news.
With digital business leaders right across the UK making their voice heard for Tech Nation 2016, we’ve now reached the halfway point. The level of en... |
| 24.09.2015 | For Europe to compete, it must move beyond coding | Digital economy requires a radical rethink to address growing skills gap, says 123ContactForm
Timisoara, Romania | September 24th, 2015: Europe’s digital economy runs the risk of losing out to the likes of India and China if it doesn’t urge... |
| 17.09.2015 | Digital Technology Companies Across the UK: Make Your Voice Heard! | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
We have partnered with innovation charity Nesta to build on the success of the first Tech Nation and delve deeper into the UK tech ecosystem – with the help of marketing and b... |
| 11.09.2015 | Civic crowdfunding will challenge governments and charities | The online crowdsourcing of ideas and capital has transformed business tasks such as innovation, technical problem solving and product design. It has also revolutionised startup financing and scaled peer-to-peer lending. What was once in th... |
| 24.07.2015 | Centre for the Analysis of Social Media: Technology, Terrorism & Online Behaviour | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Having recently hosted the Orwell Prize-nominated author, Jamie Bartlett as a guest speaker for our team away day, we got in touch with the Centre for the Analysis of Social M... |
| 03.07.2015 | Toolkit launched to unlock new audiences and revenues for the arts | Toolkit launched to unlock new audiences and revenues for the arts
03-07-2015
A new toolkit to help arts and cultural organisations grow their digital products and services has been launched - the first of its kind for the sector.
Designed ... |
| 24.06.2015 | Report Ranks New York, London, Helsinki Top Cities For Pro-Startup Policymaking | A study of the quality of policymaking in 40 cities around the world, considering how supportive city governments are to entrepreneurs and tech startups, has ranked New York at the top of its ‘innovation friendly’ index, followed by London,... |
| 23.06.2015 | Seven Forces for Financial Innovation | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
We hear from Julia Groves, chief executive of Trillion Fund and chair of the UK Crowdfunding Association, on seven forces she believes are driving innovation in finance
One o... |
| 28.05.2015 | Crowdfunding: changing how you bring a product to market | Crowdfunding: changing how you bring a product to market
28-05-2015
The Design Council has been working with Crowdfunder to further support the participants of their Spark product innovation fund and accelerator.
Here Jess Ratty, Brand Comm... |
| 24.03.2015 | Efficacy: The True Measure of Success in Education | It should be obvious to everyone working in education that in order to measure how well we are doing, we can’t just look at our revenues, profit margins, or funds raised. Nor can we just look at our user growth and activity metrics. How can... |
| 23.03.2015 | Nesta: Young Digital Makers | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Earlier this month, Nesta released their Young Digital Makers report, “Surveying attitudes and opportunities for digital creativity across the UK”
The report showcases the ex... |
| 22.12.2014 | Send a Scent via Text? Smelltext Might be Big in 2015 ... or Not | Anu Passary, Tech Times 22 December 2014, 12:12 am
Sending a scent via text messaging is poised to be the next big thing in 2015, says British innovation charity Nesta.
According to the group's top 10 prediction list for 2015, "smell-o... |
| 26.11.2014 | Independent Review of the UK’s Sharing Economy Launched | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
A Review Launched to Look at How the UK Can Become a Global Centre for the Sharing Economy Has Been Published Today.
Sharing economy companies include online platforms such a... |
| 02.10.2014 | CogBooks raises $2.8M for more adaptive, individualized education | Ed tech business CogBooks has raised $2.8 million (£1.75 million) to bring adaptive learning to the masses.
The Edinburgh-based platform personalizes learning on a student-by-student basis in real time in order to improve learning outcomes ... |
| 02.10.2014 | CogBooks raises $2.8M for more adaptive, individualized education | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ed tech business CogBooks has raised $2.8 million... |
| 04.09.2014 | Equity Crowdfunding in Spain: 6 Things Every Investor Should Consider | Investing through crowdfunding sites is growing increasingly popular around the world. In Spain alone there are more than 10 platforms focusing on equity investments. If you’re thinking about investing through crowdfunding, here are some ke... |
| 21.07.2014 | Australia ranks on innovation – but indolence could cost us | This year’s news on Australia’s global innovation ranking could be a lot worse, and probably will be in the future if the Federal Government gets its way with proposed budget cuts to our already inadequate science, technology and innovation... |
