Electric scooter startup Bird to go public in £1.6bn SPAC deal May 12, 2021 Bird Rides announced a merger with Switchback II Corp, a blank-cheque company, to go public in a deal that values the electric scooter company at £1.6bn. SPACs are listed companies that use the proceeds from an IPO to buy a private firm and take it public. The scooter rental company said the deal will be [...]
Google launches $2m fund to help bridge funding gap for Black tech founders March 2, 2021 Google For Start Ups launches fund to tackle lack of black talent in tech
Alphabet-backed health insurance startup Oscar aims to raise more than $1bn in upcoming IPO February 22, 2021 Oscar Health Insurance is planning on raising more than $1 billion in its IPO.
Concrete changes can allow Britain’s digital firms to fly January 28, 2021 Britain’s technology entrepreneurs seem the last people who need any attention from Government right now. Valuations are soaring. IPOs are being lined up. Even as the pandemic constrains our daily lives, businesses that will deliver the jobs, growth and tax revenues of the future are thriving. But in the great global race to create and [...]
Startup Spotlight: The top 50 London tech firms to work for January 2, 2021 From insurtech to fitness and everything in between, recruitment platform Tempo has compiled a list of the best London-based startups to work for. Companies in its “Super Startups” list have been based on the company’s mission, employee reviews and career pages. To be considered for the list the startups must have been launched after 2014, [...]
Exclusive: Tech guru Harry Destecroix launches new disruptive investment vehicle December 11, 2020 Well-known tech scientist and entrepreneur Dr Harry Destecroix is bringing a new deep tech ecosystem to the market, which includes an investment fund and a network of partners to nurture science and engineering start-ups and spin-outs, as he puts it. In an exclusive interview with Morning Wire, the founder of Ziylo – which he sold for nearly [...]
Join EY in celebrating UK entrepreneurship December 9, 2020 | City Talk Tune in on Thursday 10 December to celebrate the UK’s entrepreneurial community. EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ UK has been celebrating, supporting and connecting entrepreneurs since it first launched in the UK over 20 years ago. Entrepreneurs are a crucial part of the UK economy, and will be key to our economic recovery as we [...]
Data first: How tech startups build trust and tap investment November 19, 2020 When Phil Marshman set about launching his health startup Sentai this year he faced a challenge. For the serial entrepreneur, it was not the pandemic or the intricacies of artificial intelligence or even getting to market that posed a challenge, it was customer data. “For any product team you need to be data first… We [...]
Exclusive: These are the top 50 London startups to work for October 29, 2020 An insurtech startup that has raised just £13m to date is the best startup to work for in London, according to new research. The incentive-based life insurance platform Yulife is the best London-based startup to work for, according to research by recruitment platform Tempo. The startup, which employs just 61 people, has been recognised for [...]
London is the toughest place to be an entrepreneur, report finds October 21, 2020 London is the toughest place in the UK to be an entrepreneur due to a huge wealth disparity and a higher cost of living, according to a new report. The government-funded British Business Bank (BBB) and management consulting firm Oliver Wyman have today published a report into the huge impact ethnic and economic background as [...]