Care platform Lottie has acquired care home occupancy and customer relationship software Found in a £1.5m deal. Shared exclusively with UKTN, Lottie’s platform is a residential care comparison site. Created in 2019 by Dan Morris, Found lets managers of care homes check bed numbers, manage enquiries and track sales. Lottie plans to scale Found in the coming ... Read more ›
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Code First Girls has secured £4.5m in Series A funding round to support its goal of giving one million women the opportunity to learn to code and get into the tech industry in the next five years. The Series A was led by investment firm Active Partners alongside a group of female angel investors, including ... Read more ›
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned people in the UK against following the financial advice of online crypto and forex trading influencers. Financial influencers on YouTube and TikTok have reportedly been using the cost-of-living crisis as an opportunity to promote crypto and app-based stock trading, suggesting it can protect viewers from the financial situation. ... Read more ›
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Ocean 14 Capital has received an additional €10m (£8.6m) commitment for its impact fund from the Constitutional Reserve Fund of Monaco. The fund has currently raised €100m (£86.3m) to fund sustainable projects relating to ocean preservation. Chris Gorell Barnes, co-founding partner, Ocean 14 Capital said: “The ocean provides half the oxygen we breathe, it absorbs ... Read more ›
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The UK’s financial regulators have urged the government to respect their independence from politics, warning against reducing their regulatory authority. The warning from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) comes as a response to the findings of a report from the Treasury Select Committee in June. The report outlined that ... Read more ›
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Software provider ClearCourse has announced it has acquired medtech platform Blue Zinc for an undisclosed sum. Shared exclusively with UKTN, Blue Zinc will join ClearCourse’s business services division. Gerry Gualtieri, CEO, ClearCourse said: “Healthcare is one of the country’s most crucial sectors, and one in which we stand to see the most significant material benefits from ... Read more ›
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Payrow, a new British fintech, has announced the rollout of services to support entrepreneurs and help them build their freelance services and businesses by providing access to relevant, affordable, and paperless global money-management tools. Payrow’s mission is to increase the number of entrepreneurs in the UK and enable startups to develop with minimal barriers. Entrepreneurs ... Read more ›
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Semiconductors are everywhere, powering everything from the latest games console to your kitchen toaster. For all the warnings from industry, the UK risks falling behind in this crucial sector. The government’s long-awaited microchip strategy remains unpublished. With the likes of China, the US and Europe investing heavily in silicon, has the UK left it too ... Read more ›
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The majority of European SMEs have been forced to take out loans due to missing and delayed payments, according to new research. A survey from Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider Vodeno of more than 2,000 SMEs found that 54% had to take out a loan because of missing payments, while 62% said unpredictable cash flow was the ... Read more ›
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The review into the buying of Newport Wafer Fab by Netherlands-headquartered and Chinese-owned semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia has been pushed back again. It follows a previous delay of 45 working days by business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to the Nexperia review in July, following questioning of Nexperia’s UK boss by the Commons’ business select committee. Last month ... Read more ›
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Deliveroo has been challenged in the supreme court by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) in the latest legal action against the company’s treatment of its couriers. IWGB is accusing Deliveroo of denying collective bargaining rights, only months after the food delivery startup agreed to a partnership with GMB. The agreement, made in ... Read more ›
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Depop founder Simon Beckerman’s latest startup, food marketplace DELLI, has secured $7.2m (£6.2m) in a funding round co-led by Balderton and HV Capital. DELLI allows individuals or independent restaurants to sell food on the platform through a drop model, similar to fashion brands, where limited edition products are released to the public at a certain ... Read more ›
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Medtech startup Hexarad has closed a £4.5m Series A funding round with an additional fundraising of £2.2m to support its radiology technology. London-based Hexarad was founded to solve the problem of overstretched radiology departments having severe delays in scan results. Hexarad provides workflow management software to these departments to optimise imagining scan times. The software ... Read more ›
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After a lengthy leadership contest, the Conservative Party has named Liz Truss as the successor to Boris Johnson and the new prime minister of the UK. While soaring energy costs, housing, and inflation will take priority during the early days of Truss’ premiership, there are a number of tech policy issues that will be piling ... Read more ›
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Conversational customer service continues to define contact centre and customer experience (CX) strategies. Businesses are drawn to the ability to offer responsive self-service, proactive communications, and agent chat on the channels closest to customers. Investing in conversational customer service matches up well with recent research reporting consumers valued efficiency in solving their problems, the ability ... Read more ›
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This year has been defined by economic turbulence. With rising inflation, interest rates and energy costs, the outlook appears to be at best uncertain. The public market has been suffering, with tech stocks in particular experiencing significant and consistent valuation drops since the start of the year. The private market, thus far, seems to be ... Read more ›
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When David Morgan wrote to NHS Digital Health during the pandemic to offer his company’s telehealth solutions, he says he was “politely shown the door”. According to the CEO of Black Space Technology, a Birmingham-based company building health software durable enough for the battlefield, the government should have embraced more technology to tackle Covid-19. “In ... Read more ›
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Liz Truss has been announced as the leader of the Conservative Party and the UK’s new prime minister. On Monday at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, Sir Graham Brady announced Truss had beaten Rishi Sunak with 81,326 votes to 60,399 votes. The new prime minister has a bulging in-tray full of high-priority issues, ... Read more ›
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Nigeria and London-based bank Kuda has joined the list of tech companies making layoffs, resulting in approximately 23 members of staff losing their jobs. Kuda, which provides debit cards, current accounts, savings accounts, lending and business accounts, said it restructuring its workforce to ensure future growth. “Kuda is currently making some strategic changes to serve ... Read more ›
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Crypto exchanges will have to report potential breaches of sanctions to UK authorities, due to new rules set by the Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. The Treasury has brought in the new rules over concerns that cryptoassets could be used to circumvent financial restrictions imposed on Russia and Belarus, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ... Read more ›
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