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Jess McCreadie joins Northern Gritstone

Northern Gritstone, the investment business focused on science and technology-enabled startups in th...

Record year for Newcastle University spinouts

Newcastle University is celebrating a record year for funding raised by its spinouts. Investments...

How to slay two Dragons just by being nice

During the Covid pandemic Christian Laing decided to help his younger brother Ross, who has Down Syn...

Japanese boost for UK life sciences sector

The UK’s life sciences sector has been boosted by a funding injection from the Development Bank of...

EHE Ventures to launch AI fund

EHE Ventures is launching a dedicated fund this quarter to capitalise on opportunities in artificial...

Building My Startup: Louise Thompson, CEO, Myfolks

Our series profiling companies from our Startups 2.0 lists continues with Louise Thompson, founder &...

Celebrating the 50 TechBlast Stars of 2023

Throughout 2023 the Star of the Week accolade has been awarded to the person or persons who most imp...

Jess Ennis-Hill among female athletes to join Players Fund

A host of top female athletes have joined venture capital firm Players Fund. The UK’s first ath...

Nottingham Business School to empower disruptive startups

A new ‘venture builder’ programme at Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent Univer...

Former BT CEO appointed chair of investor BGF

Investor BGF has appointed Ian Livingston as its non-executive chairman. Lord Livingston of Parkh...

LYVA Labs expands base at The Spine

LYVA Labs has agreed a three-year deal to move into larger office space at The Spine in Liverpool. ...

‘You build everything better the second time around’

There is no substitute for experience - and André Brown has bucketloads of that. Brown had alrea...