Selling SVB to HSBC was the wrong decision for UK startups, says OakNorth CEO

Interview September 21, 2023

Selling SVB to HSBC was the wrong decision for UK startups, says OakNorth CEO

The CEO of one of Europe’s rare profitable unicorns says the bank is too big to support high growth companies as well as an OakNorth-SVB tie-up would have

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Stock trading platform Robinhood, famed for its central role in the pandemic meme stock craze, is launching its commission-free trading app in the UK today.
This is the US-based fintech’s third attempt to expand into a new market; it first planned a launch into Australia in 2015 that never happened; and also scrapped a plan to launch in the UK in 2

Robinhood makes second foray into Europe with UK launch

Time is running out to enter Liverpool City Region Tech Climbers 2024.
Tech Climbers is an annual list which showcases the top performing and innovative tech companies and it’s the fourth time it’s returned to Liverpool.
Entries and nominations close on December 1st, 2023 and the full list and ones to watch list will be announced at a big reveal ev

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The government has announced a new draft of guidance to support businesses to upskill their workers and unleash the potential of Artificial Intelligence to help boost productivity by enhancing workplace activity.
The guidance will help employers develop their employees understanding around AI, offering an understanding around key knowledge, skills

AI Minister unveils guidance to upskill UK workers

‘Webex Go with AT&T’ was announced several months ago in 2023 as one of the first efforts stemming from a newly unveiled partnership between Cisco and AT&T.
The offer is now available for pre-order (AT&T brands the offer as ‘AT&T Cloud Voice with Webex Go’). Webex Go with AT&T is a converged mobility and unified communications service providing the

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Microsoft is getting a voice on the revamped OpenAI board as a non-voting observer, according to a memo sent to OpenAI employees on Wednesday.
The change may help prevent Microsoft, a major OpenAI investor, from being left out of the company’s consequential decision-making — such as the ouster of Sam Altman earlier this month.
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Unless you have been living under a rock — or somehow still in a tryptophan-induced sleep from Thanksgiving — we all know Sam Altman is back at OpenAI and all is right with the world again.
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Only 14% of procurement leaders express confidence in their talent’s ability to meet the future needs of the function, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc.
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Dunstan Power, director, ByteSnap, sheds light on the challenges presented by obsolescence in the medical device industry and how companies are finding smart workarounds to overcome them.

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IT recruitment agencies play a key role in helping businesses hire the best talent for work across the organisation. As demand for fast-evolving capabilities remains high, recruitment companies across tech need to stay abreast of the latest trends and challenges facing firms. And with the traditional tech sector as we knew it now infiltrating every

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The Cambridge Dictionary declared “hallucinate” Word of the Year 2023, pop culture enshrined “Barbenheimer” into the American lexicon, and the term “cultural detox” took the top spot for the most popular of our Working Definitions.
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Espoo-based Enfuce, a provider of embedded finance solutions, announced that it has secured €8.5M in a new follow-on investment round. This funding comes on the heels of Enfuce’s €45M Series C funding round launched in 2021, bringing the total funds raised to €62M.
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Apple announced the winners of its App Store Awards for 2023, honoring the best games and apps of the year.
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Microsoft committed to invest £2.5 billion in the UK over the next three years to expand its AI data centre footprint, a boost to the country’s ambitions to become a leader in growing and developing the technology.
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It’s no secret that building a startup is intense — but there is growing candour around the mental toll that comes with it. What productivity and wellbeing hacks do founders and investors swear by? In the spirit of making new year's resolutions, we’ll discuss strategies for getting shit done and handling the pressures.
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For the highest-spending startup backers, big exits tend to come in clusters. Investors rack up huge tallies in boom years, like 2021. In quiet years, like this one, few portfolio companies sell or go public at high valuations.
Just how quiet is exit activity in 2023? To get a sense, we looked at acquisitions and IPOs for companies backed by the mo

For Most Active Lead Investors, 2023 Has Delivered Few Exits

Scotland’s cybersecurity community celebrated last night as the seventh annual Scottish Cyber Awards recognised the achievements of individuals, organisations and academics from across the industry.
Run by the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland and hosted by comedian Fred McAulay, the awards took place at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh and saw the

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It’s official: OpenAI has named a new board of directors — three men: Bret Taylor, the chair of the board and the president and chief operating officer of Salesforce; Larry Summers, a former U.S. Treasur

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