IoT companies raising funds in 2022 pulled in $15.9m on average, up 30% from the previous year, reveals new research by Avnet Abacus, an electronics distributor that consults engineers when they’re designing new products.

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), responsible for government policy on health and overseeing the NHS, has almost doubled its IT staff headcount since the start of the pandemic, according to official figures.

Plexal, the innovation company solving society's challenges through collaboration with government, startups and industry, has announced a partnership with Multiverse to close the skills gap for early-stage businesses.

According to the study of 2,000 London workers commissioned by London Heritage Quarter, four and five-day weeks in the office are making a comeback for Gen Z.

Copyright, a legal type of protection, allows the copyright holder to profit financially from their innovation. Encouraging and promoting innovation in a variety of disciplines, copyright also makes knowledge and entertainment more accessible to the general public.

OnePulse, an innovative online platform that empowers global brand and product leaders to gain real-time-feedback from a community of thousands, has secured a follow-on investment of £420k investment from Blackfinch Ventures.

The €80M fund has had a first close of €28M and has made its first investment, space tech company OKAPI:Orbits.

The patented Hidealoo frame is designed to support homeowners and property developers to maximise the space they have available, including within utility rooms, wet rooms and even wardrobes.

Sen, who held senior posts at Citi for almost three decades, will oversee DKK’s international expansion, and help develop the company’s FX capabilities and services in emerging markets.

The companies are all currently participating in the University’s six-month AI Accelerator programme where they benefit from access to training and mentoring to enhance founders’ commercial skills and develop their business proposition.

Leading healthcare informatics provider Epro will continue to partner with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, following the success of its existing work with integration and interoperability with existing systems.

The Aioi R&D Lab – Oxford brings together insights from Aioi Nissay Dowa Group of companies and the wider insurance sector with applied machine learning expertise from Mind Foundry, continuing the successful collaboration that has already delivered improvements across customer retention, safe driving, fraud detection and automation across the board.

Duke’s investment will facilitate InTec’s acquisition of Frog IT Services Limited (“Frog IT”), a profitable specialist provider of IT support and cloud-based services to small and medium sized customers.

Watercycle’s patented filtration process is proven to be able to selectively extract lithium from sub-surface waters/brines and is currently already being piloted in tandem with Cornish Lithium in the South West of England.

Teams from Glasgow, Kingussie, Edinburgh and East Lothian, Oban and Clackmannanshire have all made it to the finals of this year’s Growing Future Assets Competition.

Veridion plans to continue building its US footprint by opening a New York office in 2023 to more closely support their growing base of clients in the region.

HedgeFlows, a fintech platform for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) launches following a £2m funding round.

Yorkshire-based PR agency, Wild PR has appointed Hollie Thornton as the agency’s first SEO Manager.

Low Carbon, the global renewable energy company, has announced the appointment of Siobhan Temple as Chief Technology Officer.

London-based global fintech, Unlimint, has announced it is further expanding its alternative payment methods portfolio with the addition of one of Brazil’s leading online payment solutions, Mercado Pago.