Currently Assistant Chief Executive – Chief Marketing Officer (interim) for the London Borough of Newham, she has responsibility for leading a transformation in how Council’s use of data and creativity to improve engagement.

The DSW Ventures SEIS Fund, which aligns with changes to the SEIS tax rules introduced in April, will target early-stage technology businesses and university spin-outs outside the London-Oxbridge ‘golden triangle’.

Intel Corporation’s early-stage accelerator program, Intel Ignite, continues to grow, selecting 30 new disruptive deep-tech startups to join its global cohorts, establishing a customer advisory board and launching a new program in London.

In the next twelve months, Amazon will fund over 300 new apprenticeship roles in small businesses and organisations selling on Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, creative industry partners and local authorities through the company’s apprenticeship levy.

GDP fell by 0.3% in March 2023 compared with the previous month, but rose by 0.1% in the three months to March.

Watercycle Technologies Ltd, a UK deep tech company focused on developing sustainable, high-yield, low-cost, mineral extraction and water treatment systems, has for the first time, successfully produced lithium carbonate from naturally occurring geothermal brines in the North East of England.

ThreatFabric, a leading provider of fraud detection solutions & intelligence for the financial services sector, has raised €11.5 million in a Seed Round to expand its technical capabilities and support the company’s growth. Specifically, to increase ThreatFabric’s international expansion and extend its fraud detection layers with behavioural based detection.

Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting global distributed workforces, today announced that Barbara Matthews has joined as its Chief People Officer. In her role, she owns the strategic planning, implementation, and scalability of the company through its distributed team around the world.

High Speed Training, a leading provider of online training and e-learning, has been certified as a B Corporation, underlining the company’s commitment to creating positive impacts on its staff, customers and the environment.

Offices and co-working spaces located along the route of the Elizabeth Line have seen significant year-on-year increases in attendance, according to new data released ahead of the first anniversary of the London’s newest tube line.

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a series of new business support services to help companies in London high-growth sectors, create the jobs of tomorrow for Londoners.

The British Business Bank has announced the appointment of Louise McCoy as Commercial Managing Director, Small Business Lending, effective from Monday 1 May 2023, in a newly-created senior-level role.

This announcement is the first senior hire since the recent appointment of Matt Russell as CEO, who is committed to expanding Zest’s senior leadership team to drive future growth of the business.

Global Screening Services (GSS), a RegTech innovator focused on financial transaction screening, has announced that Stephen Gilderdale will be appointed as Senior Advisor to the business.

AccelerComm, the company with IP which optimizes 5G radio access network performance, today announced it has closed £21.5m in Series B funding from Parkwalk, Swisscom and Hostplus together with participation from existing investors Bloc Ventures, IP Group and IQ Capital.

Freshsound, the self-serve licensing platform for commercially released music, has closed a seed funding round of €2 million.

Spend intelligence platform Spendkey can today announce that it has raised £358,000 in pre-seed funding from early-stage investors Fuel Ventures and Scalebridge Capital, as well as several angel investors.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged clients of Capita to investigate their data and IT systems following a ransomware attack in late March.

Kertos is the first true data privacy and compliance automation product in Europe, leading the next  generation of European privacy technology. Through its no-code system integrations and automated  privacy workflows, Kertos closes the gap between data privacy regulation and its operational  execution.

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