1+ week, 4+ day ago  (404+ words) An Oxford-based biotech start-up that wants to turn waste material into an ingredient used to reduce the amount of cocoa required in chocolate-based foods has raised "2. 5 million in seed funding aimed at scaling up production. Fermtech, founded by Andy Clayton,…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago  (863+ words) The University of Cambridge is reaping the rewards of handing six entrepreneurs with successful track records a "golden access card" to scour its departments for breakthrough technologies that can be commercialised quickly. One biotech created under the programme, called Immutrin,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (81+ words) The Times Aviva chair: How did I turn us around? I picked the right CEO For helping to turn around the insurance company and nearly double its market value, George Culmer is FTSE 100 chair of the year "1 for 3 months Enjoy…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (688+ words) The only black chief executive among the UK's biggest listed firms has accused businesses of "lazy" hiring practices that shut out diverse talent." Ije Nwokorie, chief executive of Dr Martens, the FTSE 250 bootmaker, said: "Thirty years ago when I came…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1063+ words) Venture capital has long been considered one of the UK's most opaque careers. Only 9 per cent of the general public fully understand what the sector does, limiting entry to large swathes of potential talent. For those who do want to…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (32+ words) The Times Nick Clegg and Sheryl Sandberg join Josh Payne's UK AI start-up Two ways to continue reading...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (555+ words) Nick Clegg has joined the board of Nscale, the British developer of data centres for powering artificial intelligence technologies, as it completed a fundraising round that values it at $14. 6billion. The former UK deputy prime minister and ex-president of global affairs…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1188+ words) Ben Stanway is the very model of a modern "unicorn" entrepreneur. His Moneybox group is precisely the kind of disruptive, technology-driven and fast-growing business beloved of investors, and he has the ambitious, confidence-instilling schtick to go with it. He sees…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (690+ words) After the sale of my business in 2022, my lead investor received an email from one of my shareholders. It waxed lyrical about the extraordinary job he, my lead investor, had done " securing the sale and delivering a 17-times return. My…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (781+ words) After the sale of my business in 2022, my lead investor received an email from one of my shareholders. It waxed lyrical about the extraordinary job he, my lead investor, had done " securing the sale and delivering a 17-times return. My…...