Venture Capital stories - Page 8
Women are 77% of the NHS workforce. So why are they missing from the tech that's supposed to fix it?
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Women power the NHS but are sidelined in healthtech, leaving the tools meant to transform care shaped in rooms they rarely occupy.
The weight women carry
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Women are exhausted not by ambition, but by a system that demands 120% just to exist safely while still denying them equal power.
'I have often been the only woman in the room.' Catherine Birkett on 25 years in tech
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Veteran tech leader Catherine Birkett reflects on 25 years as 'often the only woman in the room' and why diversity is vital, not optional.
International Women's Day: Accelerating women's leadership in UK tech
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On International Women's Day, UK tech leaders urge action as just GBP £0.02 of every GBP £1 in equity funding reaches female founders.
How female-led healthtech can close the gender gap
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Women bear the brunt of chronic illness, but a new wave of female-led health tech aims to tackle root causes and close the gender health gap.
Investing in women is investing in the future of AI
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As AI becomes economic infrastructure, starved investment in women founders risks baking bias and fragility into the next tech wave.
EASI launches 2026 social impact awards for UK founders
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clean technologies
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EASI opens applications for its 2026 awards, offering a GBP £10,000 grant and year-long support to UK founders driving social impact.
Why closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is key to unlocking growth
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With women-led start-ups securing just 2.3% of 2024 VC funds, Cristina Fonseca says closing tech's gender gap is vital for growth.
Carta buys ListAlpha to launch integrated private CRM
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Carta acquires ListAlpha and launches Carta CRM, unifying front-office relationship tools with back-office fund data for private capital firms.
UpGuard unveils Risk Automations to speed cyber fixes
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cloud security
UpGuard debuts Risk Automations to link cyber risk findings with security workflows, promising faster fixes after USD $75 million raise.
How tech can drive inclusive economic impact
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clean technologies
As International Women's Day nears, inclusive tech emerges as a powerful lever to unlock women-led growth and reshape local economies.
Energyz Black wins Hotwire Accelerator for UK energy AI
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Energyz Black wins Hotwire's debut Accelerator, securing pro bono PR support to scale its AI-driven energy careers and skills platform.
Why women should be unafraid of AI and the opportunities it presents for female entrepreneurs
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AI is opening doors for women entrepreneurs, turning limited time and resources into leverage and levelling a historically unequal field.
Rooms shape power: How culture signals exclude women in tech
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In tech and marketing, women are excluded not just by bias in code or funding, but by domestic load and male-coded networking rituals.
Nory opens New York base to power AI for US eateries
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Irish-founded Nory opens a New York HQ to spearhead a US rollout of its AI platform aimed at cutting costs for pressured restaurants.
AI, women in tech & why progress demands a human lens
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As AI reshapes tech, women still battle entrenched bias; only a deliberately human lens can turn this revolution into real inclusion.
We are not climbing a ladder, we are building it
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Generative AI is levelling the creative-tech field, giving women a rare chance to shape rules, narratives and power from the ground up.
Rainforest adds PayPal to unify vertical software checkout
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Rainforest adds PayPal, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later to its unified checkout for vertical software, aiming to shift users from cash and cheques.
Irish cyber firms defy Europe's funding slump in 2024
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Irish cybersecurity dealmaking surged 40% in 2024, bucking a 9.5% funding drop across Europe as investors backed more Irish startups.
Sentient unveils Arena to stress-test autonomous AI agents
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Open-source lab Sentient has launched Arena, a vendor-agnostic sandbox to stress-test autonomous AI agents in complex, capital-sensitive tasks.