Six months after launching, London-based AI recruitment startup Jack & Jill has raised $20 million in seed funding to reinvent how people find jobs and companies hire talent. The round was led by Creandum, the European venture firm behind Spotify and Klarna, with participation from Dig Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Ada Ventures, Firedrop, Repeat.vc, Episode1, Playfair, and more than 75 angel ...
The UK has announced sweeping new sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s energy revenues, targeting the country’s largest oil producers, state-linked tankers, and overseas partners helping to keep Russian crude flowing to global markets. Unveiled by Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of meetings with global finance leaders in Washington, D.C., the sanctions package includes 90 new measures and represents one of Britain’s ...
London-based healthtech startup Nila has raised an oversubscribed $2.4 million (£1.8 million) pre-seed round led by LocalGlobe, to expand its care management platform that helps immigrants manage healthcare for their elderly relatives back home. The funding will accelerate Nila’s rollout across India, the world’s largest remittance destination, and support its plans to enter other Asian markets, including the Philippines, within ...
The UK’s mid-market firms continued to drive private sector expansion in the third quarter of 2025, showing resilience despite a softening in overall activity across the wider economy, according to new data from NatWest’s UK Business Growth Tracker. The index, which surveys mid-market businesses across manufacturing and services, dipped from August’s 13-month high of 56.4 to 51.6 in September, signalling ...
India’s exports to the United States — its largest trading partner — have plunged following the introduction of steep US tariffs on Indian goods, marking one of the sharpest trade shocks in recent years. According to government data, India’s goods exports to the US dropped 20% in September alone and nearly 40% over the past four months, as Washington’s 50% ...
Senior bankers in the UK will be able to collect their bonuses more quickly after regulators moved to relax rules introduced in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. From Thursday, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will reduce the bonus deferral period for top banking executives from eight years to four, allowing partial payouts ...
The United States has accused China of betraying a fragile trade truce reached earlier this year, in a sharp escalation of rhetoric between the world’s two largest economies. In a rare joint appearance in Washington, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent condemned Beijing’s decision to tighten export controls on rare earth materials, describing the move as ...
The UK Government has unveiled new evidence of how its home-grown artificial intelligence technology is improving efficiency and cutting costs, after it was used to help process tens of thousands of public consultation responses. The specialist AI system, developed in-house as part of the government’s “Humphrey” suite of digital tools, played a key role in speeding up the analysis behind ...
Maryann Misiolek is an accomplished real estate investment professional, industrial engineer, and finance manager based in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. She is the owner and operator of MarDav Enterprises, LLC, a property rehabilitation and management firm she founded with her husband, J. David (“Dave”) Misiolek, in 2001. For over two decades, the company has revitalised homes and neighbourhoods across Central Pennsylvania, specializing ...
Harrogate and London-based fintech Grateful has raised £1.5 million ($2m) in seed funding from Calculus Capital to accelerate development of its automated tip pooling and tronc platform for frontline workers. Founded in 2022 by Mason Potter (CEO), Jarrod Potter (Chair), and Damian Guy (CPTO), Grateful aims to solve one of hospitality’s most persistent problems: the complex and opaque distribution of ...