Resilient UK tech industry
UK marks 100 tech unicorns despite pandemic
This month, the UK tech industry showed that despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, tech start-ups have performed strongly throughout 2020 with the arrival of the one hundredth tech firm to be valued at over $1 billion. The milestone means that there are more than double the number of unicorn companies in the UK than its closest European rival Germany, which currently has 42 unicorns, and the UK is now behind only the US and China globally. The hundredth firm to join the coveted club is Tractable, a UK business built by people who studied AI at British universities, and joined together at Entrepreneur First, a UK programme for scaling great companies.
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News | 23-06-02
International Women in Engineering Day 2020
How does engineering shape the world? At Universal Wolf and Tharsus, we are celebrating International Women in Engineering Day 2020 by introducing you to some of our fantastic female engineers.
News | 03-03-18
UK needs robots to safeguard jobs says Commons Report
In the report ‘Automation and the Future of Work’ the Commons Business Energy and Strategy Committee (BEIS) says the UK has a real opportunity to ‘lead and succeed’ in the automation space. It goes on to say that far from taking UK jobs, automation with create them, by increasing the UK’s productivity and blocking out competition from overseas. This it...
