Nestlé Purina PetCare has acquired a majority stake in Tails.com, a direct-to-consumer, tailor-made dog nutrition business based in the UK. With the rapid growth of personalised pet nutrition, as well as subscription services, Nestlé Purina’s shareholding in this digital first business offers significant growth opportunities for both companies.

Maven Capital Partners has completed a £1.1 million VCT investment in WaterBear Education Ltd, a private higher education college which provides a range of Master of Arts (MA) and Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree courses across the creative industries in partnership with the University of Chichester.  

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Lendingblock, the open exchange for cryptocurrency loans, today announces the appointment of Funding Circle co-founder Andrew Mullinger as an advisor to the company.

London-based entrepreneur, author and acclaimed digital innovator Dele Atanda announced the introduction of metâme, a digital wallet which hopes to change how personal data is stored, used and shared.  

Nuggets has officially launched a 60 million NUG token Bounty campaign. Nuggets plans to use its new program to empower a community of users; made up of crypto enthusiasts, system engineers, application developers, researchers, thinkers, writers and other collaborators to further the company’s mission of giving consumers true control of their data. 

A development partnership has adopted a new funding model to unlock the potential of a residential development site in County Durham.  Durham-based Homes by Carlton has secured £400,000 of funding for a pioneering development of quality family homes in Chilton, near Bishop Auckland.

Users of deVere Crypto, the deVere Group’s trailblazing app launched only three weeks ago, can now also store, transfer and exchange Ripple (XRP) and Dash (DASH), alongside the existing cryptocurrencies on the app: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Litecoin (LTC).

Dragonglass, the first gamified cryptocurrency experience in the world launched its ICO on February 16, 2018, taking yet another step toward meeting its goal of making cryptocurrency more accessible to the general public.

The SETsquared partnership has been ranked as the world’s leading business incubator for its outstanding contribution to developing the next generation of UK tech entrepreneurs.  

SETsquared, a long-standing partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey which specialises in growing high-tech start-ups through its incubation programme, has been ranked as the world’s leading business incubator for its outstanding contribution to developing the next generation of UK tech entrepreneurs.  

The announcement was made at the World Incubation Summit in Toronto, Canada. This confirmed SETsquared’s pre-eminence as ‘number one’ in its field, having maintained its world-leading position since 2015.

Facebook has announced the opening of LDN_LAB, its first in-house start-up incubator. Following the opening of their new London office in Rathbone Place, which will be home to 2,300 people by the end of 2018, this is the latest step in Facebook's ongoing investment in the UK and in digital skills.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), London is the third best place in the world to start a business. But when it comes to growing a business, the UK falls to thirteenth place. Led by an expert advisory panel including Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook EMEA VP, and in partnership with London-based investment fund Bethnal Green Ventures, the LDN_LAB programme has been designed to support start-ups building communities through technology, with the goal to fuel innovation, create economic impact, and bootstrap the next generation of start-ups in the UK tech eco-system.

Imperial College Business School is set to run its first Online Masters in Business Analytics programme from October 2018.