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Posted: 05 november 2020

Invest in Skane will be attending our Giant Health event 1-2 December!

Invest in Skane are the official trade & investment promotion agency for the southernmost part of Sweden, Skåne. Stay tuned for more information!

Only 5 days left of Early Bird prices

Buy your tickets to the GIANT HEALTH EVENT 2020 now before prices increase on November 8th. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to see our fireside chat with VODAFONE at a discounted price! Buy ticket here.

It's showtime! Join Barcelona Health Hub TODAY October 29th for the #BHHSummit!

Organized by Barcelona Health Hub Don't miss this chance to join this leading event in #digitalhealth. Forgot to book your ticket? No worries, you can still sign up for free here

Bayer G4A is hosting an ALL VIRTUAL Digital Health Forum: AGENTS OF CHANGE!

This year's event - Agents Of Change: A Digital Health Forum - will converge exciting new digital health solutions and visionary leaders into five conversations. Check out the sessions: Future Pulse Of Digital Health: In Conversation With Pharma Execs Never The…

40% OFF standard AND VIP tickets - offer is only valid TODAY

Enter the code CLOCK40 at checkout to receive 40% OFF standard AND VIP tickets to the GIANT HEALTH EVENT. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about truly empowering health technology and innovation! Buy your ticket here.

Doing Business in the UK: Health Tech Zoom Webinar

Last chance to join our Zoom conversation about the U.K health tech industry and the opportunities available to New Mexico companies for collaboration, market entry including STEP grant funding! Click here to find more information.

Wednesday 21st October - Elective & Emergency Care Improvement Support Team are supporting FabChange20

On Wednesday 21st October Elective & Emergency Care Improvement Support Team are supporting #FabChange20 by helping to 'Fab Up' communications this year by a dedicated special radio sign in #GB1FAB on #HamRadio

The new digital services tax begs two big questions

Laurence Parry, tax partner at Kreston Reeves, on why the new digital services tax begs to very important questions. The Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his Budget at the end of October the introduction of a new digital services tax. The tax, which will be shaped further in a consultation, will apply to search engines, social media platforms, and online marketplaces and will be levied at 2% of the turnover from those businesses that relate to UK users. The government gives the following examples of businesses that will fall into this new tax: If a social media platform generates revenues from targeting adverts at UK users, the Government will apply a 2% tax to those revenues; If a marketplace generates commission by facilitating a transaction between UK users, the Government will apply a 2% tax to those revenues; If a search engine generates revenues from displaying advertising against the result of key search terms inputted by UK users, the Government will apply a 2% tax to those revenues. This begs the first question – how will the legislation define this? The government obviously knows who it wants to target, but that is not the same as writing it into law. For example, it is intended that the provision of online content and television/broadcasting services will not be in scope. How will the government ensure that Amazon’s income is split to ensure that Amazon Marketplace is caught but Amazon Prime isn’t? The second of our questions is how will the UK government obtain access to this data, when it is by definition held outside of the UK?

Ori Biotech To Use $30M Series A On Cell, Gene Therapy Manufacturing Platform

The London and Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based company is developing a platform that closes, automates and standardizes manufacturing for cell and gene therapy developers so they can move their treatments from the pre-clinical process through to scale commercially. The company…

IBM UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Mark Davies to discuss his Point of View - Emerging Smarter: Rethinking Healthcare on Tech Data's Healthcare Ecosystem Webinar

The current crisis has created a watershed moment for the NHS, demanding a reappraisal of how essential services are delivered to the public. Many industries have already made the shift to enabling collaboration and innovation through more agile models of…

Startups Magazine: Female Founders & Women In Tech - 15th October

Join Startups Magazine for an afternoon of inspiration & motivation - there will be a short talks, networking, goodie bags & prizes. This will be a VIRUTAL event, held on Zoom but with a mix of polls, interactions, goody bags…

Ask the Investor with Jai Juneja, Head of Tech Investment from SeekVentures and Kartik Varma, Managing Director of the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars

Access to investors is rare, so when you have a chance to pick the brains of some of the best in the business, you shouldn’t pass it up. Jonno Southam, who leads Venture Capital Business Development for Amazon Web Services (AWS), sat down with Kartik Varma, Managing Director of the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars, and Jai Juneja, Head of Tech Investments at SeekVentures, to talk about the state of the sector at the 2018 event. The investors said they saw a couple of key themes emerging among startups. First, unbundling the bank – separating functions like mortgages, current accounts, and so on – and, second, large enterprise investments, for example the technology for getting information to investors, such as startups disrupting products like the Bloomberg Terminal. Juneja said many of these startups are focused on disrupting the user experience, but plenty of companies are also applying novel technologies to fintech problems. Distributed ledger technology, such as the blockchain, is being explored in several areas, as are artificial intelligence and machine learning. Both investors said they look closely at a startup’s tech stack. “Architecture is destiny,” said Varma, explaining that early decisions can affect how the company develops and what it is able to do later. This is where cloud technology can preserve flexibility. Often, said Juneja, “our portfolio companies do due diligence” on a potential investment’s tech stack. That’s important because, as anyone who has spent any time in startups knows, new businesses frequently have to ‘pivot’ – to change their approach, as circumstances evolve. Varma said it’s always important to consider how big a pain point a company is solving – is the startup’s solution addressing a big market where the problem is deeply felt. A startup has little chance of success if it isn’t solving a customer’s problem. He said companies often consider ‘product-market fit’ – how well their product addresses the market in question, but they don’t often consider ‘founder-market fit’. In other words, why is this particular founder the right person to change this specific market? Juneja said that for early stage companies he is looking at “problem, team and market” but there’s room for change. With later-stage companies, business models are more of a concern. Asked about how his views on certain trends had changed, he said he is more skeptical of peer-to-peer lending companies than he was a few years ago. Conversely, he has been surprised by the potential of challenger banks and is now more optimistic about their potential. It isn’t just startups that change their ideas as new information comes to light. Investors do, too. Learn more about how AWS can support your fintech startup and register to be the first to hear when registrations for the 2019 AWS FS:Insight open .

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