Career blocks remain stubbornly in place. Plus: profile of Tina McKenzie, Northern Irish businesswoman; Elaine Bedell on leading the Southbank Centre; graduates and the AI tech boom; when grandma juggles working and childcare; cross-company mentoring
The Belfast-based entrepreneur talks about starting up, working hard — and a shortlived foray into politics
Markets and technology matter, says the VC veteran, but people are the decisive factor in choosing investments
Today’s youth are a generation of entrepreneurs . . . but should you invest?
A fancy dress empire built on Spider-Man, hippies and ninja warriors
The British entrepreneur on going green, improving financial education — and when it’s OK for a vegan to eat eggs
Silicon Valley venture capital group hauls in one of the largest funds since downturn in tech sector
It aims to exploit its extraordinary cache of genetic data but changing corporate DNA is hard
The sixth annual ranking of companies in the region with the highest growth. Health tech businesses thrive post-pandemic even as VC funding drops. Plus: Singapore draws in start-ups; new models of corporate success in Japan; India’s EV expansion
The UK heads the FT/Statista/Sifted ranking with the most hubs, followed by Germany and Spain
SETsquared, the number three start-up centre in Europe, follows a low-pressure approach to nurture a business
Knowledge intensive companies can benefit from their co-location with strong academic centres
The city’s infrastructure, research centres and business schools are key attractions for international companies
VC money may be further away but regional start-up centres bank on local strengths to attract entrepreneurs
The Munich-based lab has ambitions to turn Germany into one of the main centres for early-stage companies
Women continue to receive only a small fraction of the funding from firms
Reducing angel investment would have had a domino effect on women in business
Tesla’s co-founder reveals a common nature by picking a legal fight with Sam Altman of OpenAI
The entrepreneur talks about her efforts to combine fashion and inclusion
Three women reflect on how losing their jobs fed their entrepreneurial ambitions
Study and an advert in the FT helped him start again as an entrepreneur and TV presenter
Far-sighted vision to shake up the staid sector of opticians
US venture capitalists are sitting on a record amount of ‘dry powder’ as they avoid risky bets on fledgling companies
The firm offers a Silicon-Valley approach to backing start-ups as an alternative to the traditional VC model
A 60% decline in 2023 from the year before sends a gloomy signal to funders and the start-ups that rely on them
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