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Taking your tech idea from dream to reality will undoubtedly be one of the biggest adventures of your life. And, as with any adventure, there will be challenges to overcome. Chief among these may be generating enough funding to both get your startup off the ground and scale it appropriately. The good news is there are several options available to UK founders, not counting taking out business loans or bootstrapping, so let’s discuss them in turn.

Discussing the most active M&A dealmakers, analysing prominent trends determining the course of each sector, and putting a spotlight on specific transactions, the reports provide valuable briefings for tech owners and decision makers. Here are just some of the key insights our readers have gleaned so far this year.

Stockholm is a fitting location for the event, having more tech unicorns per capita than anywhere else, bar Silicon Valley. The tech industry in the Nordic region in general has been going great guns, with 10 new unicorns emerging in 2022 and plenty of fresh-faced startups to keep an eye on. Here are some that have been on our radar.

Some technologies go far beyond being merely innovative, altering not simply their respective industries but the way society as a whole functions. Two great examples of this over the past few decades have been the arrival of social media platforms and smartphones, both of which fundamentally re-shaped how we live, work, date, and generally exist. The sudden ubiquity of AI promises to be an even more seismic step for society.

Referring to physical objects that are equipped with sensors and connected to the internet, the Internet of Things has always been an oddly clunky term for such a significant and pervasive technological development. But while it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, the Internet of Things, or IoT, has certainly been on industry leaders’ lips lately, with VC funding reaching new heights.

Charge Amps AB, a Swedish green-tech company and maker of EV charging solutions which Hampleton supported with bespoke advisory services – has raised $15.3 million.

froglogic GmbH, a major provider of quality assurance tools and former beneficiary of Hampleton's M&A advisory services, has announced it is being acquired by leading global software company The Qt Company.

The European Innovation Council, a body which supports high-impact, super-disruptive technologies in the EU, recently announced a massive €331 million investment windfall for an eclectic range of startups. What they have in common is that they’re all deep tech companies, and the announcement underscores how much interest deep tech is generating in 2023.

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The number of people who are currently plugged into one or more of the many social media networks out there has never been higher. According to the most recent data , almost 4.8 billion people – that’s well over half the planet’s population – use social media. The numbers are also growing at a rapid clip, with around 137 million new social media users creating accounts in 2022.