Sumitomo Rubber Industries’ Falken Tires plant in Thailand will become host to the world’s largest rooftop solar array on a single facility. Sumitomo Rubber Industries, which was founded in 1909 by UK tire maker Dunlop, was Japan’s first tire manufacturer. It’s the fifth-largest tire manufacturer in the world, and it sells its tires in more […]
Cambridge-based digital health platform PocDoc has announced a new fundraise, adding £2.5 million to its Seed round. This takes the total investment raised at Seed stage £5 million. The extension round was led by existing investors Forward Partners and MMC Ventures. Simplyhealth Ventures joined alongside notable angel investors including founders of Graze and Skin + Me and […]
Harry Lykostratis is the founder, managing director, and lead engineer at Open Medical, as well as a practising orthopaedic surgeon at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. Harry, who has had a passion for software engineering since a very young age, designed a trauma platform to help him and his colleagues manage their clinical […]
When a visiting friend asked if I wanted to go on a run in Philadelphia, I did a lot of planning. Not just our route, but where to go to the bathroom. It did not go well. I took the rapid-transit PATCO Speedline, which doesn’t have bathrooms on trains. The station I left from in […]
We recently spoke to Dr Jonathan Serjeant and Matthew Davies on the partnership between Generated Health and Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB, with focus on the implementation of Generated Health’s intelligent messaging platform Florence. Firstly, we spoke to Jonathan to get an overview of Florence, how the platform works, and some of the benefits. Here’s […]
A prior information notice has been published by NHS National Services Scotland with regards to their plan to procure an online triage solution and a digital platform capable of optimising theatre capacity and increasing theatre productivity. With regards to the first, the notice states that NHS Scotland is “exploring a requirement for the procurement of […]
Health and care partners in Greater Manchester have collaborated with industry and academia to secure a multi-million pound health innovation accelerator, which aims to rapidly improve the treatment and diagnosis of diseases across the 2.8m GM population. The government has invested £100 million to boost three high-potential innovation clusters in Glasgow, Greater Manchester, and the […]
Australian startup Mindset Health has scooped up $12 million in a Series A funding round led by King River Capital. The round was also joined by Tenmile, Yard Ventures, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, Linktree founders Anthony Zaccaria and Nick Humphreys, and Banana Capital, among others. Launched in 2018, the company develops a range of hypnosis-based […]
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