Europe's Technology Paradox The European Union finds itself in a paradoxical position. The region accounts for 19% of global R&D investment, produces 20% of global scientific publications, and houses 43% of the world's leading life sciences universities. Yet as an ING analysis reveals, from 200...

March NewsFlash from LettsGroup and its Ventures. LettsGroup HQ LettsGroup is excited to launch its AI VentureFactory to the UK startup market from April, following an extensive private beta. Automation within the platform has reached an inflexion point with all the stages, steps and sub-steps in In...

Today, we sit down to discuss the turbulent nature of today’s innovation economy, and the company looking to turn it all around using AI. We talk artisanal scaling, the valley of death, and the endless cash wasted everyday on an uncodified scale-up system in the UK innovation economy. Let’s see ...

The Venture Capital Crisis: 60% Failure and Billions Wasted In the competitive arena of global innovation, the UK has established itself as Europe's venture capital powerhouse, attracting £8 billion in investment in 2023 alone. Yet beneath this headline figure lies a troubling reality: the venture ...

February NewsFlash from LettsGroup and its Ventures. LettsGroup HQ In February LettsGroup launched its new V3 website designs, as well as further extending its AI VentureFactory capabilities. The team added the Startup Lite plan for pre-Seed and Seed stage ventures and those look...

While venture capital firms are actively investing in artificial intelligence as a transformative technology, evidence suggests that AI may fundamentally disrupt the traditional venture capital model itself. The Shifting Paradigm: Human Capital vs. Financial Capital In an AI-enabled environment, hum...

Why corporate managers can be hazardous to high-growth startups - and vice-versa! Picture your favourite action hero: resourceful, scrappy, always tinkering with gadgets in the nick of time. That’s the quintessential entrepreneur in “Founder Mode”. Now, swap in the polished office exec, presen...

January NewsFlash from LettsGroup and its Ventures LettsGroup HQ LettsGroup had a busy January extending the AI VentureFactory with added features, onboarding processes and pricing plans for new users, while also migrating its venture building process, Innov@te, to a more advanced platform...

British AI venture group launches a new software app making newsroom tech available to everyone. A rare bit of good news for journalists, an ambitious news publishing system from the LettsGroup stable went live today. It's called LettsNews and it describes itself as "'Newsroom tech for everyone". Th...

A three part series on 'Founder Mode': What it is, how it could develop and where it might take us. Founder Mode - Part 1 'Founder Mode' hit Silicon Valley last September like a mini tremor in a fault riddled landscape. You know, the place where San Andreas teeters on the edge... Never quite taking ...