Blog – Polestar CF

The case for sustainability

By Charles Whelan

Sustainability: Ready or Not, Here it Comes

By Charles Whelan

SaaS Valuations: A Shifting Focus to Profitability in 2023

By Conor Barrett

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The case for sustainability

By Charles Whelan 07/11/2023

Food & Beverage

Certified Origins secures leading Italian food brand with its acquisition of Seggiano Foods

By Conor Barrett 27/10/2023

Business Services: Sector Review Q1-Q3 2023

By Anusheh Khan 20/10/2023

Talent Wins Games, Teamwork and Leadership Win Championships

By Charles Whelan 05/10/2023

How AI could transform the education system

By Rebecca Garland 03/10/2023

How “Innovation Graph” will change the world

By Ella Bertrand 02/10/2023

The Future of the Workforce: Insights from a Gen Z and Millennial Survey

By Anusheh Khan 02/10/2023

Sustainability Issues: Recycled Plastics Proving to be a Tricky Nut to Crack

By Charles Whelan 02/10/2023

Healthcare and Education: Sector Review September 2023

By Ella Bertrand 19/09/2023

Home Care Software Leader CareLineLive Acquires CareFor IT and Ulysses Platforms

By Richard Hall 18/09/2023

$100m Funding Rounds in the Healthtech Space

By Ella Bertrand 18/09/2023

Consulting Landscape – Market Overview and M&A Activity – September 2023

By Joe Graham 18/09/2023

Business Services: Sector Review Q1-Q3 2023

By Anusheh Khan 20/10/2023

Day-to-day ESG Reporting

By Ella Bertrand 04/09/2023

The increasing importance of employee mental health and wellbeing in SMEs

By Joe Graham 26/07/2023

J.S. Held Expands African Market Presence with Acquisition of Africa Matters Limited

By Charles Whelan 12/06/2023

Business Services Sector Spotlight – April 2023

By Joe Graham 14/04/2023

Leaders Should Act Like Monarchs Not Servants?

By Charles Whelan 21/03/2023

AI’s Influence on Supply Chain Efficiencies

By Conor Barrett 21/03/2023

GPT-4 and Beyond – The Post-AI Workplace

By Oli Hoade 21/03/2023

AI – GPT, Midjourney, and DALL.E: The Next Frontier

By Oli Hoade 17/03/2023

WEF Global Risk Report: The Risks of Today and Tomorrow

By Anusheh Khan 09/03/2023

Platform Wars: The Human Capital Universe

By Oli Hoade 08/02/2023

EU adopts new sustainability reporting requirements for companies in and outside the EU

By Charles Whelan 19/12/2022

ESD demand higher than supply

By Anusheh Khan 04/11/2022

Polestar Advises Fast-growing ESG Leader EVORA on Cross-Atlantic Funding

By Oli Hoade 10/10/2022

Consulting sector continues to perform

By Anusheh Khan 10/10/2022

Has Google’s AI Really Hired a Lawyer?

By Oli Hoade 29/07/2022

BMW Feeling the Heat on its New Subscription Service

By Oli Hoade 29/07/2022

The New Capitalist Conscience

By Ella Bertrand 26/07/2022

KPMG and Automation: The Blue J Way

By Oli Hoade 04/07/2022

The Death of the Cookie

By Oli Hoade 04/07/2022

Gen-Z and Marketing – How to Appeal

By Oli Hoade 07/06/2022

J.S. Held Expands Global Investigations Practice with the Acquisition of GPW Group

By Charles Whelan 01/06/2022

The UK is open for crypto business

By Oli Hoade 27/04/2022

What you need to know about ESG scores

By Charles Whelan 10/03/2022

The Next Generation of Manufacturing Marketing

By Richard Hall 10/03/2022

How new technology could be running your advertising campaigns

By Anusheh Khan 10/03/2022

4 Predictive Analytics Tools You Should Know About Right Now

By Oli Hoade 29/01/2021

A critique of the four-day week

By Oli Hoade 08/11/2019

Food & Beverage

Certified Origins secures leading Italian food brand with its acquisition of Seggiano Foods

By Conor Barrett 27/10/2023

How AI could transform the education system

By Rebecca Garland 03/10/2023

Healthcare and Education: Sector Review September 2023

By Ella Bertrand 19/09/2023

Home Care Software Leader CareLineLive Acquires CareFor IT and Ulysses Platforms

By Richard Hall 18/09/2023

$100m Funding Rounds in the Healthtech Space

By Ella Bertrand 18/09/2023

Terryberry Expands Tech Stack with Acquisition of Companion Apps Limited

By Richard Hall 24/07/2023

Happy 75th, NHS

By Richard Hall 07/07/2023

Asking the right questions: Measurement in healthcare

By Richard Hall 07/07/2023

Asking the right questions: UK healthcare and the NHS

By Richard Hall 15/05/2023

Skills gaps in Covid graduates

By Joe Graham 11/05/2023

Using Phones to Monitor Hearts

By Oli Hoade 04/11/2022

The rise of wearable health tech

By Anusheh Khan 04/11/2022

Digital transformation remains a key focus for UK healthcare and biopharma markets

By Anusheh Khan 18/08/2022

AI at the Front of Healthcare

By Ella Bertrand 03/08/2022

Is Mindfulness at Work Worth Coaching?

By Joe Graham 29/07/2022

A Battle For Special Education

By Ella Bertrand 29/07/2022

IoT and Healthcare: Driving Growth

By Anusheh Khan 26/07/2022

How Covid Lockdowns Affected School Grades

By Ella Bertrand 06/07/2022

England’s £2bn Digital Health Plan

By Anusheh Khan 04/07/2022

Technology and education – a brief outlook for 2022

By Anusheh Khan 07/06/2022

Why is healthcare so vulnerable to cyber attacks?

By Oli Hoade 26/04/2022

Healthcare and the ESG Agenda

By Anusheh Khan 25/04/2022

Your favourite high-in-salt/sugar foods are in the government’s anti-obesity crosshairs

By Oli Hoade 04/04/2022

Medical device manufacturing: how to manage supply chain disruptions

By Anusheh Khan 10/03/2022

Responsible innovation in healthtech

By Anusheh Khan 23/02/2022

The technology behind mental health and wellbeing

By Anusheh Khan 23/02/2022

The digital footprint of online students

By Anusheh Khan 23/02/2022

2022 Sector Outlook – The Polestar Perspective

By Charles Whelan 09/02/2022

Does school REALLY prepare you for work?

By Robert Ham 07/02/2022

Medical device manufacturing had a good year

By Anusheh Khan 01/02/2022

Data-driven business

By Oli Hoade 01/02/2022

Manufacturing & engineering to enter Welsh curriculum

By Oli Hoade 30/11/2021

That’s one bullet dodged, what about the next?

By Charles Whelan 15/11/2021

Putting the ‘health’ into ESG Mandates (‘ESHG’)

By Chris Roberts 08/11/2021

The growth of telehealth…

By Chris Roberts 04/11/2021

UK EdTech’s Post-Pandemic Boom

By Joe Graham 07/10/2021

Crisis: Ireland has a clown shortage – The Pilot Newsletter, September 2021

By Charles Whelan 05/10/2021

Continuing investment in edtech

By Oli Hoade 01/10/2021

The world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, it’s more wildfire and flash flooding

By Joe Graham 01/10/2021

How new technology is protecting outdoor workers

By Joe Graham 28/09/2021

The departing summer (the pilot newsletter August 2021)

By Charles Whelan 13/09/2021

Is the travel sector in recovery?

By Anusheh Khan 07/09/2021

Education still showing covid symptoms

By Anusheh Khan 07/09/2021

Why educating girls is more important than ever

By Joe Graham 24/08/2021

How can AI be used in education?

By Oli Hoade 29/07/2021

Polestar June 2021 Pilot

By Charles Whelan 07/07/2021

Google’s new tool can spot skin conditions with your phone’s camera

By Oli Hoade 30/06/2021

The Zoom Boom

By Anusheh Khan 30/06/2021

Polestar May 2021 Update

By Charles Whelan 07/06/2021

An aging population’s effect on healthcare

By Anusheh Khan 24/05/2021

Edtech and its impact on environmental sustainability

By Anusheh Khan 29/04/2021

Is 19 a lucky number?

By Richard Hall 28/04/2021

The Impact of Digitisation on Education

By Oli Hoade 28/04/2021

3 Lessons Healthtech can learn from Fintech

By Oli Hoade 28/04/2021

AI benefiting patients with heart disease and breast cancer

By Anusheh Khan 19/04/2021

The Pilot – March 2021

By Charles Whelan 14/04/2021

Healthcare and Education Q121′ Valuation

By Anusheh Khan 31/03/2021

A Pandemic Peace Treaty Coming Soon?

By Anusheh Khan 30/03/2021

Interconnected health

By Richard Hall 30/03/2021

25 and jobless: How this pandemic is impacting Millennials and Gen Zs

By Anusheh Khan 29/03/2021

What to expect in the hospital of the future

By Oli Hoade 29/03/2021

Will your next vacation require a vaccine passport?

By Anusheh Khan 22/03/2021

The Pilot – February 2021

By Charles Whelan 02/03/2021

2021 digital health predictions – an expert’s view

By Bhavik Borkhatria 22/02/2021

Should government scrap interest on student loans?

By Oli Hoade 22/02/2021

COVID drives e-learning growth

By Bhavik Borkhatria 29/01/2021

Vaccine Storage Wars

By Shaan Bharwani 28/01/2021

3 new NHS-funded AI healthcare developments for 2021

By Oli Hoade 22/12/2020

4 ways remote learning has changed education

By Shaan Bharwani 16/12/2020

The Pilot – November 2020

By Charles Whelan 01/12/2020

5 Technology and Software Trends Impacting Healthcare 2021

By Bhavik Borkhatria 26/11/2020

Retention and motivation of your workforce…

By Chris Roberts 01/10/2020

Talent Wins Games, Teamwork and Leadership Win Championships

By Charles Whelan 05/10/2023

Management Insights

Benevolent Sexism

By Charles Whelan 07/07/2023

Management Insights

The Impact of Inflation and Debt on deals: A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

By Richard Hall 11/05/2023

Management Insights

What makes an excellent CEO?

By Charles Whelan 20/01/2020

Sustainability Issues: Recycled Plastics Proving to be a Tricky Nut to Crack

By Charles Whelan 02/10/2023

Manufacturing and Distribution: Sector Valuation August 2023

By Joe Graham 18/08/2023

ESG Standards in Textiles

By Conor Barrett 01/06/2023

The Top Won’t Pop – Topology’s Significance in the Manufacturing Industry

By Ella Bertrand 24/05/2023

AI’s Influence on Supply Chain Efficiencies

By Conor Barrett 21/03/2023

Global Infrastructure is not Always Green

By Anusheh Khan 10/10/2022

Could This be the UK’s First Step Towards Food Self Sufficiency?

By Anusheh Khan 04/07/2022

How waste comes full circle

By Anusheh Khan 25/04/2022

The Next Generation of Manufacturing Marketing

By Richard Hall 10/03/2022

Medical device manufacturing: how to manage supply chain disruptions

By Anusheh Khan 10/03/2022

How software is changing the automotive industry

By Anusheh Khan 23/02/2022

Medical device manufacturing had a good year

By Anusheh Khan 01/02/2022

Manufacturing costs rising fastest since 1980

By Anusheh Khan 31/01/2022

Net zero workforce in manufacturing

By Anusheh Khan 18/10/2021

The next green goal: planes and ships

By Anusheh Khan 07/09/2021

Building technology in the construction sector

By Anusheh Khan 01/09/2021

Challenges facing SME Manufacturers

By Anusheh Khan 25/08/2021

The new plan for green auto tech

By Anusheh Khan 23/08/2021

An investment in people is an investment in manufacturing

By Anusheh Khan 20/08/2021

Manufacturing is still our beating heart

By Charles Whelan 29/07/2021

Manufacturing and Industrial H121 Valuation

By Anusheh Khan 02/07/2021

Where have all the building supplies gone?

By Anusheh Khan 22/04/2021

Robot trends in 2021

By Richard Hall 19/04/2021

The new manufacturing innovations creating jobs in the UK

By Anusheh Khan 19/04/2021

5G and its application in manufacturing

By Chris Roberts 17/02/2021

3 Reasons additive manufacturing will boom in 2021

By Oli Hoade 28/01/2021

Q420′ Manufacturing Public and Private Snapshot

By Shaan Bharwani 23/12/2020

How AI could transform the education system

By Rebecca Garland 03/10/2023

How “Innovation Graph” will change the world

By Ella Bertrand 02/10/2023

SaaS Valuations: A Shifting Focus to Profitability in 2023

By Conor Barrett 04/09/2023

The Ascent of Proptech

By Ella Bertrand 27/08/2023

The Real Cost of AI

By Oli Hoade 26/06/2023

Software, Media and Technology: Valuation and Trajectory

By Ella Bertrand 19/06/2023

The Allure of Accountancies for Private Equity Investors

By Joe Graham 01/06/2023

Ultimate AI

By Ella Bertrand 15/05/2023

Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, and the Gaming Industry

By Oli Hoade 15/05/2023

Semiconductors – The Core of Modern Life?

By Ella Bertrand 23/03/2023

AI’s Influence on Supply Chain Efficiencies

By Conor Barrett 21/03/2023

GPT-4 and Beyond – The Post-AI Workplace

By Oli Hoade 21/03/2023

AI – GPT, Midjourney, and DALL.E: The Next Frontier

By Oli Hoade 17/03/2023

Unlocking the Full Potential of IoT for Businesses

By Conor Barrett 09/03/2023

2022 Sector Outlook

By Joe Graham 10/02/2023

Platform Wars: The Human Capital Universe

By Oli Hoade 08/02/2023

SaaS Valuation Dynamics: The Three Value Drivers

By Oli Hoade 08/02/2023

Precision Fermentation: Protein Power Up

By Conor Barrett 04/11/2022

Is Gamification transforming the Digital Landscape?

By Ella Bertrand 04/11/2022

The rise of wearable health tech

By Anusheh Khan 04/11/2022

The Rise of AI in Retail

By Ella Bertrand 04/11/2022

Digital technology tacking food sustainability

By Anusheh Khan 10/10/2022

Should we ditch GDP?

By Ella Bertrand 05/09/2022

Electrification – Are Containerships the Next Frontier of Sustainability?

By Oli Hoade 25/08/2022

Digital transformation remains a key focus for UK healthcare and biopharma markets

By Anusheh Khan 18/08/2022

NFT Textbooks – The Future of Learning in the Digitial Age?

By Ella Bertrand 18/08/2022

AI at the Front of Healthcare

By Ella Bertrand 03/08/2022

Has Google’s AI Really Hired a Lawyer?

By Oli Hoade 29/07/2022

BMW Feeling the Heat on its New Subscription Service

By Oli Hoade 29/07/2022

IoT and Healthcare: Driving Growth

By Anusheh Khan 26/07/2022

The cyber path forward for manufacturers

By Charles Whelan 19/07/2022

4 food trends to look out for in 2021

By Oli Hoade 30/03/2021

A brand is the most important piece of real estate in the world, the corner of your mind

By Charles Whelan 18/04/2019

The case for sustainability

By Charles Whelan 07/11/2023

Sustainability Issues: Recycled Plastics Proving to be a Tricky Nut to Crack

By Charles Whelan 02/10/2023

Sustainability: Ready or Not, Here it Comes

By Charles Whelan 04/09/2023

Day-to-day ESG Reporting

By Ella Bertrand 04/09/2023

What’s in the space for mental health?

By Anusheh Khan 09/08/2023

Cleantech: A Squeaky-Clean Future in Manufacturing and Investment in the UK

By Anusheh Khan 23/06/2023

ESG Standards in Textiles

By Conor Barrett 01/06/2023

Closing the Investment Gap for Nature-Based Solutions: Key takeaways from the UN G20 Report

By Anusheh Khan 22/03/2023

WEF Global Risk Report: The Risks of Today and Tomorrow

By Anusheh Khan 09/03/2023

Sustainability or Greenwashing – Are B Corps the Future of Sustainability Certification?

By Joe Graham 09/03/2023

ESG, Sustainability, and Net-Zero Carbon Explained

By Charles Whelan 10/02/2023

The Future of Reusable Energy

By Ella Bertrand 18/08/2022

Manufacturing’s Drive Towards Decarbonisation

By Joe Graham 26/07/2022

The New Capitalist Conscience

By Ella Bertrand 26/07/2022

Food Conglomerates Salivate Over Meat Substitutes as Monopoly Threatens Market

By Oli Hoade 07/06/2022

Is nuclear fusion on the horizon?

By Oli Hoade 26/04/2022

What you need to know about ESG scores

By Charles Whelan 10/03/2022

The UK’s first gigafactories

By Oli Hoade 29/07/2021

Polestar’s Earth Day 2021 report: Improving but could we do better?

By Charles Whelan 21/04/2021

£9m Shawbrook funding ensures UK-based recycled plastics manufacturer can meet demand

By Oli Hoade 22/03/2021

R&D boost for single-use plastic packaging

By Chris Roberts 11/12/2020

To-quil-a plastic straw

By Oli Hoade 08/01/2020

Wake up and smell the coffee!

By Richard Hall 27/11/2019

Is agroforestry worth the agro?

By Oli Hoade 27/11/2019

The drive for sustainable packaging

By Sandy Ritchie 08/11/2019

For how long can we offshore CO2 emissions?

By Charles Whelan 29/10/2019

Weirdly sustainable fashion part 2: seaweed nappies

By Oli Hoade 29/10/2019

Speciality chemicals drive sustainability

By Sandy Ritchie 24/09/2019