Lucy Tobin

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Lucy Tobin is a senior business reporter at Evening Standard, covering entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO interviews. She has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Santander Media Awards and is the author of seven books, including Entrepreneur and Ausperity. Lucy also sets the agenda of Evening Standard's annual SME XPO scale-up conference.

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Lucy Tobin is a senior business reporter at Evening Standard, covering entrepreneurs, start-ups and CEO interviews. She has been named Business Journalist of the Year at the Santander Media Awards and is the author of seven books, including Entrepreneur and Ausperity. Lucy also sets the agenda of Evening Standard's annual SME XPO scale-up conference.

SMEs

New support for scale ups to keep Britain's best companies at home

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has unveiled a new ‘concierge’ support service and visa reimbursement scheme designed to help high-growth firms navigate regulation and talent acquisition.

10 Jun 2026
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Inside nPlan: the AI fixing construction’s $500 billion delay problem

Driven by its $2 trillion historical dataset, London startup nPlan is using AI to eliminate the delays and budget overruns plaguing global megaprojects. After correctly predicting the Crossrail delays, the firm has won over industry giants and is on track for £15 million in revenue this year.

10 Jun 2026
Business

How the World Cup could save London’s hospitality sector

Football fans are set to spend big — and the capital’s hard-hit hospitality scene is out to make the most of it

10 Jun 2026
Travel

The best multi-generational holiday in France

From flamingo-spotting on the lagoon to grape juice tastings in the vineyard, this Languedoc estate has solved every problem that plagues family holidays, for grandparents and six-year-olds alike

8 Jun 2026
Luca Cartechini and Gian Maria Gramondi
Business

Four London start-ups on the brink of unicorn status

Amid doom-laden warnings about the state of the City, these rapidly growing tech start-ups are bucking the trend and heading for $1 billion valuations

4 Jun 2026
SMEs

The vet startup that gets down to dog level

This week’s ScaleUp Standard features a scaling vet business taking on a tight industry and recruitment tips from Vizzy

14 May 2026
SMEs

How to get funding from big backers

From army commander to pandemic data chief to AI startup founder, Alex Cooper has taken an unconventional path to securing a $14m raise - here, he shares the tips that helped Electric Twin win over some of the world's savviest investors

5 May 2026
SMEs

Ro&Zo: the brand born in lockdown, and now dressed for scaling growth 

When Covid hit and the high street began to crumble as footfall fell away, most of the fashion industry panicked - but Rosie Bowden and Zoe de Abreu saw an opportunity.

5 May 2026
SMEs

Why you should build your brand publicly

Transparency - in good times and bad - is the best way to build a business in 2026, according to Tessa Reed, founder of fast-growing salad dressing business, All Dressed Up. Here she gives her marketing advice.

5 Apr 2026
SMEs

"We built a $100M brand without a penny of VC funding"

British founder Adam Bedford built air and water purification brand Sans from a sample-strewn West Hollywood apartment to a business on track to surpass $100 million in revenue this year — now he's bringing Sans to the UK, and has some sharp advice for founders crossing the Atlantic in either direction.

24 Mar 2026
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Restaurants

London's best family-friendly breakfasts

Finding a London restaurant with proper sourdough and a child-friendly policy is no mean feat. Lucy Tobin tours the capital

18 Mar 2026
SMEs

Female ambition needs better funding, not more advice

Despite facing a persistent funding gap, female-led firms are scaling through commercial discipline. Stripe & Stare’s Katie Lopes shares the exclusive data and retail strategies helping women-led brands beat the odds.

9 Mar 2026
SMEs

From (AI) chips to pepperoni: finding funding for your business

Tracking down startup funding can feel like wading through mud - so we’re tackling the issue practically, signposting myriad business grants and funding sources for you to find some cash under a rainbow in this week’s ScaleUp Standard

18 Feb 2026
SMEs

How Astrid & Miyu is defying the High Street slump

Headlines might suggest the high street is a graveyard of closing-down sales and ‘to let’ signs, but Connie Nam’s 32 branches of Astrid & Miyu are booming - and she’s busy scouting locations for her next global conquests.

5 Feb 2026
Business

Meet Nelson Peltz: The Wall Street billionaire stalking Unilever

The multi-millionaire has kept quiet publicly with the ongoing problems between his daughter and the Beckham clan.... after the row was taken onto social media

20 Jan 2026
SMEs

Freeze the resolutions, fire up the business

Alongside the freezing weather, there's something entrepreneurial in the air in January...

16 Jan 2026
SMEs

The one thing successful entrepreneurs do after a big-money sale is...

Roy Shaby sold his first business to Uber’s founder Travis Kalanick - here he tells how he’s scaling his second start-up differently, while there’s a chance to tell the Government your views on tax support for entrepreneurs

4 Dec 2025
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UK scaleups defy gloom

Ignore the doom-mongers - scaling Britain is thriving, finds new data

2 Dec 2025
SMEs

The AI physio approved to treat NHS patients without a human doctor

In this week’s ScaleUp Standard, we meet the founder of AI physio Flok, and take a look at how to deal with co-founder dynamics - because you’ll probably be spending more time with your business partner than your spouse.

5 Nov 2025