David Prosser

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Freelance journalist and consultant, and a former business editor of The Independent

Articles

Why Founders Who Keep Going Are The Real Start-Up Heroes

4 days ago | forbes.com | David Prosser

Chronicle co-founders Mayuresh Patole and Tejas GawandeChronicleFounders sometimes make it sound as if starting a business is easy. There are endless stories about entrepreneurs who had a moment of inspiration, raised plenty of capital and built valuable businesses, seemingly in a flash. But what about all the founders who spend years struggling to turn their visions into reality?
How Innovation Will Create The Warehouses Of The Future

5 days ago | forbes.com | David Prosser

In a world where innovation and technology are transforming the way in which enterprises work, it sometimes feels as if operational assets such as warehouses are behind the pace. Many large manufacturing businesses and logistics operators still run noisy and dirty facilities that rely on large numbers of staff working through manual processes.
How to bid for luxury property at auction

5 days ago | moneyweek.com | David Prosser

Would you spend millions of pounds on a property on the other side of the world that you may not even have seen in person? A growing number of investors are doing exactly that. The international market for luxury property is well established, but in recent years, the number of such homes sold at auction, often to overseas buyers who haven’t conducted a viewing, has increased rapidly.
Governance Start-Ups Boom In The Battle To Keep AI Honest

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Prosser

Which market is growing even more quickly than artificial intelligence (AI) technology right now? It’s a trick question – the answer is the market for products and services that keep AI technologies honest. The global AI governance industry was worth $890 million last year according to a recent study from Markets & Markets; by 2029, it will be worth $5.8 billion, the market research group reckons. That represents annual growth of a little over 45%. It's not difficult to see why.
How a Biotech CEO Is Solving Drug Rejection Issues

1 week ago | forbes.com | David Prosser

Adverse reactions are a hugely challenging problem for drug developers and biotech companies. A drug that has the potential to help patients with very serious conditions – cancers and auto-immune diseases, for example – proves ineffective because the human immune system identifies it as a foreign body and attacks it. Sometimes this happens with all patients; in other cases, the response is individual.
Forbes JAPAN 公式サイト（フォーブスジャパン）

1 week ago | forbesjapan.com | David Prosser

アプリの終わりは近いのか。ある意味ではそうだと、スタートアップ企業Adopt AI（アダプトエーアイ）の創業者ディーパック・アンチャラは考えている。もっとも、アプリそのものが不要になるわけではない。アンチャラによれば、アプリは消費者にとっても企業にとっても依然として重要であるが、ユーザーが直接アプリを操作することはなくなる可能性が高い。代わりに、AIエージェントを用いてアプリを制御し、主要な作業をこなすようになるというわけだ。 AIエージェントに「何をしたいか」と意図やタスクを伝えるだけ「私たちは、アプリがバックグラウンドで動作し、ユーザーはAIエージェントに『何をしたいか』を伝えるだけで済む世界を想定しています。新しいアプリケーションの機能やワークフローを学ぶために時間を浪費する必要はありません。使っているすべてのアプリを、ひとつのインターフェースで自然言語を使って操作できるようになるのです」。...
La nueva fiebre del oro tecnológico: por qué las startups de video con inteligencia artificial están recibiendo inversiones récord

2 weeks ago | forbesargentina.com | Amura CMS |David Prosser

Los inversores están muy atentos a las startups que generan videos con inteligencia artificial. Según datos de Tracxn, estas compañías recaudaron más de US$ 500 millones en 2025, una cifra récord. Entre las rondas más destacadas figuran los US$ 308 millones que obtuvo Runway, con sede en Nueva York, y los US$ 180 millones que recibió Synthesia, desde Londres. A esa lista se suma ahora Hedra, con base en California.
Accountants embrace ESG services as demand grows

2 weeks ago | accountingweb.co.uk | David Prosser

Call it doing well by doing good. While only the largest companies in the UK – often served by the Big Four accountancy firms or their closest competitors – are currently covered by mandatory requirements for environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, many other businesses are collecting more data and making voluntary disclosures. That has seen a growing number of accountants launch ESG services to help a broader range of clients.
GenAI and Visual Search Are Reshaping Fashion Retail

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | David Prosser

Lacking inspiration for your next fashion purchase or unsure which clothes might suit you best? There’s an app for that. Technology start-up Glance thinks generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will power the next evolution of e-commerce in the fashion sector. “It’s a new way of shopping,” promises Glance’s founder and CEO, Naveen Tewari, who is better known as the entrepreneur behind unicorn mobile advertising platform InMobi.
When Will GenAI Finally Deliver Returns On Investment?

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | David Prosser

Almost a year has passed since a seminal Goldman Sachs research paper posed a deliberately provocative question: “GenAI – too much spend, too little benefit?”. There was little evidence, some of Goldman’s analysts pointed out, of organisations worldwide making much of a return on the $1 trillion they had invested in artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Fast forward to today and there’s still no conclusive proof that the AI phenomenon is not a case of the Emperor’s new clothes.