 
            Liquidity, Leadership and the New VC Reality
2025’s VC landscape demands sharper targeting, smarter liquidity, and stronger leadership. Discover how investors are adapting – and why LEAP 2026 is where the next moves will be made.
 
 
            2025’s VC landscape demands sharper targeting, smarter liquidity, and stronger leadership. Discover how investors are adapting – and why LEAP 2026 is where the next moves will be made.
 
            Find out why four days at LEAP can redefine your deal flow and your investor brand.
 
            Find out why leading with curiosity enables tech leaders to strengthen cybersecurity culture and build resilient teams.
 
            Critical industries are supported by an invisible architecture – energy, finance, and logistics now depend on AI systems that make decisions faster than humans can react. And building resilience into that architecture is becoming one of the tech industry’s most urgent challenges. The team over at Black Hat MEA recently
 
            Research shows moderate constraints boost creativity. See how cybersecurity can act as a design partner for tech innovation, offering the ideal conditions for growth.
 
            Breaches cost millions and destroy trust. Learn why building security into innovation from day one saves money, culture, and growth.
 
            People are everything in tech and security. Culture and communication are essential for developing tech that has a positive impact, and for building cybersecurity resilience.
 
            Curiosity drives change, growth, and resilience. Learn how adopting the hacker mindset can help you achieve your ambitions in tech.
 
            In 2023, the software as a service (SaaS) market was valued at approximately USD $197 billion, and it’s expected to reach $247 billion by the end of 2024. The modern world runs on software, so investors are focused on SaaS, with a strong potential for ROI. Before you invest
 
            When we interviewed Dr. Gillian Marcelle (Founder and CEO at Resilience Capital Ventures LLC), we asked her to share one thing she’d change about the way the venture capital industry works. She said: “It would be to have as much venture advising as there is financial capital being deployed.
 
            Public-facing startup culture can appear shiny, glamorous, and pumped full of hype. But the reality for the majority of startups (the ones that don’t hit the headlines) is very different: launching and scaling a tech business is less about high drama, and more about hard work and incremental growth.
 
            We want to tell you a secret: we love talking to people who’ve been into space. OK, maybe it’s not so secret. If you’ve been reading the LEAP blog for a while, you’ve probably read a few of our interviews with astronauts. Every time we have
 
            The 2023 Insight Intelligent Technology report (conducted by IDC InfoBrief and commissioned by Insight Enterprises) highlighted the reality that we’re entering into a new era of innovation – with tech developments accelerating across industries. There are loads of positives to this, but we want to focus on one key finding
 
            In 2023, the number of climate tech deals declined by 12% year-on-year to USD $12.5 billion – but the average deal size increased by 17%. This suggests that there’s a growing focus on large-scale projects that can have a more significant impact on market development and emissions; and climate
 
            Digital real estate (also known as digital property) refers to any virtual properties or online assets that have monetary value. They can be bought, sold, leased, or monetised through other means, such as subscription-based access; and common forms of digital property include domain names, websites, and mobile apps. Increasingly, digital
 
            Speaking at LEAP 2023, James Caan CBE (Serial entrepreneur, Media Commentator and Former Investor on BBC’s Dragons’ Den) said: “When you look at an entrepreneur…we start off with an idea, we raise some money, we have passion and excitement. The thing that we lack is experience. By definition