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Wildpoint - the startup aiming to make the outdoors appealing once again.
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd February 2022
Want to discover unique and exclusive spaces in the UK for camping, pitching your campervan or going glamping? Wildpoint wants to help you do just that...
Over the past two years, we have all found ourselves locked indoors for long periods of time, allowed outside only once or twice for either our daily exercise or a trip to the shop, Covid19 has restricted and distanced us from nature and the ...
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Why further and faster action is needed from the Travel & Tourism industry on carbon emissions
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th November 2021
Business in the travel and tourism sector? Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President SUN x shares his insights on why the Glasgow Declaration is simply a first step
With all the news coming out of the Glasgow summit everyone is aware that Net Zero 2050 is the COP 26 promoted target in its Race to Zero campaign, and it is a key focus for green tourism.
What does this mean for the Travel & Touris...
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Cuisine to the Rescue: Why Destinations Need to Focus on Food and Beverage to Win Back Travellers
by: Startacus Admin ~ 24th August 2021
Erik Wolf, founder of the World Food Travel Association on the opportunities for regions to use their unique and memorable food and beverage products and experience to boost tourism
When we return from our holidays, we usually hear two common questions from friends and family: “How was the weather?” and “How was the food?”. One of the most popular television categories d...
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Koala, the travel insurance startup closes €1.6m seed round
by: Startacus Admin ~ 30th June 2020€1.6m raised by innovative insurtech startup Koala to help with growth plans, team expansion and new product development
Great news for Koala, the Paris-based insurtech startup with the announcement of an investment of €1.6m, led by London based incubator and fund Insurtech Gateway alongside Playfair Capital, Techstars Ventures, and private investors.Koala is on a mission to reinvent tr...
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TailHail wants their membership-based private aircraft platform to take flight
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th May 2020The lowdown on TailHail, the Newcastle-based startup that's innovating in the private flying sector
Have you ever watched a film where the characters are in a private plane, being flown in peace and quiet to their destination and thought, just for a moment, that you would like to experience the luxury and sense of importance that comes from having a plane to yourself?
Right before the environmen...
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Urban life innovations post lockdown: Top VCs on the cities of tomorrow
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th May 2020As UK prepares for the next phase of lockdown, leading venture capital investors and micro mobility unicorn Lime shared their views on the future of innovations in the most affected sectors by Coronavirus – retail, real estate, travel and urban mobility in the latest online “Ecosystem” webinar.
The speakers discussed the role of technology in building resilient city in...
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LuggageHero shows that investing in travel startups is not over
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st May 2020LuggageHero, a leading luggage-storage network, is bucking the trend by showing that investing in travel startups is not fully over during the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis.
Within 48 hours of opening its campaign privately to current investors, in late March, the Danish-based company had reached its goal by raising €329,000. The crowd-sourced campaign, LuggageHero’s second on the ...
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Hot trends across the tours and travel activities sector for 2020
by: Startacus Admin ~ 31st January 2020Simone Semprini, CEO and co-founder of TourScanner, shares his tips on the hot trends to hit the tours and travel activities sector for 2020!
Have no doubt about it, one of the most popular segments in the travel industry is the tour and travel activities sector. The boom in tours and activity bookings online has pushed analysts to pay closer attention to the thriving space to keep close tr...
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Tech revolutionising Travel and Tourism in 2020
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th January 2020Ivana Dobrilovic from LuggageHero shares her thoughts on the tech trends that will impact the travel and tourism industry in 2020Although Bleisure (Business + Leisure) was a trend of the past decade, it’s definitely something we’ll see rolling into the 2020s where working to live and living to work is a way of life. We’re repeatedly told that all you need is a good laptop and a g...
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How UrbanThings is powering intelligent mobility
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th October 2019London-based startup UrbanThings builds transit apps and smart-ticketing platforms that will make commuting that bit easier...
Everyone is online now. We have our faces firmly buried in phone screens for about 90% of our day, we get our news digitally, we communicate digitally, we book Star Wars tickets digitally. But despite this large-scale move from now-unnecessarily convoluted offli...
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- SureIn Secures €4M to Close the SMB Insurance Gap 15th Aug 2023 Innovative InsurTech startup SureIn announces a €4M Seed round to further its mission of making insurance easy, transparent and hassle-free for SMBs.
- SuperFi raises $1M pre-seed funding round 28th Jul 2023 SuperFi, the debt prevention platform, has announced a $1m pre-seed funding round to support people during the cost of living crisis.
- Startups rely on AI & sustainability for new partnerships 27th Jul 2023 41 startups from 13 countries, including the UK, have been selected for the 8th Kickstart Innovation program, one of Europe’s leading innovation platforms.
- Another Round closes £300k Seed round to revolutionise personal training 21st Jul 2023 Personal training platform Another Round has secured £300k in its latest fundraise, including investment from angels and its community.