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snap40 - The award winning Scottish healthtech startup that has AI innovation at its core with its innovative health monitoring device... At the inaugural Scottish Tech Startup Awards at the end of November, snap40 took home both the Startup of the Year and B2B Company of the Year awards after demonstrating their important role in further elevating Scotland’s status in the tech sc...
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The children's toys that burst to life with your smartphone or tablet through the magic of augmented reality... thanks to Liverpool based startup SwapBotsAlthough we have written before about how augmented reality can be used for educational purposes, it is also undeniably a great medium for play. Taking advantage of this fact, SwapBots is a game played in augmented reality using physical, c...
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The agtech IoT solution from ApisProtect to help beekeepers keep their hives productive and healthy... We have heard again and again about how important bees are to global food production, and yet we have still allowed them to reach the brink of extinction. In Ireland alone, a third of bee species face extinction. Bees contribute €153 billion worth of pollination to the agriculture industry ...
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Developed by Falmouth University in Cornwall, Launchpad is an innovative, post-grad incubation and acceleration programme. We take a look at some of the previous Launchpad alumni. Developed by Falmouth University in Cornwall, Launchpad is an innovative, post-grad incubation and acceleration programme that brings together a mix of software engineers, digital creatives and business folk to solve in...
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Football scouting just became a whole lot easier - for players and clubs alike, thanks to Tonsser - the innovative app enabling young footballers to showcase their skills and talent... Whilst many of the world’s best and most famous footballers were initially discovered and given their big break by football scouts, it’d be fair to say that there are many talented players who rema...
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3co - Selling through AR technology is a whole lot easier thanks to this innovative startupWe’ve probably all shopped online and found that the multitude of images of the product we’re interested in manage to miss the one angle we’d like to see it from. Better still would be if we could see it from any angle, close up, and placed within the space we would place it were we to buy ...
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A look at some of the standout tech startups from the inaugural Ignite 2.0 remote accelerator programme... We recently wrote about the Ignite ‘2.0’ remote accelerator programme opening open up for its second run in 2019. We thought that this was a good opportunity to have a look at some of the tech startups in its first cohort from September 2018. We’ve written about a couple of...
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Whether you have a home office or a work office, it is crucial that you keep this area tidy.  Not only for ease of use but for impressionable reasons.  If you have customers that need to go in this area then if it looks a mess they may get a really bad view of your company.   It sounds really easy to try and achieve a tidy office but if you are extremely busy and working hard &...
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Lirica - The musictech & edtech startup that's using music to help people learn a new language... If you’ve ever tried to learn a language you’ll know that it’s not always that easy. Getting your head around the grammar and pronunciations alone can be a challenge to say the least. Help is now at hand however thanks to our latest startup of the week which has created one of t...
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AID:Tech - The lowdown on the startup that's using innovative blockchain technology to create transparency in international aid... A huge 30% - $1.1 trillion - of international aid goes missing every year. It just vanishes before it reaches its intended destination and the donors are unable to track it. This is obviously a terrible state of affairs, on multiple levels. So what can be done to make...
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Businesses take note - WeCovr is a FinTech startup created with you in mind, aiming to make insurance and finance easy to purchase and use... Whilst having business insurance is an absolute must for all enterprises, it can be both time consuming and costly for business owners to get the right cover. Whether it’s public liability insurance or cyber insurance, it can often be a challenge...
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Wannabee digital business founders and entrepreneurs rejoice! Launchpad, an innovative, post-graduate incubation and acceleration programme developed by Falmouth University, that aims to create new digital businesses to meet identified market demand in just 12 months, is back on the hunt for their next programme cohort. Aiming to help define the next generation of tech startups, Launchpad is a gr...
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