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Wine Picker. The pocket sommelier - a social wine app to enjoy food and wine matching!  We’ve all been there. Sitting in a restaurant with friends or family when the time comes to choose the wine. Inevitably there will be some of us avoiding eye contact in the hopes of not being the one handed the wine list; there will be someone honest enough to admit they know nothing about wine; and...
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Gardening made easy - no matter what size of space you may ( or may not ) have, thanks to startup, Seed Pantry.  Let’s face it - there are few things as satisfying as growing your own. Whether it’s vegetables or flowers, it’s much more rewarding to have cultivated your own produce as opposed to simply buying in the local supermarket.Of course, for some of us, limited outdoo...
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Mothive - The crop monitoring startup that's on a mission to help high value fruit and veg farmers... With our recent articles about Small Robot Company and Farm From A Box, we have been highlighting the challenges of farming whilst outlining startups that are aiming to ease these difficulties. Farming isn’t just about toiling from before the sun comes up till after it goes down again - gen...
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Finding and booking adventure sports just became a whole lot easier, thanks to startup Eola, an online discovery platform and marketplace aimed at “connecting activity centres with modern day enthusiasts”. With summer almost here, many of us may be thinking about spending our free time outdoors doing something a little more fun. Whether it’s surfing or kayaking, it can be the pe...
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Proptech startup, Ideal Flatmate, makes the process of finding flatmates an easier pursuit, thanks to a 20-question survey and a matching algorithm that aims to find the best matches for you. Flatsharing is increasingly popular in a world where pay increase never comes close to matching house price increase. It’s a way to live in a location you otherwise would be unable to afford, a way to ...
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Koru Kids - the London based startup that's providing the perfect childcare solution for modern families with affordable, convenient after-school and nanny care. Raising children is not an easy task from any angle. While many new parents and expecting parents-to-be think about things such as whether they are in a good school district, whether they are making enough money to support a child, and h...
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Business Comparison - The finance comparison site that's aimed specifically at the SME market to help SMEs compare, save and succeed when making important financial decisions. Let’s face it - for most of us, when we’re faced with a financial decision of some sort, we tend to do a bit of research online. Whether we’re checking out which credit card company offers us the best rate...
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Farm From a Box - The San Francisco social enterprise that has created a complete off-grid toolkit for a sustainable 2-acre farm - in a big box.  We have written previously about the difficulties of farming and some solutions that are being offered by startups, most recently with Small Robot Company. Farmingis, suffice to say, hard work in the best of cases. Good location, weather, soil, etc...
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Completing the obligatory medical admin for horses could have just become a whole lot easier thanks to Irish startup Equine MediRecord. Racehorses are constantly visited by vets and medication and vaccinations are routinely administered to keep them healthy. Currently, records for each and every racehorse under a trainer’s care and the medicines administered are kept in physical b...
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As the culmination of their latest programme, AccelerateME will hold a Demo Day on the 6th of June 2018. We asked the AccelerateME team to share all the details...AccelerateME is a pre-seed accelerator for students and graduates from University of Manchester. Participants go through an intensive 12-week programme during which they are guided by mentors, receive office space and up to £1,500 ...
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Finding reliable doggy day care, dog walking and sitting services just became a whole lot easier, care of startup DogBuddy. Let’s face it - whilst we may never want to be seperated from our pet pooches, sometimes life gets in the way and we have no choice in the matter. Whether it’s because of work commitments or a trip abroad, our beloved Fido can’t always be with us.Whils...
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Isabelle Ohnemus, Founder and CEO of EyeFitU shares her insights into why it’s important to start a business by identifying a universal problem. Isabelle Ohnemus is the Founder and CEO of EyeFitU, a mobile-first platform that helps consumers shop in the confidence that what they are buying is in their correct size. EyeFitU aims to reduce high return rates and encourages a sustainable approa...
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