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The app that wants to be your Best Financial Friend... Whilst some of us may be pretty savvy with managing our money, the opposite is true for others. If you fall into the latter camp, then it’s probably time to do something about it. After all, there might be no better time for you to finally get your finances in order and the good thing is that you don’t need to do it alone.Our late...
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London-based startup secures investment for its innovative wedding video app...Good news for vidiCREW,who collect user generated content and turn it into wedding videos, having just raised investment from Jenson Funding Partners. Currently focusing on and aiming to disrupt the wedding market, we first featured vidiCREW on Startacus in July 2019. Together with their loved ones, couples use the fr...
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Major investment for innovative InsurTech company, By Miles Good news for By Miles, the UK’s first real-time pay-by-mile car insurance provider, that has successfully raised £15m in a Series B funding round led by CommerzVentures. Existing By Miles investors Octopus Ventures, Insurtech Gateway and JamJar investments also continued their support committing further investment.The insu...
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The startup that's helping Wellness practitioners and clients to connect - even in isolation Right now is one of the more difficult times in modern history. As COVID-19 drives more and more of us into isolation, the world is adapting; looking for opportunities to come together and carry on. Communities are taking on new shapes, growing in innovative new ways, and reaching out, and this work is ...
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Each year, a reported 2 billion pairs of tights are produced, worn once and discarded. Step forward, Billi London who has launched the world’s first enhanced biodegradable tights.  Decomposing in less than five years in landfill versus traditional tights requiring anywhere from 40 to 100 years, Billi London is the first brand to create revolutionary tights with enhanced biodegradabilit...
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Trayde - The marketplace that's reinventing wholesale for independent retailers and artisan brandsIf you’re an artisan maker, you’ll know only too well how challenging it can be to get your products and brand out there. Developing and building a solid customer base can be a difficult task to say the least. Likewise, if you are an independent retailer, identifying and sourcing new ...
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The 2020 Invent competition Semi-finalists are revealed... Catalyst has announced the 18 NI semi-finalists who have progressed to the next stage of local innovation competition Invent 2020. Catalyst’s annual Invent competition sponsored by Bank of Ireland UK highlights local businesses that demonstrate innovation in their fields and can prove the commercial viability of a new idea. The...
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HMRC have announced that the coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will launch online on 26 May. UK Employers with fewer than 250 employees will be able to use the scheme to claim coronavirus-related Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). Tax agents will also be able to make claims on behalf of employers.If you’re an employer, you’ll be able to avail of the scheme if:  you had few...
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The 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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Collctiv, the Manchester-based startup that makes it easy to #GoCashless and collect money from friends, family and neighbours... Most of us will have been in the situation where we want to simply send some money to a friend or family member without going through the hassle of bank account details and little verification card machine things from our bank that don’t work properly no mat...
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Polystream becomes an Epic MegaGrants recipient... Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, has awarded a 'MegaGrant' to Polystream, a deep-tech startup and the world’s most scalable real-time 3D content and application delivery platform, to further enhance its content development platform.The Epic MegaGrants program has been created to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media...
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Diaspo is a platform that is facilitating authentic cooking classes between different generations... Let’s face it - there is something quite special about family recipes that have been passed down from our parents or grandparents. Apart from the sharing of knowledge and tips, they can also evoke wonderful memories and of course help us to keep a link to our past open.It’s not just ...
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