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New report reveals the huge impact of Archangels' investments on the Scottish economy in terms of both money generated and jobs created. Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, has generated up to £1.4 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the Scottish economy from its investments in the life sciences and tech sectors. The analysis, conducted by the...
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Tech companies and professional services firms on the island of Ireland set to meet at the first Innovation Island Connect Networking Event at the upcoming SaaStock Conference in Dublin. We've recently announced details of our new collaboration project with TechIreland, featuring an interactive portal and a series of networking events, all made possible with the support from InterTra...
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Innovate UK KTN’s Sustainable Impact Investment Programme chooses 13 sustainable UK startups striving to change the world Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups of the future to take part in its prestigious sustainability accelerator programme. Over the next ten weeks, 13 companies selected from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will work with Innovate UK KTN and their partners Growth Studi...
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Etihad Airways partners with Aerospace Xelerated and Tawazun Economic Council to seek applications from innovative startups that are working in the digital services and solutions area. Aerospace Xelerated has today announced that Etihad Airways joined as a programme partner for its fourth cohort. Following three successful cohorts led by Boeing and supported by industry partners, this year&rsqu...
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Cross-border collaboration project featuring interactive portal and series of networking events to be delivered by TechIreland and Startacus, with support from InterTradeIreland’s Synergy initiative. Thrilled to announce that TechIreland and Startacus, both organisations that promote startups and tech SMEs in Ireland and Northern Ireland were recently approved funding under InterTrad...
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In London later this week and interested in learning how AI can help startups scale? Book your ticket now for this free event from Women in AI featuring a panel of industry experts discussing just that. Women in AI proudly present their very first free startup community event taking place at Wayve located in North London on Thursday 29th September 2022. Women in AI is a nonprofit working towar...
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The latest Funding Review from TechIreland reveals that Irish Startups raised €746M in the first-half 2022 but early-stage rounds have dropped to a five-year low. Today, TechIreland published their H1 2022 Funding Review. The report shows that 91 Irish startups between them raised €746.2 Million in the first half of the year. This is 20% lower than the same period last year, but 2021 ...
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The lowdown on Jiminny and its AI-driven system that transcribes and analyses sales conversations with customers and then provides tailored coaching to sales teams. With money getting tighter than ever, people are being more careful than ever about what they purchase, whether as individuals or as businesses. It has always been crucial to have good salespeople to back up a good product, but thei...
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London-based SaaS startup Evorra has created a data marketplace enabling brands and agencies to build and scale their marketing audiences. Third party data is a $200 billion industry, and is the driving force behind all internet marketing. It’s the reason that we look at something on Amazon and then see nothing but ads for that same thing all over Facebook. But as we have seen again and a...
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Artist John Kerr set to exhibit a series of personal paintings at The Spot, the urban-art focused gallery in Derry as part of Culture Night 2022. Opening Friday 23rd September as part of the annual Culture Night celebrations, UV Arts will host local artist John Kerr in an urban-art focused gallery in Derry with his solo show entitled “Movement”. John Kerr, artist and current Head o...
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The lowdown on customer behaviour analysis - what it's all about, the kinds of things that can have an impact on it and how to get it right. Customer behaviour analysis is the perfect place to start if you want to find out about how your customers behave, why they behave that way, and what factors can have an impact on it. This is a lot of information to collate, so this guide has been put tog...
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Edinburgh-based startup SmpliCare innovating how we care and age by exploring the use of AI-driven wearables to predict the risk of falls and other age-related health issues Unfortunately, as we get older, the risks to our health increase, as does the risk of things like falling. In fact, more than half of over-80s fall at least one per year, which can have far more grave consequences than it w...
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