The Startacus Startups of the Week 2018
by Startacus Admin
The lowdown on all the innovative and interesting startups that we gave the Startup of the Week accolade to during 2018...
It’s that time of the year once again - time to give our annual rundown of all those innovative and interesting startups that have been awarded our Startup of the Week accolade over the last year. So without further ado, we present the Startacus Startups of the week 2018:
The Goodness Project - an online e-commerce platform whose aim is to help us all discover and enjoy the best vegan, plant-based, organic, natural and free from products by delivering them directly to our doors!
Perfocal - “an online marketplace that connects people with high quality freelance photographers”.
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Oddbox - a London based Social Enterprise startup which delivers wonky veg and fruit boxes to homes and offices.
Stowga - an online B2B marketplace that enables businesses requiring short term storage to connect directly with businesses with excess storage capacity.
Popertee - a platform which “connects property owners who have vacant space with businesses looking for a retail presence on a pop-up basis”.
Ninety Percent- a “premium womenswear label where aesthetics meets ethics.” Innovative startups are currently being sought by BMW Group Financial Services UK which has just launched the third instalment of its Innovation Lab Starting a business can be a lot of hard work, so here's a few ways to avoid burnout and find a healthy work life balance. At one-day event Ideation NI Thon, students will get the chance to solve global and local sustainability, environmental, city and health problems. NI startup ESTHER, a peer-2-peer giving platform allowing charitable donors to give money directly to people living in poverty, head to New York for a 4-day fact finding mission. The lowdown on how an Australian startup generated global sales for their innovative product, "weighted blankets"... At 82% the UK takes 4th place in the list of countries being most ready for automation and robotics, whilst 30% of UK population’s jobs are at risk of automation. The innovative game, eQuoo that helps users build their emotional fitness and thereby help fight their mental illness The London-based femtech startup that is using AI and genetic testing to provide a tailored oral contraception service for women Recent research by Starling bank shows that in 2019, women earned up to £12,319 less per year than their male colleagues of the same age and within the same industry Brandtech group, You & Mr Jones, has invested in ethical video startup Good-Loop who have closed a US $1.6m seed funding round.
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