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The innovative solution to vaccine wastage - Bristol-based biotech startup EnsiliTech develops tech to enable refrigeration-free vaccine storage. We heard stories during the pandemic of shipments of the vaccine going to waste because something went wrong with the refrigeration. Typically, vaccines must be kept refrigerated, at sub-zero temperatures, otherwise they will break down and become un...
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Making a difference: social good startup onHand and its innovative tool to help engage employees with on-demand volunteering and sustainability opportunities. Volunteering is a good thing. Using your free time to help other people and make their lives a little bit better, taking some pressure off whatever organisation is in need of said volunteers. But if you don’t have anything specific ...
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Loop Not Luck aims to improve social mobility via its innovative job board designed specifically to connect underrepresented candidates to tailored career opportunities. This week sees the launch of Loop Not Luck – the UK’s first intersectional diversity recruiting platform specifically designed to represent and connect diverse talent. Loop Not Luck was built with the mission of i...
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75% of LGBTQ+ tech founders and investors actively conceal their gender or sexuality, says first of its kind report. Proud Ventures, a UK collective of LGBTQ+ investors and investors, has released a new data report that, for the first time, shares data on the experiences, support and inclusiveness of LGBTQ+ members within the wider tech community. The report found 75% of founders and nearly 80...
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Leading AI startup Aiir Innovations secures major investment to support global expansion and help set a new standard for engine inspections. Aiir Innovations, a leading startup in artificial intelligence (AI) for the visual inspection of aircraft engines, has raised €2.1M in an oversubscribed investment round, led by VC fund Borski Fund, with the participation of HearstLab Europe and exist...
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Global tax and accounting SaaS startup Inkle secures investment to support non-US based founders with US-registered businesses to meet their regulatory demands. Almost half of the 20,000 US companies created on Stripe’s Atlas incorporation platform alone (of which almost 10,000 were formed in the year leading up to June 2021) were created by non-US-based founders. In helping th...
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The lowdown on OneThird, the foodtech startup that's tackling food waste via its innovative solution for predicting the shelf life of fresh produce. According to the World Food Programme, a staggering one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste. Financially, this amounts to $1 trillion every year - 1.3 billion tonnes. If those numbers didn’t look bad enough, there’s also t...
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Fed up with working from home? Irish startup WorkSpot.ie aims to help you find desk space, where & when you need it. We’ve mentioned many times now how the workplace norm has changed drastically since COVID. What is the workplace these days? An office? Your dining table? A hybrid of the two? The ability - or necessity - to work from home can be a good thing for many reasons, but it al...
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Karen Meager, co-founder of Monkey Puzzle Training shares some insights on how leadership has changed in the last decade, and what it takes to be a great leader today. Anyone launching their first startup should be aware of what will be required of them as a leader of the business. And it may be useful to know that leadership has changed over the last ten or so years.  In 2012, Monkey Puz...
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Freight rate management platform Freightify raises Series A investment to support further international growth and mission to help more freight forwarding companies digitize their operations. Global freight forwarding is a $300B industry that facilitates the movement of cargo from one place to another through a series of manual and legacy processes. Freightify’s freight rate management p...
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Crowdfunding success for Omni, the vegan dog food brand, reaffirms the recession-proof growth of the pet nutrition industry. One of the UK’s fastest growing vegan pet food brands, Omni, has launched a record breaking crowd-funding campaign. The brand, which is one of the first British, vet-founded plant-based pet food brands, set a new record in its category, having overfunded within 15 m...
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Want to learn a new language? Weeve is an innovative startup that has created an innovative, creative and effective way to help you do just that. Learning a new language is both difficult and rewarding. It’s easier to just go to a foreign country and speak louder and louder at people until they understand, right? But for some reason people tend to respect you a little more if you actuall...
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