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Proptech startup Speiz secures seed investment to support its mission of digitally transforming the broken brokerage market. Norwegian proptech startup, Speiz, has raised €1.3M in seed funding round led by F-LOG Ventures. The funding will enable Speiz to continue establishing their new SaaS-enabled marketplace for commercial warehouse real estate in Norway and expand its reach across Europ...
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The lowdown on Manchester based startup Chatloop and its mission to transform social media, giving you the power to start conversations on any website. The internet is a social place. That’s not always for the best, but let’s put that aside for the moment! From forums to social media to the little Q&A section on Amazon, people on the internet like to interact with each other, as...
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BT reveals new cohort of innovative startups aiming to help solve sustainability challenges in the manufacturing sector. BT has just announced phase two of its Green Tech Innovation Platform (TIP), to fast-track cutting-edge new digital solutions to help manufacturers cut their carbon emissions and progress towards a circular world. Following the initial scouting phase supported by Plug and Pl...
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London-based startup Ribbon is on a mission to help other businesses better understand their users and build better product experiences. It’s a pretty obvious, common sense idea that in order to better sell to your customers, you need to better understand your customers. You need to be able to tailor your product to the needs of the customer, and refine it based on feedback, ideally. Ther...
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London-based SaaS startup OutThink has developed an innovative approach to help companies to visualise risk, target interventions and prevent data breaches. Cybersecurity is a hugely important aspect of our modern lives, with so much of those lives based online. Whether it’s as simple as our social media, or as sensitive as our banking or our work, the simplest and ostensibly smallest of ...
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Participants in Catalyst’s Co-Founders programme offered opportunity to avail of a £10,000 proof of concept grant from Techstart to help validate their business idea. We'd recently reported on the call-out for applications for the Catalyst Co-Founders programme and now there's more good news for anyone who is thinking about applying, thanks to a collaborative new partnership be...
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Atoa announces pre-seed funding for its solution to empower and improve cash flow for independent, small and mid-sized UK retail merchants. There are more than 4 million small businesses in the UK which have no viable alternative to debit card payments and are reliant on Mastercard or Visa payment rails. Challenging this status quo, UK fintech Atoa Payments is announcing a $2.2M pre-s...
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Pact launches its first £30M fund to back early-stage European tech startups using technology for economic inclusion, well-being and climate solutions. Pact has launched its first £30m seed fund to back early-stage startups across Europe using technology to tackle key priorities for the next generation - economic inclusion, personal and professional well-being, and climate solutions...
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Paris-based startup Immortal Game uses blockchain technology to add a new dimension to the most played board game in the world. Chess is a game that has been played since the 15th century, and with around 800 million players worldwide today, it shows no signs of losing popularity. The digitisation of chess has been progressing for years, allowing more and more people to play against an AI or ot...
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Co-Founders seeking people with innovative ideas and desire to create startups that could change the world for its 2023 programme. Got an idea for a high-growth startup or the skillset to help build one? If you’ve answered yes, then the Co-Founders programme by Catalyst is for you! Co-Founders is a one-night-a-week programme for anyone who wants to be a co-founder in a startup team ...
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Marketers - want to turn shoppers into customers this Black Friday? Marietta Chatzidiakou, Senior Content Consultant at Digital Ethos shares some tips on how to do just that. Each year, Black Friday marks the day when shoppers frantically descend upon stores in search of exclusive discounts and bargains in the lead-up to Christmas. Originating in the United States, it has since grown into a gl...
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Data from more than 500 companies reveals the core health of SaaS startups and assesses how European companies have performed relative to American counterparts. Capchase, the leading provider of non-dilutive capital to SaaS companies, has just published its Pulse of Saas report to provide the most comprehensive view of SaaS startups’ performance following recent economic changes...
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