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Scotland-based female founders who are giving back to people or the planet - this is for you! Applications now open for the AccelerateHER Awards 2023. Female founders are once again being offered an opportunity to raise their company’s profile and benefit from a package aimed at driving business growth with the launch of the AccelerateHER Awards 2023. This year’s awards programme ha...
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Michael Wright, Regional Partner with Business Partnership, shares insights on the value of an exit strategy and why it's a must for all business owners. Establishing an exit plan early in the life of your business is crucial if you are to extract the highest value from your investment of time and money. Michael Wright, a Regional Partner at Business Partnership, believes a good exit plan w...
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Joseph Williams, co-Founder and CEO of inclusive recruitment platform, Clu shares some insights on how recent changes in the world of work have impacted the demand for transferable skills. Since its inception, the recruitment process has centred around the prestige of technical and academic skills. But the world of work has changed significantly over recent years and so have hiring priorities, ...
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Small Business Saturday launching a programme of free skills, mentoring and networking support for small businesses throughout November, as part of the online element of its UK roadshow ‘The Tour’. Small businesses across the UK are being offered a big boost of free business support to help them deal with the current economic challenges, as Small Business Saturday unveils a major p...
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Business owner or office manager? Ronspot is a Galway-based startup that has developed an innovative desk, parking and meeting room booking system that you're bound to love. The number of people working from home might have risen considerably since lockdowns began, but that doesn’t mean people don’t still need to head into the office some days. In some ways, the increase in hybrid w...
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London-based FinTech Sidekick raises £3.33M pre-seed investment to support its journey towards becoming a regulated active investment manager and mission to close the generational wealth gap. Sidekick, a digital active investment manager built for today’s rapidly changing world, has just announced a £3.33M Pre-Seed equity round led by Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s la...
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The lowdown on NeuralSpace, the Natural Language Processing startup that's on a mission to ensure that people’s access to technology is not limited by their native language. Anyone who has needed to translate another language into their own has experienced the odd, unnatural results. We get the kind of phrases that get printed on t-shirts and memed. The problems multiply when it comes to...
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Getting customers for your new business is key to its success. These basic tips will help you help you build that all-important customer base. Arguably the most important aspect of any business’s success is its customer base. If you cannot attract customers to your business, you are going to have a very difficult time staying operational. Instead of waiting for customers to just stumble u...
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BrokerIQ, the Customer Engagement Platform built specifically for mortgage and insurance brokers announce appointment of Ex Aviva exec as Non Exec Chair. BrokerIQ have just announced the appointment of Hugh Hessing as Non-Executive Chair of its Board of Directors.   As one of the leading Customer Engagement Platforms built specifically for the Mortgage and Insurance sector, BrokerIQ has ...
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Tim Annis, UK Managing Director at Bluechain shares insights into how billing technology can enable frictionless billing and gives consumers the choice and transparency they need. With inflation rates rising to the highest it's been in 4o years, the UK is currently experiencing one of the worst economic recessions of all time as the cost of living crisis is expected to only get worse in the co...
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  ChAI raises investment to support expansion of its commodity insurance products and empower more businesses to turn the threat of price volatility into an opportunity. Commodities AI Ltd (ChAI), the AI-driven commodity intelligence company, has completed a seed round to help expand its industry-leading services into new markets, providing real-time commodity price forecasts to new global...
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Hoxton Farms secures major investment to enable cultivation of animal fat and scaling of its manufacturing capacity in new pilot facility in London. Fab news for Hoxton Farms with the announcement of a $22 million Series A round to build a pilot facility for producing cultivated fat: the missing ingredient necessary to make meat alternatives delicious, realistic and versatile. After ...
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