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Innovating online content moderation; Unitary is a startup that has developed context-aware AI to detect harmful content and keep brands and platforms safe. Anyone brave enough to take a peek at the comments on a YouTube video will know how much spam there is to be found there. Whether it’s smaller YouTubers trying to pick a fight for clicks, irrelevant political babble, or bots, there&rs...
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Coachvox AI uses the power of AI to enable influential entrepreneurs and coaches to turn their knowledge, expertise and content into an AI chatbot that coaches and mentors clients as well as they would. We know we are in the midst of an artificial intelligence revolution, which is contributing to a period of significant upheaval. Until recently the potential for the technology to transform ...
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Newcastle-based startup Nanovery raises investment to further its mission of saving lives through better testing for prostate cancer. A Newcastle-based company has raised over £ 1.85 million of funding to help its quest to save more lives through better testing for prostate cancer. The funding includes £500,000 investment from the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the Europe...
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ZIPZERO is an app that's tackling the cost-of-living crisis by enabling consumers to monetise value in their shopping data and earn cash towards their monthly bills. We all have bills to pay, unfortunately. Worse is that those bills are constantly on the rise, with energy companies eager to pass on any increase in their own costs to us so that their CEO’s wallets don’t take a hit. I...
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Glasgow-based SOLASTA Bio secures further investment to support development of its innovative nature-inspired pesticides. A UK agritech specialising in the next generation of green insecticides has secured a further round of investment totalling £4 million to scale up the development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides, the first of their kind to be developed worldwide. Investm...
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Ever struggle with imposter syndrome? Ian Child, author and co-founder of training company propertyCEO shares 10 top tips that will help. Albert Einstein, Serena Williams, Tom Hanks, and Lady Gaga are all famous sufferers of Imposter Syndrome. But they’re not alone – it is estimated that around 70% of the population is afflicted, with some groups being more prone than others, s...
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Thomas Peham, VP of Marketing at enterprise CMS Storyblok, explores the new marketing opportunities afforded by the metaverse and AI and where startups should consider placing their marketing spend. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's rebrand towards the back end of 2021, it would seem it was all that anyone could talk about. Shortly after, of course, Microsoft joined the metaverse p...
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  Changes to Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme as new tax year begins promise to support 2000 new startup businesses across the UK. The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) is highlighting that the new terms of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme come into effect from today, 6th April, as the new tax year starts. These changes promise to support 2000 new startup businesses acro...
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Innovative Procure-To-Pay platform Lightyear revealed as one of the Fastest Growing Fintech companies in Europe in this year's Financial Times FT 1000. Market-leading procure-to-pay platform, Lightyear, has rocketed into the Top 20 Fastest Growing Fintech companies in Europe in this year's Financial Times FT 1000. Headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland and with offices in Sydney, Australia,...
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Archangels leads a £2.2m funding round for Bioliberty to support development of its innovative robotic glove that can help to restore upper limb mobility in stroke patients. Scottish technology firm Bioliberty has secured £2.2 million in funding to develop a unique soft robotic glove which can restore upper limb mobility in patients following a stroke. The funding round was led by ...
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The lowdown on Achelous Energy, the UK-based startup that's developing innovative solutions to help reduce C02 emissions and achieve Net Zero. Water’s pretty good. It could be said that it’s quite important to the continuing existence of life on the planet. More importantly, it makes coffee. But have you ever considered powering your Playstation with it? Of course, it’s nothin...
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The lowdown on Entocycle, the London-based startup that's using insects and technology to help drive a global transition to sustainable protein. It has been a while since we’ve written about insects. ‘Why don’t you write more about insects,’ we hear you say. If you insist. When it comes to protein production, insects are an extremely valuable source. Not only do they pro...
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