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Betternotstop wants business owners to escape the daily grind
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd September 2019A new group-travel experience, Betternotstop aims to help small business owners escape the daily grind, refocus their efforts and gain control of their business, with business-focused adventures in the choice of fourteen countries.
From remote working, co-working, and working holidays, it is fair to say that employee work options have evolved over the last few years.The brainchild of Manchester-b...
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Tumelo offers a personal portfolio for social good
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd September 2019With Tumelo, you can invest anything from £5 into a personal portfolio that is made up of businesses that are doing social good, thus partaking in ‘socially responsible investment’
A lot of us like the idea of investment. It sounds like something fancy people who know what they’re doing take part in, and it makes them rich. While we suspect there may be more to it than tha...
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Beauty Matching Engine offers AI software to the beauty industry
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd September 2019Beauty Matching Engine™ offers an AI driven personalisation, predictability & optimisation software built specifically for the beauty industry.
Although being bombarded with recommendations when you visit an online shop can be annoying, if those recommendations or well considered and based on what that site has learned about you, and are actually things that you are interested in, ...
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GuestReady takes the hassle out of hosting on Airbnb
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th September 2019GuestReady, the London startup that's making it easier for property owners to run holiday rentals and taking the hassle out of hosting on Airbnb, booking.com and the like...
Owning a second property from which to to run a holiday rental, Airbnb style, is a great opportunity, but also quite a hassle. In theory, it can be ideal - provide people with a place to stay that would otherwise sit empty, a...
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Wellola - innovation in medtech
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th September 2019The lowdown on Wellola and their white-label SaaS platform that enables clinics to communicate with patients securely...
Recently, we wrote about Arthronica, an SaaS medtech startup that wants to decrease the amount of face-to-face appointments arthritis patients have with their GPs while still receiving the same care and monitoring. Following on from that, we are looking at ways that patien...
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Oodls - the user-generated content marketplace
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th September 2019Oodls, the Scottish startup that's "licensing great content from talented Instagrammers across the globe for businesses big and small."
Anyone who creates content on websites or blogs, or perhaps even posts a lot on social media, will understand how vital good stock photographs are. A good picture breaks up the wall of text, draws the viewer’s eye, enhances the words with evocative imagery....
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Startup of the Week - Reducer
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th September 2019Reducer, the London-based startup that is helping businesses save money on key products and services
Whilst many of us use comparison sites when we’re buying products and services for ourselves, it can be a different story when we are purchasing for our businesses. After all, our business needs and requirements can often be a lot more complex. As a result, we may be paying a lot more than w...
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Winnow uses AI to address food waste
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th September 2019Winnow develop AI tools to help chefs run more profitable, sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste. Here's how...
Many of us grew up being cajoled into eating all our vegetables or cleaning our plates because there were starving children and adults who were a lot less fortunate than us. It might have seemed like a parenting cliche to teach us about appreciating what we have, however it would b...
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Geowox uses AI to undertake property valuations
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th September 2019Geowox, the Irish startup that is innovating the property valuation sector...
Dublin-based property tech startup Geowox is out to disrupt the property valuation sector. Everything else is becoming automated, so why not property valuation? They want to put an end to people inspecting houses to produce their reports, and instead use a data-driven, machine learning process that looks at other simila...
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Arthronica uses AI to help patients with arthritis
by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th September 2019Arthronica, the London based startup that's using technology to help patients with arthritis
Arthritis is a difficult condition to monitor, simply because of the hassle and expense of the patient constantly having to make appointments with their doctor and be back and forth all the time. Trips that, due to the very reason for making them, can be difficult and painful. A potentially better way, th...
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Employee feedback made easy with Weekly10
by: Startacus Admin ~ 30th August 2019Weekly10 want to make people happier and more successful at work, with their regular, lightweight 10 minute check-in for employees.
When you work in a big company, it is very easy to feel like your role in it is unappreciated and like you don’t have a voice. Managers are busy with their own work, and grabbing them to talk to can seem selfish, and so we often end up not sharing whatever issu...
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Human holograms in augmented reality
by: Startacus Admin ~ 30th August 2019London-based HoloMe has developed the technology to create a holographic version of a person without special equipment...
Holograms. The thing of Star Trek, Star Wars, Star...sky and Hutch? Maybe not, but it’s been a while; we don’t remember. Holograms are one of the main staples of sci-fi and, along with androids and flying cars, are pretty much seen as a landmark of when the future ...
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- SureIn Secures €4M to Close the SMB Insurance Gap 15th Aug 2023 Innovative InsurTech startup SureIn announces a €4M Seed round to further its mission of making insurance easy, transparent and hassle-free for SMBs.
- SuperFi raises $1M pre-seed funding round 28th Jul 2023 SuperFi, the debt prevention platform, has announced a $1m pre-seed funding round to support people during the cost of living crisis.
- Startups rely on AI & sustainability for new partnerships 27th Jul 2023 41 startups from 13 countries, including the UK, have been selected for the 8th Kickstart Innovation program, one of Europe’s leading innovation platforms.
- Another Round closes £300k Seed round to revolutionise personal training 21st Jul 2023 Personal training platform Another Round has secured £300k in its latest fundraise, including investment from angels and its community.