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The agritech sector in Ireland can stake a claim as a major international agritech player. We take a look at a number of Irish agritech startups that continue to impress. Written by Alastair Cameron, Startacus co-founder, Head of Startup Programmes at Digital DNA HQ, Maserati100, startup champion, freelance trainer.Ireland is steeped in history as a farming nation and economy. 5000-odd years ago,...
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Homelyfe - The lowdown on the InsurTech startup that puts customers first and is “using technology to make insurance simple." As we all know, dealing with insurance companies can be both frustrating and time consuming. Whether it’s buying a policy initially or when it comes to processing a claim. Recognising this as an issue, our latest startup of the week are on a mission to help.Hom...
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Innovation in play thanks to Storyball, a toy that uses games, stories and challenges to get children playing, learning and moving their bodies As technology advances and more information and entertainment can be accessed from all kinds of devices, it becomes more tempting and easier for parents and carers to occupy their children with these devices. Where once we might have sat a child down in ...
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Upside Energy - The Manchester based startup that's creating innovative digital solutions that support the energy management systems of the future It’s not exactly a secret that relying on fossil fuels is a short-sighted, finite solution to energy production. Renewable energy is on the rise and becoming more powerful. Soon, we will live in a world where homes and businesses all contribute t...
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The lowdown on Down Your High Street, the startup that is aiming to help independent retailers to compete and trade online... Whilst we all realise the importance of keeping the high street alive, we also know that online shopping is here to stay. It can be a difficult balancing act. We may fundamentally want to support our local retailers and traders yet we often end up purchasing products onlin...
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AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. So will robots become part of the family as our pets have?  AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. Published this week in the Telegraph was news from Sir Nigel Shadbolt that robots will not destroy humanity. It seems movies depicting the f...
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Innovation in healthcare thanks to Cambridge based startup OKRA Technologies who are using AI analytics for healthcare... We have written previously about healthcare startups - such as TrackActive and Ping An Good Doctor - that are using artificial intelligence to improve healthcare education, enable patients to get diagnoses quicker, relieve pain, and much more. Artificial intelligence allo...
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"Financial wellbeing at its simplest" thanks to new FinTech startup Huuti!  Whilst some of us may be pretty savvy with our finances, for others, the opposite is true. Budgeting and saving can prove to be a lot more challenging than spending!If you can relate to that, then we reckon that our latest startup of the week will be right up your street.Huuti is an innovative new startup which ...
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Candidate.ID, the startup that's on a mission to build talent pipelines, which enable the world’s employers to hire faster with higher quality... As we said in our recent article about recruitment startup for the industrial sector, Pickr, a survey of over 700 UK businesses showed that one of the two biggest challenges these businesses will face in 2019 is recruitment. As usual, startups ...
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The Norwich based startup Pickr that is innovating recruitment for the industrial sectors with their digital staffing solution... As we highlighted in January, a survey conducted by global credit company Creditsafe and completed by 755 business leaders predicts that the biggest challenges to UK businesses in 2019 will be recruitment and the economy. One in five of these businesses believe...
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HealthyHealth are on a mission is to build a preventative rather than reactive healthcare system for customers, encouraging healthy behaviour through an algorithm and research data predicting one's risk for medical conditions based on their lifestyle data. Health and insurance are intrinsically linked. TrackActive which uses a chatbot and artificial intelligence to diagnose musculoskeletal probl...
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Space-as-a-Service startup DeskHoppa is a community of businesses and working spaces that offer their desks to rent, enabling businesses to become co-working spaces.  DeskHoppa was born out of a problem. During the heatwave in June 2018 software developer Jason Bell had a simple need, “All I wanted was a desk for an hour. In the middle of meetings in Belfast I needed to a video call wi...
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