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Self-employed? Uome is a fintech startup that aims to reduce your financial admin, help you get paid quicker and enhance your client relationships. Among the many unique challenges of working for yourself is getting paid easily and on time. There’s something about being self-employed that tells some clients that an invoice is more of a suggestion than an obligation, and they don’t r...
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London-based startup Carter is bridging the gap between gaming and conversational AI to create truly realistic and interactive video games. Artificial intelligence is something that has been a part of science fiction for about a century. Whether that AI is a faithful companion who’s always around to give witty assistance to the hero, or is sending cyborgs back in time to ride Harley David...
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Dublin-based healthtech startup Beyondbmi tackles weight loss with its science-based programme led by expert clinicians, nutritionists and health coaches. It’s that time of year when about 98% of all people everywhere make losing weight one of their new year’s resolutions. It’s one of those things that we would like to happen without having to actually make it happen, because ...
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Innovative fintech Mondu secures additional investment to drive continued market expansion and explore new products. B2B payments company Mondu has today announced a $13m Series A extension round led by Valar Ventures alongside FinTech Collective. The new investment follows an impressive first year for Mondu, where the company scaled fast, expanded into new markets and launched more products th...
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Major investment for Peppy, the Global Leader in Gender-Based Healthcare to help support growth of its healthcare benefits platform in the US. Peppy, the personalized digital health platform that pioneered free-for-employee health support in Europe, has secured funding for a massive US expansion. The $45m Series B was led by AlbionVC, and joined by Kathaka, MTech Capital, Simplyhealth and ...
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Apperio secures major investment to support further development of its legal spend management software and accelerate its expansion to the US. Good news to start the year from Apperio, a leading provider of legal spend analytics and matter tracking software, with the announcement that it has raised a $7 million growth round of venture capital funding. The company will use the funding to fu...
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  Cyclists - take note! The new platform from Bike.Rent aims to make the bike rental experience easier than ever before. Industry-leading Bike.Rent Manager has launched a new platform to connect consumers with rental shops worldwide, Bike.Rent. Working with over 650 bike stores worldwide, Bike.Rent has combined its trusted rental management software with the new platform. Cyclists wil...
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London-based startup Reuser has developed a digitally enabled reusable container service for cafés, restaurants, offices, and events. Plastic is easily one of the most useful inventions humans have ever come up with, but also one of the most damaging to the environment. It doesn’t break down in a clean and harmless way, it gives off harmful chemicals if burned, if buried and left t...
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From remote, hybrid to in-person teams - Dublin-based startup PepTalk is on a mission to create a work environment where everyone can thrive. We have written a number of times over the last couple of years about how working from home has become vastly more popular since the lockdowns, even after it stopped being necessary. As some employees and companies drift away from total work from home sta...
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Helping retailers to detect thefts in real time - Paris-based Veesion and its innovative AI-driven gesture recognition technology. Massive, online retailers like Amazon aren’t the only threat to small, brick and mortar shops; theft is a more significant factor in a shop’s decline than people might think. In Europe alone, the loss caused by shoplifting adds up to €40 billion pe...
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The lowdown on London-based digital identity tech startup OneID and its innovative approach to tackling online fraud. There are millions of instances of fraud in the UK every year, with annual losses reaching into the hundreds of billions. Although we know the losses are high, it’s thought that less than 20% of fraud is actually reported, meaning that these already significant numbers are...
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  Sustainable and innovative - Revive is a Glasgow-based greentech startup that has created a palm oil alternative from used coffee grounds. Palm oil is a versatile oil that is used in numerous everyday products, from shampoo to chocolate. It is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. However, its production is one of the biggest factors in deforestation and carbon emissions; its ...
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