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Trim-It - Haircuts at home thanks to this innovative startup and its booking app Some of us at Startacus who are more streamline barely remember what it was like to need haircuts, but we do remember how inconvenient it could often be. Particularly for busy people, a short lunch break might be the only chance you get to to the barber, at which point you may find yourself queuing behind all the oth...
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Dublin-based startup UrbanVolt is aiming to upgrade businesses to Energy efficient LED lighting, to help offer a brighter future for all. We all grew up with a semblance of knowledge that lighting costs money. We couldn’t avoid it, because most of us were told off for not turning out the light if we left a room for 2 minutes, so it became firmly ingrained. As we started paying bil...
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Hollabox - The lowdown on the innovative review platform and app that has created the world’s first video-only review and booking platform. Whilst we’re all pretty used to checking out online reviews, chances are they consist of a body of text and a few photos - the quality of which is not always necessarily that great. Recognising this very fact and how important video is as a m...
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New app friendrequest aims to connect people, taking 'social' offline and to lead the way in facilitating real-life friendship. Initially aimed at young people living, studying and working in London, friendrequest is a new app looking to lead the way in facilitating friendship.  Aiming to address the challenge of forming actual friendships in a world of ‘social’ media, the app...
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The lowdown on Thyngs, the Fintech startup that is transforming any physical item into a virtual payment point... More and more, the digital and physical worlds are being connected. Augmented reality or Amazon’s staffless physical store are on the more obvious end of the scale, while things like beacons are on the more subtle side. The physical world can now be made digital, simplifyin...
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How On-Demand Apps have changed business, changed customer interactions and boosted customer happiness.It’s no secret the on-demand economy is growing. This isn’t just speculation, either. The market is currently worth about 57$ billion, an increase from $34 billion in 2016. Odds are good the trend will continue. Plenty of factors contribute to the rapid growth of the on-demand econom...
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The lowdown on all the innovative and interesting startups that we gave the Startup of the Week accolade to during 2018...It’s that time of the year once again - time to give our annual rundown of all those innovative and interesting startups that have been awarded our Startup of the Week accolade over the last year. So without further ado, we present the Startacus Startups of the week 2018:...
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Powervault is on a mission to provide simple and affordable smart energy storage for your home with their energy storage products. Bills are becoming expensive and wages are floundering around like a fish in the desert, or some other sensical metaphor. We look to smart meters and smart homes in general to help us lower bills and save on our energy. One more involved answer to this that many peop...
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Crover - The AgriTech startup that's aiming to reduce grain storage losses by identify grain disease or spoilage at the earliest opportunity We have written quite a bit about the agri-tech sector in recent months, with the likes of Phytoponics, smart beehive monitor ApisProtect, and CropSafe, to name a few. Agri-tech is not only an interesting sector taking care of one of the most important thing...
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Serelay - The startup that's created innovative technology to make photos and videos completely verifiable... With startups such as Photocert, we have written previously about how important it can be to know how genuine an image is in this time of fake news, fake fake news claims, false reports, phishing scams, and so on. It would take an entire article in itself to talk about just how many ways...
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The lowdown on Leeds-based data, analytics and cybersecurity startup The Data City, which has data provision at its core... Leeds-based data, analytics, and cybersecurity startup The Data City has been named by Tech Nation as both one of the UK’s most exciting tech startups and one of the top 3 tech startups in Yorkshire and Humber. The startup has also been shortlisted for the se...
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The lowdown on Craved, the startup platform that is showcasing craft food and drink from across the UK... With the festive season virtually upon us, it’s pretty likely that enjoying good food and drink will be high on the agenda for many of us. We can of course enjoy quality food and drink at any time of the year - it’s not just a Christmas thing! Our latest startup of the week are on...
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