Features
The three biggest tech trends influencing the Art World
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th December 2018
Naeem Amarsy of Feral Horses, an online platform that connects art lovers and investors with artists and galleries, gives us an overview of the three most important tech trends that will change the art world in the next decade: Data Quantification, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.
Quantification of Data - Art Market Analysis
The art world lacks transparency, rules ...
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miFuture - the innovative careers app for young people
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th December 2018miFuture - The Tech4Good startup that's created a better way of connecting young people with the world of work
Being young and being told you need to start thinking about your career is a difficult position to be in. It is supposed to get easier the closer we come to actually embarking on said career, but often it doesn’t. We simultaneously find that there is somehow a vast sea of pote...
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Tended - wearable tech with a personal safety focus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th December 2018Tended - The startup that's created wearable tech designed to monitor the wearer’s safety and detect accidents...
Back in 2017, we wrote about a handful of startups in the safe-tech space, making life safer for the likes of runners, electrical workers, and the women of Delhi, to name but a few. Personal safety is, obviously, an important thing, but also something that most people don’...
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Startup of the Week - Waggel
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th December 2018The lowdown on InsurTech startup Waggel that's created an innovative new digital pet insurance for pet people...
If you’re a responsible pet owner, chances are you will have purchased pet insurance to provide cover for your beloved pooch or moggy. And if you haven’t, then perhaps you should! After all, pet ownership can be a costly business and if your pet requires emergency treatment...
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snap40 - wearable tech for health
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th December 2018snap40 - The award winning Scottish healthtech startup that has AI innovation at its core with its innovative health monitoring device...
At the inaugural Scottish Tech Startup Awards at the end of November, snap40 took home both the Startup of the Year and B2B Company of the Year awards after demonstrating their important role in further elevating Scotland’s status in the tech sc...
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SwapBots - augmented reality at play
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th December 2018The children's toys that burst to life with your smartphone or tablet through the magic of augmented reality... thanks to Liverpool based startup SwapBotsAlthough we have written before about how augmented reality can be used for educational purposes, it is also undeniably a great medium for play.
Taking advantage of this fact, SwapBots is a game played in augmented reality using physical, c...
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ApisProtect - smarter beehives
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th December 2018The agtech IoT solution from ApisProtect to help beekeepers keep their hives productive and healthy...
We have heard again and again about how important bees are to global food production, and yet we have still allowed them to reach the brink of extinction. In Ireland alone, a third of bee species face extinction. Bees contribute €153 billion worth of pollination to the agriculture industry ...
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Falmouth University Launchpad incubates tech legacy
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th December 2018Developed by Falmouth University in Cornwall, Launchpad is an innovative, post-grad incubation and acceleration programme. We take a look at some of the previous Launchpad alumni.
Developed by Falmouth University in Cornwall, Launchpad is an innovative, post-grad incubation and acceleration programme that brings together a mix of software engineers, digital creatives and business folk to solve in...
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Startup of the Week - Tonsser
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th December 2018Football scouting just became a whole lot easier - for players and clubs alike, thanks to Tonsser - the innovative app enabling young footballers to showcase their skills and talent...
Whilst many of the world’s best and most famous footballers were initially discovered and given their big break by football scouts, it’d be fair to say that there are many talented players who rema...
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3co - selling products through augmented reality
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th December 20183co - Selling through AR technology is a whole lot easier thanks to this innovative startupWe’ve probably all shopped online and found that the multitude of images of the product we’re interested in manage to miss the one angle we’d like to see it from. Better still would be if we could see it from any angle, close up, and placed within the space we would place it were we to buy ...
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Startup Support in...Cardiff
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th December 2018Cardiff based early-stage startups and entrepreneurs take note - here's the lowdown on key startup support and help available where you are...
Away from the established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a business isn’t always so clear. It’s not a lack of support however, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by...
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Ignite 2.0 remote accelerator legacy 2018
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd December 2018A look at some of the standout tech startups from the inaugural Ignite 2.0 remote accelerator programme...
We recently wrote about the Ignite ‘2.0’ remote accelerator programme opening open up for its second run in 2019. We thought that this was a good opportunity to have a look at some of the tech startups in its first cohort from September 2018. We’ve written about a couple of...
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