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A few weeks ago, IGO Adventures announced the launch of a crowdfunding round on leading equity investment platform Seedrs. The company, which launched in 2016, takes groups of people into the wilderness to disconnect from the digital world and reconnect with nature. The global adventure tourism market was valued at $445 billion in 2016, and is projected to reach $1,336 bi...
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SpareFare - The lowdown on the marketplace for non-refundable flights and holidays... It’s happened lots of us. We’ve booked a flight or a hotel room and then something gets in the way and we can’t make it. Travel insurance often doesn’t cover it, we can’t get a refund and we end up simply losing out on whatever we’ve spent. If it’s a budget airline or a ...
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Bidooh, the Manchester-based facial analysis, digital billboard advertising platform, announces that it has signed a contract with DBDB Labs, a full-service media agency based in Seoul, to utilise its digital billboard platform across 10,000 screens in South Korea. The screens will be installed in book stores, corporate offices and shopping centres across South Korea. By using Bidooh’s GDPR...
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Currently in private beta, Claimer wants to be the app for R&D tax credits, helping businesses to easily get money back from their R&D spend and at a fraction of the current cost, with a flat 5% fee.  As a quick explainer, R&D Tax Credits is a UK Government tax initiative designed to help companies to invest in R&D. The UK Gov can obviously do better job at explaini...
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As the tech startup scene and startup ecosystem in NI continues to grow, Clare Kelly, Director of leading serviced offices and coworking spaces provider, Glandore suggests that this growth is only the beginning of a further period of continued sector development. "The tech startup scene and startup ecosystem in Northern Ireland will only continue to grow. It doesn’t take much to ...
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Valohai - The lowdown on the startup that's providing Deep Learning for Data Scientists... Finland-based startup Valohai has developed a machine learning platform for data scientists to run, iterate, and collaborate on deep learning models, from experiments to inference. It is a platform to allow developers and researchers to train their own computer systems using data. The resulting a...
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Email newsletters made easy! The French startup, Relike, that has created one of the easiest ways yet to set up and run a newsletter for your brand. Whilst many businesses are pretty experienced when it comes to using newsletters as part of their overall marketing strategy, for others the opposite is true. Creating a newsletter filled with engaging content and which is both on brand and effe...
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As the NHS enters the 'era of self-service and mobility', award-winning HealthTech startup Elemental step forward with their people powered, self referral digital tool for person centred, social prescribing care.  Focusing on creating a culture of self-care and independence, Elemental has expanded their award-winning platform, with the launch of Elemental Self Refer - a simple, interactive, ...
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Designed to pick up on target vacancies in your immediate proximity, wander is an app using location technology, matching job-seekers with nearby jobs they are close to. The changing pace of technology has impacted few industries more than recruitment, as the internet offers an unprecedented opportunity to match potential employees and employers. New app wander wants job-seekers to forgot ab...
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Property Bridges, Ireland's new peer to peer (P2P) lender to the property development marketplace, looks to link small building developers to ordinary investors. Property Bridges, Ireland's new Peer to Peer lender to the Property Development marketplace, plans to re-energise the small development and construction industry in Ireland, by removing the monopoly of the banks, middle men, and ultra-we...
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Last mile logistics and deliveries made easy, thanks to these, coming soon, ground-based, robotic delivery machines from robotics startup Eliport. Pollution is becoming more and more of a problem, and with the Earth just 2 degrees Celsius from a ‘hothouse’ tipping point, something needs to be done soon. As we have said before, until governments get it together, it is up to entreprene...
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Showtime Analytics - The Irish startup that's providing data analytics products and services to the global cinema industry. With services like Netflix and the speed with which movies go from big screen to Blu-ray, cinema sees a smaller and more discerning audience these days than it once did, and so it is more vital than ever for cinemas to understand their audience, keep track of every piec...
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