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Trezeo - finance for freelancers

by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th November 2017
For the self-employed, keeping your finances in check can be that bit more difficult. Without a steady, reliable income, bills and other regular outgoings are a constant worry and can be difficult to pay on time some months. Freelancers can often find themselves having to use bank overdrafts and loans in order to stay on top of things. Fees and interest mean that this is not a viable route in the ...
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The Dealer - discounts doing good

by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th November 2017
The problem of homelessness is an ever increasing one. In 2016 in England alone, over 4000 people were estimated to be spending each night sleeping on the streets. The number of people who may not find themselves sleeping out in the cold but are still counted as homeless reaches well into the tens of thousands. We like a tech-for-good startup, and we have found another worthy one, this time aimed ...
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French Tech Wins Big at Web Summit 17

by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th November 2017
La French Tech went to Web Summit 2017 with high expectations & the three day event further shone a light on the growing reputation of the French tech scene.In our first feature on the French tech scene, Startacus took an in-depth look at the growing reputation of La French Tech, a fab movement committed to the growth of French startups and France’s international influence within th...
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How Virtual Reality Will Disrupt Businesses In The Future

by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th November 2017
Virtual reality allows you to detach from your physical surroundings and interact with a digital environment. The technology creates specific software environments that allow people to become so immersed it replaces awareness of their actual surroundings.  The technology has been around for years now and while originally used in gaming, it's gaining ground in many other areas. Ironically, it...
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Startup of the Week - Swogo

by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th November 2017
Online retail is here to stay and if you are involved in e-commerce you’ll be only too aware of how competitive it can be. In that respect therefore, online retailers are no different from traditional high street merchants - every penny counts. With customers becoming ever more savvy in shopping around, it’s vital therefore that online retail businesses do all they can to not only pro...
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Izzy Wheels - they're "re-inventing the wheel"

by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th November 2017
People like to customise things - to put a personal touch on them. From flames or stripes down the side of your car (which make it go faster, obviously) to pink fuzzy dice hanging on the mirror; from plastering the underside of your skateboard with stickers and cutouts of Hulk to...whatever the hip young people do with hoverboards these days; from sticking a playing card through the spokes of your...
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Web Summit 2017 - The Startup League looks back

by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th November 2017
The Startup League is just back from Web Summit 2017 where they supported over 50 startups. Here, they gave us their take on their experience of this years event..."The Startup League is just back from Web Summit, Lisbon. In it’s 7th edition, the conference saw 3 crazy days and over 60,000 people walking into the event. Hosted at the same venue in Lisbon as last year, the event has definitel...
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Meet MekaMon, the world's first real-life gaming robot

by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th November 2017
By incorporating augmented reality into a robot, Reach Robotics aims to introduce a unique hybrid of virtual and real world play through next level robotics, gaming, and AR.Reach Robotics, the Bristol based, augmented reality gaming company has announced that their flagship product MekaMon, the world’s first real-life gaming robot, is now available on Apple.com and selected Apple stores...
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Quit Genius - the app to help smokers quit

by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th November 2017
Quitting smoking is one of the hardest things to do outside of a Rubik’s Cube. The addictive substances, the habit, and the fact that most people don’t want to quit smoking, per se, but rather quit the damage to their health all conspire to make quitting seem impossible for a lot of people - in fact, only 3% succeed in quitting. Broad methods of quitting aren’t going to work for ...
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Plum and AI in Finance

by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th November 2017
Plum is the first AI-powered Facebook Chatbot which allows you to start saving money automatically without any effort, fees or changes in spending.  Alex Michael, Co Founder at Plum started his career writing software for retail analytics at EDITED in London and spent the last two years at Tictail in Stockholm where he joined as engineer #5 and then became team lead for payments, scaling the...
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Startup of the Week - Everpress

by: Startacus Admin ~ 8th November 2017
Whilst merchandise has always been important for artists in the music industry, it has become even more so in recent years. With declining music sales, It is not only a way of helping them to generate revenue, but it is also essential for helping to increase their overall brand awareness. The good old band t-shirt is therefore here to stay. Of course the problem is that it can be a costly affai...
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Attest - market and brand intelligence made easy

by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th November 2017
Market research is important to a business’s ability to make good decisions, know what changes need to be made, etc., but it can be slow going. We have an article here about why market research is so important, and we have written about some useful market research options in the past. But new to the area is a startup aiming to provide valuable, actionable insights and data analysis faster an...
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