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Edinburgh-based startup SmpliCare innovating how we care and age by exploring the use of AI-driven wearables to predict the risk of falls and other age-related health issues Unfortunately, as we get older, the risks to our health increase, as does the risk of things like falling. In fact, more than half of over-80s fall at least one per year, which can have far more grave consequences than it w...
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The lowdown on Haystack, the data insights and careers marketplace, connecting developers, designers and data scientists with innovative tech employers. As we have written before, the new normal of hybrid and remote working has increased the opportunities for a lot of people looking for work, at least theoretically. But these remote workers still have to find those opportunities, and employers ...
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Remote working with a difference - Jarvo is a startup enabling homeowners to share workspaces within their neighbourhood which remote professionals can book out by the day. One third of the UK workforce still works from home, months after the lockdowns have lifted. For many, this is a good situation - crawl out of bed in the morning 10 minutes before shift (not advisable), make some coffee, and...
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The lowdown on Ryft, the London-based fintech and its innovative next day payout system for marketplace businesses and their merchants. Payment systems can be a bit of a headache. Anyone who has started a business that requires something more than simply sticking your bank details onto an invoice will have experienced the <sarcasm> joy </sarcasm> of looking through the almost identi...
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New business event Invest2Scale aims to support Scottish scaleups by introducing them to investors and VCs based across the UK and beyond. A new, in-person business event aimed at supporting the best scale-up companies in Scotland has just been launched in Edinburgh. Led by a group of leading business support organisations, Invest2Scale will help revenue-generating scalable Scottish companies w...
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Thomas Kriebernegg, Managing Director and Co-Founder of app marketing and analytics platform App Radar, shares insights on why startups should adopt a multi-pronged approach to app marketing. Whether your startup’s app is central to your business model to generate revenue or intended mainly for branding reasons, apps have long become a day-to-day standard for businesses and consumers. In ...
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Vikela Armour announced as the overall winners of INVENT, a leading Northern Irish competition for innovative startups. Body armour startup Vikela Armour has been named as the winner of this year’s INVENT Awards, a leading Northern Irish competition for innovative startups. Organised by science and technology hub Catalyst with headline partner Bank of Ireland, the annual INVENT Awards ce...
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Female entrepreneurs from across the UK, take note! Applications are now open to join the #iAlso100, the f-entrepreneur campaign from Small Business Britain. Fantastic female entrepreneurs across the UK are being encouraged to apply for a place in a line-up of Britain’s 100 most impressive female business owners. The f:Entrepreneur campaign – delivered by S...
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London-based climate-tech startup 51-0 has created a platform to enable companies to reach net zero in a more efficient, effective and impactful way. Climate change. That thing many people would like to stop hearing about, but that we can’t afford to stop hearing about until things have actually been done about it. We keep hearing about how short a time we have until climate change become...
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Investment success for PsycApps to help it scale and further develop eQuoo, its innovative mental health platform and game. Good news from PsycApps, the UK-based developer of the evidence-based mental health game for teens and young adults, eQuoo, that we've previously featured here on Startacus. The company has just announced  that it has raised £1.5m in seed funding from US-based M...
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Time to embrace the great outdoors thanks to HiiKER, the Irish startup that's on a mission to help you find the best backpacking and hiking adventures. Some people like to get away to a beach, where they can lie in the sun until they smell their flesh frying. Others like to do something on a holiday. They want to explore the countryside, the valleys, the mountains, the forests. Whether they wa...
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Skewb Climate is on a mission to help utility companies engage as a force for good in their communities via their bespoke digital education tools. Aside from knee-jerk, uneducated cries that videogames are dumbing down the population and causing violence - from the same kind of people who used to claim that Dungeons & Dragons was satanic and comic books were the cause of all violence - it&r...
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