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Innovative German SaaS startup OKAPI:Orbits secures investment to support its mission of securing efficient and safe operations in space. OKAPI: Orbits, a startup providing space traffic management software to coordinate and optimize operations of satellites, rockets and sensors, has raised a €5.5m seed funding round led by San Francisco based  MunichRe Ventures, the venture capital a...
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Scottish startup Earth Blox secures investment to support global expansion and further development of its no-code earth observation software. Great news for Scottish tech firm Earth Blox with the announcement that it has secured £1.5m funding from Archangels to expand its global reach and further develop its no-code Earth Observation (EO) cloud-based SaaS. Earth Blox ...
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London-based startup Greyparrot is on a mission to increase transparency and automation in recycling to unlock the financial value of waste. The waste management industry is worth $1.6 trillion every year, although people don’t tend to think of it in monetary terms. But, as we have written before, putting things in monetary terms is sometimes the best or only way to get people to actually...
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Spare Desk is a platform enabling individuals and businesses to list and monetise their unused workspaces and connect with users who need on-demand workspaces. The new way to work is here and finding a workspace is easier than ever. Spare Desk is the brainchild of Bristol entrepreneur and experienced project manager Andrea Szell. The mum of 3 had the idea for Spare Desk before the pandemic acc...
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Innovative startup, Kita secures investment to support build and launch of its essential carbon insurance products. Fab news for Kita, the world’s first carbon insurer, with the announcement that it has raised a heavily oversubscribed £350k pre-seed round led by Insurtech Gateway, alongside investors Carbon13, Climate VC and Echelon Capital. To fight climate change, the world urgen...
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  Here they are! The fab digital and tech startups from across Northern Ireland that will showcase their innovative products and services in the upStart startup zone at Digital DNA. There's just a few days to go until the 10th annual Digital DNA where an estimated 2500+ visitors will come together at St George’s Market, Belfast for Northern Ireland’s leading tech and digital eve...
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The lowdown on Vertice, the platform enabling businesses to streamline their software purchases and renewals and lower their SaaS costs. In 2022, the global annual spend on software-as-a-service is projected to be over $145 billion. Part of this obviously reflects the fact that more and more of what we need is becoming available in handy SaaS form, but that’s still a lot of money, and a f...
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  With tech surveillance of remote employees becoming increasingly common, Natalie Cramp, CEO of Profusion explores how employers can strike the right balance between technology and trust. Keystroke tracking. Facial recognition. Real-time screenshots. There's an ever-growing list of software tools businesses can use to keep a tight tab on employees, wherever they are. But as the widesp...
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Green tech startup Cleaner Seas, aiming to raise £1m investment to further develop its innovative approach in tackling microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans. A green technology company has today launched a significant investment round to help further develop its innovative approach in tackling microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans. Cornwall-based Cleaner Seas Gro...
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CATAGEN, a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast secures funding to scale its team and develop new net zero technologies in green hydrogen and e-fuel production. CATAGEN has received two new funding awards from the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, as part of the Red Diesel Replacement Competitio...
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Fresho secures investment to support expansion and further its mission of making food supply chains more sustainable. Good news from Fresho, a company that aims to make food supply chains more sustainable between restaurants and their suppliers with the announcement of a recent capital raising of £8 million. Fresho is used by tens of thousands of chefs who simply reach for their dev...
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MIWA is a Czech startup that's created an innovative smart tech solution to make waste-free shopping the new normal. Although some brands are making a little more effort these days, it can still be hard to find food that isn’t wrapped up inside ten times its weight in plastic. The convenience of plastic outweighs its environmental impact for a lot of brands, and for a lot of consumers. Bu...
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