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The lowdown on Athlone-based startup TAPiTAG and its sustainable NFC-enabled solution for connecting, networking and sharing contact details. Most businesspeople are supposed to have a pocketful of business cards to hand out to everyone they meet in order for that person to have something to screw up and throw in the bin when they get home, or shove into their designated business-cards-I&rsquo...
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ETHOS is a London-based social media startup that's on a mission to empower one generation to create a better future for the next.  Social media is a place of extreme dichotomy; a place where the most hideous hatred and the most caring and supportive messages and mindsets are spread. It is a thing that can be used to affect areas of great importance and of no import whatsoever. Information...
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UK-based social care startup Florence secures funding to support further UK and international growth and expand its services beyond elderly care. Florence, the UK-based tech innovator for social care, announced it has raised $35 million (£28.5m) through a Series B funding round. Florence will use the investment for product expansion to support care in the UK and multiple international mar...
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Dedicated zone at Digital DNA to provide opportunities for NI startups to showcase, network and engage with an array of startup champions, industry experts and brands. There's just under 2 weeks to go until the 10th annual Digital DNA! An estimated 2500+ visitors will come together at St George’s Market, Belfast on 14th and 15th June for Northern Ireland’s leading tech and digital e...
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The lowdown on Clear, the skincare app with a social focus enabling users to track and share their skincare routines. As many of us know, finding the right skincare products that are actually going to work as we’d like them to, can be a real challenge. However one of the best ways of doing this is by finding out what products other people with either the same type of skin or skincare iss...
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Placing purpose at the heart of your business can be the key to success; Kat Byles, founder of The True Business School shares insights on how and why to do just that. We are all born with a purpose, and if your purpose is placed at the heart of your Startup, you benefit from clarity of focus and direction. On the occasions self-doubt creeps in, purpose empowers you. Decisions become easier as ...
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TripShift is a London-based SaaS startup enabling users to accurately record how much carbon their business or personal journey creates. The transportation sector produces billions of tonnes of carbon every year, representing 25% of all carbon emissions worldwide. We are told that if these numbers aren’t reduced by 2030, there will be no returning from the climate catastrophe that follow...
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Recycling made easy thanks to Resortecs, a startup that's developed an innovative solution to enable high-quality textile recycling on an industrial scale. We have written in the past about how damaging to the environment the textile and fashion industries are, as well as numerous startups being created to combat the issue at various points along the journey, from base materials to completed, ...
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The lowdown on PlasmaBound, the Dublin-based startup that's on a mission to make sustainable lightweight materials a standard feature across key industry verticals. The heavier an object, the more energy and money are expended in moving that object. This applies to products in cargo; land, sea, and air vehicles; and even getting things into space. It’s a simple problem with an ostensibly ...
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  The lowdown on The Joy Club, an online activity club that provides classes, activities and inspiration galore to help people make the most of their retirement. Retiring is supposed to be an exciting time, when you are finally free to do what you want to do with your life, travel to the places you always wanted to travel to, spend more time with friends and family, etc. But sometimes, peop...
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The UK’s fastest-growing plant-based meat brand, THIS™ set to launch Seedrs campaign  to support further innovation, bold marketing and international expansion. One of the UK’s most-exciting brands in FMCG, THIS™, is offering consumers the chance to invest with leading online private investment platform, Seedrs. The award-winning company, valued at £...
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Voicy, the online content platform for discovering, creating and sharing sound-clips and sound-effects secures investment to support team expansion and global growth. Fab news for Voicy, an online content platform for discovering, creating and sharing sound-clips and sound-effects, having secured a €1.2 million pre-Seed round led by Oliver Samwer’s Global Founders Capital. Senior ex...
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