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Building owners and managers, this one’s for you - sense_ is an AI-driven building management platform that helps you shape your space for your people, your business and the planet. For those who manage a building, or multiple buildings, it can be a challenge to ensure that everything within your control is being utilised to the fullest and to the best interests of the occupants.  T...
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Tines is a Dublin-based startup that automates those repetitive workflows so you can get on with all the other stuff! We have written only recently about another startup with a platform to consolidate workers’ tools and tabs and browser windows into one place - and about how many times we’ve written about such startups (is this Inception yet?) - but there is still plenty that can be...
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  The lowdown on Agriloops, the French foodtech startup, that's innovating how shrimp is farmed by using aquaponics Most current shrimp farming is so overcrowded and unsanitary that the farming companies use large amounts of antibiotics, pesticides, and various other chemicals in order to try to prevent diseases spreading among the shrimp. Many of these chemicals aren’t even legal in...
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Don't let the job title confuse you - here is the lowdown on some of the key tasks that a Project Manager generally undertakes, no matter what the sector... ‘Project management’ is a term often slung around in business settings, no matter what field you might be working in. What, then, are the actual tasks of a project manager? This quick guide should help demystify the project mana...
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Oliver Woolley CEO and co-founder of Envestors shares his insights on how the pandemic has impacted inward investment into start-up and scale-up businesses Sectors to have escaped unscathed by the global pandemic are unicorn-like, but there are those that have fared much worse than most, the obvious cases being leisure, hospitality, transport operators and retail. The number and value of fundra...
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The innovative NI startup Hill Street Hatch wins over the judges to secure the LEVELUP 2021 Startup Pitch accolade and the £2k cash prize After a competitive startup pitching event at LEVELUP 2021, with 12 early stage startups taking part, Hill Street Hatch, the exciting NI hospitality pop-up incubator, was selected as the overall winners, taking home a £2k cash prize.  Delive...
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The lowdown on the London-based health-tech startup Zedsen that has developed technology that can monitor the user’s bloodstream and collect data by using sensors that simply sit on top of the skin Needles. If even the word makes you squirm and look for the nearest door, window, or easily breakable wall, today’s startup might be what you’ve been waiting for.  Quite a lot...
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  The early-stage NI startups selected to pitch at LEVELUP 2021, the 2-day event taking place on 21-22 April as part of Derry & Strabane Enterprise Week have now been revealed... Taking place as part of the LEVELUP 2021 event on 21st and 22nd April, we’re delighted to announce the 12 fab startups that have been shortlisted for the LEVELUP startup pitch competition for early stage ...
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Aimear Lynch, founder of My Pet Lamb and one of our Impacting Founders gives us the lowdown on her eco-conscious startup and business journey to date As we draw to the close of our ‘Impacting Founders’ programme which saw Startacus support NI-based female founders, we are meeting and hearing the stories from some of the fantastic founders who participated to learn more about their s...
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  The latest addition to the LEVELUP agenda is an online Speed Networking event, in partnership with Allstate NI and powered by Netminds. Come along and make new connections! Even though in-person networking might not be taking place right now, the virtual world is opening up huge opportunities. And whilst the pandemic may have led to this year’s Derry and Strabane Enterprise Week tak...
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The Melbourne-born and London-based edtech startup that's bringing universities and tech companies together to help close the global digital skills gap The pandemic has significantly boosted people’s need and desire for online learning. Not just learning a new language or how to play guitar, but learning that can lead to qualification and a job.  Today’s startup says that 67% ...
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  The innovative Brighton-based startup, Naurt, that has created a plug-and-play toolkit for high-precision, beacon-free tracking GPS is all well and good, and it has served us well for some time now, minus the odd dead-end our satnav has turned us down, but it’s not all that accurate.  It isn’t possible, for example, to find your way through a building using GPS. You migh...
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