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Minute is an app that allows you to watch quality short films, tailored to the time that you have available. We took a look at this early-stage startup with a big vision. When was the last time you watched a short film? Can you even name a short film? There are actually quite a lot of short films floating around that are anywhere from student projects to indie filmmakers trying to get a start, to...
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Tenants take note! We take a look at CreditLadder, the FinTech / PropTech startup which rewards tenants with improved credit for on-time rent payments... If you’re a property owner, you’ll know only too well the impact that the payments on your mortgage will have on your credit rating. However if you’re a tenant it’s an entirely different matter. Whilst you may pay your la...
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Dozens, an everyday bank account, a savings ally, a money manager, a financially savvy friend - all in one app, is on a mission to make saving easier and more rewarding for all and they have onboarded over 1000 customer within just two weeks of its app launch. Traditionally, banks have relied on customer debt for profit – this is something not even the ‘challenger banks’ have qu...
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A look at Panzly, the innovative InsurTech startup that's created the 1st flight insurance for delays or cancellations with automatic and immediate payouts. Most of us have experienced delayed flights or even cancelled ones. It is annoying, inconvenient, and costly. Not only does it often mean paying out more for hotels, taxis, or just another drink while we wait, but airlines do their best to ge...
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Urban gardening made easy thanks to innovative startup Patch, which aims to make it easy for anyone and everyone in London to get into gardening... Let’s face it - if you live in London, chances are you may not have much of a garden. Whilst you may live near one of the capital’s great parks, it still may not compare with having your own green space. It can unfortunately be one of...
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Mojo Mortgages - The lowdown on the Fintech startup that's on a mission to simplify the entire process of getting a mortgage... Mortgages are an unnerving prospect to first time buyers. It’s that thing we’ve all heard that grown ups have and that stresses them out, and suddenly we are adults and we’re faced with renting forever or getting a mortgage. Even when we do rent, landlo...
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The Newcastle based IoT startup that's using Artificial Intelligence to help us all reduce energy bills... Our energy usage is already astronomical, and with more and more electrical devices and appliances being created all the time with more and more functionality, we are using ever more energy. Especially with smart devices that are always-on, where once we might have turned them off at the plu...
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EventsCase is an SaaS startup that's aiming to make the entire event organisation process easier and more efficient than ever before... If you’ve ever had to organise an event you’ll know only too well how complex a task it can be. From co-ordinating the attendee list to planning the agenda - it can be both time-consuming and challenging - no matter how large or small your event is. H...
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The Shanghai based healthcare innovation - unmanned, AI-driven ‘one-minute clinics’ providing medical services, including diagnosis and medicine prescriptions. A 2018 study found that the UK has the fewest doctors in the EU, at 2.8 per 1,000 people. In comparison, Austria has 5.1 and Australia has 3.4 per 1,000 people. While these numbers are hard to take meaning from on their own, it...
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PropTech startup Inadash is aiming to innovate how people rent property, keeping the transaction quick, easy and on-demand... It has been a while since we have written about prop-tech startups, but we’ve written about quite a few in the past, including this property rental startup, which is particularly relevant to this article. Renting is the only way a lot of people can get anyw...
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Our annual list of key startup and tech focused events and conferences taking place in the UK and Ireland returns for 2019.It’s another year, and so we have another annual list of key startup events taking place in the UK and Ireland throughout the year. Some of these are new to the list and some are triumphantly returning from success last year. So open your diary and sharpen your pencil. ...
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The Virti simulation platform puts users in a range of realistic simulations designed by healthcare professionals, testing their decision-making ability and knowledge.  Virtual reality is going to be a big part of the future and a big part of training students, new employees, teaching new skills to existing employees, and so on. The research tells us that VR not only reduces training costs b...
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