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Ready Burger, a plant-based fast food brand launches new investment round to support its aim of becoming a major player in the global vegan food market. Ready Burger, a plant-based fast food brand, has launched an investment round to further progress its goal of becoming a major player within the global vegan food market, which is forecast to grow to over $60bn by 2028.  Since it began tr...
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WasteMap is a platform developed by innovative startup Topolytics, that uses data analytics, mapping and machine learning to make waste and resource management more transparent, efficient and effective. There is an area in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas - or three times the size of France - that you would be forgiven for thinking, at a distance, is a land mass. A country. This is th...
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Feeling stressed or overwhelmed by your startup? Mathematician and author Francis Keith Robins shares 10 practical tips that will help. Starting a new business can feel like entering an exciting new world. Sadly, there old world is still around, with its Social Media storms, combative politics, lowest-common-denominator press, and economic stresses seemingly everywhere. It’s inevitable th...
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Small Business Britain & Lloyds Bank launch new report on disability and Entrepreneurship, revealing barriers disabled & neurodiverse people face when starting businesses and outlining recommendations to correct this inequality. Major systemic changes are needed to make UK entrepreneurship more equitable, accessible, and inclusive for disabled founders*, according to a new report from ...
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If your business is to succeed, you need good leadership at the helm. John McLachlan, author and co-founder Monkey Puzzle Training, shares insights on the three core leadership traits that are a must. In the excitement of the early days of a new business, it may not be obvious if the person at the top is actually a good leader or not – even that leader may not know. But for the business t...
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Inboxbooster launches from stealth with a $1m pre-seed funding round to help email senders get their comms into the primary inbox of their audience. Over 3.5 million legitimate emails are sent every second and yet nearly 85% will be destined for spam folders including opt-in emails and even payment notifications. Helping companies address and overcome this challenge, Inboxbooster has launched f...
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  The lowdown on digital health startup Little Journey and its VR solution to help reduce anxiety for children undergoing healthcare procedures. Among the many fears that accompany becoming a parent is the idea that your child could get sick enough to be hospitalised. Worse still, that they might need surgery. As if these fears coming true weren’t enough, you then have to contend with...
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Innovating online content moderation; Unitary is a startup that has developed context-aware AI to detect harmful content and keep brands and platforms safe. Anyone brave enough to take a peek at the comments on a YouTube video will know how much spam there is to be found there. Whether it’s smaller YouTubers trying to pick a fight for clicks, irrelevant political babble, or bots, there&rs...
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Coachvox AI uses the power of AI to enable influential entrepreneurs and coaches to turn their knowledge, expertise and content into an AI chatbot that coaches and mentors clients as well as they would. We know we are in the midst of an artificial intelligence revolution, which is contributing to a period of significant upheaval. Until recently the potential for the technology to transform ...
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Newcastle-based startup Nanovery raises investment to further its mission of saving lives through better testing for prostate cancer. A Newcastle-based company has raised over £ 1.85 million of funding to help its quest to save more lives through better testing for prostate cancer. The funding includes £500,000 investment from the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the Europe...
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ZIPZERO is an app that's tackling the cost-of-living crisis by enabling consumers to monetise value in their shopping data and earn cash towards their monthly bills. We all have bills to pay, unfortunately. Worse is that those bills are constantly on the rise, with energy companies eager to pass on any increase in their own costs to us so that their CEO’s wallets don’t take a hit. I...
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Glasgow-based SOLASTA Bio secures further investment to support development of its innovative nature-inspired pesticides. A UK agritech specialising in the next generation of green insecticides has secured a further round of investment totalling £4 million to scale up the development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides, the first of their kind to be developed worldwide. Investm...
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