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London-based startup Reuser has developed a digitally enabled reusable container service for cafés, restaurants, offices, and events. Plastic is easily one of the most useful inventions humans have ever come up with, but also one of the most damaging to the environment. It doesn’t break down in a clean and harmless way, it gives off harmful chemicals if burned, if buried and left t...
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From remote, hybrid to in-person teams - Dublin-based startup PepTalk is on a mission to create a work environment where everyone can thrive. We have written a number of times over the last couple of years about how working from home has become vastly more popular since the lockdowns, even after it stopped being necessary. As some employees and companies drift away from total work from home sta...
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Helping retailers to detect thefts in real time - Paris-based Veesion and its innovative AI-driven gesture recognition technology. Massive, online retailers like Amazon aren’t the only threat to small, brick and mortar shops; theft is a more significant factor in a shop’s decline than people might think. In Europe alone, the loss caused by shoplifting adds up to €40 billion pe...
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The lowdown on London-based digital identity tech startup OneID and its innovative approach to tackling online fraud. There are millions of instances of fraud in the UK every year, with annual losses reaching into the hundreds of billions. Although we know the losses are high, it’s thought that less than 20% of fraud is actually reported, meaning that these already significant numbers are...
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  Sustainable and innovative - Revive is a Glasgow-based greentech startup that has created a palm oil alternative from used coffee grounds. Palm oil is a versatile oil that is used in numerous everyday products, from shampoo to chocolate. It is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. However, its production is one of the biggest factors in deforestation and carbon emissions; its ...
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Small Business Britain unveils the inspirational female entrepreneurs being showcased in this year’s f:Entrepreneur ‘#ialso100’ campaign. A line-up of the UK’s most dynamic female entrepreneurs has been unveiled by Small Business Britain, with 100 women who run some of the UK’s most impressive businesses being showcased to highlight the phenomenal contribution to s...
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SearchLand is a London-based startup aiming to make property companies data-driven and enabling better informed property and land decisions. We are currently in the middle of a housing crisis. Whether that’s house prices skyrocketing, building standards slipping, or simply availability of housing. It goes without saying that as the population grows, so must the amount of available housin...
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London-based startup Verna aims to help landowners, investors, and policymakers to use land in ways that draw down carbon, enhance biodiversity and generate sustainable returns. We have written about startups like Ecologi, Treekly, and TreeCard - to name just a few - who work to reforest areas damaged by deforestation. These may be decimated mangrove forests in Madagascar, desertified land in B...
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The lowdown on Narratio, the innovative global platform helping young people, particularly displaced young people to have their voices heard. When refugees or asylum-seekers are displaced from their homes, it is often only the beginning of their problems. Even when they have found a new home, they frequently continue to face discrimination and prejudice. This adds onto the top of the trauma th...
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Investment success for Rest Less, the digital community that's helping people aged 50+ to live their lives to the fullest. Rest Less, a 1,000,000* strong digital community, advocate and financial services platform for people aged over 50, today announces it has secured £6 million in its latest funding round. The latest funding round was led by Moneta Venture Capital, a leading Israeli f...
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The lowdown on Placed, the digital recruitment app that's using AI to match employers in the service sector with the next generation of talent. The need for money in order to live doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that’s going anywhere any time soon, and until robots take all of our jobs, those are the primary means by which we make our money. In a deduction worthy of Sherlock Ho...
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Small businesses to strengthen their cyber security practices now. Chris Pottrell, founder and MD of IT support services provider Nebula shares some guidelines on doing just that. As Uber becomes the latest victim in a series of high-profile cyber-attacks this year, leading IT expert Nebula is reminding startups and SMEs of the ever-growing cyber risk and the importance of increasing cyber def...
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