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Creative workspace and accelerator Huckletree launches an ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ programme to help startups get the support, mentoring and space to develop in 2021 Fab news from creative workspace and accelerator Huckletree which has just launched a new initiative to ensure some of the UK’s most innovative and promising startups have the space and mentoring they need to g...
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Thinking about replacing employee timesheets with a tracking app? Here’s the lowdown on how and why you should do just that Do you still accept timesheets written on pen and paper? Do your employees enter their working hours on a spreadsheet and send them to you by the month's end? Do you still use the age-old punch card system? If yes, it's high time you must consider joining the digital...
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Fertility Zone, a new app and community launches aiming to provide support, advice, and resources to men and women struggling to get pregnant Following their own long struggle to conceive a baby, Northamptonshire-based couple Alex and Natalie Mutambudzi have launched Fertility Zone, an app-based community that aims to provide social support, advice, and resources to men and women struggling to ...
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Business owners and entrepreneurs may have many similarities but there are several key differences too - here, we take a look at some of those A man enters home and with a thud sits on his favourite couch. It has been another long and uneventful day at work. Today he had to leave the office late so that he could finish up the work pile since the deadline was fast approaching. He feels like...
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Pockit recently announced the successful close of a £15 million Series B funding round from existing and new investors and has also launched a public crowdfunding campaign... Fantastic news this week for Pockit, the inclusive FinTech company focussed on customers who are excluded and underserved by high street banks, as it announced that it has a £15 million Series B funding round f...
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The lowdown on the startup that is on a mission to simplify data protection by creating a global data protection solution that is wholly founder-centric Let’s face it - data protection can be a bit of a minefield. And when you’re running a business, it can often be a real challenge to find both the time and the energy to make sure that you’re doing everything as you shoul...
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Could insurtech unlock your business? Insights from our panel event with Insurtech Gateway on how re-framing your business as an insurtech could unlock your business' true potential The UK’s insurance sector has seen huge growth in recent years and more and more innovative startups are emerging in the insurtech space. What is particularly exciting however is the potential that insurtech o...
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Applications still open for The Debut Sessions Christmas Pitch comp with the opportunity to win a Term Sheet for a £100,000 SEIS investment If you’re a recently formed UK startup, take note, you’ve only got a few more days to apply for this fab comp. The Debut Sessions is hosting a LIVE Christmas Pitch Competition, via virtual events platform, Hopin, on the 15th December, 10am...
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The lowdown on Numan, the London-based startup and online clinic that's on a mission to help men to take control of their health and wellbeing Currently, 3 out of 4 men will not go to a clinic for treatment when they are suffering a health issue, preferring to ‘tough it out’ or suffer in strong, manly silence. After all, that’s how decades, centuries, millenia of society ...
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Wild is an eco startup that's creating high performing products, using natural ingredients, whilst reducing the impact we have on the environment and our surroundings... Deodorant and antiperspirant is something that (unfortunately only) most people put on every day. In this more environment-conscious age, what we see when we think about this is piles and piles of plastic going to landfills, be...
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The Limerick-based startup that can perceive, predict and prevent automotive accidents in real-time using proprietary long range imaging sensors & AI on-the-edge Every year, there are around 1.35 million deaths on the road worldwide, and more than 50 million people worldwide are permanently harmed by road accidents. The (always less important) cost to the global economy as a result of all t...
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  Insights from Speedinvest, Amplifier, La Famiglia and Redstone, four of Europe’s leading early stage venture funds, on current VC funding for female founders and what changes are needed Overall VC investments in 2020 are at par with previous years – but in Q3 2020, venture capital funding for all female founders is on pace for its worst year since 2017(US data). In the week of...
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