Features

We take a look at Lumen - The new dating app to help over 50's to meet genuine like-minded singles. Unless you are charming and particularly outgoing, dating can be hard at any age. Dating when you are over 50 can be even harder. inding someone like-minded, compatible, attractive to you, and all the other tick boxes becomes harder the older we get simply because there are fewer of us wh...
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Thortful - The startup that's providing a creative card marketplace for designers, illustrators and photographers Whether it's for your brother's birthday or your parents’ anniversary, choosing a decent card can sometimes be more difficult than buying a gift - unless of course a last minute purchase from the local garage suits you fine! If however you like to deliberate over the card - se...
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Innovative startups and businesses designed and focused on empowering and embracing female consumers. Most products are still made by male-dominated companies. Some products for women either don’t exist yet to fill a need or they are utilitarian and don’t feel like they’ve been designed for an actual human being to use. One obvious solution to this is for women to take control ...
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2018 has been the year where fake news has become a prominent topic. But what of fake online reviews? Startup Hubbite has been launched with the aim of putting the trust back into online reviews. 2018 has been the year where fake news has become a prominent topic. Social media sites commit to doing all they can to stop it.But what of fake reviews? Trustpilot, TripAdvisor, Yelp and so on...th...
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Product Guru is a product discovery platform that's helping buyers from consumer goods & gift companies to discover unique & innovative new products. Getting your products in front of retailers can be difficult and even pricey, making it harder to break even when you do. Retailers have buyers actively searching for new products to stock, so it makes sense to have somewhere for those buyer...
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Blockchain for social good! London-based FinTech startup Alice is one of the world’s first companies to put Ethereum blockchain technology to practical use in the charity sector beyond simple cryptocurrency donations... In 2013, the Guardian reported that UK charities are missing out on £665m in donations annually. Since then, public confidence in charities has plummeted, reaching its...
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Fintech startup Wagestream allows employees to decide when they get paid their wages without the need for costly interest being charged.  Millions of people know the struggle of stretching their payday wages across the void to the next payday. The bulk of it goes out almost immediately to cover bills and what remains has to do you until the rinse and repeat stage. This can essentially lead t...
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Youmi - Learner drivers and instructors connected thanks to this innovative app... Driving lessons can be very expensive. There is no base rate, so instructors charge whatever they feel like and the learner doesn’t necessarily know any better. There are so many instructors to choose from, it can be hard to know who to get lessons from. Conversely, driving lessons can be a difficult thing to...
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Toppa wants to become the Netflix of bitesize learning, by giving subscribers unlimited access to hundreds of hours of bite-sized interactive business courses, downloadable documents, mentoring and training from business experts that have actually 'been there and done it', with the aim of making professional learning fun. In today’s fast-paced and always connected world, finding the time to...
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New app Reach, offers an online physio service helping neck pain sufferers fast track their recovery, taking the pain out of endless NHS waiting times, with a personalised physio program offered in just 15 minutes. Musculoskeletal pain is urrently second most common reason for work absenteeism and costs EU economies £200bn each year.  Step forward, Reach, the first 100% online physi...
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Yumpingo - The startup that's using big data analytics and machine learning to empower business owners in the hospitality sector... As all business owners know, customer satisfaction is an absolute must - in every market sector. Gaining information on what a customer wants, their views on a product or service or the likelihood of them becoming a repeat or regular customer is vital. After all...
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Cardiff-based AgriTech startup Phytoponics wants to make fresh produce abundant with their hydroponic solutions that are scalable, profitable, and sustainable. We have written a good few times about agritech, as it is a vital field in which fascinating and exciting developments are being made. From Small Robot Company, innovating the farming industry with AI-controlled robots; to MiAlgae, revolut...
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