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AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. So will robots become part of the family as our pets have?  AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. Published this week in the Telegraph was news from Sir Nigel Shadbolt that robots will not destroy humanity. It seems movies depicting the f...
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Innovation in healthcare thanks to Cambridge based startup OKRA Technologies who are using AI analytics for healthcare... We have written previously about healthcare startups - such as TrackActive and Ping An Good Doctor - that are using artificial intelligence to improve healthcare education, enable patients to get diagnoses quicker, relieve pain, and much more. Artificial intelligence allo...
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"Financial wellbeing at its simplest" thanks to new FinTech startup Huuti!  Whilst some of us may be pretty savvy with our finances, for others, the opposite is true. Budgeting and saving can prove to be a lot more challenging than spending!If you can relate to that, then we reckon that our latest startup of the week will be right up your street.Huuti is an innovative new startup which ...
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Candidate.ID, the startup that's on a mission to build talent pipelines, which enable the world’s employers to hire faster with higher quality... As we said in our recent article about recruitment startup for the industrial sector, Pickr, a survey of over 700 UK businesses showed that one of the two biggest challenges these businesses will face in 2019 is recruitment. As usual, startups ...
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The Norwich based startup Pickr that is innovating recruitment for the industrial sectors with their digital staffing solution... As we highlighted in January, a survey conducted by global credit company Creditsafe and completed by 755 business leaders predicts that the biggest challenges to UK businesses in 2019 will be recruitment and the economy. One in five of these businesses believe...
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HealthyHealth are on a mission is to build a preventative rather than reactive healthcare system for customers, encouraging healthy behaviour through an algorithm and research data predicting one's risk for medical conditions based on their lifestyle data. Health and insurance are intrinsically linked. TrackActive which uses a chatbot and artificial intelligence to diagnose musculoskeletal probl...
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Space-as-a-Service startup DeskHoppa is a community of businesses and working spaces that offer their desks to rent, enabling businesses to become co-working spaces.  DeskHoppa was born out of a problem. During the heatwave in June 2018 software developer Jason Bell had a simple need, “All I wanted was a desk for an hour. In the middle of meetings in Belfast I needed to a video call wi...
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TrackActive, a London-based healthcare & InsurTech company, launches its AI-powered 'physio in your pocket' app that aims to change the way people seek help for pain in their joints, necks and backs. Of all health conditions in the UK, musculoskeletal conditions are the leading cause of people living for years with disability. It also has strong links to mental health – people in persis...
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Blockchain startup eTEU aims to improve the efficiency of supply chain management and decrease administrative expenses for freight forwarders and freight shippers, with their blockchain solution. It is estimated that the combination of blockchain and the Economy of Things (real-time global digital markets made possible by the Internet of Things) is a development that will generate over $1 trillio...
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Songbook enables fans to invest in songs and earn royalty income with their unique music focused crowdfunding platform. Sounds good, so we took a look... Music makers certainly can’t all rely on big producers handing them piles of money to put out their next album. Many artists have to fund their music from their own pocket, and no matter how much of that full orchestral accompaniment they ...
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Paying for travel just became a whole lot easier thanks to London based travtech startup Awaymo. Whilst the rise in budget airlines may have helped us all nab a bargain flight or two, there are plenty of occasions when the flight we need to book is a lot more costly than we’d like. Whether it’s a last minute thing, a long haul destination or simply because it’s a stretch on...
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Insurtech startup DeadHappy officially launched this week, bringing the UK’s first fully digital pay-as-you-go life insurance to consumers. The company is on a mission to make it simpler for everyone, particularly the 8.1 million Brits who don’t have life insurance, to get protection that meets their needs at the right price. There's InsurTech disruption in pretty much all a...
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