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Anorak - The lowdown on the InsurTech startup which is on a mission to disrupt the life insurance sector... Whilst we all generally insure our homes and cars without fail, when it comes to insuring ourselves, some of us tend to be a little more lax. Life insurance is often something that we just put off. Of course if and when we eventually get round to it, it can be a real challenge figuring...
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The lowdown on UtilityAR, the Dublin startup that's using AR to help leading industry sectors Most of us will have had some mundane experience of trying to walk somebody through a process over the phone. We have to picture in our minds what they are looking at and try to guide them to press the right buttons, take the correct path, train a person through a task, or whatever it happens to be. ...
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Oathello, the Dublin Fintech and Regtech startup that's on a mission to make signing legal and financial paperwork easier Anyone who works in the legal system knows how important notaries are, primarily witnessing the signing of documents - a simple-sounding but vital role. Because they are independent, they have to be hired, and because they have to be hired, scheduling and availability become a...
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Tax returns made easy thanks to TaxScouts, the FinTech startup which is shaking up how personal taxes are done in the UK....Ever had to complete a self-assessment tax return? If you have, chances are you’ve put the task off as long as you could and have ended up submitting it at the very last minute or, worse still submitted it late and been hit with fixed penalty as a result. It can be...
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Humanising Autonomy is a startup that's on a mission to improve human interaction with automated vehicles, by building human-centered tools that define how autonomous systems interact with people. Autonomous cars are coming. In some places, they are already in place. The likes of Tesla say that self-driving cars are the future, and they’re working hard to make that future now. The biggest p...
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London-based cyber-security startup PixelPin want to simplify security using image-based authentication to replace passwords.  Passwords need to be long and complicated in order to be in any way secure, and that means they can become difficult to remember; especially if you use a different password for every website and service you use. There is a surprisingly low login success rate with pa...
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Startup or SME? InsurTech startup Nimbla has been created just for you and is on a mission to provide smart cover for small business As any business owner will vouch for, the issue of credit control is a major challenge. Chasing payments is not only time-consuming but it’s also often unsuccessful. Whilst this is an issue for all businesses, it is even more of an issue for small businesses s...
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Technology has transformed how people interact. We are on the cusp of an exciting new era in clinical communication, and a key shift in the empowerment of patients as a stakeholder in healthcare. "As Tim Cook (Apple) stated recently, the Healthcare market’s potential could dwarf the smartphone market, which currently accounts for some 65% of Apple’s total revenue, and the statistics t...
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Augmented reality gaming and physical exercise combined, thanks to Run An Empire, the location-based strategy game for runners and walkers. One popular genre of video game is strategy, in which the player takes command of an entire civilisation and builds them up from cave-dwellers to all-conquering world powers. Or builds a pretty garden and maintains it. Usually, players sit behind a keybo...
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iDyslexic - The specialist social community media platform and app to support those with Dyslexia and ADHD. According to the European Dyslexia Association, ‘dyslexia is a difference in acquiring reading, spelling and writing skills, that is neurological in origin. The cognitive difficulties that cause these differences can also affect organisational skills, calculation abilities etc. It may...
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Shuttout - The community-driven marketplace startup that's adding social value to photographs... The market for still imagery is estimated to become worth $4 billion by 2020, at 7% growth every year. Everyone with a smartphone is a photographer these days. Our food, our dog, our daily commute becomes art, frozen on our screens and mused over like it’s a Degas. By ourselves. And then we ge...
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Video games have been traditionally thought of as solitary affair, with the modern online component offering an ironic emphasis to this, with thousands of people playing alone… together. Yet more and more the video game market is embracing the local co-operative play model, expressing a vital element of what you need in a good team building exercise. Professional events geared to build up y...
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