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Trayde - The marketplace that's reinventing wholesale for independent retailers and artisan brandsIf you’re an artisan maker, you’ll know only too well how challenging it can be to get your products and brand out there. Developing and building a solid customer base can be a difficult task to say the least. Likewise, if you are an independent retailer, identifying and sourcing new ...
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The 2020 Invent competition Semi-finalists are revealed... Catalyst has announced the 18 NI semi-finalists who have progressed to the next stage of local innovation competition Invent 2020. Catalyst’s annual Invent competition sponsored by Bank of Ireland UK highlights local businesses that demonstrate innovation in their fields and can prove the commercial viability of a new idea. The...
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HMRC have announced that the coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will launch online on 26 May. UK Employers with fewer than 250 employees will be able to use the scheme to claim coronavirus-related Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). Tax agents will also be able to make claims on behalf of employers.If you’re an employer, you’ll be able to avail of the scheme if:  you had few...
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The lowdown on TailHail, the Newcastle-based startup that's innovating in the private flying sector Have you ever watched a film where the characters are in a private plane, being flown in peace and quiet to their destination and thought, just for a moment, that you would like to experience the luxury and sense of importance that comes from having a plane to yourself? Right before the environmen...
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Collctiv, the Manchester-based startup that makes it easy to #GoCashless and collect money from friends, family and neighbours... Most of us will have been in the situation where we want to simply send some money to a friend or family member without going through the hassle of bank account details and little verification card machine things from our bank that don’t work properly no mat...
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Polystream becomes an Epic MegaGrants recipient... Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, has awarded a 'MegaGrant' to Polystream, a deep-tech startup and the world’s most scalable real-time 3D content and application delivery platform, to further enhance its content development platform.The Epic MegaGrants program has been created to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media...
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Diaspo is a platform that is facilitating authentic cooking classes between different generations... Let’s face it - there is something quite special about family recipes that have been passed down from our parents or grandparents. Apart from the sharing of knowledge and tips, they can also evoke wonderful memories and of course help us to keep a link to our past open.It’s not just ...
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As UK prepares for the next phase of lockdown, leading venture capital investors and micro mobility unicorn Lime shared their views on the future of innovations in the most affected sectors by Coronavirus – retail, real estate, travel and urban mobility in the latest online “Ecosystem” webinar. The speakers discussed the role of technology in building resilient city in...
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Peppy is an innovative startup that's on a mission is to make it easier for people to get support from qualified and vetted health practitioners... Some groups of people are particularly affected by the current lockdown. Those with mental health struggles or those who are in a form of isolation already due to various factors such as ill health, advanced age, or even new parents with a baby taki...
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Blueprint, the retailtech startup that's got "Conversational Ecommerce" at its core... If you go into a shop and talk to the staff about your needs, the chances are they will recommend a product to you, tell you why, and then upon your agreement, they will go and get it for you. It’s a simple part of shopping that uses our natural capacity for communication, and it is something that as a ...
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iPrescribe Exercise, the personalised and automated physical activity prescription app to help people get active and manage chronic medical conditions... If there is one thing that the current situation has probably taught us, it is how our health is the most important thing of all. Yes, of course we ought to know that already, but it’d be fair to say that we often take it for granted unt...
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Registration now open for equity funding scheme for UK startups...Capital Pilot has just announced the pre-launch of the Rescue Equity Fund, an initiative aimed at helping thousands of UK startups to survive through the COVID-19 crisis. Although the fund is still in fundraising mode, early stage growth businesses are being invited to register their interest to ensure priority access to the applic...
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