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InChorus, the startup that's on a mission to address bias and harassment in the workplace... As our society evolves and matures, instances of bias and harassment and bigotry decrease. Incrementally. We would like to think that the switch from things like racism and sexism and homophobia being the accepted norm to being recognised as grotesque distortions of what it is to be human would have a...
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Liverpool based startup factory, Nova launches crowdfunding campaign to help further expansion Nova, the cofoundery that’s enabled over 70 tech businesses, including a Dungeons & Dragons inventory app, a hand hygiene improvement system for hospitals and a foetal monitoring wearable for expectant mums, is launching a fresh round of funding to grow its UK and international expansion. It...
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We take a look at Freetrade, the fintech startup that'll enable us all to invest on the stock market... Certain Startacustodians might have been rich now had we continued to invest in the likes of Tesla and Bitcoin. Instead of writing this article, we’d be landing our private helicopter on our super-yacht and berating the help for not topping up Richard Branson’s champagne. Or at le...
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Petal Plan is our latest startup of the week - a UK startup that is on a mission to innovate how we both buy and receive the gift of flowers... Let’s face it - flowers will always be one of the most popular gifts you can buy someone - no matter what the occasion.And whilst we are all now pretty used to ordering flowers online, it can sometimes seem a little dull to browse through pics of ...
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Whilst mainstream lenders are trying to lose the connotation of payday loans, a wave of fintech are looking to offer complete alternatives. The high lending and ‘payday’ industry continues to attract criticism from politicians, religious figures and the press. In 2014, the industry was worth over £2 billion and had over 50 lenders – but this number is dwindling following t...
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Become, a leading online platform for SMBs to find and optimise funding solutions, closes it's own Series A investment round. We take a look at the platform... Become, the tech startup that operates a business lending marketplace to give SMBs more funding choices, have completed their own Series A investment round.  The company provides businesses with tools to improve their fundabilit...
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London-based startup UrbanThings builds transit apps and smart-ticketing platforms that will make commuting that bit easier... Everyone is online now. We have our faces firmly buried in phone screens for about 90% of our day, we get our news digitally, we communicate digitally, we book Star Wars tickets digitally. But despite this large-scale move from now-unnecessarily convoluted offli...
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The innovative software that is helping businesses to "solve tomorrow's problems today"... London-based data visualisation startup Emu Analytics has created a platform to turn the billions of points of data collected all around us into visualised, actionable insights. They can do this through two products: Flo.w and LINE. Flo.w captures, analyses and visualises location and time-based data ...
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The lowdown on Taptrip, the traveltech startup that's making it easier to manage business travel... Travel is expensive, and if your business is the type that has employees on the road a lot, the cost adds up. And so does the workload for the person who has to sit and sift through the receipts and bookings and keep everything running smoothly. Any SME knows that the smallest amount of money that ...
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The lowdown on NotLost, the startup that's making lost property a doddle to manage... If you’ve got a business which is frequented by members of the public, chances are they occasionally leave things behind. It’s rarely deliberate of course, but it just happens. People lose or forget things. Sometimes they’re valuable, sometimes they’re sentimental. Either way though, they...
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The London based startup, Good Life Sorted that has created a marketplace for older adults to connect with helpers within the community... It is an unfortunate fact that older people are more often the targets of scams and related crimes than the average younger person. They are often depicted as either too trusting and gullible, or the complete opposite and they won’t open the door to anyo...
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Product designers take note - this one's for you! Threedium has created a 3D product configuration and visualisation platform... There is a step between seeing a product in photos and getting your hands on it in person in a shop. Seeing a realistic 3D representation of the product and turning it this way and that to scrutinise it from every angle is the next best thing to seeing it in p...
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