Inspiring
Mimica Touch relabels the food waste problem
by: Startacus Admin ~ 10th March 2019Mimica Touch - The startup that has created a biologically active food expiry label to help combat food waste.
In the UK, 7 million tonnes of food and drink is thrown away every year. Much of this is due to people looking at the ‘use by’ date and throwing away out-of-date food and drink without stopping to check if it really has gone bad. Whether this is easy to check for yourself, li...
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Personal wellness app KeepAppy looks set for healthy future
by: Startacus Admin ~ 10th March 2019KeepAppy, a personal wellness app, designed to empower users to take control of their mental and physical wellbeing, was recently selected to participate in this year’s Launchbox in association with Tangent, Trinity’s Ideas Workspace in Dublin. We took a look...
By enabling people to track all of the vitals that most impact an individual’s wellbeing, KeepAppy is a wellness app t...
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Startup Weekend Dublin immigration aims to builds ideas not borders
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th February 2019The first ever Startup Weekend Dublin immigration comes to Dublin this March from the 8th to 10th. Powered by Dublin City Council and LEO Dublin, the 54 hour long event aims help introduce migrants to entrepreneurship and those wishing to solve problems affecting them. We love the 'doing-it', not just 'talking-it' approach and thought wise to share all the details someone would need to know...
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Education innovation of the CENTURY
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd February 2019CENTURY is an EdTech startup that believes that "every learner deserves an educational journey that’s tailored to suit their own personal needs".
London-based CENTURY Tech has created an award-winning platform for teaching and learning. It is designed for primary schools all the way through to universities, for any student in any curriculum. The platform, CENTURY, uses artificial intel...
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Turtle Pack powers ahead with it's swimming aid for kids
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th January 2019Turtle Pack is an innovative swimming aid that aim's to change the way kids aged 3-6 learn to swim. We found out more about this innovative Livingston-based startup.
Turtle Pack is an innovative swimming aid that will change the way kids aged 3-6 learn to swim. Comprising of a high-quality neoprene vest and three removable foam shells, Turtle Pack has been designed by swimming experts to ensure t...
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Aeropowder tackles the plastic problem with feather based packaging
by: Startacus Admin ~ 28th December 2018Aeropowder is an award winning startup, who's first product pluumo, is the world’s first feather-based thermal packaging material.
Packaging is a problem. It is choking the life out of the oceans, literally, and can take between 450 and 1,000 years to break down when dumped in landfills. Although we have known these things for quite some time, we have only very recently begun to do anything...
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Social marketplace for local help Helpfulpeeps looks to the crowd
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th November 2018With over 180,000 registered Helpfulpeeps members, award-winning social marketplace Helpfulpeeps is crowdfunding on Seedrs, with over 80% of their target reached on the first day.
Helpfulpeeps is a social marketplace for local help - we've followed their journey on Startacus for the last few years. Now with over 180,000 registered members across iOS, Android and web, they are aiming to build...
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Virtuali-Tee brings the science of anatomy to life
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th November 2018AR anatomy learning, thanks to Curiscope and their Virtuali-Tee, an Augmented Reality T-Shirt that bring the science of anatomy to life.
We wrote back in 2016 about how interactive, entertaining technology can be utilised to educate children (and adults) in a more engaging way than reading out of textbooks for an hour. Children are more familiar with technology than ever before, and wha...
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Sustainably - charitable giving you can bank on
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th November 2018Sustainably - Charitable giving made easy thanks to this innovative startup that enables you to have an impact on charities every time you shop...
We like to write about charitable startups; those using their innovative, fresh take on things to do good. Traditional charities have never seen massive success, but lately, public faith in these charities has become less and less. Money is ...
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CropSafe want to make it easy to detect crop disease
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th October 2018Using satellite imagery, combined with machine learning techniques, AgTech startup CropSafe are on a mission to accurately detect and predict impending diseases within farmers crops.
When three Northern Irish, Co Derry, high-school students launch a satellite and computer vision crop surveying platform during a Hackathon at Queen’s University, Belfast, it's hard not to take notice. When you...
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Feels FM - the emoji powered jukebox for mental health
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th September 2018We're liking the sound (and look) of Feels FM, an emoji-powered jukebox using music as a positive coping strategy, & to find new ways to talk about mental health.
Made by @s0methingsays & @neu_studio in collaboration with Scottish mental health charity See Me, Feels FM uses music as a positive coping strategy, and to find new ways to talk about mental health stigma and discrimin...
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WaytoB - from A to B made easy
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd September 2018waytoB - The Tech For Good startup, helping those with higher support needs, get from A to B.
For many people with higher support needs, getting around without a carer can be difficult, unnerving, and disorienting. Traditional means of navigating might not cut it, as they can be confusing or simply too much in an already stressful situation. On top of this, friends, family, and carers themselves ...
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