Inspiring

Aeropowder 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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With 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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AR 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 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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Using 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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We'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 - 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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GoodBox - The lowdown on the startup that's using digital tech to innovate the fundraising sector Fundraising can be a difficult task, hindered by all sorts of problems from suspicion of an unknown charity, to cost of making their cause known versus what they can raise, to the simplest of obstacles like shaking a collection box at someone unable to reach into their pocket because they have a coff...
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Early-stage startup aiPatient is aiming to offer affordable medical education using AI, with students and healthcare professionals interacting with digital, artificial intelligent patients.Patient interaction is at the core of healthcare education, as well as the continued education of qualified doctors and healthcare professionals. Outside of a hospital or clinic, however, the opportunity for thi...
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MindMate - the app that helps users, including those with dementia, to become more active & improve their brain health via mental exercises, workout routines and recipes Dementia, in all of its forms, is a terrible and frightening thing for both the person suffering from it and those around them. It describes a group of symptoms such as memory loss, problems with communication skills, reasoni...
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"If you want to teach a nation to read: Just turn on the subtitles". This simple advice might just help make kids become proficient readers... Oli Barrett MBE, amongst many other things, co-founded StartUp Britain, Tenner, and social innovation agency Cospa. Tenner, for example (now run by Young Enterprise), has challenged over 250,000 school pupils to see what they can achieve in one month,...
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Innovation in mobility for the visually impaired thanks to WeWALK, a revolutionary smart cane!  Almost 1 in every 25 people is visually impaired. That’s 250 million people worldwide. Of these, 50 million use a cane. We’ve all walked past someone at some point, making their way confidently with a white cane, and considered how difficult and frightening we would find it to have to ...
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