Interview
EdTech Startup Perlego branded the “Spotify for student textbooks”
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th January 2017EdTech Startup Perlego has been branded the “Spotify for student textbooks”. With the aim of making educational content more scalable and affordable, we spoke to Founder Gauthier Van Malderen to find out more about their subscription service that has 'class' intentions...Tell us in 140 characters or less what Perlego aims to do.
Perlego which has been branded ...
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Lawtech Startup Enoron aims to raise the bar for legal professionals
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd December 2016Equity crowdfunding can be an excellent way to raise capital for your growing business. Over the years we have covered many campaigns that have gone on to become a run-away success; here’s hoping this is another one to add to our list.
Enoron is a software as a service startup working in the seldom discussed LawTech sector; an innovation that the team behind it hope will revolutionise the w...
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5 Successful Influencer Marketing Campaigns
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th December 2016Influencers are a great way to market to people. They have a huge audience, posts are more likely to be shared by their followers, and just by having your product they are giving it their own seal of approval. The bigger the influencer, the harder it is for anyone but equally big brands to actually get them to be part of a marketing campaign, but the impact of these campaigns is undeniable. Here a...
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Entrepreneur Mum Debbie Craig Launches Autism Software- Boop
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th September 2016Debbie Craig is quite the inspirational entrepreneur.
She is CEO and Software developer of Boop - an innovative multi-platform software designed to engage all of the important people in an autistic child’s life, and the child themself as well.
The idea, came from her own experience of raising a child with autism.
We caught up with Debbie to discuss her jour...
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Moteefe- Reinventing Product Manufacture and Delivery
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd August 2016Time and time again, studies have revealed that one of the biggest obstacles to entrepreneurship is fear.
Many people dream of starting their own business, but the risks associated are often enough to prevent them from moving forward with their ambition.
On a positive note, the rise of the internet, and particularly things like e-commerce have helped to alleviate some of the financial concerns ...
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We Chat to Ethical Online Spanish Language School
by: Startacus Admin ~ 26th July 2016Oh, how we love it when good business and social responsibility come together.
Phiroza Marker is a Member of our community and is also the co-founder of Spanish Marks, an ethical online Spanish language school which connects tutors and students via online classrooms from anywhere in the world.
It is an ethically-focused enterprise which helps to support tutor's communities in Guatemala, with a p...
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Startup Events App yada aims to create a 360-degree event experience
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st July 2016Mehram Sumray-Roots is the Product Director & Co-Founder of yada, a Event Tech Startup that pitches itself a the complete Events App. With an all-round holistic approach to the events process, we were keen to speak to recent graduate Mehram about her Startup, what makes yada stand out, and what challenges she has faced being a young, post-graduate Entrepreneur...
Hi Mehram! You are starting u...
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Challenging Industry Norms - We Chat to Fintech Startup Reposit
by: Startacus Admin ~ 23rd June 2016The startup landscape of recent times has been dominated by stories success achieved by companies that have reimagined something and challenged industry norms where they see that things could be done more simply and efficiently.
Hoping to add their name to a long list of UK startups working to disrupt their market is Reposit - a fintech / proptech startup that has found a far better way givi...
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Digital Content of the Scientific Kind
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd June 2016A few weeks back Startacus was delighted to welcome the team from SciencePod to our Tech Startup Pitch Battle, upSTART.
SciencePOD is a specialist content creation agency focused on technology, science, medicine and innovation. They offer a platform to create clear and compelling content integrated with a smart magazine publishing tool.
They put up a fab fight at upSTART, but sadly didn&r...
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Startacus Chats to Romanna Bint-Abubaker from Modlist
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th June 2016Startacus Chats to Romanna Bint-Abubaker from Modlist
A few weeks ago the Startacus team played host to a pitch battle ‘upSTART Belfast’ in which 27 tech-focussed startups presented their business to a panel of 10 investors and industry leaders in the hope of winning a treasure trove of prizes valued at £50K.
All fought valiantly, but none quite so much as Romanna Bint-Abu...
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Barclays Small Business Manager talks Fintech, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
by: Startacus Admin ~ 10th June 2016Few aspects of running a business have changed as significantly in recent years as banking and finance. The ever-growing influence of ‘digital’ has paved the way for fintech innovations to thrive, revolutionising the way that businesses complete transactions and raise capital, as well as business customers expectations of their financial service providers.
Amongst this much-altered la...
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Campaigns Director at Seedrs Frank Webster Chats to Startacus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th June 2016Since its launch in 2012, Seedrs has grown to become a major investment facilitator for an incredible range of startups, and has been instrumental in establishing equity crowdfunding as a mainstream source of funding for early stage and scaling startups alike.
It’s fair to say that they know startups inside and out, which is why we are so pleased that they have chosen to be major sponsor o...
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- Too Good To Go raises further €6m to keep fighting food waste everywhere 6th Feb 2019 Fast growing tech for good app Too Good To Go raises a further €6 million to accelerate its mission to eliminate food waste globally, taking its total investment to €16m.
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