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Five of the teams from NI-based Catalyst's first Co-Founders programme in the NW have been successful in securing £10,000 of Innovate UK funding  Great news from NI-based Catalyst which successfully completed its first North West Northern Ireland Co-Founders programme, supporting a new generation of first-time entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups from the region....
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Major funding secured by Glasgow-based ClinSpec Dx to help further develop its innovative, impactful and early detection cancer testing technology  Efforts to improve the early detection of cancer have received a significant boost with a £2.4 million funding deal to support the further development of innovative testing technology.Glasgow-based ClinSpec Diagnostics Limited (ClinSpec Dx)...
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Don’t fall for the ‘next best action’ trap! We need to move beyond the current trend of adding simplistic AI tools to sales force dashboards,OKRA will highlight at their 15th September free webinar OKRA, is an artificial intelligence company for healthcare who use AI-powered analytics to save and improve human lives. Here, they share all on their coming-soon free webinar: These...
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Impacting Founders is a new 10-week startup programme for NI-based female founders, facilitated by Startacus, in partnership with Young Enterprise NI and funded by Ulster Bank.We are delighted to share the news that Ulster Bank is partnering with Young Enterprise NI and Startacus to fund a project aimed at driving more women toward a career in entrepreneurship. Facilitated by team Start...
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The world-leading sustainability competition, Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge announces its finalists for 2020, including two startups from Britain We've written previously about the shortlist for leading sustainability competition, the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge and now the finalists have just been announced. And we're delighted to reveal that two British startups Jiva Materials and S...
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The launch of the f:Entrepreneur campaign celebrating the inspirational women running their own businesses in the UK A campaign to identify Britain’s 100 most inspiring and multi-achieving female entrepreneurs has officially kicked off, with dynamic businesswomen across the country encouraged to apply to join the ranks of the f:Entrepreneur #ialso 100.Startacus recently launched Impacting F...
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Sustainability startups that will benefit the UK aerospace industry currently being sought by the ATI Boeing Accelerator for its second cohort... Applications are now open for the second cohort of the ATI Boeing Accelerator which will invest into sustainability-enabling startups that will benefit the UK aerospace industry. Launched in 2019, the accelerator was created in partnership by the ...
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Xero SBI data reveals that job losses continue despite sales recovery The global small business platform, Xero has released new metrics on the health of the UK’s small business community in July from its Small Business Insights (SBI) program, in partnership with research firm AlphaBeta (part of Accenture). Based on anonymised and aggregated customer data, the latest Xero SBI da...
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sync. announces new strategic partnership with ComplyAdvantage...We recently had a feature on sync., a UK money management app innovating the Open Banking space and aiming to make money management simple and accessible to everyone, and we are delighted to feature it again as it has just officially announced its partnership with ComplyAdvantage. sync. is an innovative new Open ...
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Yorkshire and Manchester based innovation agency Alt Theory launches and announces it has already secured a key client and partnership... Great news for Alt Theory, a Growth and Innovation agency, launched in the first week of August 2020 with the announcement that it has signed up new client zerotwonine (029), part of the Hirschen Group. Based in Yorkshire & Manchester, Alt Theory challenge...
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UK-based independent beauty brands - this one's for you! Good potential news for the beauty industry in the UK with the launch of The Beauty Accelerator™, a joint initiative between The Red Tree, the UK’s leading international beauty brand consultancy, and SFC Capital, a leader in the UK’s early stage investment world.The initiative will see one emerging independent beauty bra...
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TechIreland has released its H1 2020 Startup Funding Review - a report that includes Venture Capital, Grants and other funding raised by tech startups across Ireland and Northern Ireland, with the review highlighting some worrrying trends in Irish funding. Between January and June of this year, startups raised €545 Million in funding - the highest recorded in the last 4 years.  “W...
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