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New report reveals the huge impact of Archangels' investments on the Scottish economy in terms of both money generated and jobs created. Archangels, the world’s longest continually running investment syndicate, has generated up to £1.4 billion Gross Value Added (GVA) for the Scottish economy from its investments in the life sciences and tech sectors. The analysis, conducted by the...
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Saas companies and professional services firms on the island of Ireland set to meet at the  upcoming SaaStock Conference in Dublin - 100 complimentary tickets available. We've recently announced details of our new collaboration project with TechIreland, featuring an interactive portal and a series of networking events, all made possible with the support from InterTradeIrelan...
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Toqio secures major investment to support further expansion and drive its vision of becoming the world's premier fintech SaaS platform. The good news keeps coming for fast-growing fintech SaaS provider Toqio with the announcement that it has closed €20 million in funding to become the platform of choice for creating new fintech solutions. Having raised an €8M seed round last year...
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Innovate UK KTN’s Sustainable Impact Investment Programme chooses 13 sustainable UK startups striving to change the world Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups of the future to take part in its prestigious sustainability accelerator programme. Over the next ten weeks, 13 companies selected from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will work with Innovate UK KTN and their partners Growth Studi...
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Etihad Airways partners with Aerospace Xelerated and Tawazun Economic Council to seek applications from innovative startups that are working in the digital services and solutions area. Aerospace Xelerated has today announced that Etihad Airways joined as a programme partner for its fourth cohort. Following three successful cohorts led by Boeing and supported by industry partners, this year&rsqu...
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Cross-border collaboration project featuring interactive portal and series of networking events to be delivered by TechIreland and Startacus, with support from InterTradeIreland’s Synergy initiative. Thrilled to announce that TechIreland and Startacus, both organisations that promote startups and tech SMEs in Ireland and Northern Ireland were recently approved funding under InterTrad...
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In London later this week and interested in learning how AI can help startups scale? Book your ticket now for this free event from Women in AI featuring a panel of industry experts discussing just that. Women in AI proudly present their very first free startup community event taking place at Wayve located in North London on Thursday 29th September 2022. Women in AI is a nonprofit working towar...
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The latest Funding Review from TechIreland reveals that Irish Startups raised €746M in the first-half 2022 but early-stage rounds have dropped to a five-year low. Today, TechIreland published their H1 2022 Funding Review. The report shows that 91 Irish startups between them raised €746.2 Million in the first half of the year. This is 20% lower than the same period last year, but 2021 ...
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Artist John Kerr set to exhibit a series of personal paintings at The Spot, the urban-art focused gallery in Derry as part of Culture Night 2022. Opening Friday 23rd September as part of the annual Culture Night celebrations, UV Arts will host local artist John Kerr in an urban-art focused gallery in Derry with his solo show entitled “Movement”. John Kerr, artist and current Head o...
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The innovative businesses participating in this year’s AI Accelerator, delivered by The University of Edinburgh’s Innovation Hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Bayes Centre are revealed. A business commercialisation programme, which helps innovative companies using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to maximise their full potential, has announced its new 2022/23 cohort....
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New business event Invest2Scale aims to support Scottish scaleups by introducing them to investors and VCs based across the UK and beyond. A new, in-person business event aimed at supporting the best scale-up companies in Scotland has just been launched in Edinburgh. Led by a group of leading business support organisations, Invest2Scale will help revenue-generating scalable Scottish companies w...
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Ulster Bank has once again partnered with AwakenHub to deliver the second iteration of its popular SheGenerate programme. SheGen2.0 will provide targeted support for early-stage female founders and is particularly interested in supporting women who are interested in building their own business. Interested entrepreneurs have just days left to apply for a spot on the all-island programme wh...
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