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Ahead of World Mental Health Day, iwoca partners with Spill, to provide free mental wellbeing support sessions for small business owners in the UK. According to new research undertaken by leading small business lenders, iwoca, only 30% of small business owners experiencing symptoms of poor mental health have sought professional help from a counsellor or therapist. Their research reveals that t...
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Cala's mission to innovate the catering sector continues as it secures funding boost to support expansion of its fully autonomous restaurant chain Exciting times ahead in the catering sector with the news that Cala, a company using advanced robotics to make high-quality meals accessible to everybody, has secured a €5.5M Seed investment. Cala was founded in 2017 by engineering students wh...
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Career Masterclass, the leading digital career development platform for black and ethnically-diverse professionals secures backing of new investors to help with the next stage of the company’s growth. As many of you may already know, Career Masterclass is an organisation on a mission to become the one-stop career development platform helping to level the playing field for professionals fr...
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  The lowdown on the innovative companies that have been selected as the latest cohort of FinTech, Tech Nation’s sector-specific growth programme for fintech entrepreneurs. We’ve heard lots of good news recently from the Tech Nation team with details of the cohorts taking part in their Net Zero programme for climate tech companies, their Future Fifty programme for late stage tec...
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Five Seasons Ventures has raised its flagship Fund II to continue investment and support of innovative consumer Food Tech startups in Europe It’s a great start to the week for European Food Tech venture capital firm Five Seasons Ventures with the announcement of the final closing of a €180M second fund. Fund II will continue making Series A and B investments into the most promising ...
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The success and recognition continues for Alchemy Technology Services as they make the Top 10 of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Tech List 2021. The good news keeps coming for Alchemy Technology Services! Following on from their recent rankings as number 29 on the UK’s Best Workplaces List and number 11 on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women List, the company has just...
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https://startacus.net/culture/work-in-progress-event-to-reflect-the-changing-face-of-work-and-workplaces#.YVsQ9JNKjPA New research by small business lender iwoca reveals the concerns small business owners have about staff returning to work after furlough As furlough nears its end, research by iwoca, Europe's largest small business lender, has revealed that two in five small business owners are c...
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An impressive cohort of 30 businesses from across the UK are announced as participants in Tech Nation's inaugural Libra programme for Black and Multiracial Founders The Tech Nation mission to support innovative UK tech companies continues! Following on from their recent announcements on the companies participating in their Net Zero, Future Fifty and Applied AI programmes, they have just announ...
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Latest TechIreland Startup Funding Review reveals that 2021 has been a record breaking year so far for Irish tech companies Good news to start the week with the publication of TechIreland’s Startup Funding Review which reveals that a record €932 million has been raised by 101 Irish tech companies in the first half of the year. The money was raised from a variety of sources, includin...
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Work: In Progress is a one-day hybrid event exploring the future of work and workspaces, talent planning, diversity, inclusion and social purpose and the hiring demands of the growing tech sector The world of work is changing. From the future of workspaces and ways of working, through to future jobs and talent planning; commitments to Diversity, Inclusion and social purpose through to meeting t...
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Impressive cohort of 32 AI tech scaleups from across the UK are announced as participants in Tech Nation's Applied AI 3.0 growth programme. It’s all systems go for the folk at Tech Nation. Hot on the heels of the announcement of the late-stage startups who have been selected for their Future Fifty programme and last week’s news on the Climate Tech companies participating in NetZero...
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  Tickets up for grabs for NI startups to attend leading Northern Ireland tech and business event Digital DNA 2021 Startacus (that’s us by the way) are giving NI startups the chance to win 2 x VIP or 2 x Standard tickets to attend Digital DNA 2021. Digital DNA 2021 is just around the corner! The leading NI technology and business event, is returning to Belfast on Tuesday 28th and Wed...
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