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Made in Britain and the British Design Fund launch joint initiative to champion manufacturing innovation, collaboration and growth in 2023. Made in Britain and the British Design Fund have announced a partnership aimed at championing innovation, growth and collaboration between UK design and manufacturing. The initiative will kick off in January 2023 with the launch of a series of joint webinar...
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Pixyle AI secures seed funding round to help fashion ecommerce deliver better search experiences, enabling consumers to get to their desired items faster. The poor product discovery experience of consumers is costing online sellers and ecommerce companies billions in lost sales as they fail to live up to user expectations. Helping them address this problem, visual AI startup for e-commerce,&nb...
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Proptech startup Speiz secures seed investment to support its mission of digitally transforming the broken brokerage market. Norwegian proptech startup, Speiz, has raised €1.3M in seed funding round led by F-LOG Ventures. The funding will enable Speiz to continue establishing their new SaaS-enabled marketplace for commercial warehouse real estate in Norway and expand its reach across Europ...
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BT reveals new cohort of innovative startups aiming to help solve sustainability challenges in the manufacturing sector. BT has just announced phase two of its Green Tech Innovation Platform (TIP), to fast-track cutting-edge new digital solutions to help manufacturers cut their carbon emissions and progress towards a circular world. Following the initial scouting phase supported by Plug and Pl...
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Participants in Catalyst’s Co-Founders programme offered opportunity to avail of a £10,000 proof of concept grant from Techstart to help validate their business idea. We'd recently reported on the call-out for applications for the Catalyst Co-Founders programme and now there's more good news for anyone who is thinking about applying, thanks to a collaborative new partnership be...
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Atoa announces pre-seed funding for its solution to empower and improve cash flow for independent, small and mid-sized UK retail merchants. There are more than 4 million small businesses in the UK which have no viable alternative to debit card payments and are reliant on Mastercard or Visa payment rails. Challenging this status quo, UK fintech Atoa Payments is announcing a $2.2M pre-s...
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Pact launches its first £30M fund to back early-stage European tech startups using technology for economic inclusion, well-being and climate solutions. Pact has launched its first £30m seed fund to back early-stage startups across Europe using technology to tackle key priorities for the next generation - economic inclusion, personal and professional well-being, and climate solutions...
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Co-Founders seeking people with innovative ideas and desire to create startups that could change the world for its 2023 programme. Got an idea for a high-growth startup or the skillset to help build one? If you’ve answered yes, then the Co-Founders programme by Catalyst is for you! Co-Founders is a one-night-a-week programme for anyone who wants to be a co-founder in a startup team ...
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Data from more than 500 companies reveals the core health of SaaS startups and assesses how European companies have performed relative to American counterparts. Capchase, the leading provider of non-dilutive capital to SaaS companies, has just published its Pulse of Saas report to provide the most comprehensive view of SaaS startups’ performance following recent economic changes...
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SeedLegals, the leading legal automation platform for startup funding steps into backing blockchain marketplace in carbon-neutral deal. SeedLegals, the leading legal automation platform for startup funding, has partnered with JustCarbon, a company simplifying the offsetting of carbon emissions and supporting high-quality, hyper-scale carbon capture projects to combat climate change, to dr...
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Goodera secures major investment to support its mission of helping employees find meaningful volunteering experiences. As organizations navigate hybrid work environments and seek greater opportunities to be good corporate citizens, employee volunteering programs are becoming a favorite for combining social impact and employee engagement. Scaling with this trend, Goodera, the leading employ...
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  North West Regional College launches the IDEATOR Awards, a new competition to reward entrepreneurial thinking among students and staff. North West Regional College (NWRC)has launched a brand new competition with a prize pot of £4000, to inspire and reward entrepreneurial thinking and endeavours. The NWRC IDEATOR Awards are open to students in the college, recent NWRC alumni and NWR...
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