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Eco-friendly period product company Riley has partnered up with Homeless Period Ireland, whose mission is to end period poverty on the island. Riley, an eco-friendly period product subscription service, whose crowdfunding campaign we have previously featured, have just announced a new partnership with Homeless Period Ireland, a volunteer-led initiative. The aim of Homeless Period Ireland is to ...
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Gigged.AI is running a campaign this month to fund digital projects which will help early-stage companies move their business forward. Glasgow-based Gigged.AI was founded by its CEO Rich Wilson, a former senior executive with Gartner, and its Chief Technology Officer Craig Short. The company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-driven marketplaces transform the sourcing and on-boarding of tech ...
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  Further investment success for OCR Labs; a technology leader in the digital identity verification space to help bolster international growth. Great news for OCR Labs with the announcement that the company has raised a $30 million in a Series B round, led by Equable Capital. Viewed as a technology leader in the digital identity verification space, OCR solves major challenge...
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  Further investment success for Caeli Nova to support breathing technology development in commercial aviation and beyond. Caeli Nova breathing technology innovator, operating at the intersection of aviation and healthcare, has successfully completed a second closing of its Series A round of financing. This funding will support breathing technology development in commercial aviation a...
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London-based European fund BACKED VC has announced a new €150M fund, split between a €75M second core fund and a brand new €75M encore fund.  BACKED the human-centric seed VC fund has just revealed details of two new €75M funds to invest in Europe’s boldest entrepreneurs. ‘BACKED Core 2’ continues to invest in seed-stage startups and ‘BACKED...
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Want to improve your public speaking skills? Marcus Grodentz from Toastmasters International shares some insights on how to do just that.   Imagine the scene. I’m in my office looking out at the docks. Outside it is bleak and so cold that the water in the docks has frozen. Suddenly the telephone rings. Picking up I hear a breathless panicky voice. “I need your help Marcus &nd...
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With podcasts quickly becoming a huge part of everyday life, Voices, Creative Services Marketplace, Voices, have shared some of the key factors that businesses should be aware of before jumping on the podcast trend. The key statistics show, the number of worldwide podcast listeners os estimated to increase further to over 800 million users by 2025, with the most popular genres are comedy, news,...
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    Envestors, the marketplace for early-stage investing, has just announced the results of its research into the Real Returns of Angel Investing. Founded in 2004, Envestors has helped more than 200 high growth businesses raise more than £100m through its own private investment club. The business, which has matched £100m+ of investment into over 200 companies, is regulated...
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    SPOKE, a new app that provides music with mindfulness benefits, has secured a £1.1m pre-seed investment led by Ada Ventures. Based on 18 months of research and development with artists and scientific advisors, the Spoke app combines music with the therapeutic technique of mindfulness, where you focus on awareness of the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and acceptin...
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LetterOne, the long-term investment group, is committing £1million over two years to support the Centre for Entrepreneurs, a leading UK entrepreneurship foundation which aims to make Britain more entrepreneurial. The funding will support two important strands of work: reinvigorating CFE’s policy and research work with two significant projects; and fostering the next generation of e...
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The future of digestive health in a pocket-size device - FoodMarble launches its Next-Generation WellTech Digestive Tracking Device for Consumers. A few months ago we highlighted the innovative work that FoodMarble, a leading digital health company in the gastroenterology space was doing and today we're doing that again, as they have just launched the world’s most advanced personal digest...
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Tyl surveyed UK business owners to find out what Corporate Social Responsibility means to them and how this translates into business success. New research by Tyl has found a large majority of UK companies are not well placed to address major health, wellbeing and equality challenges. Despite studies proving that companies who demonstrate a commitment to protecting and empowering employees can s...
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