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Brick, a fintech API provider allowing Southeast Asian tech companies to offer in-app financial services with a single line of code, has raised $8.5m to build a single API layer for open finance in Southeast Asia Brick has raised $8.5 million of funding in a Seed investment round led by prominent global venture capital investors Flourish Ventures and the global venture capital firm Antler. Oth...
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Innovative early-stage startups from across the island of Ireland are being sought for the BIG IDEAS pitch competition at Derry and Strabane Enterprise Week with a £4K prize on offer for the winner. Applications are now open for the BIG IDEAS start-up pitch competition aimed at early stage start-ups from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, taking place during the BIG IDEAS event...
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BIG IDEAS is a one-day in-person and live-streamed event aiming to inspire existing businesses to explore new possibilities and to encourage early-stage startups and founders to embrace new emerging opportunities. Covid-19 forced us all - businesses and individuals alike - to adapt and change quickly, however the reality is that this change was coming anyway. Therefore, now as we consider our p...
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A new partnership will see the world’s largest sports retailer, Decathlon, join Sport Tech Hub and London Sport’s vision of making London the most physically active city in the world. Sport Tech Hub was established by London Sport with the purpose of bringing the power of tech innovation closer to efforts to increase physical activity levels in London and beyond. We support founders...
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Lightyear introduces Lightyear Profiles to encourage conversations and make it easy for users to share and get inspiration around investing. Innovative fintech startup Lightyear has this week announced the launch of Lightyear Profiles; a way for investors to share high-level details about their portfolio with friends. It creates individual and personalised web pages for each user showcasing the...
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Organised by Greater Manchester’s tech community, for Greater Manchester’s tech community, Manchester Tech Festival aims to showcase the area's thriving ecosystem and inspire the tech innovators of the future. Fab news from the North West this week with the launch of the Manchester Tech Festival, the first not-for-profit event of its kind, which will see the entire tech ecosystem co...
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Good news for female founders in Scotland as Investing Women restructures for growth and reveals plans to launch a new IW AccelerateHER Fund. Scotland’s pioneering all female angel group Investing Women Angels (IWA) has announced major growth plans as it restructures ahead of launching a new IW AccelerateHER Fund for female-founded companies in Scotland. The group plans to collaborate wi...
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Live-streamed event at NI Science Festival set to inspire young people in Northern Ireland on exciting STEM career opportunities and pathways. I LOVE My STEM Career! will all take place on the mornings of the 21st and 22nd Feb, highlighting exciting STEM-focused career opportunities and pathways for teenagers and young people. Via the event live stream (and with a limited number of ticke...
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The Mary Peters Trust launches new initiative and announces Alchemy Technology Services as its first Podium Partner. The Podium Partnership, a new initiative by the Mary Peters Trust to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Lady Mary Peters winning her Olympic Gold Medal in 1972, has just announced leading tech company Alchemy Technology Services as its first Podium Partner. The partnership wi...
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Saalim Chowdhury joins the Techstars London team and will lead the growth and expansion of its startup accelerator. Good news for the Techstars team with the announcement that Saalim Chowdhury has been appointed as Managing Director of Techstars London. Formerly a Partner at 500 Startups, Chowdhury will take over from predecessor Eamonn Carey and will be responsible for leading the growth of t...
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  Sodexo and L Marks open call for applications from new and innovative startups to join their inaugural UK Accelerator programme. Fab news from Sodexo, the global food services and facilities management company with the introduction of the first Sodexo Accelerator programme to the UK and Ireland, following successful programmes in France, China, India, Brazil and Sweden. The new Sodexo a...
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  Innovative LawTech startup Legal Utopia crowdfunding via Seedrs to support its mission of disrupting the legal industry via its AI-powered app. UK-based Legal Utopia is on a mission to change the way people access legal services both now and in the future. The LawTech has excelled since its launch in 2017 and has now launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise capital of &po...
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