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6 month membership to the Clockwise Belfast Club Lounge up for grabs for 1 NI startup - a fab prize worth up to £1,200! It’s only a matter of weeks now until Work: In Progress, our blended 1 day event which is taking place on 10th November at The Mac, Belfast, where we’ll be joined both in person and on screen by a whole host of speakers and panelists discussing and exploring ...
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Business owners and startup founders in NI invited to take part in a survey aiming to review the inclusive nature of entrepreneurship in NI. Would you like to help improve the startup landscape across NI so that it functions more effectively and serves a more inclusive and diverse community of entrepreneurs? In October 2020 British Business Bank published ‘Alone Together: Entrepreneurshi...
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Innovative Debt Capital Markets Intelligence Platform, 9fin secures major funding to support its expansion into the US market. US expansion is on the horizon for 9fin, a leading provider of data, news and predictive analytics for debt capital markets with its announcement of an £8M Series A round. The investment was led by Redalpine, alongside previous investors in the company, Fly Ventu...
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Showcase your innovative workplace solution at the Work: In Progress startup pitch competition taking place during the Work: In Progress event on 10th November. Streamed live from Belfast and with a number of tickets available to attend in person at The Mac Belfast, Work: In Progress is an all-day event organised by Startacus with major sponsors RealTime Recruitment and Version 1, featuring eve...
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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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