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Insurtech startup, Nayms Closes £1.5m seed round
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th January 2021
Major seed investment secured by the innovative Insurtech startup Nayms to assist with developing further pilot programs and building its customer base
Fantastic news to start the year for Insurtech startup Nayms. The innovative startup has closed a £1.5m seed round led by XBTO, alongside other top investors across insurance, capital markets and crypto including Coinbase Ventures, Maven11...
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Innovative InsurTech startups take note - Lloyds Lab wants to hear from you
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th January 2021
The award winning Lloyds Lab incubator is currently seeking innovative startups to join its latest cohort, Cohort 6. This time around they are interested in applications from companies who can help the Lloyd’s market with any of the following key challenges:
Climate change/ decarbonisation
For this theme, they’re on the lookout for startups that are offering insurance products to t...
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Bankhouse Comes to Belfast – Irish Media Consultancy Sets Up Shop in Glandore
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th January 2021
Bankhouse Media, the leading full-service digital marketing agency expands its offering and sets up a Belfast base in Glandore
Glandore, providers of flexible workspace and coworking in Belfast are delighted to have welcomed Bankhouse Media through their door, some very positive news on the business front to kick off 2021. Bankhouse Media was founded in 2018 by Matthew Toman, a then business o...
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Feast It, the leading event marketplace raises further £1.7m
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th January 2021
Leading event marketplace, Feast It secures major funding boost to assist with its expansion to full event planning and also further grow its virtual events offering
Fab news for Feast It, the UK’s leading event booking marketplace which has raised £1.7m in an impressive funding round led by MAHR Projects, former CEO of the Co-op Richard Pennycook CBE and Tim Score, ex-CFO o...
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PayDashboard secures funding boost for its innovative payslip platform
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th January 2021
The London-based fintech innovator, PayDashboard, receives Innovate UK Funding to support its growth in the financial wellness space
Fantastic news to start the year for PayDashboard, the interactive payslip platform, as it reveals it has been selected by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to receive a £167,072 funding grant to help drive and support its continued growth in th...
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The Wild Curl crowdfunds to fight against hair discrimination
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st December 2020
The Wild Curl launches crowdfunding campaign to help with its mission of disrupting the beauty industry and fighting against continuous hair discrimination
After facing many years of struggles to find products for curly hair, Vanessa Martins Lopes is now aiming to disrupt the beauty industry and fight against continuous hair discrimination curly consumers are facing. Her brand, The Wild C...
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Doctorpedia launches £1M funding round
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th December 2020
The online platform share health resources between patients, doctors and healthcare organisations launches a £1M UK funding round
News today from Doctorpedia, the world's largest network of over 2,000 medical websites - providing a safe and informative platform to share health resources between patients, doctors and healthcare organisations that it has just launched a £1M UK fu...
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MyRound - social drinking reimagined
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th December 2020
MyRound is an innovative app enabling users to buy and/or receive a drinks round via a digital drink token
A new app created to help people buy a drink for someone remotely has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help accelerate the development and scale of the service.
Developed by eDrinks as part of their group of consumer apps reimagining social drinking, MyRound is a free and easy to ...
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London-based eXate raises £2.3M for its DataSecOps platform
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th December 2020
Major investment news for eXate as it secures £2.3 million funding to grow its team, accelerate platform development and expand into new geographies and verticals
Great news for eXate, a London-based data software firm which has just announced a £2.3 million seed round led by Outward VC, with additional backing from ING Ventures and Triple Point Ventures, to accelerate the growth of...
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Latest data shows one in five workers in micro businesses are furloughed
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th December 2020
Latest research and data reveals that COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause major challenges for UK’s micro businesses
According to new research by iwoca, micro businesses could face additional hurdles in recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic compared to larger firms due to a greater reliance on the furlough scheme and a lack of confidence in seeking financial support.
HMRC data shows th...
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Huckletree launches Entrepreneur in Residence programme
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th December 2020
Creative workspace and accelerator Huckletree launches an ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ programme to help startups get the support, mentoring and space to develop in 2021
Fab news from creative workspace and accelerator Huckletree which has just launched a new initiative to ensure some of the UK’s most innovative and promising startups have the space and mentoring they need to g...
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Inclusive fintech company Pockit completes £15 million fundraising
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th December 2020
Pockit recently announced the successful close of a £15 million Series B funding round from existing and new investors and has also launched a public crowdfunding campaign...
Fantastic news this week for Pockit, the inclusive FinTech company focussed on customers who are excluded and underserved by high street banks, as it announced that it has a £15 million Series B funding round f...
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- Alchemy Technology Services receives Bronze Diversity Mark NI Award 23rd Feb 2021 Alchemy Technology Services, the Derry-based centre of excellence for insurance software implementation receives recognition for its commitment to diversity
- Groundbreaking British inventions win global sustainability prize 23rd Feb 2021 For the first time ever, the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge has both a British winner and runner up in the form of innovative startups SoluBlue and Jiva Materials
- Wombat lands £2m investment as appetite for thematic, fractional trading grows 9th Feb 2021 The innovative investment platform Wombat secures major funding to help with further development and to expand the shares and investments on offer