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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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  Gravita’s tech-enabled client-centric proposition aims to transform how small and medium businesses in the UK receive accounting services. Gravita has just launched as a new challenger brand in the accounting industry with ambitions to become the leading tech-enabled full-service partner for established UK SMEs. Backed by Tenzing, Gravita is significantly investing in buildin...
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Major investment secured by YAHAHA, the community focused user-generated content metaverse, to help take its platform to new heights. Great news for YAHAHA, the community focussed user-generated content (UGC) metaverse with the announcement that it has secured a Series A+ investment of $40m, as it prepares to take its platform to the next level. The new funding round was led by Temasek and...
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Manchester-based startup Boodil secures funding to support its mission of transforming the everyday spend for consumers through open banking technology. Boodil, a Manchester founded open banking payments and consumer engagement app that makes it more rewarding, simpler and safer for consumers to pay online, has raised £525,000 in pre seed funding. The cardless payment method, launching i...
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Climate tech startup Airly announces series A funding round to support scaling and further development of its innovative air quality monitoring platform. Air pollution is the most-pressing environmental health crisis of our time with approximately nine in 10 people around the world breathing unclean air. Helping to spotlight this existential threat, cleantech startup Airly is today a...
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Date for the diary - the UK’s largest jobs fair for tech professionals set to take place later this month and will feature NEXT GEN, a new event for Graduates and new entrants. Silicon Milkroundabout, the biannual jobs fair for mid to senior level technology professionals will open its doors to a record number of job-seekers this year, as well as over 150 companies seeking software engine...
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Innovative startup Eterlast raises seed investment to help support its mission to lead the European sports web3 gaming revolution. Eterlast, the Web3 Gaming Company at forefront of the evolution of sports entertainment, has gone out stealth-mode securing $4.5million from some of the biggest names in gaming, Web3 and digital content ecosystem, led by Supernode Global, the digital content special...
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The first Innovation Island Connect event hailed a success and paving the way for more cross-border collaboration for SaaS companies and professional services firms on the island of Ireland. A recent report by the Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI) highlighted the low level of tech services between the Republic and Northern Ireland. To address this, Startacus have partnered with T...
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Scotland-based female founders who are giving back to people or the planet - this is for you! Applications now open for the AccelerateHER Awards 2023. Female founders are once again being offered an opportunity to raise their company’s profile and benefit from a package aimed at driving business growth with the launch of the AccelerateHER Awards 2023. This year’s awards programme ha...
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Joseph Williams, co-Founder and CEO of inclusive recruitment platform, Clu shares some insights on how recent changes in the world of work have impacted the demand for transferable skills. Since its inception, the recruitment process has centred around the prestige of technical and academic skills. But the world of work has changed significantly over recent years and so have hiring priorities, ...
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Small Business Saturday launching a programme of free skills, mentoring and networking support for small businesses throughout November, as part of the online element of its UK roadshow ‘The Tour’. Small businesses across the UK are being offered a big boost of free business support to help them deal with the current economic challenges, as Small Business Saturday unveils a major p...
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