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Kickstart catapults innovation with 43 high growth startups selected for the 2022 core program from 16 countries this year, including two from the UK. Now, in its 7th year Kickstart is one of the largest European Innovation Platforms, bridging the gap between startups, corporations, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate partnerships and deep tech innovation. Since 2015, K...
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Manchester-based social startup Linkup raises pre-seed investment round of $540,000 to support its mission of revolutionising socialising in a digital, post-covid era. Linkup, a Manchester-founded social app that makes it easier to meet new people, has raised over half a million dollars in pre-seed funding. The app, launching in Q4 2022, aims to revolutionise socialising in a digital, post-covi...
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iLoF Secures Funding to Expand its Digital Library of Biomarkers Aimed at Tackling the World’s Deadliest Diseases. Innovative startup iLoF has announced $5m in funding to support its vision of democratizing access to personalized medicine for millions of people living with complex diseases. Currently, iLoF’s intelligent platform is collecting massive amounts of data to build a libra...
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WeWALK secures investment to help further develop its innovative technology and grow its global market presence. The good news keeps coming for WeWALK, the company behind unique products that enhance the lives of visually impaired people!. Hot on the heels of the announcement that it is part of a consortium that has secured UKRI funding for a Designed For Ageing project, comes the news tha...
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Digital mental health platform, Unobravo secures major investment to further its mission and make mental health accessible and sustainable. Unobravo, a mental health platform and benefit company, has raised a €17 million series A led by Insight Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm. Unobravo is Insight’s first venture investment in Italy. H...
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The Insurtech Gateway mission to address the funding gap in early stage insurtech moves forward with the close of Seed Fund II. Insurtech Gateway have just announced the first close of Seed Fund II, which will enable them to support another 20 teams over the next 4 years from pre-seed to Series A. The Gateway are on a mission to close the funding gap in early stage insurtech, and to attrac...
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New collaborative Construction Tech partnership streamlines Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and sustainability reporting for Procore Users. Great news from SustainIQ, the all-in-one ESG and sustainability reporting software, with the announcement of an integration with Procore Technologies, a leading global provider of construction management software.  SustainIQ is now embedded w...
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The lowdown on Somerset-based social enterprise The Burnt Chef Project and its mission to tackle mental health issues in the hospitality sector. Kitchen staff don’t need Gordon Ramsay screaming obscenities in their faces in order to experience mental health issues and burnout. The hospitality industry is one full of stress, and with long hours under intense pressure and in tough condition...
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Digital health startup Infermedica launches new platform in a bid to further support the entire patient-care journey. Infermedica – a leading digital health company, specializing in AI-powered solutions for symptom analysis and patient triage has just announced the launch of its Medical Guidance Platform, with new modules and features designed to support the entire patient-care journey. ...
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The lowdown on Oxford-based biotech startup Moa Technology and its mission to tackle the growing problem of herbicide resistance. Herbicide is a contentious thing. It keeps food safe from pests and keeps away weeds that would use up crops’ nutrients, etc., but it also has a pretty bad impact on the environment. Herbicides contaminate the soil and water, they can kill animals and insects ...
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The lowdown on London-based startup BotsAndUs and its autonomous robots that can measure, track and find goods without workflow disruption. The future is robotic. We’ve all known for a long time that, eventually, robots would take over the basic tasks that we don’t want to do, or that take time away from our main priorities. Eventually, they will perform all of the jobs that we don&...
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Cambridge-based startup, CardiaTec Biosciences raises investment to support further development of its mission to develop the next generation of cardiovascular disease targets. Great news for CardiaTec, an AI drug target discovery company specialising in cardiovascular disease, having just secured a £1.4m pre-seed investment led by Laidlaw Scholars Ventures and APEX Ventures.  ...
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