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New data from App Radar reveals AI chat apps reached 23.6m downloads on Google Play with 8 hitting more than a million downloads each An analysis by app marketing analytics platform App Radar has found that since the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022, AI chat apps have been downloaded 23.6 million times from the Google Play Store.  The study looked into 40 chat apps w...
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Onin secures investment for its innovative solution that removes the fragmentation between calendars and the conversations that drive them. Onin has announced a £2.75M seed round from Octopus Ventures in its mission to bring calendars into every conversation. The secure calendar app has launched on the App Store today. The seed investment will be used to scale Onin whilst further developi...
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Reviewpad secures pre-seed investment to support further development of its innovative AI-driven Code review tool and expand its operational team. Great news for Reviewpad, the platform that helps developers by automating the code review process, with the announcement that it has raised a €1M pre-seed round. The investment was led by Shilling VC with participation from angel investors...
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UK-based aquaculture startup Seafields opens its first-ever private, seven figure investment round to help build the world’s largest open ocean megafarm. Seafields, a UK-based aquaculture business that aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean has opened its first-ever private, seven figure in...
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Innovative rail ticketing app Seatfrog announces news of £6m investment via a growth funding round to accelerate its expansion across Europe. Revolutionary rail ticketing app, Seatfrog, has secured £6m in a growth funding round to accelerate expansion across Europe. Seatfrog has become the go-to platform for rail operators and the go-to destination for more than one million cu...
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UK startup Kluster secures $5M Series A investment to support further development of its innovative revenue strategy AI platform and expand its team. Kluster, the platform for planning and executing revenue strategy, has raised a $5M Series A round. The investment was led by Foresight Group (“Foresight”), with participation from SuperSeed and strategic angels, including Cognism CEO ...
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Ready Burger, a plant-based fast food brand launches new investment round to support its aim of becoming a major player in the global vegan food market. Ready Burger, a plant-based fast food brand, has launched an investment round to further progress its goal of becoming a major player within the global vegan food market, which is forecast to grow to over $60bn by 2028.  Since it began tr...
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Small Business Britain & Lloyds Bank launch new report on disability and Entrepreneurship, revealing barriers disabled & neurodiverse people face when starting businesses and outlining recommendations to correct this inequality. Major systemic changes are needed to make UK entrepreneurship more equitable, accessible, and inclusive for disabled founders*, according to a new report from ...
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University of Edinburgh's AI Accelerator opens the call for innovative 'AI for Good' scale-ups to be part of its sixth cohort. A University of Edinburgh initiative which helps emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies maximise their full commercial potential is now accepting applications for its 2023 programme. Open to both Scottish and international companies, the AI Accelerator is seek...
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Newcastle-based startup Nanovery raises investment to further its mission of saving lives through better testing for prostate cancer. A Newcastle-based company has raised over £ 1.85 million of funding to help its quest to save more lives through better testing for prostate cancer. The funding includes £500,000 investment from the North East Innovation Fund, supported by the Europe...
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Glasgow-based SOLASTA Bio secures further investment to support development of its innovative nature-inspired pesticides. A UK agritech specialising in the next generation of green insecticides has secured a further round of investment totalling £4 million to scale up the development of its unique nature-inspired pesticides, the first of their kind to be developed worldwide. Investm...
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  Changes to Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme as new tax year begins promise to support 2000 new startup businesses across the UK. The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) is highlighting that the new terms of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme come into effect from today, 6th April, as the new tax year starts. These changes promise to support 2000 new startup businesses acro...
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