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Funding success will see this startup's development and expansion plans move forward Great news from London-based startup, Perlego who have announced that they’ve closed their Series A fundraising round at a total of £7 million.The funding has been backed by Charlie Songhurst, Dedicated VC, Thomas Leysen (Chairman of Mediahuis and Umicore) as well as further financing from Perl...
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Aisha, the award-winning halal baby food manufacturer, secures seven-figure investment from the Foresight Group to help its marketing, development and international expansion plans. for aisha, the award-winning halal baby food manufacturer, has announced a major seven-figure investment in its company. The funding, from leading independent infrastructure and private equity investment firm, the For...
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Investment announced for ShapeDo, the tech startup which is innovating in the construction sector As regular readers may know, we recently did a feature on Goldacre’s RELab programme and its current call out for tech startups that could shape the future smart built environment.And it is quite timely since, ShapeDo, one of the RELab cohort from 2018/2019 has just secured a Late Seed inv...
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The lowdown on the latest support which Culture Amp is providing to businesses to keep on top of Diversity and Inclusion within their organisations... The people and culture platform Culture Amp is enabling more businesses and employees in the UK to avail of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) best practices by giving them access to the D&I section of its platform for free. The new D&am...
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Through candid conversation, a new Investor Series podcast aims to provide a unique understanding and insight into the minds of some of the UK’s most experienced startup investors. Raising capital as an early stage startup can be extremely challenging but also quite straightforward if you know exactly how to approach a potential investor. That’s the ethos behind the Investor Series.&n...
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Atom Learning, the edtech platform that uses AI to transform educational outcomes, doubles headcount as business expands internationally. The London-based education platform launches in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, following expansion into State sector last month.  Atom Learning, the edtech platform that uses AI to transform educational outcomes,...
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Rugby star Mike Myerscough joins fast-growing Elite Player Management, a sport management marketplace with a key point of focus, namely player welfare. Elite Player Management (EPM) has announced that Professional rugby player Mike Myerscough has joined the team as Head of Player Welfare to provide outstanding support to current and retired rugby players and footballers. Mike has enjoyed a succes...
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Working with charities of all sizes and across multiple categories, including Comic Relief, the Church of England, Save the Children, and the British Red Cross, Manchester fintech GoodBox has now raised over £2 million through GoodBox hardware for UK charities, facilitating donations from over 830,000 people. More exciting perhaps for the charity sector, it's highest average donation ha...
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According to a study recently carried out by the advocacy group Volteface, it has been revealed that social media platforms are frequently being used in order to advertise illicit drugs. Unfortunately, the same research has concluded that advertisements for illegal drugs is being promoted to young people and even children. How many people have seen the adverts for illicit drugs? The report has ...
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With the impact of BREXIT on the island-of-Ireland still very much an uncertainty, our evening event at this month's Startup Week Dublin will explore further startup collaboration and the opportunities that exist between NI and Ireland. Held at the fab Huckletree in Dublin, the Startacus organised evening event on Thursday 24th October will include a discussion on startup collaboration betwe...
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Tech startups focused on smart buildings, smart cities, smart grid, construction technology, predictive maintenance, and other tech solutions that could shape the future smart built environment - take note! RElab is once again opened for applications from around the world for its industry focused scale-up programme. Curated by Goldacre Ventures, the three-month RElab programme, is designed to hel...
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BT and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) have launched the third annual competition for startups in telecom infrastructure to join the UK’s TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Centre (TEAC), based at the BT Innovation Labs in Martlesham, Suffolk. 5G networks will deliver a platform which enables a new set of applications and business models reliant on high bandwidth, low latency and reliability, and t...
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