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Small Business Saturday launches a virtual roadshow to help support, encourage and uplift small businesses across the UK  Great news for small businesses across the UK with Small Business Saturday UK launching the UK’s first online roadshow for towns and cities affected by the pandemic. Launching on 2 November 2020 with daily ‘virtual visits’ to small businesses and c...
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Crowdcube and Episode 1 forge partnership to back deep tech startups and invest in the next generation of digital infrastructure A new partnership has just been launched between Crowdcube, the leading equity crowdfunding platform and Episode 1, backers of Zoopla, Shazam and carwow, to invest in the next generation of infrastructure and deep tech startups in the digital sector. This partners...
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The on-demand wellness app Urban raises £5.9 million on investment platform Seedrs to help it further develop its services and expand to more cities Great news to start the week from on-demand wellness app Urban which has just raised £5.9 million on investment platform Seedrs, tripling its initial target of £2 million. This is Seedrs’ third largest raise this year, and wit...
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Startacus launches Vi, a new 6-week digital programme for pre-seed and pre-accelerator level tech startups to get them ready for investment, growth and scale Colm Long, Former VP, Global Operations at Facebook, Naomi Timperley, co-founder of Tech North Advocates, Femi Kalejaiye, Senior Equity Campaign Manager at Crowdcube, Perdie Alder, Co-founder of Spice Startups and Eamonn Carey, MD of Techsta...
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Vasile Foca, co-founder and managing partner at Talis Capital outlines why the Chancellor's measures are not enough to tackle the skills deficit and social security issues... Yesterday Rishi Sunak unveiled further details of the UK government’s 'job support scheme’ to support workers’ wages throughout the pandemic, however many feel that it is not enough. Vasile Foca, co-founder...
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Ambition, a pre-accelerator programme run by LEO Donegal and NDRC launches to help early-stage female founders from Donegal take business ideas from concept to pitch... Great news for female entrepreneurs from Donegal with the launch of Ambition, a new pre-accelerator programme run by Local Enterprise Office Donegal in partnership with NDRC. The programme aims to help early-stage female entrepren...
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Rolls-Royce partners with ATI Boeing Accelerator, the 3 month programme supporting and backing startups in the UK aerospace industry for its second cohort... Great news from ATI Boeing Accelerator, a three month programme to support and back startups in the UK aerospace industry, as it has just announced that global industrial technology company Rolls-Royce will join as partner for its ...
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  Innovative Northern Ireland-based startup Mountain Technologies secures investment to launch and market its connected ski pass system Great news for Mountain Technologies Ltd, the Northern Ireland tech startup which has secured significant investment from a group of HBAN angel investors and Co Fund II. The investment will be used to market and launch its connected ski pass system designed...
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Does (or could) your tech startup offer innovative solutions for the logistics sector? The third edition of Wincanton's innovation programme W² Labs is now open for entries... From robotic automation, demand forecasting, through to people and process planning, Wincanton, the UK’s largest third-party logistics provider, has launched the third edition of W2 Labs - an innovation lab ...
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NI (Northern Ireland) startups will have the chance to win a £75,000 proof of concept grant as part of a new competition launched today by Techstart Ventures and Belfast Harbour, with support from BT. Innovative thinkers based in NI are invited to submit ideas for new technology solutions to assist lone workers at Belfast Harbour or for new Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that can delive...
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PFS, a leading player in the FinTech ecosystem supports the World's First COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Programme of its Kind in Jersey... Innovation in the FinTech sector with the news that PFS is partnering with the Government of Jersey via its unique spend local prepaid Mastercard initiative. The initiative is part of the government’s overall £150 million fiscal stimulus package ...
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Five of the teams from NI-based Catalyst's first Co-Founders programme in the NW have been successful in securing £10,000 of Innovate UK funding  Great news from NI-based Catalyst which successfully completed its first North West Northern Ireland Co-Founders programme, supporting a new generation of first-time entrepreneurs and early stage start-ups from the region....
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