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In response to the digital challenges faced by SMEs, Digital 4.0, the knowledge-sharing & networking event, aims to help SME's embrace digital opportunities. Small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the UK economy. As of December, there were 5.7 million businesses registered in the UK, of which more than 99% are SMEs, accounting for 60% of employment and 51% of turnover. ...
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American YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of multimedia company Beme; Casey Neistat has been confirmed as a headline keynote speaker at Dublin Tech Summit 2018. Neistat who is also a self-taught writer and a director has registered his name among the noted YouTubers around the world. His YouTube channel ‘Casey Neistat’ has earned him millions of viewers all...
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iContract, a unique online platform connecting professional contractors with recruiters and employers for job matching and professional networking, is looking to raise £300k via crowdfunding platform Seedrs and currently (at time of publication) sits at 200k+ in investment funded. iContract is a platform built by contractors, for contractors. With its data matching capability, interact...
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CLiKD, a London-based dating app which launched in 2017, has launched a new photography competition inviting people to submit photographs which showcase what Love means to them in London.  Aptly named ‘Love in London’, the photography competition is aimed at celebrating unity and hope in the aftermath of a turbulent year for the capital. The aim being to ...
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Innovation specialists and early-stage investors L Marks have launched five new innovation products, designed to help corporates and startups work together more effectively. Keen to find out more, we took a look over the key details. Innovation specialists and early-stage investors L Marks are best known for collaborating and partnering with some of the UK's best known brands to identify the...
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PowerLinks, a platform that enables brands & media businesses to adopt & scale native advertising, has secured a £4.58m Series A investment. PowerLinks, an emerging leader in a new generation of advertising platforms connecting advertisers and publishers in a data rich marketplace, which processes over 6 billion auctions each day, has just annouced it has raised £4.58m ($6.1...
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FavourUp, an influencer-generated content aggregator that helps brands & their agencies extend the impact of social media influencers, reaches it's 90k Crowdcube crowdfunding target in two weeks.  Many fashion brands are investing up to £50k in one-off influencer posts on social media, but these posts quickly disappear from view, being pushed down users feeds by new posts. This mak...
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Time is ticking to apply for the inaugural Ignite accelerator programme in Northern Ireland. If you’re a startup looking to raise between £250k - £1m in investment, and in the next 12 months, read on... Ignite, who recently launched its first Accelerator programme in Northern Ireland, are currently on countdown for applications from companies based in NI, Republic of Ireland, Gr...
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Do you have a business or idea that could shape the future of the music industry or could change the future of electronic music? IMS Accelerator is a new programme from the International Music Summit that aims to spotlight and support the next wave of innovative music startups.  IMS Accelerator aims to give 3 successful music startups the chance to meet the most creative and influential indu...
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5 UK startups have been selected amongst 18 chosen companies for the first inaugural Data Pitch innovation programme. The first group of Data Pitch startups were introduced at the Data Pitch 'Kick-Off' event, at Runway East in London, last Thursday (1st Feb 18) where each startup introduced their proposals to meet real-world industrial and societal challenges by creating innovative new data solut...
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SureCert, a Belfast-based startup, has secured funding of £400k to develop and launch an online platform that aims to revolutionise and accelerate the recruitment process in industries where a high level of verification is required.  With plans to create six positions in the next 12 months, SureCert is a recruitment platform that sources, stores, shares and analyses high quality verifi...
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Countingup has launched its mobile based business current account to sole traders at the top of its 'wait-list', coming only months after Countingup raised $750k lead by Frontline Ventures.Countingup is the first UK challenger bank to focus on the 4.5 million sole traders, freelancers and contractors; and the first to promise plug and play accounting built in. Sole traders looking t...
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