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Wayra Fair By Design is a new acceleration programme that will tackle the poverty premium: where people in poverty pay more for many everyday goods and services – such as energy, insurance, borrowing, transport and food – than those who can more easily afford them. The programme, which will be based in Wayra’s Open Future_ North facility in Oldham, will support up...
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Travis Perkins BreakThru is an 11-week accelerator programme with the UK’s largest supplier of building materials, covering 22 businesses with over 2000 branches and stores across the UK. Travis Perkins plc, the UK’s largest supplier of building materials, are looking for innovative startups that can help improve the services they offer to their customers, while also challenging them ...
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If there’s one business sector that is ripe for disruption - it’s car insurance (although this is perhaps more a personal desire, rather than one based on stats)! Park that thought however, whilst we introduce you to By Miles - an insurtech startup which is all set to launch a pay-per-mile car insurance service at some point this year. This is what the By Miles team have to...
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We’ve had the pleasure of getting to know the fab KOMPAS team over the last couple of years and we are therefore delighted to share word that their travel tech startup, which uses Artificial Intelligence to personalise the travel experience, was this week announced the overall winner of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative at Money 20/20, taking home a total of €50k in prize money. ...
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ES Disrupt is a dedicated startup product from Eversheds Sutherland which aims to be a comprehensive legal service specifically for startups. We took a 'brief' look... The brainchild of one of their trainee solicitors, and backed by law firm Eversheds Sutherland, ES Disrupt was born from the chance to build a “startup for startups” encouraged and supported every step of the way b...
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Last week Facebook hosted their first-ever Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago with hundreds of invited group admins, where they announced new features and tools to support communities / groups on Facebook. This article on Facebook Newsroom summarized: “Mark Zuckerberg kicked off by celebrating the role Groups play in the Facebook community and thanking the group admins who lead them. H...
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Now in its 5th year, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards, now officially the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, acknowledges the hard work and inspiring stories of British entrepreneurs and businesses in Great Britain. Now, with increased support from NatWest, the organisers have been able to extend the coverage of the Awards across the UK for the 2017 programme with...
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Applications close on Friday June 30th to apply to be highlighted in this years Small Business 100, as part of Small Business Saturday 2017... This year Small Business Saturday is once again highlighting 100 small businesses, one a day for the 100 days leading up to Small Business Saturday 2017. For the last four years, the 100 have not only received exposure on Small Business Saturday...
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With 1000’s of hosted dinners, 1,000s of diners and an estimated 300,000 opportunities for people to meet, created, TableCrowd are now looking to further expand their online and offline social network by raising £400k via leading crowdfunding site Crowdcube. Startacus (that's us) love a good chit-chat. Startacus also loves a good feed. But, team Startacus admittedly struggles with the...
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Tech For Good Company, Elemental Software, which has developed an award winning social prescribing digital platform that connects patients, health and social care professionals and community health & wellness providers, announced today that it has raised £300,000 with the help of ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank. Elemental's platform is a comprehensive social pre...
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Match Funding Initiative means donations towards Grenfell Tower tragedy can be doubled Since last week when news broke of the horrendous fire which quickly spread across Grenfell Tower, we’ve been wanting to help with the grassroots efforts that have been leading the way in supporting the Kensington residents. With our growing online reach and links between both startups and corporate bra...
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Touchpaper or touch-paper is a slow-burning paper fuse treated with solution of potassium nitrate or saltpetre used for lighting flammable or explosive devices such as fireworks - or so says Wikipedia anyway. But taking a punt, this may well, in fact, be a very good analogy to compare the relationship that can exist between corporates and startups. Startups - a spark and explosion of ideas a...
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