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Over 2 days at Digital DNA 2017, 35 tech and digital startups competed to be named winner of the upSTART pitch battle 2017.  Competition was fierce as some leading startups from the UK, NI, Irish, and European technology spaces pitched before a panel of industry leading experts and investors, in the hope of laying claim to the overall prize package valued at £150k. With major fields of...
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Hosted and facilitated by startup go-to community Startacus (that’s us!), upSTART 17 is an integral element of Digital DNA, Belfast and is a two-day startup pitching battle, which will once again take place within a boxing arena. The boxing ring, lights, judges, bells and whistles brings the theatre of the boxing ring to the stage of a startup pitch playing out over a number of rounds, with ...
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intu, owner of many of the UK’s largest and most popular shopping centres, such as intu Trafford Centre, intu Lakeside and intu Metrocentre, are on the hunt for innovative startups to work with as part of their new innovation programme, intu Accelerate. Applications are now open for startups to apply, so read on for all the details... The intu Accelerator programme aims to develop and colla...
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Hosted and facilitated by startup go-to community Startacus (that’s us!), upSTART 17 is an integral element of Digital DNA, Belfast and is a two-day startup pitching battle, which will once again take place within a boxing arena. The boxing ring, lights, judges, bells and whistles brings the theatre of the boxing ring to the stage of a startup pitch playing out over a number of rounds, with ...
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With London Tech Week fast approaching, we picked out UX Live Ecommerce on the 15th June as an event to watch out for - in fact watch too. This is your chance to watch 3 well-known e-commerce startups receive live-streamed feedback from REAL users in front of a panel of experts and audience of top UX leaders / experts. Happening at IDEALondon this is a fab opportunity to witness first-hand what i...
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The Forum of Private Business is encouraging the next UK government to create conditions for an increase in business performance and productivity both in UK trading and exporting overseas. “A one percent increase in productivity achieved across the UK macro economy would add almost £20 billion to our national output. It would also reduce the annual government deficit by around £...
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RideLink, a UK peer to peer car rental platform, also operating in Spain and Germany, has surpassed its £1 million crowdfunding target. RideLink recently announced the launch of its first equity crowdfunding round, aiming to open to investors of all sizes who wanted to own part of the continued expansion of this disruptive car hire model. In the traditionally non-digital car renta...
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Over the last couple of weeks, team Startacus have been shortlisting startups to pitch at this year's Digital DNA upSTART startup pitching competition. Digital DNA upSTART 2017, launched in partnership with startup go-to community Startacus (that’s us!), has been inviting UK, Irish and European wide Startups to apply to pitch at Digital DNA 2017 on the 6th and 7th June. Taking place at St ...
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It seems everyone's up for writing a manifesto these days! Even, the UK's political parties have had a go at it recently.. Lat week we reported that techUK, a leading body & trade association for tech companies in the UK, had decided to publish their own Digital Economy Manifesto, and today we return with the timely news that the National Enterprise Network, the membership body for ...
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Who launched political manifesto’s this week? Of course if you’ve in inkling into UK politics, you’ll know that the main political parties of the blue, red, yellow and green launched their manifesto’s in time for next month's general election. However also launched this week, one manifesto stood out to team Startacus. techUK, a leading body and trade association for t...
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Startups with focus on either insurance, health & care experiences, or well being change, read on -  The Bupa Customer Lab is launching Blue Table, a 10-week programme that gives startups the opportunity to grow their business inside a global health and care company. Bupa’s newly established Customer Lab has this week launched its new Blue Table accelerator programme, inviting star...
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London startup Vidsy, a tech startup that helps brands create original & authentic mobile video ads has announced it has won Facebook’s Innovation Spotlight 'Creativity around Video' Award for 2017.  Launched in 2015, Vidsy designed a new video production model powered by technology and a network a video creators. The company, that focuses on snackable video for social, has pr...
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