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Six fast-growing UK and international startups, alongside transport industry experts, are participating in a new innovation programme to help keep London moving.A new open data programme that sees six elite startups working to reduce congestion in the capital, in partnership with TfL (Transport for London), has launched. From improving cycling experiences to using AI and visual learning to im...
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Bold vision often results in big change. Step forward UK accelerator Ignite who last week announced major changes to their startup accelerator programme and overall model of working. We fast-forwarded over the major details… Ignite announced on Friday that they were tearing up the accelerator programme rule book to launch Ignite 2.0. With a new model, Ignite are aiming to work with ...
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On 23 May, London’s Royal Institution of Science will be host to Beyond Good Business 2017: a day of panels, talks and workshops centred around the role of disruptive, mission-driven businesses and startups in instigating a change in the business world. This innovative ‘playground’ conference is designed to be as fun as it is enlightening, and will include: Live pitching eve...
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If your UK business has a natural focus on sustainability, you might be interested to know that Blue Patch’s annual Business Awards have opened again for 2017. Blue Patch, an ethical business directory and community for high quality, British made, sustainable goods & services, are for the second year, opening up the opportunity for SME’s and fledgling businesses to nominate themse...
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Football Whispers, the world’s first transfer predictor that puts 'science behind the rumour', was last week awarded with Outstanding Startup at the prestigious Sports Technology Awards. Based in Milton Keynes, the Football Whispers team have developed Football Whispers from initial concept to two million users per month in less than two years. With the help from the University of Shef...
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A recent report The ‘Scotland Skills 2030’ report, produced by the Institute for Public Policy Scotland, has warned that nearly half of the Scottish workforce are at risk of job termination because of the rise of automated machines in the workplace. The key takeaway headline via IPPR reads:"The world of work in 2030 will be very different to that in 2017. People are more likely to be ...
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Tech Startup Citymapper have a bold ambition to reinvent the bus for the smart city era. If this article sounds just the ticket, then read on… Yesterday, Citymapper (more on them in a min) unveiled their big new project, codenamed ‘Project Grasshopper’. They are looking to run a (smarter) bus service Citmapper are looking to reinvent the entire software stack for running and ...
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Tech in the North of England - watch this documentary that paints a fab picture of the current tech scene in the North of England.Sometimes reading article after article about startups can be tough going, especially if you are 'on the go', or if you'are just about to sit down for the night, after a busy day of business (and expresso's). With this in mind, and if you've an hour or so spare to focus...
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A few weeks ago we promised to focus some of our editorial around the imminent UK General Election - whilst of course ensuring that it was relevant for startups, sme’s and entrepreneurs. So far, we’ve highlighted PostBug - the  ‘online-to-postage’ website allowing groups of people with common interests to send similar postcards or letters to public figures, such as pol...
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Voom Pitch: a leading UK & Ireland pitching competition from Virgin Media Business is back. If you fancy pitching to Richard Branson and to win a share of £1million (€1.2million) in prizes, you'd better read on… Voom Pitch gives UK and Irish startups the chance to pitch to Richard Branson and win a share of £1million (€1.2million) in prizes, and this year the...
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A couple of weeks ago we reported that upSTART 2017 - the startup pitching battle at Digital DNA, had increased the winner prize fund to a fab £150k in value, including £10k hard cash. Digital DNA upSTART 2017 launched in partnership with Startacus (that’s us!), has been looking to invite UK, Irish and European Startups from specific industries, such as Data, Cyber, Fintech...
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WhaleSlide, a privacy-conscious philanthropic search-engine, originally launched 18months ago, has re-launched with a new version of their ‘social-good’/ ‘PhilTech’ search engine. We did the charitable thing, and spread the word! WhaleSlide is the brainchild of childhood friends, Andy Curran and Francesco Petruzzelli, who drew on their previous experience working in t...
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