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43 Pitch@Palace 7.0 businesses, whether they reached the overall final or not, can still be crowned the Pitch@Palace 7.0 People's Choice winner. Who wins? You decide.... 12 shortlisted startups will compete at the Pitch@Palace 7.0 final at St James’ Palace on 25th April. Founded in 2014, Pitch@Palace gives entrepreneurs the chance to get their tech business ideas in front of an au...
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Water. It’s wet, runny, and vital to life. It’s also notoriously difficult to make portable without environmentally-unfriendly packaging. There are plenty of reasons to dislike plastic bottles: In the US (because the numbers are more dramatic!), people go through roughly 1500 bottles per second; 80% of these, which is around $1,000,000,000 worth of plastic, end up in landfills to sit f...
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VocTech Seed 2017 is aimed at innovative, early stage digital vocational learning projects that show real ambition to scale and eventually reach large numbers of learners. Ufi is about to launch a new call from their VocTech Seed fund. VocTech Seed offers up to £50,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months. Like all of their calls, this is looking for innovative ideas for using digital ...
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Smart Cities, IoT, Digital Health, Digital Creative & Digital Tech Startups take note - this Manchester evening meetup on 26th April, will give you all the key info you need to know about the Manchester based MI-IDEA post accelerator programme, the details on how to apply and the opportunity to meet other like minded startups in your industry. Last September we reported that the teams fr...
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Here at Startacus, we understand the pressure that a small business or startup can face, when trying to multitask all the weekly, monthly and yearly paperwork, responsibility and legislation that can come your way, and you must legally comply to. This can be made especially harder when you have a very small team - with a Founder or CEO who also has to cover the responsibility of any accounts, retu...
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Last thursday evening (07-04-17), 8 qualifying Irish Startups pitched to Google Ireland's leadership team as well as leading figures from the Irish Startup Community at a Grand Final in Google Ireland's Headquarters, with the hope of being crowned the Google Adopt a Startup 2017 Spring Programme winners. With LogoGrab named the overall winner, we took a look over the latest Google Adopt a Startup...
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Announced last month, Startacus is happy to highlight that Irish Tech News in partnership with DCU Alpha Campus, will be hosting a one day IoT conference in Dublin on the May 30th to highlight and showcase the depth of IoT innovation taking place in Ireland. The 30th May event is set to bring together the leading innovators and thought leaders in IoT to share insights and the latest exciting...
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Applications are open until the 28th April to apply to pitch at upSTART 2017, the startup pitching battle from Digital DNA, with the fab news that the winner prize fund has increased to a whooping £150k in value. Digital DNA upSTART 2017, launched in partnership with Startacus, are currently on the lookout for the most impressive startup in Europe to win the coveted upSTART 2017 title. In ...
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Prison walls are never built to scale, but startups are. We took a look over the recent StartPlanetNI demo-day at Crumlin Road Gaol, with their current cohort of startups pitching for their ‘big break’ and to hopefully lockdown future investment... We love a good startup pitch competition or accelerator program demo day here at Startacus HQ. From the bizarre but super 'cool', Polar Be...
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Startacus takes a look at the 10 women-led startups, announced as the finalists of the Women Startup Challenge Europe. A month or so ago, we wrote about The Women Startup Challenge Europe - a pitch competition that showcases and funds innovative, women-led tech startups that are solving problems for people, businesses, and the planet. Organised by Women Who Tech, and held in partnership with Cra...
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If your startup is focused on catapulting the retail shopping experience into the future, then you may well be delighted to hear that JLAB, the startup accelerator programme from the John Lewis Partnership, is back open for applications for its fourth year. With Waitrose also joining the programme to make JLAB 2017 even more valuable, we thought it wise to share all the key details and handy link...
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A couple of weeks ago, Momentum London announced the 10 B2B & B2B2C Startups that had been selected to join the inaugural Momentum London programme. We now take a look at the ten selected startups that made the programme... But first a recap....We first featured news on Momentum London, a 3-month growth programme that offers later stage B2B or B2B2C startups the chance to ...
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