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As newly launched venture capital firm Campus Capital signs up their second University partnership, this time with the University of Manchester, we took a look at Campus Capital and their unique Venture Capital model. Campus Capital is a VC firm that builds early stage, high growth investment funds in partnership with some of the UK's leading universities. These funds will be based on campus and ...
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A week long Cross-University Festival dedicated to promoting social enterprise and supporting entrepreneurs in delivering social impact through business kicks off this week in London. Intrigued? Here’s all the details... The Social Enterprise Festival 2017 is brought to you by City, University of London in partnership with Santander and Queen Mary University of London and offers up a mix of...
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Code4000 is a UK programme set up to help break the cycle of crime by teaching prisoners coding skills. We found out more about the initiative..  Starting with a pilot of sixteen prisoners at HMP Humber, Code4000 are aiming to build a network of coding workshops in UK prisons, with the aim of giving prisoners a second chance, turning their lives around, and training them in a skills set whic...
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Legal Tech Startups, you’ve until the 12th March to get your application in to join Mishcon de Reya’s MDR Lab programme. Intrigued? We outline all the key details below: MDR LAB is a programme for tech startups in the legal space, hosted at Mishcon de Reya’s offices in central London. Based in London with offices in New York, Mishcon de Reya services an international community ...
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Train operator London Midland has recently opened applications into a new initiative aimed at helping emerging startups in the rail and mobility sector through an accelerator program. London Midland Labs, The London Midland-led startup collaboration scheme, aims to partner with innovative startups looking to shake up the customer experience of travel and improve the efficiency of rail travel For...
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Dublin Tech Summit has announced its conference, keynotes, panel discussions and full lineup that will take place at The CCD, Dublin on February 15 & 16, 2017. Held across Dublin’s iconic silicon docks, the two-day summit is set to showcase everything Dublin has to offer as a global technology hub. The two-day event (not to be confused with the Web Summit that left Dublin in 2015) is an...
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In honoured tradition we return with our roundup and list of the top UK and Ireland Startup Events and Conferences for 2017. Since covering key Startup events back in 2015 and then again last year in 2016 with our UK Startup event roundup, we’ve always found the list of startup related events becomes broader and more diverse in terms of theme and specialist subject. Of course we could also ...
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Northern Ireland startups and entrepreneurs listen up! The AIB Start-up Academy Summit will be back in Belfast and we’ve all the important info you need to bag your free ticket to attend! The popular all-island networking series is a fantastic opportunity for startups to network and socialise with like-minded entrepreneurs and to hear from well-known and successful business leaders who disc...
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Newcastle Startup Week - a new festival of entrepreneurship aims to inspire more local people to start businesses and attract greater inward investment to the city and wider North East of England region.Taking place over 5 days from 15-19 May 2017, Newcastle Startup Week will also seek to showcase the North East as a great place to start or grow a business and highlight to both local entrepre...
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The world’s leading vehicle glass repair and replacement service provider Belron is back on the hunt for innovative startups to joins its ten week accelerator Drive. Launched last year, Belron is again looking to find innovative startups with disruptive solutions that can help them to improve operations and discover new ways of working. Run in partnership with innovation specialists and ea...
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With our UK Startup review of 2016 almost up to date, we return for the last time to cover the key Startup happenings and news stories that occurred during the last two months of 2016... In September and October we covered, amongst other things, UK Startup happenings involving UK Startup Accelerators and competitions, key Startup Investment deals that made the news, the impact of the Nationa...
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With our UK Startup review of 2016 now two thirds done, we return to cover the key Startup happenings and news stories that occurred during the months of September and October. In July and August we covered amongst other things, the post BREXIT startup / tech fallout, the lure of Berlin as a replacement for London as a base for Tech Startups and a whole load of Investment and Startup related news...
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