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The Scottish startup Chilli Connect, that's on a mission to help games developers build, monetise and operate live games... At this point, even people who don’t play games or live with someone who plays games will have heard the name Fortnite. It is arguably the most popular game of its kind out there, but certainly not the only one. These games that are wholly online are a big thing at th...
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SportTech Belfast startup Pitchbooking, a platform that provides greater access to sports facilities for the public while streamlining the facility owner’s internal processes, secures £250k investment to help become the market leader in sports facility management. Pitchbooking has secured £250,000 in funding in an investment round led by local investment firm Aurient Ltd and bac...
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This week (w/c 17 Sept 2018) P2P investment aggregator Orca announced that it was raising £500K on equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs. By the end of play Tuesday, the Fintech startup had exceeded it's campaign target. For two years, Orca has been providing market-leading research on the peer to peer lending (P2P) sector. Their data-driven analyses and insights have supported ret...
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If you are looking to find out what startup support you can get in Edinburgh, this article on Edinburgh startup focused co-working, finances, programmes, & events might just help. With some cities, you know that you don’t have to worry about access to support for your startup. If you live in London, for example, you have everything you will need: approximately a million co-working space...
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MiAlgae - The lowdown on the innovative microalgal production company that's aiming to revolutionize the global livestock feed industry...via whiskey distillation. Fishmeal is traded by the millions of tonnes annually. It is a commodity valuable in its ubiquity. For the purposes of this article, the important product that uses fishmeal is livestock and aquaculture (fish) feed as a cheap source of...
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Seed Haus, the Edinburgh based pre-seed investor invests in three new startups working across: Robotics, AdTech, and MarTech that will now join the incubator as part of their second cohort. Founded as a response to the lack of startup funding in the Scottish eco-system, Seed Haus believe entrepreneurs need the most help in the early phases of the business’ life cycle, but that the Scottish ...
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PwC's SCALE programmes for fast growth, disruptive scaleups who want to shape the future through scalable innovation, kick off in October. We took a look... PwC's SCALE programmes are aiming to bring together fast-growing and ambitious scale-ups with the world’s biggest brands to allows both sides to learn from the other and to build commercial opportunities. The 10-12 week sector or l...
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A quick question for you… are you interested in learning and development, technology and entrepreneurship? You are! Then Crossover Edinburgh’s Product Forge Hackathon weekend could be just the thing for you, and as an extra treat we’ve managed to nab Startacus members a £10 discount on the £45 weekend ticket price… marvelous! So what is the Product Forge Hack...
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