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We have written before about travel startups, but perhaps now it’s time to talk about the least fun part of taking a holiday. Holidays are supposed to be fun and exciting to plan, argue about beach vs hiking, and then eventually book, all the while giving you that feeling of anticipation you probably haven’t had since you were a child looking forward to Christmas. Then, after the perio...
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We are liking the look of Mespo, a bot for personal spending, that not only identifies when you might be overspending, but actually sets about fixing the overspend too. Mespo (until very recently called Mobillity) is on a mission to help you stop getting ripped off. Co-founded in 2016 by Lukas Zoerner and Julien Deray, and now a team six strong, Mespo set out to build an impartial financia...
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Online marketplaces or FinTech apps require eMoney infrastructure - here, Anna Tsyupko, CEO of FinTech startup Paybase highlight some of the key challenges of building payments into an app."Companies such as online marketplaces or FinTech apps require (eMoney) infrastructure because they have complex requirements that cannot simply be accommodated by a payment gateway. These ty...
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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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Let’s face it - we’ve all been there at one time or another. Patiently counting down the days until we get paid again. And it’s something which as an employee, is pretty much out of our control. After all, in most cases, we start a job, are given a salary and then our employer decides how and when they will pay us. Although we might be able to negotiate the odd pay rise, we ca...
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Online investment platforms like eToro are all well and good, but they require a degree of knowledge. If you don’t understand investment or any of the markets there are to invest in, you are most likely to end up losing money, or at least minimizing your investment’s potential. So what about people who want to start investing but don’t know enough for in-depth platforms? As you m...
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Whilst some of us may be pretty clued up and organised regarding our personal finances, there are plenty more who are anything but. This can be especially true when it comes to our pensions. We may forget about policies we once had or have changed jobs so often that we have no idea of what schemes our previous employers had in place.Help is at hand however thanks to our latest Startup of the ...
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As we all know, tracking our personal fitness has become a huge thing for many of us in recent years. Whether it’s via a wearable device or an app on a smartphone, we’re becoming ever more focused on our daily activities and thereby monitoring how active a lifestyle we are leading... Whilst the primary benefit for this is of course an improvement in our health, thanks to our latest St...
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Whilst in general terms online banking may make handling our finances a lot easier, it can still be a complex affair - particularly if we have multiple accounts, cards or savings schemes to contend with. That however need no longer be the case thanks to our latest Startup of the Week which is on a mission to simplify all things finance. Bud is an online platform and app which is in many respects...
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We are always interested in innovations and initiatives that aim to make it easier to start, grow and scale a startup. From the quirky in Pitchbot - which helps you practice your startup pitch, to Campus Capital - a VC fund run on university campuses, to help provide an on-campus educational framework and hands-on VC experience to aspiring investors and entrepreneurs. So this week step forward Fi...
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