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Minute is the app that allows you to instantly watch short films
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th February 2019Minute is an app that allows you to watch quality short films, tailored to the time that you have available. We took a look at this early-stage startup with a big vision.
When was the last time you watched a short film? Can you even name a short film? There are actually quite a lot of short films floating around that are anywhere from student projects to indie filmmakers trying to get a start, to...
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Dozens - the fintech app embracing savings not debt
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th February 2019Dozens, an everyday bank account, a savings ally, a money manager, a financially savvy friend - all in one app, is on a mission to make saving easier and more rewarding for all and they have onboarded over 1000 customer within just two weeks of its app launch.
Traditionally, banks have relied on customer debt for profit – this is something not even the ‘challenger banks’ have qu...
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Mojo Mortgages - mortgages made easy
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th January 2019Mojo Mortgages - The lowdown on the Fintech startup that's on a mission to simplify the entire process of getting a mortgage...
Mortgages are an unnerving prospect to first time buyers. It’s that thing we’ve all heard that grown ups have and that stresses them out, and suddenly we are adults and we’re faced with renting forever or getting a mortgage. Even when we do rent, landlo...
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AI driven one-minute medical clinic booths launch in China
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th January 2019The Shanghai based healthcare innovation - unmanned, AI-driven ‘one-minute clinics’ providing medical services, including diagnosis and medicine prescriptions.
A 2018 study found that the UK has the fewest doctors in the EU, at 2.8 per 1,000 people. In comparison, Austria has 5.1 and Australia has 3.4 per 1,000 people. While these numbers are hard to take meaning from on their own, it...
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Trim-It - the mobile barbershop and app
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th January 2019Trim-It - Haircuts at home thanks to this innovative startup and its booking app
Some of us at Startacus who are more streamline barely remember what it was like to need haircuts, but we do remember how inconvenient it could often be. Particularly for busy people, a short lunch break might be the only chance you get to to the barber, at which point you may find yourself queuing behind all the oth...
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friendrequest aims to take social offline
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th January 2019
New app friendrequest aims to connect people, taking 'social' offline and to lead the way in facilitating real-life friendship.
Initially aimed at young people living, studying and working in London, friendrequest is a new app looking to lead the way in facilitating friendship.
Aiming to address the challenge of forming actual friendships in a world of ‘social’ media, the app...
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miFuture - the innovative careers app for young people
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th December 2018miFuture - The Tech4Good startup that's created a better way of connecting young people with the world of work
Being young and being told you need to start thinking about your career is a difficult position to be in. It is supposed to get easier the closer we come to actually embarking on said career, but often it doesn’t. We simultaneously find that there is somehow a vast sea of pote...
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Stephen Fry lends his voice to new Edtech app
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th December 2018Voiced by Stephen Fry, ‘Einstein on Time’ will be the first in a children’s educational app series – “Human Heroes” - centred on history’s greatest minds.
Due for release 7th December 2018, ‘Einstein on Time’ is the first in a children’s educational app series – “Human Heroes”- centred on history’s greatest m...
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TubeChat - social ice-breaker app for the London tube
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th November 2018Innovation in messaging thanks to the social ice-breaker app for the London tube TubeChat, that's aiming to connect people in a disconnected world...
Whether we in today’s world are more or less connected or isolated depends on whom you ask, but most would agree that one-to-one, personal interaction is at an all-time low. You can have a best friend on the other side of the world whom you ta...
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- Sports facility management platform Pitchbooking nets £250k investment 6th Feb 2019 SportTech Belfast startup Pitchbooking, secures £250k investment to help become the market leader in sports facility management.
- Too Good To Go raises further €6m to keep fighting food waste everywhere 6th Feb 2019 Fast growing tech for good app Too Good To Go raises a further €6 million to accelerate its mission to eliminate food waste globally, taking its total investment to €16m.
- Google+ for consumers shuts down 2nd April 1st Feb 2019 Goodbye Google+. The end date for Google+ for consumers (personal) has been announced as the 2nd April 2019. So what....now?