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Minute 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, 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 - 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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The 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 - 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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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 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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Voiced 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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Innovation 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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