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Revive was created to bring new life to coffee waste, collecting and recycling used coffee grounds to create a palm oil alternative... We have written recently about startups doing their part to find ways to deal with waste so that it doesn’t end up in landfills or in the ocean. Whether it is offsetting your carbon footprint with Project Wren, using plastic as a building aggregate with Plas...
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Bamboo, an Irish based app that lets you order lunch and coffee from all the best spots around you - whilst skipping the queues, raises a €500k seed round from Enterprise Ireland and six private investors. Launched approximately a year ago, Bamboo has done pretty well for it's first 12 months. They've partnered with 100+ restaurants and cafes in Ireland, seen monthly average order growth on ...
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Bigmoose Coffee Co. - The Welsh coffee shop that's on a mission to help the homeless and vulnerable in Cardiff We have written previously about startups helping the homeless get into work, with the likes of Beam and TAP. With around 280,000 homeless people in the UK alone, homelessness is a big issue (no pun intended) that needs to be addressed, and more and more startups are appearing to do just...
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Some things are just meant to go together aren’t they? They may be pretty fine on their own but they’re somehow even better when they’re together. Take coffee and chocolate for instance - there can be no denying that one really complements the other. For some of us this perfect combo can be a daily habit whilst for others it might be more of a weekend treat. Whichever camp you f...
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As regular readers and visitors to Startacus will know, we’re well into coffee - in fact almost as much as we’re into all things startup. Therefore, when we come across a startup which has coffee at its very core, we know we’re going to love it. And we reckon you’ll feel the same when you read about our latest Startup of the Week. DripApp is an app which allows users to p...
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Mmmm - Craft beers and coffee - two of our favourite things. Until now though we’ve never actually put them together but that’s exactly what our latest Startup of the Week have done! Fear not though - they haven’t invented a new strange coffee/beer concoction - what Bottle & Bean have done is they’ve created a new subscription based startup where you can get some of t...
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Here at Startacus we’re always on the lookout for innovative, quirky and inspirational ideas and businesses and this week we’ve discovered a business which happens to tick all those boxes. The business in question is We Walk the Line - a social enterprise which aims to empower and encourage more people to go down the self employment route. The people that We Walk the Line is on a mi...
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If you’re a coffee lover, you’ll know exactly how important that first cup of the day is. A nice dose of early morning caffeine enables you to kick-start your day in the right way leaving you with all the energy you need - and it smells good, too! If you are one of these people, you may be interested in hearing about Smartcups - the new product that makes purchasing coffee easy and co...
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Let’s face it - when we’re standing in the queue at our fave local coffee house waiting for that all important morning espresso, we’re probably more concerned with how good the barista is than what happens to the café’s coffee waste. That however is not the case with the co-founders of our latest Startup of the Week, bio-bean. These guys have managed to create an inn...
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  Who doesn’t love the smell of fresh coffee in the morning? It’s the perfect way to kickstart your morning, and it smells good too! If you love coffee as much as we do here at Startacus then you may be interested in hearing about Pact, an inventive coffee delivery service that just keeps moving up! Pact are a London-based subscription coffee startup which was founded in 2012 ...
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