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Startup of the Week - Rise
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th March 2021
Enjoy great coffee at home thanks to this startup, RISE - a subscription box for coffee lovers, from coffee lovers
For some of us, having a coffee isn't just about getting that caffeine fix - we properly love the stuff! And chances are that the lockdowns over the last year have helped many of us perfect our barista skills at home when grabbing a flat white at our fave local cafe was no longer ...
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Revive creates palm oil alternative from coffee grounds
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th August 2019Revive 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 raises €500k seed round to further expand
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th April 2018Bamboo, 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 - great coffee served with social good
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd April 2018Bigmoose 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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Startup of the Week - The Cocoa & Roast Club
by: Startacus Admin ~ 23rd June 2016Some 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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Startup of the Week - DripApp
by: Startacus Admin ~ 9th March 2016As 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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Startup of the Week - Bottle & Bean
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd July 2015Mmmm - 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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We Walk the Line
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st June 2015Here 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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Innovative Coffee Cup Means New Way to Pay
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st April 2015If 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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Startup of the Week - bio-bean
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th March 2015Let’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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- Ulster Bank Funds Diverse Entrepreneurship 5th Jul 2022 The recipients of the 2022 Ulster Bank Enterprise Fund are announced, each aiming to promote and encourage entrepreneurship amongst underrepresented groups.
- New campaign launches to address disproportionate lack of support for disabled entrepreneurs. 5th Jul 2022 Leading disability-focused organisations join forces to launch the #Access2Funding campaign - calling on the VC and investment community to improve the representation, opportunities presented to and experience of disabled founders.