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GoHenry - Money management for kids thanks to this innovative startup which offers a pre-paid, pocket-money Card and app with unique parental controls, for young people aged 6 to 18... Money habits, whether good or bad, are learned as young as seven years old. Children, understandably, have no grasp of the imaginary, man-made concept of monetary value. This is why children can rack up massive bil...
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FavourUp, an influencer-generated content aggregator that helps brands & their agencies extend the impact of social media influencers, reaches it's 90k Crowdcube crowdfunding target in two weeks.  Many fashion brands are investing up to £50k in one-off influencer posts on social media, but these posts quickly disappear from view, being pushed down users feeds by new posts. This mak...
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Crowdfunding Success! Cashback app GreenJinn, goes into overfunding, raising over £670,000 in their Crowdcube campaign. We recently told you all about GreenJinn, an app offering personalised cashback coupons on everyday groceries, who were aiming to raise £600k via a crowdcube crowdfunding campaign to add new brands and shops and to take their tech to the next level. We are now ...
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We are liking the sound (sorry, puns to continue) of The Rattle, a music industry focused co-working business, that plans to open their first co-working space and studio facility in November 2017 in London.  Founded in January 2017 by MIT technology entrepreneur, MD of global startup accelerator MassChallenge UK, and former Techstars Entrepreneur in residence, Chris Howard, & Ph.D, ...
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Jim Rhodes, founder of Joto (a rather fab looking internet connected drawing board, featured on Startacus previously), shares some invaluable knowledge and advice for early stage startup founders, on the journey of developing and launching a product. "At the heart of every startup or small business is a great idea and a group of people striving to bring that idea to life. For every blossoming bus...
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GreenJinn has just launched its crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. They’re raising £600,000 to add new brands, shops and take their technology to the next level. Launched in October 2016, GreenJinn App provides personalised cashback coupons on everyday groceries. GreenJinn believes that everybody should be able to afford good quality products and nutritious food.  Within its fi...
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With 1000’s of hosted dinners, 1,000s of diners and an estimated 300,000 opportunities for people to meet, created, TableCrowd are now looking to further expand their online and offline social network by raising £400k via leading crowdfunding site Crowdcube. Startacus (that's us) love a good chit-chat. Startacus also loves a good feed. But, team Startacus admittedly struggles with the...
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According to the most recent figures released by leading crowd finance data source Crowdsurfer our partners Crowdfunder are now officially the largest crowdfunding platform in the UK having seen more successful campaigns than any other within the last ten month period! Crowdfunding £1M This great news coincides with the announcement that Crowdfunder are embarking on their own crowdfund...
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There’s a lot going on in Fraser Doherty’s life. Currently crowdfunding £250k for his SuperJam brand might prick your ears up a little. Or perhaps the fact that at aged 24 he has an MBE and an ‘iconic’ Scottish Brand to his name. Ignoring the obvious, “Were you a Yes or No voter” in the  recent Scottish Independence referendum, we wanted to find out a...
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Back at the end of May, we announced the launch of our crowdfunding portal in partnership with leading UK crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Our aim was to provide a dedicated crowdfunding portal for both new startups and established businesses. And as of last week, we were chuffed to hear that Crowdcube has become the first equity crowdfunding platform in the world to raise more than £10m fo...
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