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Female founders take the lead as Tech Nation announces the most diverse winners of its national ‘Rising Stars’ competition to date Tech Nation has announced the 10 winners of its fourth Rising Stars competition, which recognises the brightest and best early-stage tech scaleups from every area of the UK. Previous years’ Rising Stars Winners have included Selazar (from Northern ...
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Alejandro Turell, CEO & Founder of LastBasic shares insights on how moving to digital-forward business models will be essential for startups in the year ahead. 2021 has been a tale of two halves for the startup community. We’ve all felt the social and economic impacts of the ongoing pandemic, being forced to completely change our ways of doing business, for many of us at a very early...
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  Callum Rimmer, founder and CEO, By Bits shares his thoughts on why the insurance market needs to change - for the benefit of both insurers and customers alike The last 12 months have seen a massive reduction in travel and, as a result, highlighted the urgent need for the insurance industry to follow in the footsteps of retail banking and provide consumers with a much more dynamic and enga...
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  The Wild Curl launches crowdfunding campaign to help with its mission of disrupting the beauty industry and fighting against continuous hair discrimination After facing many years of struggles to find products for curly hair, Vanessa Martins Lopes is now aiming to disrupt the beauty industry and fight against continuous hair discrimination curly consumers are facing. Her brand, The Wild C...
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  The innovative Spanish startup on a mission to help us have a greener future by disrupting how we can source electricity from nature... It’s no secret that we are in need of a sustainable source of energy that doesn’t contribute to the destruction of the planet. We have wind farms, solar farms, hydroelectric whatsits, and a drive to improve on these and the batteries that stor...
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We take a look at Envisics, the UK-based startup that's disrupting the automotive industry with its innovative holographic technology Most of us, should our minds drift to the future of cars and driving, think of electric cars like Tesla and...uh...the other brands that are also available. Fast, powerful, minute-emission cars that are just a step below the flying cars Hollywood fooled us i...
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The insurance that's powered by the cycling community...  No one can surely be a big fan of insurance companies? They are generally thought of the world over as the soulless entities you must pledge money to in return for the vague idea that if anything should happen, you might possibly be somewhat protected from having to pay even more for repairs... But insurance does work, and ...
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Nutribuddy founder Ella McKendrick shares the knowledge she has gained since starting her natural nutritional business within the ‘Grab and Go’ Meal Market. We live in a fast-paced world nowadays. We’re stressed out and under pressure to get from A to B, whether that’s for work or running the kids to school or local events.This daily pressure has led to the creation of t...
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Whilst mainstream lenders are trying to lose the connotation of payday loans, a wave of fintech are looking to offer complete alternatives. The high lending and ‘payday’ industry continues to attract criticism from politicians, religious figures and the press. In 2014, the industry was worth over £2 billion and had over 50 lenders – but this number is dwindling following t...
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BPI-Unitek - The AI platform that extracts data from documents, automates data entry and customer conversations... Extracting data from forms and documents and entering it into databases is a tedious, laborious task, and one that takes time away from other jobs your employees could be doing. There is also a very high rate of human error in this process, which creates customer dissatisfaction...
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