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SpareFare - The lowdown on the marketplace for non-refundable flights and holidays... It’s happened lots of us. We’ve booked a flight or a hotel room and then something gets in the way and we can’t make it. Travel insurance often doesn’t cover it, we can’t get a refund and we end up simply losing out on whatever we’ve spent. If it’s a budget airline or a ...
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Currently in private beta, Claimer wants to be the app for R&D tax credits, helping businesses to easily get money back from their R&D spend and at a fraction of the current cost, with a flat 5% fee.  As a quick explainer, R&D Tax Credits is a UK Government tax initiative designed to help companies to invest in R&D. The UK Gov can obviously do better job at explaini...
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Futrli, a fast-growing cloud-based, integrated forecasting & business reporting platform, announces a successful £4m Series A funding raise from leading venture capital firms e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute Capital to fuel aggressive growth and innovation. Founded in 2014, the previously bootstrapped Futrli, supports over 40,000 businesses and 1,000 accountants in 130&nb...
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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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Fintech startup Wagestream allows employees to decide when they get paid their wages without the need for costly interest being charged.  Millions of people know the struggle of stretching their payday wages across the void to the next payday. The bulk of it goes out almost immediately to cover bills and what remains has to do you until the rinse and repeat stage. This can essentially lead t...
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Flood insurance for all thanks to innovative InsurTech startup FloodFlash Flooding is an increasingly common problem. You don’t have to be in the middle of a tropical storm in the Caribbean to find yourself wading through waist-high water in the streets; a little bit of rain in the wrong part of England could have a similar effect. Every year, flooding causes a massive $41 billion of u...
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RateSwitch - The FinTech startup that's making it easier than ever to get the best mortgage rates... If you’re a homeowner, you’ll know only too well how much of a minefield the mortgage market can be – understanding the terminology alone can be a chore! Of course whilst some of us may be financially savvy and always ensure that we are on the best deal possible, for others the o...
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Away from the established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a business isn’t always so clear. It’s not a lack of support, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by highlighting what some cities, which might not spring immediately to mind at the mention of ‘startups’, have to offer. Hot on the heels of...
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Multiply.ai - The innovative startup that's aiming to be a financial advisor for everyone... Managing your finances is one of those things that seems simple - perhaps so simple that you might consider it unnecessary, right up until you check your bank account and think you’ve been robbed. It is also a tedious, frustrating process that takes up time you could be using to go out shopping. Of...
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If you are looking to find out what startup support you can get in Edinburgh, this article on Edinburgh startup focused co-working, finances, programmes, & events might just help. With some cities, you know that you don’t have to worry about access to support for your startup. If you live in London, for example, you have everything you will need: approximately a million co-working space...
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