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One Year No Beer, the alcohol-free support service fundraises to scale its business following reports indicating huge surge in alcohol-related deaths since Covid. A new crowdfunding campaign has just been launched by One Year No Beer (OYNB), an online toolkit which aims to support people to reduce or eliminate their alcohol consumption and help them to live happier, healthier, and more fulfille...
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Major investment for her1, the digital health impact company that's dedicated entirely to female wellbeing... Leading Female wellness brand her1 has just announced a Series A investment of €5.5M, led by leading FoodTech investor Five Seasons Ventures. Previous seed investors in her1, Rheingau Founders and IBB Ventures have also reinvested  Since being founded in 2017 by serial FoodTe...
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The lowdown on Kastus, the Dublin-based startup that has developed the world's most innovative antimicrobial surface-coating technology It’s of no surprise that at the tail end of a pandemic, people are particularly wary of germs, bacteria, and, you know, viruses. We dry out our hands with the strongest hand sanitisers we can find, we buy UV phone sanitisers, sprays, and who knows what el...
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The lowdown on Nourished, the Birmingham-based healthtech startup that's on a mission to change the way the world thinks, buys and experiences nutrition With our diets and our lack of sunshine in the UK, it’s of no surprise that a lot of people, adults and children, have insufficient levels of vitamin B2, vitamin D, vitamin A, zinc, magnesium, potassium, copper, iron, selenium, and iodine...
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Heka is an innovative startup that enables you to offer a health benefits solution to your employees that is as unique as they are. Let's face it. Even before the events of the last year and a half, more and more businesses had started to understand and recognize the importance of their employees' overall wellbeing. And that's certainly not going to change in a post-pandemic world - in fact, em...
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The lowdown on my mhealth, the Bournemouth-based healthtech startup that has created a digital health platform to help support patients and clinical teams with the management of long term conditions Long-term medical conditions account for 70% of global healthcare expenditure. Many people have to deal with these conditions every day, but no matter how supportive their doctor is, they can’...
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The lowdown on Koalaa, the London-based startup that's innovating soft prosthetics for babies, children and adults With startups like The Open Hand Project and Open Bionics, we have written in the past about the need to bring affordable, usable prosthetics to people. In the UK, there are around 45,000 people who use prosthetics, and the NHS spends £60 million per year on prosthetic servic...
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The lowdown on the launch of the innovative Civic Dollars app that wants to reward people for spending time in certain public spaces With the world becoming more open again, the opportunities for regaining fitness lost during the lockdowns, getting that fresh air many will have been unable to breathe, and to start socialising in an active environment again, will be key.  For some, the re-...
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  Manual secures major investment to help with product development and international expansion and its overall mission to become the global destination for men’s health Fantastic news from Manual with the raise of a $30m Series A round. The company is setting its sight on becoming the go-to global platform for men’s health and wellbeing and will use this funding for product deve...
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  Funding secured by Oxford Medical Products to further develop its innovative non-surgical and non-pharmaceutical weight-loss solution Innovations in weight loss technology took a step further with the news that Oxford Medical Products (OMP) has raised £1.2M in seed investment to develop a safe and affordable weight loss capsule, which uses the same mechanism of action as a gastric b...
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