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A look at Panzly, the innovative InsurTech startup that's created the 1st flight insurance for delays or cancellations with automatic and immediate payouts. Most of us have experienced delayed flights or even cancelled ones. It is annoying, inconvenient, and costly. Not only does it often mean paying out more for hotels, taxis, or just another drink while we wait, but airlines do their best to ge...
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CENTURY is an EdTech startup that believes that "every learner deserves an educational journey that’s tailored to suit their own personal needs". London-based CENTURY Tech has created an award-winning platform for teaching and learning. It is designed for primary schools all the way through to universities, for any student in any curriculum. The platform, CENTURY, uses artificial intel...
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The Newcastle based IoT startup that's using Artificial Intelligence to help us all reduce energy bills... Our energy usage is already astronomical, and with more and more electrical devices and appliances being created all the time with more and more functionality, we are using ever more energy. Especially with smart devices that are always-on, where once we might have turned them off at the plu...
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Turtle Pack is an innovative swimming aid that aim's to change the way kids aged 3-6 learn to swim. We found out more about this innovative Livingston-based startup. Turtle Pack is an innovative swimming aid that will change the way kids aged 3-6 learn to swim. Comprising of a high-quality neoprene vest and three removable foam shells, Turtle Pack has been designed by swimming experts to ensure t...
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The Shanghai based healthcare innovation - unmanned, AI-driven ‘one-minute clinics’ providing medical services, including diagnosis and medicine prescriptions. A 2018 study found that the UK has the fewest doctors in the EU, at 2.8 per 1,000 people. In comparison, Austria has 5.1 and Australia has 3.4 per 1,000 people. While these numbers are hard to take meaning from on their own, it...
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PropTech startup Inadash is aiming to innovate how people rent property, keeping the transaction quick, easy and on-demand... It has been a while since we have written about prop-tech startups, but we’ve written about quite a few in the past, including this property rental startup, which is particularly relevant to this article. Renting is the only way a lot of people can get anyw...
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FarmEye - The AgriTech startup that has agricultural traceability and sustainability at its very core... In our last agritech feature, we wrote that we were unlikely to run out of agritech startups to write about any time soon, and that’s holding true. More than ever, agricultural traceability and sustainability information are important to customers. And if it’s important to customer...
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Dublin-based startup UrbanVolt is aiming to upgrade businesses to Energy efficient LED lighting, to help offer a brighter future for all. We all grew up with a semblance of knowledge that lighting costs money. We couldn’t avoid it, because most of us were told off for not turning out the light if we left a room for 2 minutes, so it became firmly ingrained. As we started paying bil...
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The lowdown on Thyngs, the Fintech startup that is transforming any physical item into a virtual payment point... More and more, the digital and physical worlds are being connected. Augmented reality or Amazon’s staffless physical store are on the more obvious end of the scale, while things like beacons are on the more subtle side. The physical world can now be made digital, simplifyin...
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The lowdown on all the innovative and interesting startups that we gave the Startup of the Week accolade to during 2018...It’s that time of the year once again - time to give our annual rundown of all those innovative and interesting startups that have been awarded our Startup of the Week accolade over the last year. So without further ado, we present the Startacus Startups of the week 2018:...
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