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Innovative startups are currently being sought by BMW Group Financial Services UK which has just launched the third instalment of its Innovation Lab, run in collaboration with corporate innovation specialists, L Marks. Having created the UK’s largest network of corporate accelerators, L Marks is now recognised as a leader in business change.  This year’s lab is building on the su...
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  The Cambridge-based startup BiologIC Technologies that has created an empowering tool to drive the next wave of biological innovation Cancer. The big C. It’s something that we’ve been working towards a cure for - not Startacus personally - for a long time. One way of going about this is cell therapy, but the barrier is, as always, money. The cost is prohibitive. As...
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Generating online sales. The lowdown on how Calming Blankets, an Australian startup generated global sales for their innovative product, "weighted blankets"... Calming Blankets is an Australian company that was founded in 2017 and has since sold over 50,000 blankets online. With blankets starting from £119.00, the product is high-end and niche – yet has gained global interest and a lo...
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The recruitment startup, Otta, that puts the job-seeker first and only provides the most relevant and personalised job recommendations... Last year, we featured a number of recruitment startups, from Candidate.ID, to Talentful, to Dolphin. This is a sector that will always be relevant, and in which disruption and innovation will always be welcome, so why not continue to highlight such tech ...
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UK Startup Domino Clamps has created an out-of-the-box Solution to revolutionise shipping container reuse...We’ve seen shipping containers being used in ever more inventive ways in recent years and that is set to continue with the launch of Domino Clamps. This is the flagship product from Container Clamps Ltd and is an innovative out-of-the-box solution for attaching almost anything to a shi...
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The lowdown on the innovative, interesting and sometimes quirky startups that have featured as one of our Startups of the Week during 2019.With the end of the year almost upon us, it’s the perfect time to have a look back at all the innovative startups that have been awarded the Startup of the Week accolade by us over the past 12 months. Inspirational one and all - the Startacus Startup...
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The online platform Sozie, that enables fashion retailers to show how fashion looks on “real people” - people like their customers. Ever bought something to wear online and then had to return it because it just doesn’t look the same on you when compared to the seemingly “perfect-sized” model on the website?Us too.Whilst this may be inconvenient for us as customers, i...
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Disruptive startups that can help with innovation in the retail sector, take note! Iceland, recognised as the leader in frozen food and with 900 stores in the UK are on the hunt for startups to work with them on developing solutions to shape the future of their business.  Delivered in partnership with corporate innovation specialists L Marks, the Iceland Discovery Programme aims to find inno...
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Creative freelancers take note - this one's for you. Further development by Wishu, the social marketplace for creative freelancers with the launch of its iOS app Good news for freelancers with Wishu, the social marketplace aimed at generation Z creative freelancers, having launched its app across the UK. It is the world’s first social marketplace app that allows transactions betwe...
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The Irish medtech startup Tracworx, that's on a mission to make patient tracking easier for health professionals... Hospitals are places where errors can literally be life or death, yet human error can result in data for patients being recorded incorrectly or even not being recorded at all. Due to this same human error or even simply a lack of paper trail, nursing hours are wasted searching for w...
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