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NI-based with a startup or idea for an innovative product or a solution? This is for you - the Invent 2021 competition is now open for applications... Invent, the annual competition organised by Catalyst and partners Bank of Ireland is once again open for applications. The competition aims to recognise and reward local innovations and proof of concept ideas that have the greatest commercial po...
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Innovate UK supports startup Caeli Nova with development of its breathing technology that improves oxygenation of the human body in demanding environments Further evidence of the fantastic work that Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency is doing with the news that breathing technology startup Caeli Nova is launching its first product following an intensive research and development progr...
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The annual Tech Nation Report has been launched and highlights the resilience and innovation of the UK's tech sector despite the challenges caused by the pandemic and the EU Exit It’s that time of year again - Tech Nation, the leading scaleup accelerator, has released its annual Tech Nation Report, the ultimate state-of-the-nation report on the UK tech sector. After what was an extraordi...
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The lowdown on Bionaut Labs, the US startup that's on a mission to revolutionise the medical world with its innovative microscale robots We are, and have been for a while, in a period of time where reality begins to catch up with science fiction; where technology that we accepted as only part of fictional worlds starts to become a reality. One such technology is microrobotics for use in the med...
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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 Leeds-based startup Slingshot Simulations that's on a mission to innovate by providing Simulation-as-a-Service and large scale Digital Twins When changes need to be made to logistics, be it on a city-wide scale or something more localised, simulations are run to see what the various choices could end up looking like. Usually these simulations are a simple case of crunching numbers, and peop...
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The lowdown on GyroGear, the London-based medtech startup that's creating innovative wearable devices to stabilise hand tremors There are a number of different types of hand tremor, and different causes. The most well-known is Parkinson’s disease, but there is a more common Essential Tremor which can be misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s due to its similarity and affects 7 million people ...
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The Yorkshire-based tech spin-out, FourJaw secures major funding to assist with developing its technological solutions for the manufacturing sector Fantastic news for Northern tech company, FourJaw, which has just secured a significant six-figure investment from a combined Angel and Venture Capital syndicate, valuing the company at £2m. The innovative tech spin-out helps unlock productiv...
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The lowdown on Jack & Bry, the innovative London-based startup that makes a range of plant-based meats, all from Jackfruit Bill Gates recently caused a bit of a stir by saying that we all need to think about switching to synthetic meat - meat grown rather than butchered, such as Meatable, the startup we wrote about in 2018 that needs only cells from the umbilical cord when a calf ...
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For the first time ever, the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge has both a British winner and runner up in the form of innovative startups SoluBlue and Jiva Materials Revolutionary packaging startup, SoluBlue, has been awarded the top prize of €500,000 from the Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge, one of the world’s largest annual sustainability competitions. The Cambridge-based start...
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