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AlphaBeats is a startup that's created an innovative way to help us all us fight stress while we unwind listening to our favourite music... In our modern, always-connected world, we often mistake for relaxation time what is actually just sitting in a more comfortable chair to stress about things, perhaps on our phone instead of our laptop. We finish work and let out that relieved work’s-o...
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Major seed investment secured by the innovative Insurtech startup Nayms to assist with developing further pilot programs and building its customer base Fantastic news to start the year for Insurtech startup Nayms. The innovative startup has closed a £1.5m seed round led by XBTO, alongside other top investors across insurance, capital markets and crypto including Coinbase Ventures, Maven11...
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The London-based fintech innovator, PayDashboard, receives Innovate UK Funding to support its growth in the financial wellness space Fantastic news to start the year for PayDashboard, the interactive payslip platform, as it reveals it has been selected by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to receive a £167,072 funding grant to help drive and support its continued growth in th...
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Manna is an innovative Irish startup that's on a mission to use commercial drones and make 3-minute delivery within the community a reality We’ve been writing for a while about how drones will become more widespread and more useful as time goes on. Most recently, we wrote about Apian, the startup creating drone-based delivery of COVID-19 test kits, samples, and PPE, but reliance on drones...
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OpinionX is a Dublin-based startup doing that has created a "next-generation research tool that helps you to discover what matters most to your users". When it comes to learning about your customers’ wants and needs, surveys are all well and good, but how many people actually fill them out? Certainly, those who take the time to do so can give you good insights and new things to think abo...
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A review of the innovative, interesting and quirky startups that have featured as one of our Startups of the Week during 2020... It’s been a year that we’ll never forget! However despite all the challenges that we’ve faced, 2020 has seen startups continuing to create, innovate and disrupt in all sorts of sectors. Now as we embark on a new year, we thought it’d be the per...
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  Innovation abounds in Northern Ireland so we thought it only right to share with you the top Northern Ireland-based startups that are worth watching in 2021...   We’re based in Northern Ireland. And whilst we haven’t been outside to check for months, we know that there are lots of fab digital startups here! Some are still at a very early stage, some are a little mor...
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The Edinburgh-based startup Neatebox that has developed WelcoMe - disability-aware customer service software to help both customers and staff alike There are over 13 million people in the UK with disabilities, 75% of which are hidden disabilities, and yet accessibility is not anywhere near what it should be, be it physical accessibility or simply having staff knowing how to interact appropriate...
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Bespoken Spirits is an innovative Silicon Valley startup that has created technology to tailor spirits for aroma, colour and taste in a matter of days The spirits industry is a $500 billion one that isn’t overly fond of change or disruption. Disruption is what startups are good at, however, so when today’s startup decided that waiting a minimum of 3 years for a whiskey to be ma...
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MyRound is an innovative app enabling users to buy and/or receive a drinks round via a digital drink token A new app created to help people buy a drink for someone remotely has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help accelerate the development and scale of the service. Developed by eDrinks as part of their group of consumer apps reimagining social drinking, MyRound is a free and easy to ...
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