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The lowdown on About:Energy, the innovative startup that's accelerating and enhancing battery development for the manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace sectors. With the rise of cleaner, electric-based energy comes the need to store that energy. Electric vehicles and the like require batteries, and with the UK’s ban on new petrol and diesel vehicles coming ever closer, those batteries...
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Earthly Biochar is a Devon-based startup that's on a mission to scale biochar use in the UK, helping to improve soil health and mitigate climate change. On the heels of the hottest weather on UK record, climate change is at the forefront of the national conversation again. Once again, we start talking about (not doing, of course) what has to be done while a shockingly large portion of the popul...
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The lowdown on Zoa Rental, the startup that's helping brands handle the growing demand for clothing rental and improve how the world consumes fashion. With the growth of circular fashion, clothing rental businesses are becoming an increasingly popular option, for brands and consumers alike, as we all do our bit to help save our planet. And since the concept of starting a rental business might b...
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WeWALK secures investment to help further develop its innovative technology and grow its global market presence. The good news keeps coming for WeWALK, the company behind unique products that enhance the lives of visually impaired people!. Hot on the heels of the announcement that it is part of a consortium that has secured UKRI funding for a Designed For Ageing project, comes the news tha...
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Digital mental health platform, Unobravo secures major investment to further its mission and make mental health accessible and sustainable. Unobravo, a mental health platform and benefit company, has raised a €17 million series A led by Insight Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm. Unobravo is Insight’s first venture investment in Italy. H...
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The lowdown on Oxford-based biotech startup Moa Technology and its mission to tackle the growing problem of herbicide resistance. Herbicide is a contentious thing. It keeps food safe from pests and keeps away weeds that would use up crops’ nutrients, etc., but it also has a pretty bad impact on the environment. Herbicides contaminate the soil and water, they can kill animals and insects ...
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Berlin-based Tomorrow University is on a mission to empower and educate the change makers of tomorrow and help create a more sustainable future. As we all know, one of the biggest impacts of the pandemic has been the inevitable rise in remote working and learning. As you’d expect therefore, there are more and more startups being created to service our “remote” needs - whether ...
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London-based fintech startup Mast builds cloud-native mortgage technology to help streamline the mortgage process and help both lenders and borrowers alike. It’s an acknowledged fact that the property ladder is becoming harder to get onto, but when you do manage to scrape together enough money to put down a deposit on your own home, you need a mortgage. These come with their own problems ...
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The lowdown on Munich-based startup QOA and its innovative solutions to address the issues caused by the mass production of cocoa. Chocolate is good. Chocolate, it could be argued, is life. Without chocolate, what would the point even be? Unfortunately, despite the low environmental impact that cocoa production has the potential to have, in reality, it is doing significant damage. From deforest...
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The lowdown on London-based startup BotsAndUs and its autonomous robots that can measure, track and find goods without workflow disruption. The future is robotic. We’ve all known for a long time that, eventually, robots would take over the basic tasks that we don’t want to do, or that take time away from our main priorities. Eventually, they will perform all of the jobs that we don&...
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