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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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Crover - The AgriTech startup that's aiming to reduce grain storage losses by identify grain disease or spoilage at the earliest opportunity We have written quite a bit about the agri-tech sector in recent months, with the likes of Phytoponics, smart beehive monitor ApisProtect, and CropSafe, to name a few. Agri-tech is not only an interesting sector taking care of one of the most important thing...
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Serelay - The startup that's created innovative technology to make photos and videos completely verifiable... With startups such as Photocert, we have written previously about how important it can be to know how genuine an image is in this time of fake news, fake fake news claims, false reports, phishing scams, and so on. It would take an entire article in itself to talk about just how many ways...
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The lowdown on Leeds-based data, analytics and cybersecurity startup The Data City, which has data provision at its core... Leeds-based data, analytics, and cybersecurity startup The Data City has been named by Tech Nation as both one of the UK’s most exciting tech startups and one of the top 3 tech startups in Yorkshire and Humber. The startup has also been shortlisted for the se...
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miFuture - The Tech4Good startup that's created a better way of connecting young people with the world of work Being young and being told you need to start thinking about your career is a difficult position to be in. It is supposed to get easier the closer we come to actually embarking on said career, but often it doesn’t. We simultaneously find that there is somehow a vast sea of pote...
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Tended - The startup that's created wearable tech designed to monitor the wearer’s safety and detect accidents... Back in 2017, we wrote about a handful of startups in the safe-tech space, making life safer for the likes of runners, electrical workers, and the women of Delhi, to name but a few. Personal safety is, obviously, an important thing, but also something that most people don’...
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snap40 - The award winning Scottish healthtech startup that has AI innovation at its core with its innovative health monitoring device... At the inaugural Scottish Tech Startup Awards at the end of November, snap40 took home both the Startup of the Year and B2B Company of the Year awards after demonstrating their important role in further elevating Scotland’s status in the tech sc...
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The agtech IoT solution from ApisProtect to help beekeepers keep their hives productive and healthy... We have heard again and again about how important bees are to global food production, and yet we have still allowed them to reach the brink of extinction. In Ireland alone, a third of bee species face extinction. Bees contribute €153 billion worth of pollination to the agriculture industry ...
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