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GovStart, a six month growth programme run by PUBLIC, to help tech startups transform the public sector is back and looking for its latest cohort. Launched last year, with a first year cohort including Ask the Midwife, Adzuna, Red Sift, and Cera, £8.1 million in valued contracts signed, and 6 public sector pilots already agreed, we took a look over all the key details a startup would need t...
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Compass News - the innovative journalism startup that'll help you navigate the world of news from the publishers you can trust. Consuming news is both easier and harder these days than ever before. Some outlets even put their news on paper, an idea they saw in a chip shop, we’re guessing. Print? Is that what it’s called? That doesn’t sound right. Either way, a dozen news so...
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Gravity Sketch - 3D Design made even easier thanks to this London based startup and its intuitive multi-platform 3D creation tool  We’re all familiar (apart from Dave that is) with the intricate process of 3D design, for sure. All the polygons and the...vertices, and the...so on. At some point we’ve all rubbed our strained eyes and wished there was a better, easier, quicker way t...
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AirPortr - the London based startup that's fast tracking airline passengers and their luggage between the world's cities The worst part of any trip is the airport. Crying children, garbled announcements that leave you wondering ‘was that my flight?’, overpriced food and drink, and queues. The queue for the plane is unavoidable unless you borrow a small child to get you boarding first;...
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Drover - the startup that offers all inclusive car subscriptions for everyday and private hire drivers across the UK. Cars are expensive. A few of the Startacus team can attest to that. A fairly priced second-hand car is all well and good, but something’s wrong when you pay a few times that for repair. You said the brakes were new! Anyway, the point is insurance is expensive; fuel, repairs...
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Zebra Fuel, an innovative app that delivers diesel directly to your car, recently raised £1.8m in funding to fuel their growth. Mere days ago, we stood at a fuel station counter while the cashier rolled her eyes at our request for some kind of wipe to remove the stinking diesel from our hands and we thought, ‘there has to be a better way’. Or, more accurately, we didn’t t...
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London-based tech startup, Safe & The City, last week launched its personal safety app designed to battle opportunistic crimes and sexual harassment on streets by using GPS technology, crowdsourced information and crime data from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London. The app uses police data to alert users in advance before approaching intersections with a patterned history of crime...
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With research indicating that there are now around 1.2 million women-led small and medium sized businesses in the UK, which contribute an estimated £115 billion to the economy, Enterprise Enfield has launched another initiative to encourage even more women to entrepreneurship.  London-based Enterprise Enfield is an independent enterprise agency offering a range of business support serv...
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Workspace accelerator group Huckletree has launched a new membership offering for working parents, in its new space in West London. Huckletree West in White City provides both shared workspaces and private studios to digital lifestyle businesses and now offers a Kids’ Studio where parents can work while their pre-school children play. For just £175 a month working parents (...
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CLiKD, a London-based dating app which launched in 2017, has launched a new photography competition inviting people to submit photographs which showcase what Love means to them in London.  Aptly named ‘Love in London’, the photography competition is aimed at celebrating unity and hope in the aftermath of a turbulent year for the capital. The aim being to ...
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