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Urban gardening made easy thanks to innovative startup Patch, which aims to make it easy for anyone and everyone in London to get into gardening... Let’s face it - if you live in London, chances are you may not have much of a garden. Whilst you may live near one of the capital’s great parks, it still may not compare with having your own green space. It can unfortunately be one of...
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Cycle.land, the bike sharing marketplace unlocking the assets of unused bikes, has raised over £200k thanks to its highly successful 2nd equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and now prepares to bring 1000's of bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters to Europe. Cycle.land is on a mission to disrupt urban transport. Founded in 2016 by Agne Milukaite and Peter Ebsen in Oxford, Cycle.land operates tho...
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Trim-It - Haircuts at home thanks to this innovative startup and its booking app Some of us at Startacus who are more streamline barely remember what it was like to need haircuts, but we do remember how inconvenient it could often be. Particularly for busy people, a short lunch break might be the only chance you get to to the barber, at which point you may find yourself queuing behind all the oth...
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New app friendrequest aims to connect people, taking 'social' offline and to lead the way in facilitating real-life friendship. Initially aimed at young people living, studying and working in London, friendrequest is a new app looking to lead the way in facilitating friendship.  Aiming to address the challenge of forming actual friendships in a world of ‘social’ media, the app...
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Innovation in messaging thanks to the social ice-breaker app for the London tube TubeChat, that's aiming to connect people in a disconnected world... Whether we in today’s world are more or less connected or isolated depends on whom you ask, but most would agree that one-to-one, personal interaction is at an all-time low. You can have a best friend on the other side of the world whom you ta...
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The Central Research Laboratory's (CRL) fifth hardware Accelerator cohort launches, with eight startups joining the 6 month hardware focused accelerator programme based in Hayes, West London, on the former site of EMI Records headquarters. Founded in 2015, the hardware accelerator, based in Hayes, West London (on the former site of EMI Records headquarters), is an accelerator, incubator, and co-w...
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There are more than 50 million young black professionals around the world. Step forward BYP Network, a platform and app aiming to change the often negative black media narrative, with their linkedin-like platform and community for ambitious young black professionals to connect with each other and with corporations for job opportunities. Bringing future leaders together, between the ages of 18 - 3...
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