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Upside Energy - The Manchester based startup that's creating innovative digital solutions that support the energy management systems of the future It’s not exactly a secret that relying on fossil fuels is a short-sighted, finite solution to energy production. Renewable energy is on the rise and becoming more powerful. Soon, we will live in a world where homes and businesses all contribute t...
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Enhance convenience and efficiency by giving your home a brain, care of Manchester-based startup Wondrwall, a smart home intelligence system that learns from your behaviour. Smart homes are catching on more and more these days. Why stand up and walk all the way to the lightswitch when you can turn on the lights from your phone? Why turn down the heating when your smart thermostat can do it for yo...
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As the culmination of their latest programme, AccelerateME will hold a Demo Day on the 6th of June 2018. We asked the AccelerateME team to share all the details...AccelerateME is a pre-seed accelerator for students and graduates from University of Manchester. Participants go through an intensive 12-week programme during which they are guided by mentors, receive office space and up to £1,500 ...
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When Storify announced last December that it will officially shut down in May 2018, Wakelet a free-to-use content curation platform saw an opportunity, and quickly came up with a solution for Wakelet users to find a new home for their content. Storify, a leading digital publishing tool that allowed users to chronologically order links and social media posts, along with their own no...
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In response to the digital challenges faced by SMEs, Digital 4.0, the knowledge-sharing & networking event, aims to help SME's embrace digital opportunities. Small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the UK economy. As of December, there were 5.7 million businesses registered in the UK, of which more than 99% are SMEs, accounting for 60% of employment and 51% of turnover. ...
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Current or recent students (up to 2-year alumni) at University of Manchester with businesses at ideas-stage & beyond take note - AccelerateME, a 12-week programme aimed at supporting 'student lead' early-stage startups get to the next level, closes for applications ASAP. Run for students, by students, AccelerateME is a 12-week programme ran at the University of Manchester, via student society...
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You know that pain in the *** moment when you need to send your going-on-holiday mates an email with 15 different links to the various potential hotels, flights, bars, restaurants, spa's....the list goes on, only for them not to click on any of the links in the first place.  Or, from a work perspective, that long winded email you need to send to a perspective client, with the links to the pi...
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OfferMoments, the Minority Report style billboard creators, aim to disrupt the growing £1billion OOH advertising market after a £1.5m cash injection to fund a brand new project. Since it’s inception in 2014, OfferMoments has been at the forefront of marketing innovation including the launch of its personalised digital billboard powered by facial recognition and mobile data techn...
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We have talked about how beacons - specifically iBeacons - can work for museum guides, advertising, home automation, and much more in our article about Internet of Things startups, and again as part of retail innovations to keep an eye on. Now, OtherWorld - an initiative from startup Like No Other - is testing out a combination of new and old uses for beacons in Manchester city centre. Releva...
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In a previous article The Changing Face of Co-Working Spaces, we mentioned Hubble and since they raised £1.2m in funding at the beginning of June, we thought it would be quite timely to look at them in a little more detail. We have learned two main things while doing this. The first is that it can be surprisingly simple to find the right co-working space if someone gives you the right p...
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