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Metro Bank seeks startups and scaleups with a focus on customer experience, community banking, optimisation of systems & data and sustainability for its second innovation lab. Startups and scaleups with solutions and technologies that could innovate the banking sector - this is for you!   Metro Bank has just launched a call for applications for Metro Bank Magic Makers, its second...
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Kickstart Innovation, one of Europe’s leading innovation platforms, has announced applications are now open for the 2022 program. Since 2016, Kickstart, one of Europe's leading platforms for open innovation, has supported over 400 later-stage startups from over 80 countries, facilitating over 200 deals in the form of collaborations and commercial partnerships. So far, Kickstart alumni hav...
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  The latest TechIreland Funding Review reveals that 2021 was the best year to date for funding into Irish tech companies with a record €1.6 billion raised. 2021 was a positive year for Irish tech funding with the latest TechIreland report showing that it reached a new high of €1.6 billion with a record number of 292 companies raising investments. The TechIreland Funding...
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  The lowdown on the innovative companies that have been selected as the latest cohort of FinTech, Tech Nation’s sector-specific growth programme for fintech entrepreneurs. We’ve heard lots of good news recently from the Tech Nation team with details of the cohorts taking part in their Net Zero programme for climate tech companies, their Future Fifty programme for late stage tec...
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An impressive cohort of 30 businesses from across the UK are announced as participants in Tech Nation's inaugural Libra programme for Black and Multiracial Founders The Tech Nation mission to support innovative UK tech companies continues! Following on from their recent announcements on the companies participating in their Net Zero, Future Fifty and Applied AI programmes, they have just announ...
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Latest TechIreland Startup Funding Review reveals that 2021 has been a record breaking year so far for Irish tech companies Good news to start the week with the publication of TechIreland’s Startup Funding Review which reveals that a record €932 million has been raised by 101 Irish tech companies in the first half of the year. The money was raised from a variety of sources, includin...
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Impressive cohort of 32 AI tech scaleups from across the UK are announced as participants in Tech Nation's Applied AI 3.0 growth programme. It’s all systems go for the folk at Tech Nation. Hot on the heels of the announcement of the late-stage startups who have been selected for their Future Fifty programme and last week’s news on the Climate Tech companies participating in NetZero...
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  "How to Scale a Startup" event on 23rd June will allow startups to explore key business areas they'll need to consider and get right if they're to move to scaleup status! Starting a startup that is financially sustainable can be hard work. Transitioning that startup and achieving exponential company growth through to scaleup status is generally even tougher. However, there are certain ch...
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RElab 2021 opens for applications from tech startups and scaleups with innovative solutions on the core themes of sustainability and construction technology Tech businesses with solutions to help shape our future smart built environment, take note! London-based VC firm Goldacre Ventures have just announced that RElab, their annual industry-focused scale-up programme is once again open for appl...
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Oliver Woolley CEO and co-founder of Envestors shares his insights on how the pandemic has impacted inward investment into start-up and scale-up businesses Sectors to have escaped unscathed by the global pandemic are unicorn-like, but there are those that have fared much worse than most, the obvious cases being leisure, hospitality, transport operators and retail. The number and value of fundra...
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