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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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Sustainably - Charitable giving made easy thanks to this innovative startup that enables you to have an impact on charities every time you shop...  We like to write about charitable startups; those using their innovative, fresh take on things to do good. Traditional charities have never seen massive success, but lately, public faith in these charities has become less and less. Money is ...
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Away from the established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a business isn’t always so clear. It’s not a lack of support, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by highlighting what some cities, which might not spring immediately to mind at the mention of ‘startups’, have to offer. Hot on the heels of...
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If you are looking to find out what startup support you can get in Edinburgh, this article on Edinburgh startup focused co-working, finances, programmes, & events might just help. With some cities, you know that you don’t have to worry about access to support for your startup. If you live in London, for example, you have everything you will need: approximately a million co-working space...
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MiAlgae - The lowdown on the innovative microalgal production company that's aiming to revolutionize the global livestock feed industry...via whiskey distillation. Fishmeal is traded by the millions of tonnes annually. It is a commodity valuable in its ubiquity. For the purposes of this article, the important product that uses fishmeal is livestock and aquaculture (fish) feed as a cheap source of...
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Seed Haus, the Edinburgh based pre-seed investor invests in three new startups working across: Robotics, AdTech, and MarTech that will now join the incubator as part of their second cohort. Founded as a response to the lack of startup funding in the Scottish eco-system, Seed Haus believe entrepreneurs need the most help in the early phases of the business’ life cycle, but that the Scottish ...
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Google Maps is good for getting directions and checking how long it will take you to get to the cinema to see Star Wars, but it isn’t updated often enough to be useful for business. When looking up your childhood home in Google Street View, you may notice that the images are from years ago; the satellite imagery isn’t much better. Usually, it is updated every 2 to 4 weeks, but images c...
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A new Scottish scheme to nurture and support up to 40 budding entrepreneurs each year, was yesterday set out by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, at the Start-Up Summit in Edinburgh. Backed by £4 million, the Scottish CAN DO Unlocking Ambition Challenge, will link established and successful entrepreneurs with high potential individuals who can demonstr...
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A recent report The ‘Scotland Skills 2030’ report, produced by the Institute for Public Policy Scotland, has warned that nearly half of the Scottish workforce are at risk of job termination because of the rise of automated machines in the workplace. The key takeaway headline via IPPR reads:"The world of work in 2030 will be very different to that in 2017. People are more likely to be ...
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As the midnight hour approaches and the future of this United Kingdom hangs tentatively in the balance we had planned to offer up an in depth, realistic and unbiased account of how a yes or no vote in the Scottish Independence referendum would affect startups in the country. But then we thought, “surely everyone has had quite enough of these dry, tiresome political / fiscal postulations by ...
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