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leAD Sports is on the hunt for early-stage SportsTech startups to join their 12-week Accelerator program in the heart of Europe’s thriving and vibrant startup ecosystem in Berlin. With applications to join their 3rd cohort closing on May 15th, we thought we’d be good sports and share all the key details. After two successful cohorts, the SportsTech powerhouse is now on its t...
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Innovation in play thanks to Storyball, a toy that uses games, stories and challenges to get children playing, learning and moving their bodies As technology advances and more information and entertainment can be accessed from all kinds of devices, it becomes more tempting and easier for parents and carers to occupy their children with these devices. Where once we might have sat a child down in ...
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Startups focused on Connected Digital Mobility, including digital-enabling technologies for connected vehicles, on-demand and autonomous travel, smart cities, future transport services and platforms, this could be the opportunity for you. BP are looking for innovative B2B and B2B2C companies making use of advancements in AI/ML, Data Intelligence, Digital Twinning, Simulation and other technologie...
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AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. So will robots become part of the family as our pets have?  AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. Published this week in the Telegraph was news from Sir Nigel Shadbolt that robots will not destroy humanity. It seems movies depicting the f...
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American Electric Power (AEP) in partnership with innovation specialist L Marks, has launched IlluminationLAB which will include a bootcamp, energy summit, and 10-week proof of concept program to co-create innovative energy products and services. If that introduction sparked your interest, read on to find out more. Offering startups and entrepreneurs the opportunity to gain behind the scenes acce...
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Igloo Energy, the smart home energy service, on a mission to make customers' homes smarter, more efficient and cost less to run, has raised over £600K from 512 investors on leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs.  Having received £1m in Research & Development funding in August 2018 from BEIS & Innovate, Igloo set their funding target on See...
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Powervault is on a mission to provide simple and affordable smart energy storage for your home with their energy storage products. Bills are becoming expensive and wages are floundering around like a fish in the desert, or some other sensical metaphor. We look to smart meters and smart homes in general to help us lower bills and save on our energy. One more involved answer to this that many peop...
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Innovation in mobility for the visually impaired thanks to WeWALK, a revolutionary smart cane!  Almost 1 in every 25 people is visually impaired. That’s 250 million people worldwide. Of these, 50 million use a cane. We’ve all walked past someone at some point, making their way confidently with a white cane, and considered how difficult and frightening we would find it to have to ...
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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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Forget access cards and keyfobs, Doordeck is an innovative startup let's you use your smartphone to open doors... Keeping a building secure whilst ensuring its occupants aren’t subjected to undue hassle can be tricky. Keys are pretty much out of the question - forgetting to lock the door behind you, badly cut keys that don’t work, and the fact that people don’t want to walk...
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