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The lowdown on Motitech, the FitTech startup that's on a mission to help motivate older people and people with dementia to be physically active... We have written recently about startups focused on the physical and mental wellbeing of the older generation, with the likes of Grandpal creating opportunities for local people to spend time with nursing home residents, and Tovertafel’s stim...
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SwimAR, a lightweight, hydrodynamic training device using augmented reality that attaches to normal swimming goggles. In keeping with our recent uptick in coverage of virtual reality and augmented reality startups, today we’re going swimming. With augmented reality.  Swimmers in training need to know their swim data to know what they need to improve on, what their strengths and weakne...
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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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Following a successful 1st year in 2018, SportTech event SMASH London, an event on all things tech and innovation in sport, physical activity and health, returns on 25 April 2019. A partnership between London Sport and team Smash one of the world’s largest SportTech events, this year’s event will combine thought-provoking content with ideas geared towards the next big innova...
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SportTech Belfast startup Pitchbooking, a platform that provides greater access to sports facilities for the public while streamlining the facility owner’s internal processes, secures £250k investment to help become the market leader in sports facility management. Pitchbooking has secured £250,000 in funding in an investment round led by local investment firm Aurient Ltd and bac...
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Football scouting just became a whole lot easier - for players and clubs alike, thanks to Tonsser - the innovative app enabling young footballers to showcase their skills and talent... Whilst many of the world’s best and most famous footballers were initially discovered and given their big break by football scouts, it’d be fair to say that there are many talented players who rema...
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Early-stage startup Pitchbooking is an online marketplace that's aiming to make it easy to find sports facilities in your area. Recently partnering with Oxford City Council - to enable residents to find sports facilities in Oxford, we chatted to the team at this year's Digital DNA, where they were pitching their startup, to find out more about their platform that's offering sports facilities to p...
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These are the latest FitTech startups looking to change the face of the fitness sector and revolutionise physical activity, as part of startup accelerator programme ActiveLab. Always game for sharing word on innovative startups - here's a brief look at all eleven... Eleven new FitTech companies have joined the battle against physical inactivity via ukactive’s ActiveLab programme which aims ...
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If you have an innovative idea to help people find and take part in physical activities, and could use open data about activities, the ODI OpenActive Accelerator might just be the perfect fit. Good sports that we are, Startacus thought it best to share all the key details you just might need. The Open Data Institute’s 6-month OpenActive Accelerator, in partnership with Sport England, aims t...
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Applications are now open for the Arsenal Innovation Lab, a fab looking 10-week programme for startups to test and demonstrate their products or services with one of the leading clubs in world football. If you are game for finding out more, read on… Arsenal Innovation Lab Run in collaboration with corporate innovation specialists L Marks, shortlisted startups will be mentored by senior bu...
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