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Prison walls are never built to scale, but startups are. We took a look over the recent StartPlanetNI demo-day at Crumlin Road Gaol, with their current cohort of startups pitching for their ‘big break’ and to hopefully lockdown future investment... We love a good startup pitch competition or accelerator program demo day here at Startacus HQ. From the bizarre but super 'cool', Polar Be...
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Attention founders with a tech-focused startup! Do you need some additional support with development and market potential?   There is less than one week left to apply for UK based global accelerator StartPlanetNI! The 3-month intensive programme will begin in September 2016 in Belfast, and having had a very successful first cohort complete the programme in recent months, the team is pla...
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Are you thinking of applying to a Startup accelerator? It is not a decision to be taken lightly- indeed there are many questions which you will need to answer before actually putting pen to paper- or fingers to keys, as is more likely.Diane Roberts, founder and managing partner of Xcell Partners, who also plays a key role in the delivery of the global accelerator for tech Startups StartPlanetNI, s...
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A global Startup accelerator in Belfast is helping to grow the city’s reputation as an ideal place for ambitious startups from across the UK and beyond to start reaching their true potential. After a very successful first cohort Northern Ireland’s international tech accelerator StartPlanetNI is once again open for applications. But why should a Startup consider taking part in an acce...
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We’ve followed the progress of the inaugural participants on StartPlanetNI, Northern Ireland’s only private equity backed start-up accelerator programme with interest since its launch back in June last year. We reported back in October that StartPlanetNI had had around 300 applicants for the first programme that was undertaken at 112 Donegall Street, a purpose-designed accelerator and...
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Over the past few weeks we have been reporting on a new global accelerator based in Belfast which has been casting a net around the world to find some innovative and disruptive tech startups.  The aptly named StartPlanet NI has just 10 spaces available, but their first call for startups has received 290 applications from 46 countries… the team certainly have their work cut out for them...
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