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Startup of the Week - Seed Pantry
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th June 2018Gardening made easy - no matter what size of space you may ( or may not ) have, thanks to startup, Seed Pantry.
Let’s face it - there are few things as satisfying as growing your own. Whether it’s vegetables or flowers, it’s much more rewarding to have cultivated your own produce as opposed to simply buying in the local supermarket.Of course, for some of us, limited outdoo...
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Startup of the Week - Perlego
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th April 2018Perlego - The EdTech startup which is on a mission to make textbooks more affordable via its innovative subscription service
As we all know, studying can be an expensive business. And therefore anything which can potentially help students save some money ought to be welcomed with open arms - especially when it’s not only helping them save money but also helping them study at the same time.C...
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Drover offers cars by subscription
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd April 2018Drover - the startup that offers all inclusive car subscriptions for everyday and private hire drivers across the UK.
Cars are expensive. A few of the Startacus team can attest to that. A fairly priced second-hand car is all well and good, but something’s wrong when you pay a few times that for repair. You said the brakes were new!
Anyway, the point is insurance is expensive; fuel, repairs...
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Healthy Nibbles wants you to nibble healthily
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th February 2018Healthy eating made easy thanks to this startup's healthy vending, B2B and white label snack service...Eating healthily is something we all know we should be doing, something few of us actually do, and something that only gets harder when we’re on the move. More of us are likely to choose the chocolate bar over the apple for a snack to accompany lunch or to tide us over until we get home. If...
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Lazy Flora - think Hello Fresh for gardening!
by: Startacus Admin ~ 4th September 2017If you are not an avid all-year-round gardener, but fancy a wee dabble at a bit of carefree gardening, we think you might be in luck. Plant that thought and read on, as we want to tell you about early stage startup Lazy Flora, the delivery service for ready-made gardens in a box - think 'Hello Fresh' for gardening perhaps...
Founded by Claire Ransom, the concept of Lazy Flora came about as a...
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Waldo eyes up a positive business future
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th August 2017Waldo is on a mission to make contact lenses more affordable than ever... If you are the kind of person who is totally okay with sticking things onto your eyeballs, you might be interested to hear that it’s now, (according to startup Waldo) less expensive and easier than ever to do so. Contact lenses offer advantages over glasses in that they won’t fall off your face and break as ...
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Startup of the Week - Illumicrate
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th July 2017Bibliophiles take note - this one’s for you.
Why?
Because reading and the joy that it brings is at the very core of our latest Startup of the Week.
Illumicrate is a subscription service for book lovers.
Here’s how it works.
Subscribe to the service and every quarter you will receive a crate filled with all sorts of book goodies. There’ll be at least one newly released book (...
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Startup of the Week - Wootbox
by: Startacus Admin ~ 21st December 2016If you’re struggling with what to buy the geek or gamer in your life for Christmas, then we may have just found the perfect solution thanks to our latest Startup of the Week.
Wootbox is a subscription startup dedicated exclusively to geeks and gamers!
Each month’s box is based around a mystery theme and contains between 4 and 6 related products. Typical products can include figurines...
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Startup of the Week - LivingHygge
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th November 2016Fed up listening to the media’s gloom and doom merchants? Getting ever more frustrated at hearing how 2016 has been such a dreadful year and how the worst is yet to come?
Yep.
Us too.
It’s therefore always good to hear about things which are altogether more positive, like our latest Startup of the Week, for instance.
LivingHygge is a new startup which is on a mission to celebrate ...
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Startup of the Week - Little-Known Box
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th September 2016For many years, the beauty industry has been dominated by multinational corporations and global brands, however more recently there has been a noticeable shift with increasing numbers of smaller brands coming on the scene and seeking to make their mark. And the good news is that our latest Startup of the Week is on a mission to help those smaller brands do just that.
Little-Known Box is a beauty ...
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- Sports facility management platform Pitchbooking nets £250k investment 6th Feb 2019 SportTech Belfast startup Pitchbooking, secures £250k investment to help become the market leader in sports facility management.
- Too Good To Go raises further €6m to keep fighting food waste everywhere 6th Feb 2019 Fast growing tech for good app Too Good To Go raises a further €6 million to accelerate its mission to eliminate food waste globally, taking its total investment to €16m.
- Google+ for consumers shuts down 2nd April 1st Feb 2019 Goodbye Google+. The end date for Google+ for consumers (personal) has been announced as the 2nd April 2019. So what....now?