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Holiday planning made easy thanks to new travel startup BRB, which is in essence the world’s first travel subscription company. No matter how much we may all love our holidays, sometimes the actual process of planning and booking a trip can be a chore in itself. From identifying the flight options, the seemingly endless search for the right accommodation, checking out reviews, comparin...
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Gardening 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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Perlego - 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 - 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 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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If 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 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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Bibliophiles 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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If 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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Fed 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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