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Food waste app Too Good To Go, an app that connects users to stores that have unsold, surplus food, has announced that it has raised a further €6m in funding to accelerate its mission to eliminate food waste globally, taking its total investment to €16m.  The new investment will fuel growth in four new countries this year, to reach a projected total of 100 million meals r...
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Evocco - The innovative app that will help you shop sustainably and minimise the environmental impact... Let’s face it - we are all more aware than ever of the importance of ethical eating. We know that what we choose to eat doesn’t just have an impact on our health, but also has a huge impact on the environment. Of course whilst we may have the best intentions and vow to eat and...
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We are delighted to report that Small Robot Company, a British agritech robotics startup for sustainable farming,has raised £1.2 million on Crowdcube equity crowdfunding. It reached its initial funding target of £500,000 within minutes of its launch thanks largely to support from the farming community. The company’s hugely successful campaign received support from far and w...
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FarmEye - The AgriTech startup that has agricultural traceability and sustainability at its very core... In our last agritech feature, we wrote that we were unlikely to run out of agritech startups to write about any time soon, and that’s holding true. More than ever, agricultural traceability and sustainability information are important to customers. And if it’s important to customer...
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Dublin-based startup UrbanVolt is aiming to upgrade businesses to Energy efficient LED lighting, to help offer a brighter future for all. We all grew up with a semblance of knowledge that lighting costs money. We couldn’t avoid it, because most of us were told off for not turning out the light if we left a room for 2 minutes, so it became firmly ingrained. As we started paying bil...
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Aeropowder is an award winning startup, who's first product pluumo, is the world’s first feather-based thermal packaging material. Packaging is a problem. It is choking the life out of the oceans, literally, and can take between 450 and 1,000 years to break down when dumped in landfills. Although we have known these things for quite some time, we have only very recently begun to do anything...
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Pioneering meat wholesaler ‘Ethical Butcher’ are looking to revolutionise the UK meat market with a their new venture which aims to see carbon negative meat delivered to households across the UK. Farshad Kazemian, the CEO of new venture ‘The Ethical Butcher’, is planning to launch the new service in the coming months, following a crowdfunding campaign which went live last ...
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Sustainably - Charitable giving made easy thanks to this innovative startup that enables you to have an impact on charities every time you shop...  We like to write about charitable startups; those using their innovative, fresh take on things to do good. Traditional charities have never seen massive success, but lately, public faith in these charities has become less and less. Money is ...
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Cardiff-based AgriTech startup Phytoponics wants to make fresh produce abundant with their hydroponic solutions that are scalable, profitable, and sustainable. We have written a good few times about agritech, as it is a vital field in which fascinating and exciting developments are being made. From Small Robot Company, innovating the farming industry with AI-controlled robots; to MiAlgae, revolut...
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Recyclabox - The automated kiosk which is changing forever the way that we as consumers sell old electronics... Let’s face it - we’ve all done it - we upgrade our mobiles and last year’s model gets consigned to a drawer or cupboard, never to be seen again until we are on a decluttering mission. Of course it’s not just mobiles which are on the receiving end of such treatmen...
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