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Recycling made easy thanks to Resortecs, a startup that's developed an innovative solution to enable high-quality textile recycling on an industrial scale. We have written in the past about how damaging to the environment the textile and fashion industries are, as well as numerous startups being created to combat the issue at various points along the journey, from base materials to completed, ...
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Metro Bank seeks startups and scaleups with a focus on customer experience, community banking, optimisation of systems & data and sustainability for its second innovation lab. Startups and scaleups with solutions and technologies that could innovate the banking sector - this is for you!   Metro Bank has just launched a call for applications for Metro Bank Magic Makers, its second...
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From a West Cork garage to plans for Europe-wide expansion, Period Product subscription service Riley goes from strength to strength.  When friends Aine Kilkenny, Fiona Parfrey, and Lauren Duggan launched Riley last year from a garage in Schull, West Cork they had no idea of the twelve month whirlwind that lay ahead. Riley, an eco-friendly period product subscription service, was foun...
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London-based WeAre8 is on a mission to empower us all to change the world in just two minutes a day. We are bombarded with ads all the time, on every website, on every social media platform. They rush in at us from all sides, spouting nonsense about things we couldn’t be less interested in, annoying us, perhaps even making us actively avoid whatever that brand is out of pure spite. But w...
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The lowdown on Dressipi, the startup that's using AI and machine learning to transform how fashion retailers engage with their customers. Some people love shopping, and some people hate it. Either way, when you need clothes, it would be nice if you were only looking at the kinds of things that actually interest you, rather than pushing aside dozens of items you wouldn’t look at twice to g...
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Innovative athletic footwear startup Hylo Athletics secures investment to support further development of its performance and sustainability-focused products and brand. Fab news from athletic footwear startup Hylo Athletics with the announcement that it has raised a Series A round of £2.5m. The round was led by Eka Ventures, with participation from Redrice Ventures and a range of angel inv...
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The lowdown on London-based greentech startup Provenance and its digital solution to verify corporate sustainability. With a (too slowly) increasing awareness of our ability to actually be carbon neutral and use fully recyclable packing materials and being entirely net-zero comes an increase in the number of claims of being such. Not all of these claims are accurate, to be generous. There are a...
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Key speakers, sponsors and panellists revealed for the BIG IDEAS event taking place on 7th March as part of Derry and Strabane Enterprise Week. Details of the key speakers and sponsors for the in-person and streamed event BIG IDEAS being delivered by Startacus and taking place during Derry and Strabane Enterprise Week 2022 have been announced. Startacus has joined forces with Derry City a...
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  The lowdown on GoParity, the impact investment platform that connects companies looking to finance their sustainable projects, with individuals and entities who want to invest sustainably. Investing in things always seems like it would be a great idea if only you A) had the money to spare, and B) knew what you were doing. Invest money into someone’s dream and help it come to fruitio...
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Created by students, for students; Hazaar is a Manchester-based green-tech startup that enables students to buy and sell their second hand items. We have written before about startups created to promote sustainability in shopping, such as Beagle and its search engine for sustainable products, Twig and its ‘bank of things’ to power a circular economy, or By Rotation and its fight aga...
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