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The lowdown on Recycap, the Alicante-based startup and its innovative solution for recycling coffee capsules for home, commercial and industrial use. Coffee pods have become popular thanks to their ability to balance the taste of proper ground coffee with the simplicity and convenience of instant coffee. The problem, of course, is that the coffee comes inside either plastic or aluminium pods th...
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Full Stack Technical Hiring Platform, hackajob, has secured a $25m Series B funding round to continue its growth in the United States. Great news for hackajob, the full stack technical hiring platform, with the announcement of a $25m Series B funding round led by Boston-based growth equity firm, Volition Capital, with participation from existing investors AXA Venture Partners and Foresight...
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Riley, the innovative Irish startup that offers eco-friendly period products launches new campaign on Seedrs to support further product development and growth of its team. Riley, an Irish startup disrupting the period care market, has launched its second crowdfunding campaign. Founded by an all female team, Riley has already come a long way since launching from a garage in West Cork two years ...
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Chris Thomason, author and founder of Ingenious Growth shares 8 top tips to help you build confidence in your ability to think creatively You’ve had your big idea. You’ve started your business. And now you need to keep having great ideas – sorry, but you’re not done with creative thinking. There are many areas of your business where you’ll need to tap into creativi...
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Civic Dollars and Upper Springfield Development Trust develop new Innovate UK-funded initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in West Belfast. The good news keeps coming for innovative community currency platform Civic Dollars, whose successful projects in Dublin and Belfast we have previously highlighted. They have now partnered with the Upper Springf...
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  New investment opportunities with qualified startups offered at Raise Pitch Nights, Northern Ireland's only public startup-investor connection events. The new financial year brings exciting opportunities for individuals to diversify their investment portfolio and have a transformative impact on local startups with a global vision. The startup ecosystem across the island of Ireland both No...
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Calling all early stage tech startups from NI and ROI! Here’s a fab opportunity to showcase your innovative business in the upStart startup zone at Digital DNA! Digital DNA Belfast is set to play host to some of the most exciting early stage startups from across Ireland. upStart, a showcase zone for early stage startups from Northern Ireland and Ireland, will play host to 16 of the most e...
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New data from App Radar reveals AI chat apps reached 23.6m downloads on Google Play with 8 hitting more than a million downloads each An analysis by app marketing analytics platform App Radar has found that since the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022, AI chat apps have been downloaded 23.6 million times from the Google Play Store.  The study looked into 40 chat apps w...
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Onin secures investment for its innovative solution that removes the fragmentation between calendars and the conversations that drive them. Onin has announced a £2.75M seed round from Octopus Ventures in its mission to bring calendars into every conversation. The secure calendar app has launched on the App Store today. The seed investment will be used to scale Onin whilst further developi...
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Reviewpad secures pre-seed investment to support further development of its innovative AI-driven Code review tool and expand its operational team. Great news for Reviewpad, the platform that helps developers by automating the code review process, with the announcement that it has raised a €1M pre-seed round. The investment was led by Shilling VC with participation from angel investors...
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Getting the message out about your new startup is a must. These basic tips on marketing and promo will help you do just that. There is nothing wrong with starting your promotion campaign to get your business name ‘out there’ as soon as possible. Of course, it is wise to have a workable product or service concept in mind and at least in prototype form so that you have something for y...
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UK-based aquaculture startup Seafields opens its first-ever private, seven figure investment round to help build the world’s largest open ocean megafarm. Seafields, a UK-based aquaculture business that aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting floating seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean has opened its first-ever private, seven figure in...
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