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  New research from School of Marketing reveals the impact that Covid-19 has had on key business sectors in the UK. A study by marketing training hub School of Marketing analysed the latest ONS and government data on the number of businesses that were born and died in the last eight business quarters after the pandemic (from Q2 of 2020 to Q1 of 2022) and compared this with the eight quart...
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  Amazon Joins Forces with Celebrity Entrepreneurs to Host Interactive Livestream to Help Young, Budding Business Owners Grow Their Businesses. Amazon announces the launch of Small Business, Big Dreams: an interactive, virtual livestream aimed at helping up-and-coming entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. The livestreamed discussion will explore the future of young entrepreneurship and ho...
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The lowdown on the innovative young visionaries that are in the running for this year's Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs. The Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Entrepreneurs (DBACE), in collaboration with MeWe360, have announced this year’s finalists for the annual awards programme that aims to uncover the UK’s brightest young entrepreneurs aged 18-30 years ...
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  Geneva-based B2B2C startup Imverse secures major investment for its innovative volumetric content and live holograms technology. Imverse, a B2B2C company providing volumetric pixel (voxel) solutions, has secured $4.8 million to develop its software platform, expand its team and roll out its products globally.  The CES2021 Best-of-Innovation award winner has created a game-chang...
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Innovative German SaaS startup OKAPI:Orbits secures investment to support its mission of securing efficient and safe operations in space. OKAPI: Orbits, a startup providing space traffic management software to coordinate and optimize operations of satellites, rockets and sensors, has raised a €5.5m seed funding round led by San Francisco based  MunichRe Ventures, the venture capital a...
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Scottish startup Earth Blox secures investment to support global expansion and further development of its no-code earth observation software. Great news for Scottish tech firm Earth Blox with the announcement that it has secured £1.5m funding from Archangels to expand its global reach and further develop its no-code Earth Observation (EO) cloud-based SaaS. Earth Blox ...
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Innovative startup, Kita secures investment to support build and launch of its essential carbon insurance products. Fab news for Kita, the world’s first carbon insurer, with the announcement that it has raised a heavily oversubscribed £350k pre-seed round led by Insurtech Gateway, alongside investors Carbon13, Climate VC and Echelon Capital. To fight climate change, the world urgen...
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Green tech startup Cleaner Seas, aiming to raise £1m investment to further develop its innovative approach in tackling microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans. A green technology company has today launched a significant investment round to help further develop its innovative approach in tackling microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans. Cornwall-based Cleaner Seas Gro...
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CATAGEN, a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast secures funding to scale its team and develop new net zero technologies in green hydrogen and e-fuel production. CATAGEN has received two new funding awards from the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, as part of the Red Diesel Replacement Competitio...
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Fresho secures investment to support expansion and further its mission of making food supply chains more sustainable. Good news from Fresho, a company that aims to make food supply chains more sustainable between restaurants and their suppliers with the announcement of a recent capital raising of £8 million. Fresho is used by tens of thousands of chefs who simply reach for their dev...
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UK-based social care startup Florence secures funding to support further UK and international growth and expand its services beyond elderly care. Florence, the UK-based tech innovator for social care, announced it has raised $35 million (£28.5m) through a Series B funding round. Florence will use the investment for product expansion to support care in the UK and multiple international mar...
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The Enterprise SU Team at Queen's University Belfast continue to lead the way in fostering entrepreneurship and inspiring innovation... Since the academic year will soon be drawing to a close, it’s a pretty good time to shine a light on a couple of the fab programmes and initiatives that the Queen’s Students’ Union’s Enterprise SU team have been delivering, all aimed at...
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