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By combining machine-learning with zero-party data, new tool launched by MarTech startup Qudo ends the ‘era of assumption’ for marketers. New entrant to the burgeoning MarTech (marketing technology) sector, Qudo, today announces the launch of its flagship Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Through its unique data-driven approach, Qudo unlocks consumer insights for marketers...
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Shropshire-based agri-robotics startup upp is automating broccoli harvesting and upcycling the 80% waste into sustainable protein. Broccoli. You know it, you lov…well, you know it. We’ve all been in bed late at night, staring at the ceiling, with a nagging question going around our heads: how much broccoli is wasted in every broccoli crop? Well, wonder no more, for we have the answ...
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Investment success for Belfast-based GenoME Diagnostics to support further development of its novel testing technology. Belfast-based cancer diagnostics company GenoME Diagnostics has closed a £1.4 million funding round which will be used to further develop its lead product OvaME, a novel blood test for earlier and more accurate detection of ovarian cancer. The company successfully raise...
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No matter what sector your business is in, you'll be dealing with standardisation in some way. Dario Betti, CEO of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum explores how standardisation influences future innovation and growth. Standardisation allows us to go about our lives in the same way other people go about theirs. It is also important for business, playing a vital role in ensuring that products made for ...
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The lowdown on savvy navvy, the app that provides "everything you need for a seamless boating experience, all in one place." Boats. If there’s one thing we know about them, it’s that they don’t go on roads. And if you don’t have roads, how do you know where you’re going? We assumed it had something to do with seagulls, crows nests, and perhaps the stars, but it tur...
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The lowdown on Deciphex, the Dublin-based startup that's created an AI-driven solution to help accelerate the delivery of pathology services. A pathologist is a vitally important healthcare provider who specialises in diagnoses, as well as prevention and treatment of diseases. Pathology is a part of 95% of clinical care pathways. Currently, there is a global shortage of pathologists, with recru...
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Investment success for Augmented Reality startup Imvizar to support further development of its innovative AR technology and accelerate the company's global expansion. Irish startup, Imvizar, has announced that it has secured €800,000 in seed investment from a group of prominent angel investors, Enterprise Ireland and Halo Business Angels Network, HBAN.  Among the investors are Garet...
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Innovative University of Edinburgh-supported entrepreneurs set to pitch their businesses at two key events taking place next month. Founders of University of Edinburgh-supported start-ups, including many that are seeking growth investment, will be given the opportunity to showcase their companies to an audience of investors, business support groups, and fellow entrepreneurs at two key even...
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The lowdown on Phlo, the Glasgow-based startup that's on a mission to provide patients with faster, easier and more convenient access to their medication. Like many sectors, pharmacies have been experiencing problems with workforce shortages, operating costs, rising prices, and by 2024, it’s predicted that as many as 30,000 highstreet pharmacies will be closed down. This is bad for two o...
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The lowdown on Kelpi, the startup that's using seaweed to develop an innovative solution to the global plastic packaging problem. In the UK alone, households throw away around 100 billion articles of plastic packaging every year. As we have written so many times now, this is massively damaging to the environment and to sea life, because no matter where plastic ends up being discarded, it pollut...
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