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The lowdown on Manchester based startup Chatloop and its mission to transform social media, giving you the power to start conversations on any website. The internet is a social place. That’s not always for the best, but let’s put that aside for the moment! From forums to social media to the little Q&A section on Amazon, people on the internet like to interact with each other, as...
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Manchester-based social startup Linkup raises pre-seed investment round of $540,000 to support its mission of revolutionising socialising in a digital, post-covid era. Linkup, a Manchester-founded social app that makes it easier to meet new people, has raised over half a million dollars in pre-seed funding. The app, launching in Q4 2022, aims to revolutionise socialising in a digital, post-covi...
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GOODFOLIO launches aiming to help investors build good portfolios that work for people, planet, and prosperity. A simple, transparent, and customised investment platform which enables DIY investors to back companies and industries that share their ethical values has just been launched. Inspired by the thought of overcoming the unreasonable difficulty of making values-driven investment decision...
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The lowdown on Clear, the skincare app with a social focus enabling users to track and share their skincare routines. As many of us know, finding the right skincare products that are actually going to work as we’d like them to, can be a real challenge. However one of the best ways of doing this is by finding out what products other people with either the same type of skin or skincare iss...
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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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Changemakers sought by National enterprise charity, Hatch Enterprise for its three new Impact programmes aimed at entrepreneurs using business as a force for good Purpose driven entrepreneurs - this is for you! National enterprise charity Hatch Enterprise has just launched three new impact programmes, which aim to help hundreds of UK entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses that have a social ...
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The lowdown on the launch of the innovative Civic Dollars app that wants to reward people for spending time in certain public spaces With the world becoming more open again, the opportunities for regaining fitness lost during the lockdowns, getting that fresh air many will have been unable to breathe, and to start socialising in an active environment again, will be key.  For some, the re-...
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The ethical rewards app Koin Rewards, reimagining loyalty through responsible shopping and tokenisation and created to reward us all for being conscious consumers... It’d be fair to say that more and more of us have ethics and sustainability at the forefront of our minds when we are making purchases and we are increasingly trying to support businesses which aim to bring about positive socia...
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New app friendrequest aims to connect people, taking 'social' offline and to lead the way in facilitating real-life friendship. Initially aimed at young people living, studying and working in London, friendrequest is a new app looking to lead the way in facilitating friendship.  Aiming to address the challenge of forming actual friendships in a world of ‘social’ media, the app...
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Innovation in messaging thanks to the social ice-breaker app for the London tube TubeChat, that's aiming to connect people in a disconnected world... Whether we in today’s world are more or less connected or isolated depends on whom you ask, but most would agree that one-to-one, personal interaction is at an all-time low. You can have a best friend on the other side of the world whom you ta...
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