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This Haggerston Entrepreneur Is Working With Ucreate To Help Us All Drive A New Car Every 6 Months

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Toby Kernon has owned 19 cars in 20 years, he says. During that period he has switched models, makes, and styles, for a host of different reasons; a growing family, a new job, a change of scenery. But the best experience he had was an arrangement with Ford, who delivered a new car to him …

New Retail Fund from Russia That Plans To Invest $3bn In The Retail Stars Of Tomorrow Will Be Headquartered In London

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Letter One, an investment company who describe themselves as “a partnership of successful entrepreneurs and international businesspeople” has launched a new investment vehicle, L1 Retail, which consists of a $3 billion dollar fund to back “a small number of retailers that have the potential to become market leaders in their segments and markets”, across Europe. …

Yes, .ART, The First Internet Domain Dedicated To Arts & Culture, Is Now A (Global) Thing!

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Art-lovers the world over will no doubt be pleased to hear that more than 60 world-famous museums and arts organisations are set to launch dedicated websites on a new top-level domain, .Art. The first-ever domain created exclusively for the global art community has signed up, amongst others, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, …

London-Based 4th Generation Italian Fashion House Wants You To Design Your Own Shirts Using Gesture Control and AR

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Just when you thought men’s grooming was destined to be something we could only read about in Victorian novels, a bygone service from a bygone era, London-based shirt makers Neronote have decided to reinvent it. As you can see from the video below, Neronote are predicting that gesture control and AI will allow the world …

Are You A Foodie Start-up Founder Hungry For Success? Try The JustEat Food Tech Accelerator!

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Just Eat, the disruptive food delivery service-cum-Tech “unicorn” which has spawned a thousand copy-cat companies, from mega-bucks success stories like restaurant food delivery service Deliveroo and Delivery Hero on the continent, to nearly-made-its like Pronto and TakeEatEasy, and still hanging-in-there rivals like Hungry House, has decided to share the secrets of its start-up success – …

Apttus Chief Reveals Company’s Triple Whammy Of $88m Funding, Kuka Robotics Client Win & The Launch of Ground-breaking AI Sales Assistant “Max”

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It’s all about “outcomes” in technology today – the phrase dominated the opening exchanges of a discussion I had this week with Kirk Krappe, CEO and Kamal Ahluwalia, CRO, of Apttus, the “Quote to Cash” Specialists from California who landed in London a little over a year ago, announcing their arrival by throwing a knockout …

Surrey Based Call Tracking Firm Takes £10m In Funding To Settle Debate About Which Marketers’ Campaigns Are Best

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Ever had the feeling that half of your marketing budget was wasted, but you just didn’t know which half? It’s the classic marketers’ dilemma – publicists have wrestled with this tedious problem since the turn of the century. This week, a call-tracking company from Reigate, Surrey, have won £10m of investment from Smedvig Capital, a …

Hot New Start-up Alert? Solidarity App Wants You To Help Refugee Charities By Playing Online Games

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2 Spanish entrepreneurs are on a mission to create the “first ever free crowdfunding for positive impact initiative”, which will allow the world’s smartphone users to make a donation to a charity of their choice simply by downloading free games and apps. …

Purple Wi-Fi Secures £3m of Debt Financing To Accelerate Sales and Global Deployment, From “Growth Debt” Provider Boost & Co

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An Ashton Under Lyme, Manchester based start-up provider of free-to-use Wi-Fi services to businesses has secured a £3M growth loan to expand their business; the debt financing was provided by Boost & Co. Purple Wi-Fi provides a Wi-Fi platform for physical spaces, which leverages social engagement, marketing tools and location analytics to allow brands to …

hibob, The Shoreditch HR Start-up Which Raised One Of UK’s Largest Ever Seed Rounds, Targets Pension Auto-Enrolment With Appointment Of Lady Barbara Judge As Chair

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You don’t have to be mad to work here…Lady Barbara Judge, the current Chair of the Institute of Directors has joined the board of East London based HR start-up hibob as Chairman. Lady Barbara, who also acts as a Business Ambassador on behalf of UKTI, was once chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and …

Ofcom’s Latest Communications Market Report Reveals Brits Spend More Time Using Media & Comms Than They Do Sleeping

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The average Britain spends more time using media and communications than they do sleeping, says Ofcom’s latest report into the state of the UK’s communications market. UK adults spend 8 hours and 45 minutes each day using media and communications tools, and a mere 8 hours 18 minutes sleeping, according to the Communications Market Report, …

Former Chairman Of King.com Injects £2m Into Leading London Software Provider Of Competitive Intelligence Adthena

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Shoreditch, London based Adthena, who provide an analytics platform that allows search marketers access to market insight that can help them see what strategies their competitors are using and enhance their own customer acquisition activities, has secured £2m in investment funds from entrepreneur Mel Morris. Morris was the biggest private investor in King.com as well …

Privacy Enhancing Software Provider Privitar Gets £3M To Accelerate Its Growth; Round Led By Illuminate Financial Management; Start-up Now Raised Nearly £4m

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A London based data risk and privacy management firm, Privitar, announced on Wednesday this week that it has raised a £3m venture financing round, led by Illuminate Capital, and also backed by previous investors private capital group 24Haymarket and IQ Capital, who helped the firm raise a $1.2m seed round in July of last year. …

Ethical Fashion Platform TARLEE Is Showcasing & Selling The Best Up and Coming “Slow Fashion” Brands In Europe

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A Black Open Back Satin Cami by Lily & Carter, and Bibi Shorts by Uzma Bozai; examples of the kind of “slow fashion” items to be found on Haggerston based Tarlee’s ethical online fashion portal 2 entrepreneurs  whose career paths went in opposite directions after they left university have re-joined forces and launched an online …

Can Prop-Tech Firm, With A £1m Raise Courtesy Of 500 Startups, Disrupt The £3.5bn Estate Agent Sector?

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Would you rather sell your property through a hipster style tech platform, paying £400 in fees, or an estate agent, paying £5k? Property-Tech firm Settled celebrated the completion of a £1m seed round a fortnight ago, led by Silicon Valley based 500 Startups, whose founder Dave McClure knows a thing or two about seriously disruptive …

Sustainable Sundried? Ethical Sportswear Brand For Triathletes, Cyclists and Runners Launches CrowdCube Campaign To Raise £125k

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Sundried clothing is a new business being launched by Daniel Puddick, the entrepreneur behind Sunglasses Shop, acquired by Precision Eyewear in 2010 An ActiveWear clothing brand led by a successful entrepreneur and design graduate, and with a founding team that includes designers who have worked with household names like LuluLemon and Sweaty Betty, has launched …

Image Selling Platform Lobster To Mark 5th Anniversary Of Oscar Winner Directed UGC Classic “Life In A Day” By Filming Its Sequel

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you don’t have to be a professional photographer to sell your pictures on Lobster’s platform – but a passion for art or imagery no doubt helps Lobster, the platform that allows amateur photographers to license their personal photography collection for use by media agencies, and charge a fee, has announced that it will be marking …

Silicon Roundup; The Good Ship Startup Plots A Course Through The Brexit Storm

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Whilst everyone in London discusses a potential “Brexit”, startup’s are quietly getting on with the job of scaling There’s been good news for maturing early stage startup’s based in London in the past week. It’s good to see the seed / Angel / VC model working just like it’s supposed to. Last week, Polystream founders …