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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 Start-up Alert! Eco Companion Hooks 5 Angels After Founder Returns To Roots To Grow Sustainable Tourism Platform

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Max Sinclair and members of the Eco-companion in their / our natural habitat Every founder should have a back story like that of Max Sinclair, the founder of Eco Companion. Eco companion “helps people find their next sustainable holiday in nature”, says the strapline, thanks to a bespoke world-rating system that first analyses then ranks …

Sports Mad Foreign Exchange Firm Global Reach Partners Acquires London’s FC Exchange

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Global Reach Partners, a foreign exchange firm based in the City of London announced yesterday that it had completed the purchase of city neighbours FC Exchange who are based nearby in Finsbury Circus. GRP, who say they transact more than £3.5bn of foreign currency annually, providing payments and hedging services to businesses and private individuals, …

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. …

A Livingstone Academy, I Presume; New Free School Launched By Games Workshop Founder Coming To Tower Hamlets

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Times are changing in Tower Hamlets and re-generation is key Education secretary Nicky Morgan has pledged to create 500 schools during this parliament and 2 of them, one in Bournemouth and one in Tower Hamlets, London, will be free schools opened by serial entrepreneur Ian Livingston, one of the founders of Games Workshop, with a …

Company update; Motivii Making Strides; Start-up Delivering Real Time Employee Motivation Scores To Managers And Organisations

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Simply put, I love Motivii! In a world where there is lots of data but sometimes little learning, Motivii focuses me on the important stuff. That is: how is my teams feeling, what’s the key stuff on their plate, and how can I help them“ Henry Matthews –  Co-Lead Marketing Transformation, Bank of Scotland “Motivii   …

Babylon Health to complete $25m Raise Today, Backed By DeepMind Founders & AB Kinnevik

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The HealthTech sector looks set to secure its second big venture capital win of 2016 today.  After Pushdoctor, a U.K. based start-up that enables users to arrange consultations with qualified doctors via video-conference using their app, raised an £8.2m Series A round led by Oxford Capital Partners and DFJ Esprit, to boost marketing and develop …

Been there, Founded That – Got The Entrepreneur Hoodie?

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Yes, it’s a thing; nothing says “fund my start-up business” quite like a monickered hoodie. If that’s not a sentence you thought you would be hearing in 2016, then buddy, you are soo 2015! href=”http://www.entrepreneurhoodie.com/” target=”_blank”>The Entrepreneur Hoodie is the brain child of New York based entrepreneur (duh!) Derek Newton and young immigrant designer and …

Create Your Own Personalised, Digital Shop Window With Fashion Start-up Custom

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Custom’s founders – could 2016 be the year of the Fash-Tech start-up? After spending 7 years at Google, where he helped launch marketing operations in Spain and Portugal and was “instrumental” in helping to set up the YouTube symphony orchestra, Custom founder Maximilian Madile’s world changed forever – all because of a coat. …

Keeping Employees Happy Can Help Make Your Start-up A Success in 2016, Says Givvit Founder

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Setting up a Givvit rewards campaign could be the perfect way to inspire and motivate employees and keep teams together in the New Year say the founders of Givvit, a newly launched start-up that provides a platform where employers can treat their employees on their own terms by providing redeemable vouchers for much loved retailers …

Solavore Cuts Price Of “Buy One Give One” Indiegogo Campaign Offer For Its Solar Ovens

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Solavore Sport ovens trap heat from the sun and reduce the need for women in Africa and Asia to gather firewood To celebrate “Giving Tuesday” a women-owned social enterprise is offering to donate one Solavore Sport solar oven to one of their aid programs in India, Cambodia or Kenya for a limited time when backers …

London Dining App Velocity Acquires US Payments Start-Up Cover, Gets Ready For New York Launch

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Velocity founders Zia Yusuf, an ex-Goldman Sachs Executive Director and LSE alumni, and Alex Macdonald, a Turnaround specialist with restaurant management experience and a penchant for Jamon Iberico, are helping to create the ultimate in frictionless dining experiences on both sides of the Atlantic by allowing diners at top restaurants to view itemised bills in …

Get To Know The Founders Of Knomi As They Introduce Shopping Through Social Interaction…

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Haggerston Times Fashion Writer Abi Buller talks to one of the co-founders of Knomi, Hans-Christian Zappel, about their recently launched e-commerce and social networking application. Knomi is a social fashion discovery app which allows users to curate profiles based on their own style choices, as well as sharing and interacting with others about the latest …

Insurance Tech Start-up Worry+Peace’s Founder Say’s “Bad Luck Needn’t Suck” As He Prepares To Launch Content Hub With Leading Gadget Site Pocket-Lint

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Most Londoners are likely aware by now that their city is rated as number 1 for in the world for FinTech start-ups thanks to the success of companies such as TransferWise (£37m raised in funding), The Currency Cloud (£12m), Market Invoice (£7m) and Azimo (£12m), but there is no reason for the innovation to stop …

“Waddle” It Be My Friend? Social Discovery App Is Coming This Fall (that’s Autumn for Londoners!)

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Forgive the horrendous puns, but when a hot new app lands in Haggerston Times’ inbox, all the way from New York City, via the White House, its worth making a fuss over, right? Waddle, currently in beta, but launching this Autumn / Fall depending on which side of the Atlantic you live, is a cool …

Wanna The Parenting Marketplace Lets Users Buy and Sell Goods And Services For Their Kids Locally

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An app that makes parent’s lives easier? Isn’t that the same as an app that keeps kids distracted? Not quite. Launched in North London at the end of July this year, Wanna is a mobile app marketplace where parents can connect with other parents to get recommendations, sell baby goods they no longer need, like …

Fun Augmented Reality Pop-Up Game For Ipad Starting At $39 Is About To Launch On Indiegogo

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John Zhao is an entrepreneur, designer and the founder of AR school in China, a team of graphic designers and consultants with a background in teaching and education who make, amongst other things, cool Augmented Reality games for kids. John’s attempts to impress his 5 year old daughter by designing some “AR” game cards have …

VIBBIDI Taps Into Social Media Craze For Video & Migration To Mobile With Beautifully Crafted Editing & Sharing App

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“We believe that within humanity lies the fundamental desire to beautifully set aside and preserve life’s precious moments”, says the about section on the website for a new app, VIBBIDI, due to be officially released to the public at the end of this month. The app has been created by Kazuhiro Naya, an entrepreneur who …

As Axis Stars rolls out version 2.0 of its Elite sportsperson networking, contract and sponsorship management platform, Haggerston Times asks, do we still need to see our sporting heroes suffer?

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The elite sportsperson as entrepreneur? It’s hardly a stereotype we normally apply to the world’s top football, basketball, rugby or tennis stars. We, the public are often quick to judge our sporting heroes, but rather than praise them for their achievements we’re often more likely to accuse them of being overpaid, spoilt, arrogant or living …

Flubit, the disruptive ecommerce start-up taking aim at Amazon and E-Bay, are wrestling back the initiative with the launch of BeFlubit

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A few months back I spoke with Flubit co-founder and CEO Bertie Stephens and his COO Steph Fiala about how they had managed to create one of the most enviable disruptive start-up cultures in London; quite an achievement when you consider the competition. We spoke about team bonding exercises, share options for every staff member, …