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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. …

New EU Data Privacy Legislation Set To Be Introduced In 2018 EU Is Worrying British Business Leaders, Survey Confirms

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Britain may no longer be part of the EU by 2018 but that will not exonerate businesses from having to comply with onerous new data-privacy laws when dealing with consumers and businesses in EU member countries. According to a survey conducted by KPMG of 100 UK CEO’s, nearly 60% believe that a new EU General …

The “Virtual Technology Cluster Group” Is Set To Partner With Deloitte To Provide Digital Healthcare Start-ups Access to Firms’ Global Supply Chain

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Throughout 2016, after the excitement of playing host to one of the world’s most exciting and fastest growing start-up eco-systems, London and the UK faced increasing pressure to grow these early stage, sometimes venture-capital-funded enterprises into something more substantial and permanent; “scaling-up”, however, 2016 has taught us, is never easy to do. The biggest obstacle …

Clozer Offers Businesses Route To New Markets With Local Sales Team

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Businesses seeking to expand in the New Year have been given a new route to market thanks to dedicated sales platform Clozer. The innovative sharing economy website gives ambitious firms access to a local sales team anywhere in the world that can deliver results by converting prospective customers to firm clients thanks to their sales …

Exclusive! Lady Barbara Judge Opens Up On Why She Is Backing HR Tech Start-up bob; “We’re Done Celebrating Start-ups, Let’s Get To Work!”

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The thing about London; it’s full of smart people. Everywhere you look, on the tube, the buses, in the taxis and Ubers; every office and every shop is crammed full of smart people, going about their business. So, when a new phenomenon, the world of tech start-ups, starts to grow up around the Old Street …

Get Your Free Desk At The Trampery Republic – London’s Newest, And Hottest Space For Creatives?

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London-based bootstrapping entrepreneurs tired of skipping meals and working out of cramped, expensive offices with questionable hygiene are being given a chance to secure one of twenty free desks at a luxurious new co-working space next to East India DLR station, with 9,00 square feet of workspace, and a wrap-around roof terrace offering spectacular views …

Ethical Fashion Start-up Tarlee Get Physical At The Shard Retail Arcade!

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What’s the difference between London Bridge rail station, and London Bridge Underground? About 3 miles, by our reckoning! If this is part of your commute, or you are planning on taking this journey, take our advice and take a thermos of coffee and hiking boots as following the human crocodile that runs through through this …

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, …

Yesterday The Chancellor Philip Hammond Delivered His First, & Last, Autumn Statement – So How Does The Tech Start-up World React?

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Some say that a change is as good as feast, but London start-ups could be forgiven for wishing time had stood still from around the time of last year’s Autumn statement. George Osborne may have been austere, but he cannot have imagined a situation as bleak as this. Over to you, Philip Hammond, who, to …

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 …

Karhoo’s Administrator Appoints Lambert Smith Hampton As Firm To Sell The Shut Down Taxi-Fleet’s Assets

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Specialist property and asset consultants Lambert Smith Hampton have been appointed by the administrators of Karhoo to market what remains of the business and its assets. Karhoo is said to have raised as much as $250 million from investors including Panorama Point Partners, and was headquartered in New York, having been founded in London 18 …

Assiette-It Again! Europe’s Favourite Rent-A-Professional-Chef Platform Is Throwing London’s First Ever “Pre-tox” Dinner

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Far be it from us to call Christmas when it’s still November, but, well, we’re no Scrooge’s here at the HT and when it’s time, well it’s time we guess. We wanted to hold out until the Christmas Tree’s arrive for sale outside the building on Kingsland Road where StreetFeast used to run a mean …

Your.MD, The AI Health Platform & App Wants To Be Everybody’s OneStop, Personalised, Digital Health Consultant!

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Your.MD, a health-tech start-up that was founded in Oslo, Norway by CEO Matteo Berlucchi but is now headquartered in London, announced today that it has added 12 additional leading digital health service providers to its One Stop Health platform. The company, who raised $5m of funding in January last year in a round led by …

Love Stand-Up? Love TV? Then You’ll Love “Stand Up Comedy Focused Online Video On Demand Platform” Next Up!

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Fans of TV could be forgiven for thinking there were only a handful of funny people in the UK – Frank Skinner, Michael McIntyre, Graham Norton, that bloke off the GoCompare ads who wears a tux and sings opera, the cast of “Have I got News For You” and that guy who is travelling around …

Shoreditch Based FSB Technologies Signs Another Sports Betting Client To Its Online Platform and Casino

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Old Street, Shoreditch based betting platform provider FSB Technology have signed a deal to supply Bruce Betting, a bookies established in 1977 in the Republic of Ireland with 17 physical stores and a telephone betting service, with a bespoke sports betting web and mobile platform. FSB will also be throwing in their online casino platform, …

Fashion Box Delivery Start-up That Walked Away From Dragons Den Deal Appoints Mention Me To Run Its Referral Program

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A brush with one of the BBC’s “Dragon” investors is often more than a start-up founder can take – most leave the Den, populated by wealthy entrepreneurs turned television personalities – such as Theo Paphitis and Deborah Meadon – with a flea in their ears and their business plans in tatters. In the case of …

Can You Quantify Emotions And Use Analytics To Understand Customers Better and Sell More – Sensum Say You Can!

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Brands such as the BBC, Red Bull, Unilever, Jaguar and Cisco are gaining invaluable insights about how to interpret the emotional responses of their customers and use them to improve their products and customer experiences thanks to Belfast-based start-up Sensum Insights. …

Goodvidio, The Start-up Leveraging Popularity Of YouTube Product Demo Videos, Raises $1m Seed

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The democratisation of video content and the popularity of social media sites like YouTube are changing the way that ecommerce sites operate, and one start-up, based in Greece and London, is emerging at the forefront of that change. Goodvidio is a “conversion optimization service”, founded in 2014, that helps online stores increase sales by automating …

Tech VC Force Over Mass Provides A Glimpse Of The Future At Bloomberg, With Special Guest George Osborne

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Does tech make our lives better? Will technological advances put us all out of a job (and is that a bad thing?), what role should, or more pertinently could government play in marshalling the forces of technology for good, and does tech make us more, or less sociable? These and a myriad of other deep-tech, …

Haggerston Start-up ROLI, “The Most Important Company In Music Right Now”, Is About To Let The World Create The Language Of Music, Lego-Style!

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Music as a language – why has nobody thought of this before? That’s a sentiment that every founder craves hearing, the tech start-up equivalent of hitting the jackpot – and ROLI, the music technology innovator based in Dalston, East London, spiritual home of the hipster, has certainly done just that. ROLI describe themselves as “a …