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Trip Advisor, Yelp Rival TruRating Raises £9.5m To Fund Growth, Expansion Into North America Shortly After Announcing 2 Million Rating Milestone

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Will TruRating, after a £9.5m Series A fundraising, be able to exploit a gap in the market for “honest and transparent” customer service and product reviews? TruRating, a start-up which captures real-time ratings from point-of-sale customers in the UK and Australia, has raised £9.5m in a Series A funding led by international investment office for …

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 …

“Fen-Tech” Strikes Back? Cambridge Medical Robotics Lands £20.3m Series A Round To Grow Its Medical Device Manufacturing Business

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Cambridge Medical Robotics secured a $20.3m funding round this week It’s not a competition, of course, but let’s indulge in a little back and forth between 2 of Britain’s most venerable University towns. Both Oxford and Cambridge have thriving tech scenes; some might even say they rival London in terms of their tech productivity, if …

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 …

Street Feast Announces New Daytime Opening Hours – Lunchtime Feasting Fun For All The Family (& Pets)!

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Street Feast is opening its doors at lunchtime and offering child friendly facilities this summer School summer holidays are nearly upon us and to celebrate, Street Feast, the start-up that operates 4 pop-up dining and entertaining sites in Dalston, Shoreditch, Lewisham and Canada Water, are announcing new daytime opening hours, bringing lunchtime feasting to the …

Bish Bosh Bash; London Tech Week Starts With An Acquisition, An Office Move, A New Coworking Hub & $34m Of Investment

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The UK knows how to put on a festival, and London Tech Week is no exception; feisty, independent and ambitious, the festival, now in its third year, could challenge the likes of CES and Dreamforce How to get London Technology Week off to the perfect start? London based startup developing ground-breaking new AR / VR …

A Rating Agency For Startups and Innovative SMEs Is Coming To London

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can Early Metrics do what many VC and Angel investors can’t and identify and rate startups’ growth potential accurately? Opening a new office in London will surely help. Startups are strange beasts; they come in different shapes and sizes and it is notoriously hard to pick the winners from the losers (clue; the stats suggest …

Swedish Startup Match2One Has Raised £260k To Grab A Slice Of Rapidly Expanding Programmatic Advertising Pie

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Riding a wave of disruptive change in the ad-buying industry, Match2One’s platform offers startups and SME’s to work with the likeminded If you’re not yet familiar with programmatic advertising and what it’s all about then don’t worry too much, you’ll be hearing a lot more about it during the rest of 2016. Briefly, programmatic advertising …

London Commuters Take Note – Uber Just Doubled The Size Of Its Ride Sharing Catchment Area to Zones 1,2 & Heathrow

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UberPool, like UberX and just plain old Uber before it, has been a runaway success so far in London Tom Elvidge, General Manager of ride sharing startup Uber’s operations in London announced yesterday that the company is expanding its ride sharing service, UberPool, to the whole of zones one and two and Heathrow airport. Previously …

Mistakes On A Plane – Why Airlines Can’t Capitalise On Digital Add-on Services

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They are the ultimate captive audience, sitting on board one of mankind’s greatest inventions, but in a strangely anachronistic twist if a passenger on a flight requires food, drink, entertainment or assistance they must run the gauntlet of the food trolley, sharp edged metal doors flapping, blocking off at least two of the available bathrooms. …

Stories From The City; Stories From The Seed – Welcome To F*ck-up Nights!

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“We believe a better world is created through the combined accomplishments of compassionate, creative, and committed individuals focused on a common purpose.” So says the introductory blurb on the website for the Kings Cross branch of Impact Hub, a “community of social businesses addressing challenges both locally and globally.” Impact Hub has workspaces all over …

With $14m Series B Fundraising Planday Are Leading Wonderful Copenhagen’s Startup Charge

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All eyes on Copenhagen; the city’s startup scene is one of the most talked about in Europe London isn’t the only European capital with a thriving startup scene; Copenhagen’s entrepreneurs are every bit as resourceful as their British counterparts, although until recently raising large funding rounds in the Danish capital might have been considered a …

What’s Mine Isn’t Yours; Fash-Tech Startup Pieces Of Mine Offers Bespoke, Personalised Jewellery From Top Independent Designers

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A new London -based Fash-Tech startup is aiming to put the romance back into the jewellery market. In a world where everything is mass produced consumers today crave personalisation; real beauty is not about the branding; it’s all about the story. Ex Rothschild’s investment banker turned entrepreneur Nadine Oei launched Pieces of Mine to address …

Ivo Spigel Just Published The Bible Of European Startup Success, & Launched It At Startup Bookshop Libreria!

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Spot the celebrity rockstar (founder)? Last Tuesday night Libreria, the tiny bookshop with the labyrinthine trompe d’oeil opposite the Second Home Incubator on Hanbury Street, owned by SH founder Rohan Silva and journalist Sally Davies, was the setting for the launch of journalist Ivo Spigel’s new book “The European Startup Revolution”. Ivo was interviewed by …

From Poole To Penzance – Via Glasgow! Baroness Mone Completes Review Of Startup Business Growth In Britain’s Most Deprived Communities

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It may not always feel like it, but entrepreneurs in London have it easy. The network of support available to us here in the capital is amongst the best in the world – from top accelerators like Tech Stars or Level 39, to incubators including Entrepreneur First and Launch 22, to co-working spaces like Central …

Virtual or Augmented – Who Will Win The Battle For Hearts And Minds?

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Virtual Reality VR Goggles Glasses Headset Device Concept Image We’ve all heard about Oculus Rift, and now it seems that Mark Zuckerberg, who acquired the company for $2bn in 2014, is ready to throw his full weight behind it. At MWC in Barcelona last week the Facebook CEO described VR as “the next platform where …