Rate and review is coming to the workplace. Dear sir. madam, after viewing your vacancy on Facebook, and checking our your recent Instagram Stories, I have decided that I am the right person to fill your current vacancy in the accounts department. Your employees seem to like working for you, based on their comments on …
Joe Public Can Now Register For Trendy .Art Domain – Alongside Banksy, Beyoncé, Google and Apple!
.Art is a new top-level domain created by venture investor Ulvi Kasimov through his company UK Creative Ideas Limited (UKCI), which has an exclusive agreement with ICANN, the internet regulating body. The .Art website suggests that the domain will become “the ultimate signifier of ‘belonging’ to the art world”, and that the business model is …
Micro-Influencer Marketing Platform For Instagram Raises £3.2m
The startup world has invested a lot of time and effort into trying to quantify the impact of so-called social media influencers, and package it up on behalf of marketers – but it would be fair to say that nobody has quite hit the jackpot. Yet. Supestar bloggers and vloggers at the very top of …
Favorey, The Services Directory Based On Recommendations From People You Trust, To Launch Mobile App
Favorey is a new discovery app that uses the power of social recommendations to help its users find trustworthy new service providers, from tree surgeons, to key cutters. Leveraging the function that allows them to obtain a direct introduction to providers that their family or friends have used and recommended, users can request services, receive …
Office Of London’s Mayor In Attendance As Women-led Fingerprinting Startup Wins €50,000
Last week, City Hall in London played host to the inaugural Women Startup Challenge Europe. 10 female led start-ups pitched in front of a panel of tech industry veterans and investors; judges included LastMinute.com founder Martha Lane-Fox, TechStars London MD Max Kelly, CEO of auFeminin.com Marie-Laure Sauty de Chalon, Diane Tate, a Senior Program Manager …
Ex JustEat CEO, A “Stand Out UK Entrepreneur From The Past Decade”, Joins VC Firm 83North
One of the London tech start-up scene’s most famous faces, former Just Eat CEO David Buttress, is set to join venture capital firm 83North. Buttress joined JustEat in 2006 when the firm first started its operations in the UK, having relocated from Denmark, where the company had been founded. As CEO, Buttress led the firm …
A 3 Course Michelin Quality Feast in London With A Twist – Bring Your Favourite Plate!
Besides the 300,000 ‘Frenchies” Living in London, it’s an often-forgotten fact that the name of the Paris founded startup disrupting home dining by bringing tailored experiences (and top quality chefs) to people’s kitchen’s, La Belle Assiette, literally means “the beautiful plate”. So, what better way to remind everyone of this fact than by staging a …
Young President’s Organisation To Host Global Fintech Summit During London Tech Week
London Tech Week is a little more than a month away and unsurprisingly, Fintech will be top of the agenda. With the industry subject to constant flux, as new technologies are developed almost every day, The Global Fintech Summit, which takes place between the 8th and 12th of May, is likely to be one of …
London Based Forex Training Firm Investoo Continues Acquisition Spree With Purchase of Broker Comparison Site
Investoo Group, the London-based start-up that aims to become “one of the biggest lead generation companies in the Forex and retail investment industry”, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired 100ForexBrokers.com. 100ForexBrokers.com was launched in 2012 and has become one of the world’s biggest Forex broker comparison sites, with more than 60,000+ unique visitors per …
Major Blockchain R & D Organisation Acquired By SICAV PLC In Industry’s Largest Ever Development Deal?
A global leader in the research and development of Blockchain technologies, nChain, announced today that it has been acquired by high-tech private equity fund SICAV plc, an EU regulated investment fund managed by Accuro Fund Solutions. Although undisclosed, the deal has been described as the largest ever transaction, worldwide, within the Blockchain industry. nChain represents …
New London Startup Is Here To Tackle Your Subscription Woes
“Why own anything any-more?” ask fans of Subscription-as-a-Service. The model, out of Silicon Valley (where else?) has proved as popular as it has been wide-ranging – from the now world-famous Dollar Shave Club, to B2B sales and contract management software like Zuora, Apttus, or Salesforce. Most of us will have at least three or four …
Europe-wide EC-Backed Accelerator For Data Startups Launches Today Offering €100k Equity Free Investment
If you are a European data startup we have good news for you. As part of their Horizon 2020 program the European Commission are launching Data Pitch, a Europe-wide accelerator which will offer 50 data startups up to €100k equity free investment and the opportunity to work alongside big business to solve critical data challenges …
Innovation Management Firm That Goes Straight To The Source Nails New Investment From Angels Including Brent Hoberman
In today’s ‘disrupted’ business environment, “idea management” is all the rage. It’s all about management working with their employees to build better, happier companies, where everybody is given a chance to express their opinion, and it is listened to. Sideways6 are London based start-up at the forefront of this movement. The firm announced today that …
Friction Free Shaving – World’s First Subscription Shaving Service For Women, Raises $1.3m
So we’ve all heard of Dollar Shave Club, but did anybody think that what is good for the goose, might also be good for the gander? Yes, somebody did. Friction Free Shaving, the world’s first razor delivery service designed exclusively for women, say that they are “on a mission to make it cleaner, easier and …
London Based eCommerce Deals Aggregator Sh8pe, Still In Beta, Plans LSE IPO “Within 6-9 Months”
An ambitious ecommerce deal and coupon aggregation site, Sh8pe, plans to list on the LSE within 6 to 9 months, according to a recent company press release. The release states that Sh8pe has signed a letter of intent with Corporate Finance advisory firm Thorpe Beeston Investments Ltd to begin the necessary legal and accounting …
Silicon Valley Startup Branch Is ‘Solving App Discovery’ With Deep Linking
Marketing campaigns just got ‘appier. If you are an email marketer or an app developer who has not come across the concept of “deep-linking before”, get ready for good news. Deep linking solves a big problem for any mobile app or marketer who wants to drive traffic, across any channel, to within an app as …
Jacoma Estates Group Will Expand Malawian Farming Operations Thanks To $11.5m Investment
Jacoma Estates announced today that they have secured $11.5m of investment – $8m of equity has been sold to the UK government owned development finance institution CDC whilst social impact investor AgDevCo have provided $3.5m in exchange for debt and preference shares. Jacoma produces high value macadamia nuts, chilli and paprika at Tropha Estates in …
PinU Is Another Attempt At A Location-Based App For Friends – Will It Work This Time?
First, the bad news; many have tried to make location based networking happen (or Happn, perhaps we should say), but few have succeeded – although the likes of Facebook, Snapchat and WhatsApp haven’t even managed to crack it, perhaps it’s these sites’ omnipresence on people’s smartphones that has made location based networking so hard to …
Budget Boost For Entrepreneurs? No Quarterly Digital Statements Due For SME’s Below VAT Threshold Until 2019
Back in March 2015, the government outlined plans to “make it easier for individuals and businesses to get their tax right and keep on top of their affairs – meaning the end of the annual tax return for millions” – by Making Tax Digital. Making Tax Digital means that for the first time, all businesses …
Ometria; Intelligent Customer Journey Mapping Platform Is Ready To Scale
Ometria – retail-tech – $5m raised (Inventure Partners, Force Over Mass, SAATCHiNVEST) Customer expectations are changing fast and the way to generate more sales in the modern market is to give people the best user-experience, says Ivan Mazour, the Cambridge educated founder of Ometria. The luxury of being a shopper today is there is always …