Our Top News Roundup: Virgin Foodpreneur 2017 Winner, The 5 Startups Joining John Lewis Retail Tech Accelerator & The Startup Helping People Find Their Perfect Housemate.
Our weekly news roundup of what’s happening in the business world from this year’s winner of the Virgin Foodpreneur to the startup helping people find their ‘Ideal Flatmate’. Virgin Foodpreneur 2017 Finalist – The Snaffling Pig Co Founders of the Snaffling Pig Co, Nick Coleman and Andrew Allen, have won this year’s Virgin Foodpreneur competition […]
Top 10 Young Entrepreneurs To Watch Out For In London This Year
Only the fifth day in London and 2017 is looking bright already – Meet the top ten young entrepreneurs set to disrupt London’s startup scene with their inspiring ventures. These under-30 somethings all hail from some of London’s top universities and accelerator programmes including Techstars, Entrepreneur First, and King’s College London. The young entrepreneurs, picked by an expert […]
ActiveLab Accelerator programme chooses 12 startups to innovate the health and fitness sector
ActiveLab – a newly launched accelerator from not-for-profit health body ukactive – has chosen 12 startups to revolutionise the health and physical sector. ActiveLab aims to stimulate scalable health solutions to help overcome the UK’s physical inactivity epidemic, which is costing the government ‘£20bn each year and causing 37,000 deaths’. The 12-week accelerator programme, supported by […]
Twitter buys a London-based tech startup founded by two young graduates for $150m
Magic Pony Technology – which uses machine-learning to improve low quality images and video – has been bought by Twitter in a reported $150m deal only two years after launching. The London-based tech startup, launched in 2014, uses its software to boost low-quality video recordings via the use of patterns and textures. Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, […]
Disperse.io – Denis Konoplev and Felix Neufeld
Denis Konoplev’s Disperse.io technology concept uses wireless sensors to monitor overcrowding and give real-time information to help people avoid busy locations. The life-saving tech idea aims to prevent overcrowding, which leads to crushing and injury – It uses wireless sensors to monitor people’s movements at events, in cities, and around public transport networks. Denis, 24, […]
Young Entrepreneurs Shortlisted for the Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Programme
Meet the five businesses shortlisted for the Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Programme. These five start-up businesses are contending to win £5,000 funding through Shell LiveWIRE’s Smarter Future Programme. The scheme targets young entrepreneurs with the most innovative business ideas in tackling issues affecting sustainable living in the UK. One winner is chosen each month to receive the start-up grant. The shortlisted businesses […]
Snap Fashion – Digital business revolutionising the way we shop
Snap Fashion is changing the way we shop for clothes in-store and online – Could revolutionise how we look for anything we want. Jenny Griffiths, founder of Snap Fashion, created a visual search engine that allows consumers to look for and buy fashion items from more than 16,000 brands using photos they have found online or taken […]
51Degrees granted EU patent for its device detection technology
A mobile web analytics specialist 51Degrees has been granted an EU patent for its device detection technology. Founded in 2009, 51Degrees uses its software to help developers create responsive mobile websites to maximise customer’s web experience. The EU patent covers 51Degrees’ method of extracting device information from web traffic, native apps and mobile networks such as physical device screen […]