He knows first-hand the value of a great domain name. In September 2022, entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal wrote a string of tweets offering an insight into the various things he would do differently when launching his next startup. Nagpal, who sold his previous startup Teachable for a reported $250 million, mentioned in the thread of tweets …
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Founded this year, Yonder is already eyeing expansion in European markets with its employee benefits platform. Irish software start-up Yonder has raised a €2.6m funding round led by Northzone and Frontline Ventures. Yonder was founded in 2022 by a team of experienced engineers and entrepreneurs. It is developing a platform to automate employee benefits such …
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Engineering start-up secures £500k to develop mining cleantech Rock Extraction’s Volt 100K rock-breaking tool offers an alternative to explosives for the global mining industry Press Eye – Belfast – Northern Ireland – 20th September 2022 Photo by Philip Magowan / Press Eye 27 September 2022 Lisburn-based engineering company Rock Extraction has secured £500,000 in funding …
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The South African biometrics start-up iiDENTIFii has raised $15 million growth capital. The round was led by African investment company Arise whose cornerstone investors include Rabobank Partnerships, Norfund, NorFinance and the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO). This is, to date, the largest African series A in the identity verification space. iiDENTIFii is considered a world …
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MedoSync is one of nine European start-ups taking part in the accelerator and is the only Irish participant. Irish start-up MedoSync has been accepted onto a German accelerator programme seeking to improve payments and tech in the health insurance space. The GKV Impulse Accelerator is focused on start-ups working to build digital tools for processing …
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Without revealing details of the budget, Donohoe said high inflation and interest rates have caused a ‘regime change’ in the Irish and EU economies. Ireland’s high tax rates, a need for more Government funding and a paucity of suitable talent for early-stage companies are just a few of the problems facing founders of Irish start-ups …
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Capabilities from Adobe’s imaging, photography, illustration, video, 3D and font technology will be brought into the Figma platform. California-headquartered software giant Adobe is planning to acquire Figma, a web-based design platform to boost its creative collaboration tech offering. As well as its design platform, Figma also has a digital whiteboard product called FigJam. The company’s …
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The outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 was devastating to many sectors, but for a fledging agritech enterprise in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the pandemic opened up a window of opportunity. AgriKool, a youth-led startup established three years ago, connects farmers with the market. It secured its first contract with a retail supermarket in Pietermaritzburg at the …
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Even though the Windows Startup folder got put on the back burner quite some time ago, it is still available, hidden within the deep data structure of Windows 10. It sounds complicated to find or get to, but it isn’t at all. Being able to find this folder can be very useful in certain situations, …
UNLEASH World is around the corner and, as we all gear up for the world’s best HR conference in Paris on 12-13 October, we have a very special competition for startups. For many startups, being part of the exhibition at the Paris Convention Centre, meeting thousands of HR leaders on site and getting insights from …
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