Startups

Imagine stepping into a health shop after a long day at work. You’re on the hunt for a multivitamin that will kick the fatigue that’s been following you for weeks. You want to be engaged and productive, but you wake up tired, and you have trouble focusing when you need to give it your all. Let me introduce you to Feel. We caught up with founder Boris Hodakel to find out more on the startup.

With the return of live music and fans now able to see their favourite artists once again, we caught up with Pascal de Mul, CEO of Exit Live – a tool for artists to monetise live show recordings. A global platform, Exit Live can be utilised by artists to sell current and historic live performances. Its fair and transparent revenue share model allows talent to fully maximise the commercial value of their music. Pascal explains to us how Exit Live works, what it’s all about and what lies ahead.

There’s a quotation by Lao Tzu: “A journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step.” That’s pretty much how the Property Insights story started. Now CEO, Nitin Aggarwal started his own property career and became increasingly frustrated at the hours spent on the internet trying to get the information he needed. And, despite the time he’d invested, he still only had some surface level information.

With its recent launch across the Nordic and Baltic states, we caught up with Jonas Sellberg, Co-founder and COO of Staccs, a premium streaming on-demand service for concert video and music documentaries. The new home for concerts on demand, Staccs is set to offer music fans the opportunity to relive their favourite concert moments. Jonas explains to us what Staccs is all about, the journey so far and what lies ahead.

Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, while a sophomore studying French at Albany High School in California. Since then, the company has grown into an interactive learning platform and app, used by over 60 million people around the world. We spoke to Rahim Hirji, UK Country Manager at leading online learning platform and app, Quizlet.

I’m a big believer in reading. It’s always relaxed me and offered guidance in surprising ways. As a founder who set up a company in my 20s, I read every entrepreneur book I could get my hands on at the time, desperate to soak up some wisdom from those who had made a success of their businesses.

The commute as we knew it may be gone for good, new research conducted by e-bike subscription service DASH Rides reveals. DASH and Sapio Research surveyed over 2,000 city-dwelling, full-time workers, who used to work primarily in the office and now work primarily at home, and discovered that three quarters of those returning to the office will be actively avoiding public transport or seeking new ways to travel.

With this year taking a slightly different format to previous programmes, the CRL 2021 cohort sponsored by Mouser Electronics was spilt into two phases. Phase one saw 20 startups take part for six weeks, work in depth with the team to learn where they are at, what they need help with, and where they want to take things. From here the startups got the chance to pitch to the CRL community, partners and investors, to compete for the final six positions which will find themselves in phase two developing their products and businesses further.

Chocolate is probably not the first thing that springs to mind at the mention of blockchain technology. However, it’s that precise combination that is helping to bring an end to over 50 years of civil war in Colombia which has killed over 200,000 people and internally displaced millions.

As you can imagine, here at Startups Magazine HQ, we speak to an awful lot of early-stage businesses. Every so often however, one really stands out and lingers long in the memory.

Every three seconds someone develops Alzheimer’s. And although there are currently 44 million people worldwide living with the disease, there has been no new treatment approved in the last 14 years and over 400 clinical studies have failed. There has been €540bn spent on Alzheimer’s and Dementia globally. It has also been estimated that the number of Alzheimer’s patients are expected to triple by 2050.

Picture life a while back, before COVID-19 hit – I know a little difficult isn’t it? Well for most companies and office workers, life before COVID meant most people using their office calendar, where meetings were created and stored.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an inevitable eCommerce boom as consumers were forced to rely on online shopping throughout the various lockdowns rather than venture to shops – and this trend was particularly noticeable when it came to Grocery shopping. The question now, is whether the boom will be sustained, even as lockdown restrictions ease and more adults continue to receive vaccinations.

As we recently celebrated Local Business Week – a time to highlight the businesses that make up our UK economy. Local Business Week gives us the opportunity for us to share learnings. Here are some top tips on how UK businesses can build back better following the pandemic from UK-owned SMEs and business leaders.

GoRolloe is a bicycle wheel that filters outdoor air pollution solely by using the rider’s energy. We caught up with inventor and founder Kristen Tapping to find out more.

Uptree has not only been designed as a professional careers platform and network to help young people get started in the world of work, find work experience, apprenticeships etc, but also to democratise the entire careers education process. The work Uptree have been doing also won Tamsin Dewhurst the Founder of the Year award at our very own Hustle Awards 2020. We caught up with her to find out more.

As we now know, this year’s CRL cohort is slightly different with a larger number of startups initially involved, and then after a six-week period, a hackathon and a pitch day, six will be chosen to continue on the accelerator programme. I got the chance to catch up with all 18 startups, to find out a little bit about the founders, the business, their big ideas and some of the challenges they have faced with their products and proof of concepts so far.

electronRx is a deep tech startup, based in Cambridge, UK. The company’s story began in 2017 when Founder, Dr Bipin Patel set out to transform how we deliver healthcare and treat disease. The company is built from a team of interdisciplinary scientists and engineers who have all been brought together to develop novel technologies to sense the physiological environment and inform personalised therapeutic interventions.

Here, Startups Magazine speaks to Lilia Metodieva, Managing Director of Monneo, European fintech startup.