Startups
A self-made entrepreneur, starting his business from his room at University of Leeds while studying Cinema and Photography, Sam Stoffel is now the founder and CEO of matched betting platform, Profit Accumulator – a multi-million pound technology business. We spoke to Stoffel to learn more about his route from student to CEO.
London-based technology startup CloudStratex helps clients become confident and self-sufficient in cloud computing and its usage, rather than being reliant upon external providers to manage their IT operations. We spoke to Founder and CEO Adrian Overall to learn more.
Startups Magazine speaks to Lloyds Bank National Business Awards’ ‘New Entrepreneur of the Year’ and equestrian-athleisure e-commerce tech startup Founder, Jordan McCabe, about her success and how she scaled her startup.
Professor Mike Trenell is Co-founder and CEO of Changing Health, a company than began as a spin-out company from Newcastle University in 2016 to empower people to live longer, healthier lives at scale, delivering personalised behaviour change programmes for Type 2 diabetes management, prevention and weight loss.
Seeing is believing, as they say. But what do you do if you have something to show off, but it’s in a remote, hard-to-access location that would involve a significant amount of time and cost to take people to?
Norway may not be the best in the world when it comes to baseball, rugby or tennis, but there is one thing for which Norwegians are extremely well-known… and that’s Ultrasound.
Edinburgh-based edtech startup, Robotical, has been awarded the Global Innovators Grant from Expo 2020 Dubai, adding a funding boost while the company was in the infancy of its Kickstarter campaign which went on to smash its target of £30,000, raising a total of £43,291.
Mous use outlandish stunts and challenge the status quo in the best interests of their customers. Co-founder and CBO, Lucy Hutchinson, explains why.
LegalShield recently launched a consumer app, LegalDefence, that helps the average consumer combat their legal disputes in an affordable but effective way. The Oxford-based startup has been disrupting the industry tremendously since its launch.
We’re all familiar with the stigma surrounding the process of buying a second-hand car. The perilous pitfalls associated with used cars and their salespeople were made infamous by the dodgy wheeler dealer Arthur Daley in the 1980s TV show ‘Minder’.
The world is over-populated and growing, warming at an unprecedented rate due to categorical human factors, and only now are we beginning to see the climate emergency for what it is. Greta Thunberg, and Extinction Rebellion are leading the way.
Most of us have experienced the labyrinth that is attempting to cancel a subscription.
A company formed a decade ago in 2009, Deciwatt is older than you’d imagine most startups to be. Created off the back of a brief from Solaraid with therefore, a London-based product design consultancy, Deciwatt’s first product GravityLight was an answer to this problem: develop an extremely low-cost solar light for $5, a sustainable alternative to the dangerous and expensive kerosene lamp depended on by millions as a source of light.
With one parent an insurance broker, it was perhaps inevitable that Tobias Taupitz, CEO and Co-founder of Laka, would glean an interest into the world of insurance.
Founded by Matthew Mayes and Claudio Piovesana and launching at Unbound, A-dapt is the world’s first adaptive-media consultancy that has been created to commercialise and scale a new AI-based technology format called adaptive-media, within the UK and beyond.
When Mikela Druckman, Marco Paladini, and Nikola Sivacki founded Greyparrot in January 2019, the three founders set out to utilise their computer vision and Augmented Reality (AR) experience in the B2C sector and translate it into the B2B industry with the mission of creating a positive social impact.
Quite often the best ideas are born out of adversity, and that was certainly the case for Immersive Rehab, a startup specialising in the creation of interactive and engaging physical and neuro-rehabilitation programmes in Virtual Reality (VR), part of the unbound50 Zone at unbound London 2019.
As a child growing up in Western Australia, Neil Daly was fully aware of the dangers associated with exposure to the sun, and the importance of covering up when playing outside. We have all of course had the experience of being sun burnt at some point in our lives and as such, it’s not surprising that skin cancer is actually the most common form of the disease in the world.
Most of our readers may not be old enough to remember pagers. However, in the pre-internet, pre-mobile world of the early 1990s, if you had a pager you really were a trend setter as it made you contactable wherever you went… imagine that?
Peak Labs, the digital health company, started with four co-founders (Gerald Goldstein, Itamar Lesuisse, Sagi Shorrer and Xavier Louis) in 2013 who set out with an aim to be the number one digital health brand using technology to help people’s wellbeing. Fast forward six years later, and you’ll find a 50-member strong team which has raised up to ten million dollars over three rounds of funding to accelerate and grow the company and its two digital products, Peak Brain Training and Rise.
