Lanna Deamer

Former editorial member Lanna Deamer working on Startups Magazine's editorial team since it's inception, until 2020. She held a special interest in anything healthcare related, partially down to her unhealthy obsession with Grey’s Anatomy. 

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Leading the cashless retail revolution

Decathlon has announced it is rolling out MishiPay’s mobile self-checkout solution across its 81 German stores. The innovative technology is already live in Decathlon Deutschland stores in Berlin (Berlin Hauptbahnhof), Munich (Munich Connect), Cologne (Marsdorf), Schwetzingen and Plochingen, with more locations being added every week

Quit Genuis: CBT programme for smokers

During his training, Dr Maroof Ahmed saw the significant impact smoking had on patients and wanted to do something about it.

AI to help Japan’s drivers recover from car accidents

Tokio Marine is to use an AI solution to process auto damage across its insurance operations in Japan, to help drivers recover more quickly from car accidents.

Gapsquare joins global governments in Equal Pay International Coalition

Tech trailblazers, Gapsquare have been selected alongside the UK government, to be part of the Equal Pay International Coalition.

Workplace analytics pioneer secures $4m in Series A funding

A workplace analytics solution that provides office utilisation intelligence for corporate real estate leaders and managers, Locatee has announced that it has secured $4m in Series A funding.

Auxivia: improving quality of life

Most people don’t tend to let dehydration get to the point of medical attention. Older people however, are more vulnerable to dehydration.

Competition launched for startups in the sustainable home sector

In a bid to help create the carbon neutral home, Schneider Electric has partnered with Sustainable Ventures, a UK-based cleantech hub that offers entrepreneurs workspaces, accelerator programs, and support to develop their businesses.

Small businesses join national effort to support NHS workers

Small business owners are used to tackling the unexpected, but coronavirus has presented startups across the UK with a challenge on a scale they could never have planned for.

Two thirds of UK SMBs plan to access the Job Retention Scheme

Sage has released the first edition of the SMB Tracker, highlighting the latest weekly sentiment from businesses across the UK. This week the Tracker finds that a greater proportion of the UK’s small and medium sized businesses may have either applied or intend to apply for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (JRS).

Let’s normalise talking about female health

Last year, Startups Magazine met with two Cambridge entrepreneurs, Anya Roy and Chantelle Bell who have co-founded Syrona Women, a startup designed to help women detect early signs of gynaecological cancers, infertility and endometriosis.

$150m of new capital announced for venture investments

Provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks and capital markets firms, FIS has announced that FIS Ventures, the newly created corporate venture investment division of FIS, has launched an effort to invest a target of $150m in promising fintech startups over the next three years.

Healthcare that works for all

Cievert was founded in 2011 by former NHS therapeutic radiographer, Chris Kennelly, who began his mission to make routine healthcare a thing of the past.

Codota raises funds for AI-driven software development

Codota, an AI software for developers, acquired its competitor TabNine last year. The company has also announced the global launch of its complete version for JavaScript, merging Codota’s semantic technology with TabNine’s textual one for suitable accuracy for developers.

Ingenious leads investment round in software startup

Ingenious has announced that its Infrastructure Ventures EIS Service has led a $4m A-series investment round in Shoreline. The Norway-based startup has built an intelligent field operations and project development platform to help develop profitable wind projects by constructing and operating them efficiently using intelligent schedule optimisation and simulation.

Free affiliate marketing consultation to support SMEs

As part of a wider initiative to support businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a global affiliate network is offering members of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) 30-minute consultations on the benefits of affiliate marketing.

Taking a leap of faith

A leap of faith involves having a basic belief in yourself and a fundamental trust in the vision of who, what, and where you want to be in the future. This is something that Steve Arnold, the now CEO and Founder of e-days, did back in 2016. Since then his startup has grown from a side project to a successful scaleup with over 1,500 customers across 128 countries. Startups Magazine caught up with him to find out more.

Demystifying female health

With an underestimated market potential, Femtech will become a $50bn industry by 2050 – and Femtech startup Pexxi is at the forefront of research-led innovation celebrating the uniqueness of female bodies.

Israeli start-up chooses Detroit as its US base

Autonomous machine vision pioneer, Inspekto, is one step closer to having a strong presence on US soil upon striking up a partnership with the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator.

Funding round to help companies do more while sharing less data

Applied Blockchain has completed a £2m funding round lead by Hong Kong based venture capital firm, QBN Capital. The newly-injected funds will be invested in developing a platform using privacy enhancing technologies to help companies to collaborate and generate meaningful outcomes together, without having to share any of their data.

Accelerating in the days of coronavirus

Seven Italian startups selected to participate in Israel’s first accelerator program for Italian startups could not have imagined in early January that the coronavirus pandemic would spread so rapidly and inflict such deadly damage to their country and around the world during their stay in Eilat.