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This London Just Startup Raised $1M to Bring Accountability to the Skincare Industry
Most people use skincare products without any real thought to the ingredients that are contained in them. SkinNinja changes that through its app that analyzes over 200K ingredients, matching it with expert evidence, so consumers can make informed decisions on their choice of skincare products. The app can currently identify ingredients from over 800K products within the […]
Breaking Down the Block in Blockchain
You’ve likely heard the buzz around blockchain technology. You may not have Satoshi Nakamoto on speed dial or $1.5M in your crypto wallet, but hey, one step at a time. If you’re a blockchain beginner, you probably didn’t understand any part of that last sentence. But, fear not, in part one of my blockchain series, […]
Flock Cover Raises £2.25M to Provide Intelligently Priced Insurance To Drone Pilots
When new technology is created and adopted, a chain reaction of goods and services emerge from it. This is exactly the case with Flock Cover, the company that has pioneered the use of big data to provide intelligently-priced drone insurance. Through a mobile app, users can purchase on-demand drone insurance and the pay-as-you-fly model with […]
Blockchain without the BS
We at Social Starts and Joyance Partners see distributed trust networks (aka blockchain) as one of the most powerful technological ideas in decades. It’s an idea on a par with TCP/IP, the backbone of today’s internet, in the long-term impact it can have. Tech innovation from innumerable directions points toward blockchain-like requirements as an essential. […]
Juro Raises $2M to Transform How Your Company Handles Contracts
Adults still play email tennis when trying to work out the kinks of a legal contract with the endless back and forth and redlining. Thankfully, London startup Juno updates how you edit and finalize legal documents. Utilizing smart-documents, the company provides the legally binding contract platform for end-to-end contract management. The contract workflow tool provides […]
How to Identify If You’re Ready for a Rebrand
If there’s one thing that running a branding firm has made me appreciate, it’s the ever-changing nature of the marketplace. Whether you sell lattes to hipsters out of a repurposed Airstream or data analytics to Fortune 100 executives on Wall Street, there is one immutable truth about modern day business: Every company has to rebrand […]
The Top 10 Reasons People Can’t See The Crypto Light
On June 29th, 2017, I saw the Crypto light. It was a religious experience. It felt like I could see the future, a future in which Crypto was the biggest thing to happen in the history of humanity. I had the luxury of stopping everything else I was doing, and focusing 100% of my time […]
The State of Data Privacy, Then and Now
Who knew that the privacy of one’s personal information would become a variable? Our parents admonished us not to write anything in a letter or note to another that we would not be comfortable seeing on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. We were well schooled in the art of bifurcating our lives […]
Virtual Influencers Lead to Virtual Inauthenticity
A recent new trend that’s popped up is the emergence of virtual influencers, particularly for those active in social media and the influencer marketing space. Virtual influencers are CGI-created influencers who are designed to portray ideal lifestyles—with Vogue dubbing one of the first virtual influencers, @lilmiquela, as the Fictional It Girl. A recent BBC article […]