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Despite the prevailing economic uncertainty surrounding Brexit, Velocity Capital Advisors closed its Velocity Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) Technology Fund 5 and Velocity Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) Technology Fund 4 having raised three times the investment secured in the previous funding round. This impressive performance…

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A new study reveals that over three-quarters of online clothing, footwear and accessories stores include a returns label with their deliveries, more than any other category.  It’s easier to return goods to the UK’s online fashion stores than any other retail category, with 77% of…

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Hotter, the UK’s largest shoe brand, has been announced as the launch sponsor of woman&home’s Amazing Women Awards 2019, which celebrates the utterly brilliant midlife women aged 50 and above making a difference in all walks of life. Now in their second year, the Amazing Women Awards…

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TI Media has partnered with high-impact mobile advertising platform, Picnic, to create unique digital campaigns for brands using Picnic’s ‘Stories’ format across TI Media’s range of sites. The latest campaign, for PlayStation, sees the brand promote PS4 games including Spyro and Everybody’s Golf using the social media inspired stories format, and is the…

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A dedicated secure online self-service portal has been developed for investors in the Velocity Capital Advisors portfolio of high-growth technology startup businesses, as well as for financial advisors. Recently launched, the portal makes it quick and easy for investors to manage and monitor the performance of their investments on desktop, laptop…

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Tottenham Hotspur FC has again picked specialist staffing agency StreetPR to provide a team of ‘fanbassadors’ – fan ambassadors, to welcome supporters to its games. This time, though, they will be delivering services at the soon to be opened new stadium, currently called the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, until…

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Mark Brownridge, Non-Executive Director of Velocity Capital Advisors and Director General of the EIS Association, flashes the figures to prove that, deal or no deal, now’s the time to invest in hugely exciting high-growth UK tech startups. After two years of negotiations, we don’t seem…

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The impatience of mobile shoppers and no improvement in the shopping experience for two years means growing mobile commerce presents a major challenge to online fashion retailers. But the answer could lie in social channels like Instagram, says parcelLab’s founder and CEO Tobias Buxhoidt. Online…

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hiyacar, a revolutionary app-based platform which lets car owners rent out their vehicles when they aren’t using them, hitched a ride with experiential and face-to-face marketing experts StreetPR for its Streatham launch in December. StreetPR, part of Crowdify Global, provided a team of brand ambassadors…

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As the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day states: “Balance drives a better working world. Let’s all help create a #BalanceforBetter”. But international travel retail staffing and experiential specialists Blackjack Promotions is tipping the scales the other way with more than two thirds (66.67%)…

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