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Meet this year's LaunchBox Startups

LaunchBox, Tangent's Student Accelerator, now in its ninth year, welcomes ten new teams for the 2021 programme. Check them out below.
LaunchBox 2021 Teams
- Diglot2021 Cohort Diglot is a revenue-generating language learning and book publishing company. They take classic novels like Pride and Prejudice and Sherlock Holmes and weave foreign words into the English sentences.
- Field of Vision2021 Cohort Field Of Vision is a device that enables visually impaired football fans to experience live sport. They use computer vision to track the location of the ball on the pitch and translate it to a moving finger-piece on the device, enabling the action to be felt in real time.
- Fonz Music LLC2021 Cohort Fonz Music uses a physical product, a Fonz Coaster, and their in-house app to simplify song requests. HOSTs connect their Spotify to the Fonz Coaster. Their GUESTs then tap the coaster to join the session, search up & select a song, and then tap the coaster again, automatically queuing that song to their HOST's Spotify, just like a jukebox.
- One Sure Thing2021 Cohort Live for today & prepare for tomorrow. One Sure Thing is End-of-Life planning made easy. A digital planning assistant for customers to organise all their wishes and vital documents in one secure online safe.
- Park Turtle2021 Cohort Park Turtle enables yacht clubs to manage their boat parking and seasonal fees all in one smart software. With space at a premium, clubs need to optimise their parking to maximise their revenue.
- Plalgae2021 Cohort Plalgae is the most sustainable alternative to single use plastics, made from seaweed. Unlike other bioplastics, Plalgae is carbon negative, doesn't require industrial composting and results in zero waste. Plalgae makes money by selling the raw material and innovative biodegradable plastic products.
- QRx2021 Cohort QRx is an end to end healthcare SaaS solution with a focus on optimising prescription management for healthcare providers whilst improving patient compliance. QRx leverages the newest in blockchain technology to provide a scalable, flexible, and decentralised application.
- ReFunk2021 Cohort 10m tonnes of furniture are discarded annually in the EU, while IKEA accounts for 0.1% of the world's carbon emissions. ReFunk is a platform that facilitates a three-stage furniture upcycling process. The Donator lists an unwanted item on the app, The Upcycler collects the item, upcycles it as they see fit, and lists it on the app to be sold to The Buyer.
- UniPeer2021 Cohort UniPeer is a platform for university students experiencing loneliness. It facilitates peer-to-peer support, connecting students through shared experiences and interests. In essence, the platform will act as a support group for university students. The platform is unique because it addresses the issue of loneliness in a university setting.
- X-Lite Beverages2021 Cohort X-Lite is a revenue-generating premium hard seltzer alcohol product. The product is a low-calorie, zero sugar, alcohol product with natural flavours and colouring. Hard seltzers have become increasingly popular primarily as a result of the strong surge of health-conscious consumers and ‘premiumisation’ of the alcohol industry (Global Data, 2020).