The "Stress in the Workplace" survey asked employees from 140 companies across the UK the causes of their ‘excessive stress at work’, how they combat stress to maintain good mental health and what their employers do to support them through stress. Here's a summary of the survey's highlights.
17.04.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup scene. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
17.04.2020
Headquartered in Oxford, Perspectum, a medical software company that provides seamless technology for identifying and monitoring multiple diseases, received a $36M investment from Blue Venture Fund, HealthQuest Capital, Oxford Science Innovation, Puhua Capital, and the University of Oxford.
17.04.2020
Based in London, Onfido, the startup that uses AI to “read” a person’s identity documents and uses facial recognition and other data points to verify that a person is who she or he says they are online has received £80M ($100M) from TGP Growth.
16.04.2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tech services are seeing a rise in levels of use for streaming services, online media, and food delivery. With the world self-isolating, online services have to pivot, to review their products and services, to test where user experience is failing or could be better. One of them, Glassbox, aims to help businesses improve their overall customer experience.
16.04.2020
Decentralised finance is here, and has the potential to become the driving force of a more open economy. Evgeny Yurtaev, CEO at Zerion explains what DeFi is in detail.
16.04.2020
Founded by CEO Geoff Watts and Julia Fowler in 2009, Edited is used to analyse markets, drive sales, maximise margins and trade more efficiently. Advised by GP Bullhound, retail decision-making software received a £23.1M growth investment from Wavecrest Growth and Beringea.
16.04.2020
To tackle the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, UCL and IBM have collaborated to create the IBM Industry Exchange Network (IBM IXN). This educational partnership aims to develop an experimental program to enable students in the UK and beyond to work on proof of concept research and development projects using IBM technologies.
16.04.2020
Whether it's in the UK, the EU or globally, mobility tech trends are impacting the big city life in major hubs and will redefine the way we commute in the future. Maddyness selected some of the most important mobility tech trends to watch globally in 2020.
14.04.2020
Maddyness provides you with a quick digest of three news items to keep you up to date with the startup scene, emerging trends and other noteworthy stories.
10.04.2020
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week we look at how the Coronavirus outbreak is impacting recruitment.
10.04.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup scene. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
10.04.2020
Data-streaming and cloud provider Ably has raised $7M (£5.6M) in Series A funding led by MMC Ventures with Forward Partners co-investing. Today, consumers take real-time information for granted, like instant messaging, transit updates, and live scores but all of this takes complex engineering to be delivered at scale.
09.04.2020
Yapily, fintech and open-banking solution has raised a $13M (£10.5M) Series A investment from Lakestar, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and LocalGlobe, as well as angel investors.
09.04.2020