Curation and Maddyness have created Join the Dots, a platform dedicated to ESG that highlights the need for businesses to look at all three in correlation. At our launch event, we invited three experts to discuss the E, the S and the G along with a moderator. The result? A masterclass in how joined up thinking can drive both a sustainable and profitable business.
14.03.2022
In the past five years, the European sports industry has seen an unprecedented number of initiatives to generate innovation in sports and support promising startups in the sector. The initiatives range from incubators and accelerators to innovation hubs and strategic networks.
12.03.2022
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
11.03.2022
There remains a belief that the construction industry cannot or doesn’t need to make use of ecommerce – but this might not be as simple as it was before. In an increasingly digitised world, no industry is immune, and this is certainly true in construction, where we are seeing more and more businesses choosing to go online.
10.03.2022
For our quick-fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Mikhail Dubov, CEO of Chattermill, about working with not so small businesses including Deliveroo, Wise, Uber and HelloFresh and harnessing data to drive the future of unified customer intelligence.
10.03.2022
“Well begun is half done” – the famous Aristotle quote speaks to what many of us have experienced in our lives. A strong start brings confidence, establishes momentum, and enables us to quickly build upon small wins.
09.03.2022
In our increasingly digital world, being able to work with data is becoming unavoidable. In the technology industry specifically, the value of using data well is second to none. Yet when a recent report from TechNation revealed that only 26% of the industry’s workforce are women, it becomes evident that there is a barrier preventing women from entering the industry.
08.03.2022
A landmark age discrimination case being brought against IBM in the US in which older workers were dismissively referred to as ‘dino-babies' has hit the headlines. Depending on the outcome of this case, the fall-out across the tech sector could be significant. The prejudice against older heads in tech, which I have experienced, is real and is holding back many fast-growing businesses.
08.03.2022
The UN has approved an international pact to address global plastic pollution after more than a week of discussions between member states in Nairobi. An intergovernmental committee will be tasked with negotiating a deal, with the treaty expected to be finalised in 2024.
07.03.2022
Getting them right can help your startup seize the opportunity to avoid common mistakes. Community building has recently become one of the most trending topics in the startup world, but the idea of it is not new.
05.03.2022
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
04.03.2022
For our quick-fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Eduardo Martinez, CEO and co-founder of Toqio, about its mission to make it easy for any business to create financial products.
03.03.2022
It’s no surprise that when we think about Hong Kong, our minds conjure images of skyscrapers, banks and ships full of goods trying to make their way through to mainland China. While it’s still true to this day, soon our preconceptions of Hong Kong might be changing to scenes of fresh startup companies, young agile engineers and smart devices in every home.
03.03.2022
Virtual twins allow for hybrid digital and physical manufacturing. Can they help green one of the world’s most polluting industries?
02.03.2022