Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
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Maddyness UK
25.03.2022
In 2021, there were 5.6 million private businesses in the UK - more than the entire population of Norway. Put into perspective, it’s clear that today’s entrepreneurs face more competition than ever before. As a result, investors are in high demand. At SeedLegals, our recent research discovered 70% of founders had chased potential investors up to five times before receiving a response. So entrepreneurs should be doing everything possible to attract funding and your pitch deck is the first thing to optimise.
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Anthony Rose
24.03.2022
Meet LiberEat the free UK app that allows people with food allergies to monitor and manage their dietary requirements. This innovative app allows users to scan products, search recipes, filter ingredients and find restaurants that match their food requirements. Now, LiberEat provides allergen detection technology for food businesses, acting as a second line of defence against allergens and lowering risk.
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January Barnes
23.03.2022
As more of our daily lives become intertwined with technology, today’s digital-first customers have come to expect instant service, tailored digital experiences and personalisation from every business they interact with online. Consumer expectations have never been higher. The result has been a step-change in martech innovation as businesses look for new ways to make an impact and stay ahead.
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Dominik Angerer
22.03.2022
Carbon emissions disclosure and ESG reporting is becoming mandatory for all businesses as part of the push for net-zero. Our investigation reveals overcharging and greenwashing at the heart of this new market.
21.03.2022
European countries dominate almost half the trade in selling shark fins to Asia, according to a study by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. The analysis was based on customs data in three leading Asian trading hubs from 2003 to 2020. Spain was the major source of shark fin imports to Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, supplying 51,795 tonnes during the study period.
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Katie Chan
21.03.2022
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we speak to Julia Hawkins, General Partner at LocalGlobe about budding investors who are curious about venture capital.
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Julia Hawkins
21.03.2022
Landing on a badly translated website or product page can make many clients run away. Melanie Krause, a lover of languages, built Smylingua to be an agency that mixes software and linguistics to ensure targeted and true translations.
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Anne Taffin
21.03.2022
Preventing the development of toxicity in the workplace is paramount to a business’s success. Still, even with the best preventive measures in place, toxicity can develop, and businesses of all sizes must have a system in place to heal it when it does.
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Ron Stefanski
19.03.2022
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
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Maddyness UK
18.03.2022
In every business, when you are watching your CEO speak (whether it's in-person or via MS Teams or Zoom), you may be struck by a familiar feeling. How do I know if this person is ‘for real’? Was that moment ‘authentic’ or something clever that they had pre-planned for effect? Take heart - people have been wondering the same thing for hundreds of years.
17.03.2022
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.
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Marc Lepere
17.03.2022
As part of our new quickfire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ross McGraw, VP and Head of Marketing at Hammerhead about the future of cycling tech, acquisition and driving forward the future of cycling.
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Ross McGraw
17.03.2022
The rise of ecommerce is underway and impacting our highstreets – even before the rise of COVID-19. Due to the pandemic, the shift from physical shops towards online spending has accelerated by an average of five years. In 2020, 87% of UK households made purchases online and recent statistics show that 70% now prefer it. Now, ecommerce is booming, and it is a trend that is here to stay, with online retail spending in the UK expected to reach £75B by 2024.
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David Johnson
16.03.2022
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