A fundraising event for female founders across the UK will take place in November. Playfair Capital, Tech Nation and Google for Startups will launch their Female Founders Office Hours initiative, bringing together 300 female founders ready to make connections and fundraise.
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Abby Wallace
19.10.2021
One of the biggest mistakes you can make is chasing money you don’t need. In a recent Teaching Startup (#71), I answered a question from an entrepreneur about whether to fortify his bootstrap approach with crowdfunding or angel investment, or go right into a venture capital raise.
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Joe Procopio
19.10.2021
Starting a company with somebody else isn’t easy. It requires an open mind, compromise, communication and patience in spades - especially when you’ve only just met.
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Emilia Molimpakis
19.10.2021
Paint is one of the most common forms of ocean microplastic and poses an “overlooked” threat to marine life, according to research published in Science of the Total Environment. The analysis was based on surveys taken across the North Atlantic.
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Katie Chan
18.10.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we're talking about the UK's continued lorry driver shortage, and why how other delivery sectors are coming up with new solutions.
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Maddyness UK
18.10.2021
To figure out what to do about ESG, start with the regulations that you have to report on – and then work out what’s material to your business or your portfolio. Not the other way round.
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Marc Lepere
18.10.2021
A digital wealth management platform is providing access to global investment funds through a mobile app targeted at black and minority ethnic communities. The app will open up access to wealth creation opportunities within communities which are overlooked in most wealth management platforms.
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Abby Wallace
18.10.2021
The last year has shown us that synthesised videos are becoming a new media reality. The alternative Christmas speech by Queen Elizabeth and deepfake Tom Cruise TikTok videos generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are vivid examples that such technology has the potential for viral proliferation.
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Anna Bulakh
15.10.2021
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
15.10.2021
Until recently, it was hard to imagine PayPal adopting cryptocurrencies. In addition to multiple reports of a crackdown against digital asset users, Bill Harris, the former CEO of the financial giant, called Bitcoin "the greatest scam in history."
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Arina Kulackovska
14.10.2021
One of the things that we most commonly associate with the world of startups is youth. When we think of startup founders, the classic image that comes to mind is of a twenty-something-year-old in Silicon Valley, dropping out of university to start the next big tech firm. Think Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, for example, who were 19 and 21 respectively when they started Facebook and Apple.
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Georg Westin
13.10.2021
The UK has produced 105 unicorns, with 20 reaching a $1B+ valuation in the last 6 months according to Tech Nation and Dealroom. On top of this, VC investment in UK startups almost tripled at $18B in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period last year.
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Simon Philips
13.10.2021
Never before have remote teams existed at the unprecedented scale seen today. This new reality of an entirely dispersed workforce threatens one of the most important principles of an Agile approach: collaboration.
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Bryan Stallings
13.10.2021
There is no question that the world of work has changed immeasurably over the past 18 months or so. In the shift to remote working, organisations have taken on a plethora of new tools and processes to ensure the smooth running of their businesses.
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Nikolas Kairinos
12.10.2021
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