What inspires you to jump out of bed each day? Achieving new growth targets? Tracking down a new business to fund? I’m passionate about education and engaging youngsters – and not just because it’s a job requirement of working at an edtech gaming company.
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Gordie Ross
10.11.2021
As more businesses become automated, having a reliable cloud solution to store and manage data is essential. Maddyness spoke to Gus Barrett, director at Virso, to find out how their tool, Cloud Activ8, helps companies automate and how participation in OVHcloud’s startup programme helped with this mission.
09.11.2021
Post-pandemic, will we see more startups flourishing outside London? Since most founders aim to raise money from investors, what are the best circumstances to make this happen if your business is well beyond the boundaries of Greater London?
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Anthony Rose
09.11.2021
Last week, I got a question from a service company founder asking how to evolve her daily grind of a business to run more like a high-growth startup without pouring a ton of money into technology and marketing.
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Joe Procopio
09.11.2021
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 Will Dufton and Lily Shaw of OMERS ventures.
08.11.2021
A £14B ($19B) pledge from governments using public and private funds to end deforestation by 2030 became COP26’s first big promise, with Brazil one of the signatories. However, a climate and forests specialist has said a similar deal from 2014 has not slowed deforestation. The countries that signed the pledge – which also include Russia, Canada and China – cover about 85% of global forests, and a proportion of the money is aimed at developing countries.
08.11.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we're talking about the pledges made to support green innovation by world leaders in Glasgow.
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Abby Wallace
08.11.2021
Young people are feeling increasingly anxious about climate change and the effects a dying planet could have on their futures. Many feel helpless and feel there is nothing they can do to incite change that will make a global impact.
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Daniel Groves
05.11.2021
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
05.11.2021
Startups across Europe, the Middle East and Africa can now participate in a new accelerator programme designed by AWS (Amazon Web Services).
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Maddyness UK
04.11.2021
The lack of funding and innovation in the North compared to the South is no secret to us by now, especially with it being considered a top priority on the government’s agenda. Question is, are they really making it at a priority, or is it just noise?
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Michael Edwards
04.11.2021
As COP26 continues in Glasgow, we're taking a look at six climate tech startups helping to drive net zero ambitions.
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Abby Wallace
04.11.2021
As the classic New Yorker cartoon says, ‘on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’. This image from as far back as 1993 outlines a key feature of (and some would say a major problem with) the internet: there is often no way to tell whether any digital identity is authentic.
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Malte Pollmann
04.11.2021
It’s obvious that the pandemic brought about changes in every industry, with one in particular close to our hearts. FoundersLane's chief medical officer Sven Jungmann (SJ) spoke with Sophie Park (SP), chief strategist for digital health partnership at Bayer.
03.11.2021
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