Condense Reality, a virtual reality startup developing technology to transform how viewers watch live entertainment and sports, has raised a seed round of more than £800,000, including £220,000 from SFC Capital, the most active seed-stage investor in the UK.
09.10.2020
Leftover stock in the fashion industry has always been a waste of money and resources – all the more so after shops were forced to close by the COVID-19 pandemic. A new platform called Purple Dot thinks it might just have the answer.
09.10.2020
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.
09.10.2020
The private pensions-saving platform, Pension the Pennies, wants to make it clear that anyone can and should be thinking about their future and their future savings now. But they’ve also been taking steps to make this more than just a pipe dream.
08.10.2020
This week, Caroline Franczia, founder of Uppercut-First, ventures into the Jumanji jungle to address the differences between selling and generating revenue. She draws on the methodology of a ‘common language’, which she has taught to startup teams across Europe and the US.
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Caroline Franczia
08.10.2020
The health sector is home to plenty of key innovators. Maddyness has selected a few of the best London-based health tech startups, all of which are crafting creative and effective ways for us to look after our bodies and minds.
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Audrey Langevin
08.10.2020
“Teaching is actually such a small part of being a teacher now. Teaching has become a social service; with cuts to other social services, across family support and local authority support, schools remain this bedrock of local communities.”
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Rich Clensy
08.10.2020
You might not even know what it is, but it just cost Fiat Chrysler $9.5M. The company has agreed to pay the sum following accusations that it violated federal securities law. Allegedly, the company suggested to investors that its emission control systems were compliant with environmental regulations, having in fact performed insufficient testing and left out important details.
07.10.2020
Xavier Lazarus, Partner at Elaia shares his experience and key learnings from the seed-to-unicorn investment in Mirakl.
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Xavier Lazarus
07.10.2020
The value of networking, sharing journeys, failures, successes, and being a community of like-minded people that genuinely want to help is something we should all aspire to. With that being said welcome to ‘The Garage’ - tech’s answer to the outdated men's private clubs of old! Maddyness sat down with Graham Hussey, the Co-founder of Startup Van and its newest portfolio addition ‘The Garage’.
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Cleo McGee
07.10.2020
Ryalto helps healthcare staff manage their working lives, a vital tool even before the pandemic arrived. Maddyness spoke with Jon Bennett, CEO to understand how the business has coped, evolved and is planning for the future.
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Jon Bennett
07.10.2020
Every week, Maddyness looks at the good, the bad and the ugly in climate change news. Today, we look into a new landscape for foreign relations, Sudan’s green recovery and some plastic-eating enzymes.
07.10.2020
For many entrepreneurs, myself included, we’d rather have a series of root canals than pick up the phone and face the possibility of someone we don’t know laughing or swearing at us. Yeah. I’ve had nightmares like that.
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Joe Procopio
06.10.2020
Once lauded alongside the likes of Revolut, Monzo and Transferwise as a shining beacon on European fintech prowess, the dramatic – in fact almost cinematic – collapse of German payments group Wirecard has raised broader questions about the future of Europe’s fintech scene.
06.10.2020
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