Maddyness caught up with Nikita Tchesnokov, Partner at Gauss Ventures, who has been thinking about the current trends in Fintech in a post COVID-19 world and what we can expect to see in the coming months as the world starts to try and recover from this global pandemic.
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Darren Rebeiro
06.08.2020
Less than a year after TidyChoice launched in 2015, Homejoy and Handy from the US and Helpling from Germany entered the London home cleaning market. Both Handy and Helpling had over $100M venture capital funding whilst Homejoy had around $45M funding. By contrast, we had less than £50,000 marketing budget to bootstrap the business to £1M revenue.
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David Reeson
05.08.2020
Giles Corbett and his brother Julian co-founded Ksubaka initially as a new way for brands to advertise to shoppers in stores at mass scale. But working with retailers, they came to understand the need to improve the in-store experience and so shifted their focus to help physical retailers revitalise by providing in-store digital interface products and services.
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Giles Corbett
05.08.2020
It’s one of the most crucial divides in the business world. On one side we have large corporations, faced with the ever-growing shadow of digital transformation. They’re driven to adopt technology and evolve, or face the consequences of being outed by new business models... On the other, we have startups. Young, nimble and innovative, their breakthroughs often hold the answers for established giants. Andrew Humphries tells us more.
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Esat Dedezade
04.08.2020
As we are all very well aware the first hit of COVID-19 or Coronavirus was indeed a shock to the system. Little did we know, or could we grasp the impact that this would have on our mental and physical health, the stress on our families and loved ones, our careers, our friendships, and life as we knew it.
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Cleo McGee
04.08.2020
In order for your business to survive and successfully thrive, it has to grow. Constantly. But most entrepreneurs doom themselves by mistaking a fast metabolism for a steady high-growth diet, here Joe Procopio explains the different rates of growth to help you find your ideal balance.
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Joe Procopio
04.08.2020
Culture is a top priority for startups and large groups alike, and Kymono offers their clients an ever-evolving selection of products to ensure that culture, even in the most difficult times, is kept sacred. Maddyness spoke with Olivier Ramel, CEO and co-founder of Kymono to understand how the company is coping during the COVID-19 pandemic and what the future holds.
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Olivier Ramel
03.08.2020
Ash from Drax’s UK power station has been used in the concrete structure of the £1.5B A14 Cambridge to Huntington road-building scheme. The use of power station ash in cement production has reduced energy consumption and prevented fresh aggregate from being mined.
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Nick Finegold
03.08.2020
Digital disruption in media and marketing is in evidence everywhere you look. From the rise of streaming and on-demand television to the ubiquity of highly targeted online advertising: new digital technologies are transforming the behaviours of both consumers and the businesses that sell to them.
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David Leahy
31.07.2020
Every company, as the saying goes, is a technology company. Those that don’t embrace technology will lose their competitive edge and falter in the face of new players. While the banking industry is steeped in more tradition than most, the winds of change are already here. We learn more from Diana Biggs, Global Head of Innovation at HSBC Private Banking.
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Esat Dedezade
30.07.2020
This week Caroline Franczia takes us to Amity Island to explain how you can build a strategy to move from catching small fry to snaring the biggest deals in the ocean.
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Caroline Franczia
30.07.2020
MIT’s Alex Pentland speaks to David Lee of the DDI about the importance of ‘neighbourhood data’ in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges – and why we need data unions.
30.07.2020
Nowadays, just about everyone has a side hustle. If you don’t, what are you doing with all your free time and no extra money? In the past, a side hustle may have been a casual way to pad out your paycheque, but things change. Now, you need to go legit.
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Kristie Wright
29.07.2020
Flexible business school Jolt offers courses run by the likes of Google, Netflix and Tesla execs and has now launched its most disruptive, most exciting UK course to date. Switch is a unique, live, immersive bootcamp that retrains people to enter the highly in-demand world of tech in just a month.
28.07.2020
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