Brite Payments recently announced a $60M raise. Maddyness heard from Dawn Capital’s General Partner, Josh Bell and Brite’s CEO and founder Lena Hackelöer to learn what really happens in the build-up to a deal of this size and what modern day funding truly looks like.
11.06.2024
In today’s globalised job-seeking market, tech candidates need to stand out from the crowd more than ever.
11.06.2024
We spoke to Steve Brierley, CEO of Riverlane about being selected to join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme, founder life and plans for the future.
11.06.2024
Artificial Intelligence has made remarkable strides in recent years, revolutionising many sectors, particularly creative industries. These AI systems, fueled by deep learning on vast datasets, have demonstrated increasingly versatile and adaptable capabilities. However, they still primarily function as tools, providing outputs to narrowly defined human queries.
10.06.2024
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today, we speak to Roman Gurskiy & Kirill Gurskiy, Managing Directors at GEM Capital.
10.06.2024
Whether you are working for an SME or a larger national or multinational corporation - good onboarding is crucial for employee retention. And the shocking statistic is that 35% of companies spend £0 on onboarding new hires!
08.06.2024
Did you know we have better chances of getting hit by lightning or attacked by a bear than winning a lottery? Yet we find ourselves buying online lottery tickets or queuing at convenience stores hoping to win huge sums of money despite the odds being against us.
07.06.2024
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
07.06.2024
Reset Connect London, the leading sustainability and net-zero event and flagship event of London Climate Action Week, returns to ExCeL London on 25-26 June 2024. Uniting business leaders, investors, policymakers and industry experts to drive forward the global sustainability agenda.
06.06.2024
Creating a startup is always challenging. Founding one during a tech downturn, cost of living crisis and recession seems near impossible. However, with risk comes reward and many of the world’s most successful companies were founded during times of economic uncertainty. As part of a series with Antler, Maddyness has interviewed founders hoping to become the entrepreneurial success stories to emerge from this time of crisis. This week, Maddyness spoke to Watson Gardiner, cofounder of cartd.
05.06.2024
Europe is in a lending crunch, and SMEs are bearing the brunt of it. Although SMEs make up the backbone of the European economy, accounting for a staggering 64.4% of EU employment, 73% of SMEs say they can’t even secure a meeting with their bank and that a quarter of all SMEs say that lenders don’t understand their business. There’s really a quite simple explanation to this – the typical SME isn’t the ideal loan candidate for the typical high-street bank, and hasn’t been for a long time.
05.06.2024
As a founder, there's a certain allure to landing big brands as early customers. It feels like a major validation that your product has mass appeal. Many founders, myself included, assume the natural path ‘in’ is through a pilot or proof of concept (PoC). Get your foot in, show them how fabulous you are and boom - banging the door down for more, am I right?
04.06.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Steve Harding, founder and CEO Showerkap about putting social and environmental impact alongside commercial success, educating around water scarcity and harnessing technology for change.
04.06.2024
We spoke to Carolin Krenzer, CEO and cofounder of Trailmix about being selected to join Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme, founder life and plans for the future.
04.06.2024