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
14.06.2024
The generative AI boom is set to accelerate digital transformation throughout a range of industries and breathe fresh life into a banking ecosystem that still struggles with overcoming legacy processes. With payments already a focal point for challenger banks and fintechs, GenAI can help to deliver efficiency on a broader scale.
14.06.2024
From wildfire prediction technologies, to biodegradable single-use diapers, climate entrepreneurs are increasingly holding the answers to our collective climate challenges. What could you contribute?
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Charlotte Tucker
13.06.2024
At HOLYWATER, we’ve found a way to speed up content production by 10 times using AI, cutting the scriptwriting process from a month to just 10 days. This doesn’t just help us move faster. It lets us focus more on creativity while AI handles the routine stuff.
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Bogdan Nesvit
13.06.2024
What’s the hardest thing about creating a new product? It’s one of the many questions founders have. To gather some views, Adam recently posted a Twitter poll to his 140,000 followers. Twenty-four hours later, we had the results.
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Emily Kucharski
13.06.2024
In the ever-accelerating race to automate customer service interactions, companies risk overlooking a vital component: empathy. While adding AI promises efficiency and scalability, it may inadvertently widen the chasm between the support customers desire and what companies actually deliver.
12.06.2024
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 Ewa Moskwiak, cofounder of PlanningHub.
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Ewa Moskwiak
12.06.2024
New technologies are arriving thick and fast in the education sector, switching up the conventional dynamic between student, teacher and classroom.
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James McGowan
12.06.2024
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.
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Amanda Kavanagh
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.
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Steve Brierley
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.
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Nell Watson
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!
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Dan Buckley
08.06.2024
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