Founding a tech startup isn't an endeavour reserved for the “young”. While there might be famed stories of young Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg all beginning businesses at an early age, there are plenty of examples where founders turned their hand to beginning a tech start-up at a later stage in their career too.
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Lesley Calland
06.02.2024
Forget about the cliché of the swaggering leader who can do no wrong. We all have strengths and weaknesses, however committed we are to our purpose and driving our organisation forward to achieve our goals. We are, after all, human. Plus, if the disruptive ambition is substantial, we’d be a fool to try to go it alone. This means we need resources. Resources are the fuel that helps our fire burn.
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Mark Bateman
05.02.2024
In the fast-paced world of venture capital, the allure of the latest market trends often captures significant attention and investment. However, this fascination with the newest and most popular sectors carries considerable risks.
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Nicolai Chamizo
05.02.2024
A growing number of businesses are utilising artificial intelligence, or AI, to aid with tasks like medical diagnosis and customer support. In the field of artificial intelligence, chatbots such as ChatGPT, Jasper, Bard, Bing Chat, and Pi have gained popularity. With the use of prompts and interaction, chatbots enable users to ask questions and get responses.
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Evelyn Johnson
03.02.2024
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
02.02.2024
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 Luis Espinosa Andrade, cofounder of Sorted.
01.02.2024
If you have shopped online over the last year or so, chances are you have come across Temu. The e-commerce app that is part of the Chinese conglomerate, Pinduoduo, and has been quite aggressively marketed – even advertising during the Super Bowl – and consequently in the United States alone it had more downloads than companies like Amazon and Walmart during the second quarter of 2022.
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Steven van Belleghem
31.01.2024
In the UK’s vibrant yet challenging startup ecosystem, securing funding is a major hurdle. Barclays Bank’s Demo Directory, the newest addition to its Eagle Labs initiative, is transforming the way startups connect with investors.
30.01.2024
Fear can be our greatest ally or our worst enemy, it all depends on how we deal with it, process it and understand it. When it comes to fear, I have a confession to make: I always have it, to a greater or lesser degree. Fear is an integral part of me.
29.01.2024
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today, we speak to Olivia Mark, partner at daphni.
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Olivia Mark
29.01.2024
With Founders by Founders - or #FBF - discover the exclusive list of what founders are reading, drinking, doing and wearing this month.
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Maddyness UK
27.01.2024
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
26.01.2024
"Creating something useful for real people" is the mantra of Luc Julia, an inventor-finder specialising in artificial intelligence.
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Morgane Ruvetti
26.01.2024
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 Yasser Tsikhlakis, cofounder of FLEXR.
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Yasser Tsikhlakis
25.01.2024
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