As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Hugo Cannon, founder of Velloy, about building a business to offer premium member-only benefits, expansion into the US market and the human desire to get the most out of life.
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Hugo Cannon
21.12.2023
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Martijn de Wever, Founder and CEO of Floww about addressing the challenges of fundraising, VC fund management and going against conventions.
20.12.2023
Generative AI has the potential to reshape entire industries and how they operate, and financial services stand out as uniquely poised for AI-driven transformation. McKinsey & Company calls generative AI the next frontier for productivity, estimating that analyzing natural language text — a core generative AI use case — accounts for an average of 25% of the time people spend in any given enterprise.
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Chandini Jain
20.12.2023
As one third of the UK’s “golden triangle” – a cluster of innovation with Oxford and London – Cambridge has a long legacy as one of the UK’s most important cities in terms of education, innovation and trade.
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19.12.2023
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Katie Hanton, cofounder of Baboodle about the benefits of renting vs buying, reducing the waste associated with babies and the power of word of mouth growth.
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Katie Hanton
19.12.2023
It’s an unfortunate truth that war breeds innovation. WWII was the source of many technologies and scientific advances that form part of our everyday lives - from microwave ovens, computers and quantum physics to blood transfusions, skin grafts and penicillin - it would be difficult to imagine a world without such technology.
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Andriy Dovbenko
19.12.2023
Through the lens of a hiring perspective, the UK’s rapidly growing technology industry can be seen as a victim of its own success. Growth at pace has led to a shortage of skilled tech talent here, especially in areas such as software development, data science, and cybersecurity, according to new salary data.
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Kirstie McDermott
19.12.2023
Ethics, Regulation, AI, Climate... VC and startups share their most exciting predictions for the year 2024, filled with promises and new challenges.
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Maddyness UK
18.12.2023
‘Tis the season… that time of year for reflection about the health of our careers. It can be a difficult task, an imponderable. Is my career where I want it to be? A little like that other seasonal tradition of debating the criteria for the best Christmas movies of all time.
18.12.2023
For family offices, startups, historically, have not been their preferred investment vehicle. During the last 10 years, they carefully tested the waters, mainly through investments in VC funds. But after a challenging 2022, their interest in new startup / VC allocations plummeted, since it started to exceed their 10-15% benchmark and they experienced sharp declines in startup valuations. Approaching family offices in 2022 with proposals to invest in venture capital was almost futile.
18.12.2023
In a successful organisation, the right people are in the right place at the right time. They are energised by their work, recognised for their efforts, and support their colleagues to be at their very best. But in reality, this is rare.
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Lauren Neal
18.12.2023
We spoke to Emma-Louise Fusari, Founder of In-House Health, named Innovator of the Year at Computing's recent Women in Tech Excellence Awards and finalist at the Super Connect for Good Global Final on powered by Empact Ventures and Hays.
16.12.2023
Conversations have always been at the very centre of business. As markets have evolved and the entire landscape of communication has changed, the importance of maintaining a line of conversation between your brand and your audience has remained a stable constant.
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Daniel Groves
15.12.2023
Maddyness has partnered with Focal, the platform that is reinventing the fundraising model for startups to bring investor sentiment to this week's Maddymoney.
15.12.2023
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