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.
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Maddyness UK
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.
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Watson Gardiner
05.06.2024
Mathias Léopoldie is the co-founder of Julaya, an Ivory Coast-based startup that offers digital payment and lending accounts for African companies of all sizes. Julaya serves over 1,500 companies, processes $400M of transactions and has raised $10M in funding.
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Mathias Léopoldie
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.
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Olle Lundin
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?
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Dan Bowyer
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.
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Steve Harding
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.
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Carolin Krenzer
04.06.2024
Chief Product Officers aren’t just found in big businesses anymore. These experienced specialists lead innovation across a company’s entire portfolio of products and services. They guide and execute the product development strategy from idea to execution with a customer-centric approach delivering revenue and growth.
03.06.2024
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today, we speak to Sarah Drinkwater, GP at Common Magic.
03.06.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Dr Benjamin Droguet, Founder & CEO of Sparxell about creating unique, bio-inspired, chemical-free colours as an alternative to environmentally destructive synthetic colourants.
01.06.2024
Openly autistic entrepreneurs often face both admiration and discrimination, with their traits being heralded simultaneously as both “superpowers” and their “Achilles’ heel”. This creates unrealistic expectations, by placing autistic founders on a pedestal, while also upholding harmful and ableist stereotypes.
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Zareen Ali
31.05.2024
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
30.05.2024
Once a niche off-shoot of the fintech scene, climate fintech - simply understood as fintechs enabling decarbonisation - has emerged as an established and much-needed global sector. Attracting annual investments of $2.3B in 2023, climate fintechs are providing vital solutions businesses urgently need to support their climate transition
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Paul Morgenthaler
30.05.2024
Deep tech describes technological innovations at the cutting-edge of science and engineering. These early-stage businesses often have the underlying potential to overcome major industry challenges, and even flip an entire space on its head if successful.
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Connor Mitchell
29.05.2024
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