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
03.03.2023
Conversational commerce is a rapidly growing trend in the e-commerce industry. It involves using chatbots and other forms of artificial intelligence to interact with customers and help them make purchases via their preferred platform, from Whatsapp and SMS to Facebook Messenger and Instagram. With the wide scale adoption of messaging platforms and mobile devices, consumers are increasingly using chat as a way to communicate with and purchase from businesses.
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Yash Kotak
03.03.2023
Despite a forecasted recession, it’s clear that last year’s drought of talent will continue to frustrate UK employers’ attempts to expand or fill critical skills gaps in their workforce over the course of 2023. With unemployment rates at historic lows of 3.7% and job vacancies still at historic highs, the UK’s problematic labour market is here to stay.
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Neil McLeod
02.03.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Carl Walker, cofounder and CEO of Go Thrift about wearing without waste, reducing carbon footprints and matching affordability with sustainability.
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Carl Walker
02.03.2023
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 Erdem Gelal, cofounder and CEO of Flowla.
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Erdem Gelal
01.03.2023
Building and growing a tech startup has never been easy. The struggles of building a great team, raising finance, scaling revenue, controlling costs, and expanding operations are well documented. These hurdles are all the more intimidating against the backdrop of big tech layoffs, rising costs, recessionary pressures influencing consumer behaviour and cutbacks. Yet, the speed of tech development continues at pace as we have seen with the ground breaking capabilities of generative AI.
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Sophie Lonergan
01.03.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Liza Alem, Head of Marketing and Communication at AZmed about using AI to reduce medical errors, global partnerships and the importance of open-mindedness.
01.03.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Chris Priebe, CEO of Zelt about onboarding employees, consolidating silos and taking on the incumbent solution providers.
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Chris Priebe
28.02.2023
Malt - the digital freelancing marketplace - has already gained the trust of more than 450,000 freelancers and 50,000 clients. With the acquisition of Comatch in 2022, they became a leading European marketplace for both tech, digital and creative talents as well as independent management consultants, interim managers and industry experts.
28.02.2023
When business innovation fails in an organisation, there has often not been a future-led approach, and a lack of creativity in all aspects of the project.
28.02.2023
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we interview Hangwi Muambadzi, Principal and Head of Africa at CommerzVentures.
27.02.2023
Eye-catching headlines in the media create a false impression that raising investment is a piece of cake. In fact, only 0.05% of startups raise money from VCs.
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Mikhail Balabanov
27.02.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Claudia Price, cofounder of Myga about combining a passion for holistic health with an entrepreneurial mindset.
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Claudia Price
25.02.2023
No matter what industry you’re in or the products or services you’re selling, there’s one thing all businesses have in common: leads. These are the people that you attract to your brand and who fuel your company’s growing profits.
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Daniel Groves
25.02.2023
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