In today’s fast-paced business and investment world, scalability, adaptability, and transformation are critical factors for success. Investors actively seek clarity from prospective portfolio companies on their business capabilities, the technology architecture that enables them, and a value creation roadmap for implementation in order to realise growth potential.
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Tobias Moeglich
12.04.2023
Artificial though it may well be, ChatGPT sure is intelligent — some argue that we’re just a couple of updates away from the chatbot replacing the lot of us. Since its public release back in November of last year, anyone with an internet connection has been able to jump on and chew the fat with OpenAI’s intelligent language-processing model, which now enjoys the traffic of over 100 million active users.
11.04.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Hugo Kimber, founder and CEO of Carbon Responsible about the commercial case for CO2 reduction, keeping up with regulatory changes and understanding what a corporate journey to Net Zero entails.
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Hugo Kimber
11.04.2023
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we spoke to Kanira Shah, Investment Principal at Astanor.
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Maddyness UK
10.04.2023
Mergers and acquisitions are the only sure fire way I know to double the size of your business in an afternoon. By selling companies you can create meaningful wealth that gives you choices in life, that allows you to go where you want, with whom you want, and do the things you want.
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Paul Seabridge
10.04.2023
Do you want to improve your organisation’s productivity? Turns out the answer was staring us right in the face for so long. Improve workforce diversity.
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George Mathew
08.04.2023
The legal regulation of the crypto world is still quite a topical issue that challenges the industry's rapid development. All the market leaders are discussing the outgoing path of blockchain technologies that influence the global crypto market. Kevin Plumpton, CEO of Kyrrex, reflects on the legal landscape in decentralised finances.
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Kevin Plumpton
07.04.2023
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
07.04.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ryan Gannon, founder and CEO of Scouty about growing up in the creator economy, connecting spaces with creators and launching in Los Angeles.
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Ryan Gannon
06.04.2023
Retail tech trends since the pandemic have accelerated hugely - the way people shop has changed, as has what they are looking for, their budgets and what they want from an omnichannel experience.
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Wizz Selvey
06.04.2023
Last month’s eagerly awaited Budget delivered by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had many welcome announcements and commitments from a slight improvement in R&D tax credits to additional funding for quantum computing and AI. It was particularly positive to see a big focus on getting ‘Britain back to work’, with a £2B investment committed to provide support for disabled people (at a time when nearly 1 in 5 working adults in the UK report having a disability) and £70M set aside to get the over-50s back into employment.
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Benedetta Cevoli
06.04.2023
As global investors doubled down on the UK's climate tech industry in 2022, 8 climate tech companies have already achieved "unicorn" status, while 19 more are on their way. Can this be sustained?
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Adam Roper
05.04.2023
Running marketing campaigns remotely can be challenging for any startup, especially in the early stages when resources and budgets are limited. Moreover, few companies have escaped the need to run marketing campaigns remotely over the past few years, and they have had to rush to change their promotional channels and communication methods or reinvent the way they handle their workflows.
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Svetlana Stotskaya
05.04.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Nigel Lombard, CEO and cofounder of Peppercorn about re-inventing insurance by using conversational AI to put the customer in control.
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Nigel Lombard
05.04.2023
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