With #QVCs, Maddyness UK profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. This week, we speak to Jeevan Sunner, associate at Playfair Capital.
21.06.2021
Within the UK investment ecosystem, there is a huge funding gap between men and women. Beyond HERizons aims to fill this gap, and the announcement of its inaugural beneficiaries is only the first step.
21.06.2021
Global fintechs are constantly seeking ways to appeal to new markets. Fintech giant, Revolut’s commitment to cross-border accessibility has allowed it to grow by 186%.
21.06.2021
Leading UK tech companies are joining forces to tackle climate action within the tech sector. The Tech Zero taskforce launches in London at the CogX festival and aims to encourage 1,000 businesses to sign up to its pledge to drive net zero commitment within the tech industry by COP26 this November.
17.06.2021
Everything – from work to how children are educated – changed one year ago. As a business providing education technology to workplaces and schools, we witnessed this transition internally and externally at Texthelp, but here’s how tech companies can stay on track.
17.06.2021
The 2008 global financial crisis invigorated growth and buzz around the sharing economy, which has given birth to global sharing giants like Uber, Airbnb, WeWork, and swathes of sharing-based startups. But over a decade on, can we say that the sharing economy has been a failure?
17.06.2021
Pitching to investors is like Marmite – some founders love it, and some hate it. For me, there’s no better stage than in front of investors. I’ve pitched to hundreds of investors and still enjoy the excitement the process brings.
16.06.2021
With early-stage startups weathering the storm created by the global pandemic in one way or another, a new fund targeting the group is set to change the course for 60 lucky businesses.
15.06.2021
Maddyness UK has teamed up with SeedLegals for a new conversation series that will tackle a different issue faced by startups and scaleups in each episode.
10.06.2021
Creating a system to support and maintain your employees’ mental health is absolute crucial: it isn’t something that should linger long on the to do list. Sanctus wants to help businesses offer such support as commonly as they do with gym memberships. Maddyness finds out more.
10.06.2021
The North/South divide is never far from the political and economic agenda. Levelling up, the Northern Powerhouse, infrastructure spending, big bang investments: these are just a few of the ways it’s been talked about this year.
10.06.2021
It will surprise no-one to learn that the pandemic has radically altered the way business works in Britain. The most notable development is wide-scale digitalisation.
09.06.2021
We’re over a year on since the lockdown came into force and we’re now, again, in the process of unlocking the nation for more of the normality we used to know. But there’s a lot we should have learnt about operational tactics throughout this whirlwind 14-month period.
08.06.2021
Through 27 years of experience working in hospitality, I saw marketing decisions being made – often at very high level and involving thousands of pounds – that were based on a gut feeling or presumption.
01.06.2021