A food supply crisis lies behind the headlines this summer of record high temperatures, wild fires and water shortages. Farmers in the UK are seeing two-thirds of the rainfall they normally would in the driest summer since 1976 and Europe is baking. The way we currently feed ourselves isn’t just killing the planet, it’s killing us too and we only have ourselves to blame.
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Daniel Waterhouse
18.08.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Max Rofagha, founder of Finimize about democratising the unnecessarily complex and overwhelming world of investment information, building a community and acquisition by global investment company abrdn.
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Max Rofagha
18.08.2022
Cryptocurrency has a reputation for being a complex field that attracts younger, potentially more impulsive investors. With the likes of Bitcoin losing over 50% of its value in a matter of months, it is more important than ever that trading platforms use education to empower their users to navigate such a volatile market.
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Joe Jowett
17.08.2022
The world of work is changing, with a preference toward remote teams, asynchronous timetables, and diversity of work force over in person, timetabled, and supervised work. Technology has had a significant part to play in this development, but, Tariq Rauf, founder of work hub platform Qatalog, believes that what has been achieved by technological development is only a fraction of what it can actually achieve.
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Jamie Walker
17.08.2022
So, you've started your own business. You have an amazing business idea that you're excited and passionate about, and that's still in the early stages, but you know it's going to take off. But there's one thing you need to take your business to the next level – investment. Funding a new business is one of the hardest challenges to tackle as a startup founder.
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Jordan Bishop
16.08.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Robin Saluoks, cofounder and CEO of eAgronom about putting sustainability at the heart of your business and the global shift towards net-zero by making carbon-neutral farming profitable.
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Robin Saluoks
16.08.2022
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 speak to Reece Chowdhry, founding partner at Concept Ventures.
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Reece Chowdhry
15.08.2022
Two British challenger companies are taking on the mission to help convert businesses to EVs whilst also measuring their sustainability impact, ahead of the 2030 UK ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles.
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Maddyness UK
15.08.2022
In huge news for students and workers across the UK, a four-day week is being trialled by a number of leading companies. Should it be successful, we may see many other businesses adopt it and it could eventually become the standard working week.
13.08.2022
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
12.08.2022
At the London Law Collective, we provide entrepreneurs and startups with quality legal advice. As such, we are well aware of the common errors that they make, both legal and non-legal, and which often drive them to seek our support.
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Tim Herbert
11.08.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Edward Cahill, CEO of ONBORD, about all-in-one onboarding, combining anti-fraud checks, with credit decisioning and regulatory compliance screening, allowing you to truly know your customer through the power of AI and big data.
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Edward Cahill
11.08.2022
Money is intricately entwined with almost every aspect of adulthood, from deciding on a career, a credit card, a car loan, a mortgage and investment options to starting a business, getting married, having kids and retiring comfortably.
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Marilyn Pinto
11.08.2022
Buy now, pay later is a method of payment with instalments at a small or interest-free rate. The payment method sky-rocketed in 2020. But why? The COVID-19 pandemic. The global crisis created job insecurity, with people seeking alternative means to sourcing income. However, the paradox lies in the fact that people flooded to shopping online and relying on ecommerce because of closed brick and mortar establishments.
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Alex Antonov
10.08.2022
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