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
18.06.2021
A report published by Pivotal last month found that Northern Ireland’s ‘Brain Drain,’ or the number of young people travelling abroad for employment or education, is still increasing. 17,500 students from Northern Ireland are registered in universities in England, Scotland and Wales, two thirds of which are unlikely to return after they graduate.
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Abby Wallace
18.06.2021
The UK tech sector is growing fast, but a representation and investment gap remains for minority groups. Tech Nation is hoping to combat unequal representation in UK tech with its Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit.
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Abby Wallace
18.06.2021
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.
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Abby Wallace
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.
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Patrick McGrath
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?
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Simon Lovick
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17.06.2021
Sold! Bidder pays $28M for spare seat on space flight with Jeff Bezos. Bids in 10-minute auction started at $4.8M for 20 July trip on Blue Origin spacecraft with Bezos and his brother. The auction winner will join the Bezos brothers in a Blue Origin capsule for the flight next month.
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January Barnes
16.06.2021
Since 2015, the OVHcloud Startup Program has facilitated the growth of over 2,000 startups and scaleups. Maddyness interviews participating founders, today we speak to Marcin Kierdelewicz, founder of BIAMI.IO.
16.06.2021
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.
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Tom Fairey
16.06.2021
Take a few minutes to think about what you’re selling. The tech behind your product is probably pretty slick. But you’re probably selling that technology, and that needs to change.
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Joe Procopio
15.06.2021
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.
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Abby Wallace
15.06.2021
A decade ago, I remember reading about the warnings of stagnation. Great civilisations that last for millennia come to an end when they lose their drive to improve. It is not a foreign invader that destroys them but their own complacence.
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Alex Miller
14.06.2021
Burger King will donate to the Human Rights Campaign for every Ch’King sandwich it sells in the US during the Pride month of June, in a move that appears linked to rival restaurant chain Chick-fil-A whose CEO Dan Cathy is alleged to have made donations to groups opposing LGBTQ+ rights. The proposed Equality Act in the US would expand the country’s civil rights protections to LGBTQ+ people but it is opposed by the National Christian Charitable Foundation, which Cathy supports.
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Sara Trett
14.06.2021
If you've decided it's time to open up the business you've wanted since high school, there's probably just one thing stopping you, the money. Most people will tell you to stop worrying and apply for a loan. But you should know it's not that easy. The procedure of applying for a loan is complicated and unpredictable and often ends with your request getting denied.
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Kelly Richards
11.06.2021
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