Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
05.02.2021
The sports world has taken a hit over the past 12 months, but avid fans show no signs of abating. Steve Madincea is cofounder and managing partner at Fantastec SWAP, an app bringing fans together over a mutual love of digital sports collectibles.
05.02.2021
Would incentivised saving encourage you to stash more money away for a rainy day? With UK households performing poorly when it comes to saving money, a new app launched in the UK hopes to turn this around.
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Kirstie Pickering
05.02.2021
According to reports from small business support services, we will see record numbers of new startups in 2021. But as we enter a post-COVID-19 era, how will these new businesses differ from startups that launched two years ago?
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David Howell
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04.02.2021
London-based Vamstar is creating the world's first AI powered B2B healthcare marketplace. Today, the company announced a £1.25M seed funding led by btov with participation from Antler and Begin Capital.
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04.02.2021
“I could work 24/7 doing PR campaigns, talking to journalists and getting my clients featured in the media. I love what I do”, says Rafael dos Santos, founder of GuidedPR. What’s his secret, and how does his firm GuidedPR offer mutual benefits for journalists and founders?
04.02.2021
Scotland is one of the UK’s booming tech hubs, raising a total £345M in venture capital funding in 2020. The job market has soared as a consequence, with 31% of all vacancies in Edinburgh being in tech or IT-related.
03.02.2021
The cryptocurrency world can feel difficult to grasp. However, if you bottle it into a collection of securities that can be traded like stock on exchanges, you have a solution that investors are already accustomed to.
03.02.2021
2020 will be remembered as a gloomy year. As fate would have it, the world suffered the worst viral and cyber pandemics in history simultaneously. As the new COVID-19 started to kill millions of people across the world, a breach on IT firm SolarWinds (also known as Solorigate) started a supply-chain attack of an unprecedented magnitude, affecting thousands of organisations, including the Pentagon, the White House, the US army, US departments of Treasury, Commerce and Energy, IT giants like Microsoft, Cisco, Deloitte, Intel…
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Julia O'Toole
03.02.2021
Buoyed up by investment, UK Oil & Gas is seeking planning permission to drill for oil on the Isle of Wight. But what is the company behind the ‘Gatwick Gusher’ really looking for, and will its shareholders ever cash in?
03.02.2021
The events of the past 12 months have created unwanted distance and separation for most. School trips and overseas homestays have inevitably been hit, creating a missed opportunity for children to experience new cultures.
03.02.2021
For anyone working in the innovation ecosystem, the big question is always: what’s the next big thing? Needless to say that in 2021, the sanitary crisis will continue to be a major influencing factor in technology developments and business trends.
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Gene Gerrienne
02.02.2021
We know by now that when we use apps, our data is up for grabs. Thanks to Apple’s new privacy labels, we know exactly what data each app collects, from name, age and address, to weight or sexual activity.
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Maddyness UK
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02.02.2021
In my long career as an entrepreneur, I can definitely say I’ve lost more times than I’ve won. Not in the way you might think. In terms of outcomes, I’m batting well over 50%. But to get there, I’ve had to take a lot of Ls — from losing deals, to losing position, to losing face. How do entrepreneurs deal with all of that losing? I mean, besides alcohol.
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Joe Procopio
02.02.2021
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