With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today, we speak to Janneke Niessen, founding partner at CapitalT.
08.07.2024
Who can resist it? The temptation to drop everything you’re working on in order to fulfil another task you’ve literally just remembered. Sure, you’re in the middle of doing something else – but what about that email you totally forgot to reply to? In the moment, this new task takes priority, especially when you’re worried you’ll only forget again otherwise.
08.07.2024
There are changes happening in the VC landscape in France, new funds are emerging and investment in impact led startups continues to grow. Noa Khamallah is one of the investors driving this change, and in this piece he shares the story of another game-changer, Mamadou Dembele - investor, content creator and impact maker.
08.07.2024
Podcasting has emerged as a powerful tool for business growth, offering unique opportunities to engage with your audience, establish authority, and drive brand awareness.
06.07.2024
BORRN, a fresh and innovative approach to startup support and collaboration, announces latest venture with hoper, Greece's first scheduled helicopter airline.
05.07.2024
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
05.07.2024
It’s time to stop focusing on the AI takeover of human expertise in business development and distribution. There is a thesis du jour that from the rise of AI and automation will soon emerge relatively autonomous, billion dollar companies operated by a single individual. While this thought is captivating, we believe this is fundamentally unrealistic as it underestimates the complexity of business operations - such as business development and distribution - that extend beyond the capabilities of AI, and still requires human nuance and expertise.
05.07.2024
The 25th Franco-British Business Awards will celebrate the outstanding achievements of French and British companies on both sides of the Channel.
04.07.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Karolina Löfqvist and Jasmine Tagesson of Hormona about hormonal imbalances, empowering women and how only 2% of global medical funding goes towards researching issues specific to women.
04.07.2024
Did you know that girls often outperform boys in digital literacy in school, but only half as many women as men are graduating in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in the EU? It might sound a bit bonkers, but it’s true. The question is: Why?
04.07.2024
Paul Graham, Y-Combinator’s founder, excels at simplicity. His essays are crisp, his sentences are short and his ideas are clear. A visit to YC’s FAQ page shows that his ethos irrigated the institution he created. Answers are crisp, sentences are short and ideas are clear. Despite the diversity of startups it deals with, YC seems obsessed with simplifying how it accompanies them.
03.07.2024
In 2023, Ali Baba, one of Nigeria’s veteran comedians, nearly broke the internet when he shared that popular Nigerian skit-maker, Mark Angel earned over $300,000 monthly from his YouTube videos. The 32-year-old creator, became an internet sensation in 2016 when skits of antics with his little cousin Emmanuella started going viral.
03.07.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Slava Kremerman, cofounder and CEO of Zen Educate about harnessing technology to solve the workforce challenges faced by schools, recent investment and the desire to win.
03.07.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Julian Lübke & Philipp Hoffmann, cofounders of deeploi about revolutionising suboptimal IT setups with "IT-as-a-Service", learning from fundraising and letting founders focus on their actual jobs.
03.07.2024