If you’ve ever been asked to make a presentation or pitch, you’ll be familiar with the visceral feeling that sweeps through your body and mind at the thought of it. Racing heartbeat, sweaty palms, butterflies in your stomach, mind racing at the sheer horror of it. No wonder that, for a fleeting moment, peaceful oblivion feels more appealing.
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Louisa Clarke
17.06.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Finn Stevenson, CEO and co-founder at Flok Health about professional sport, back pain and becoming the UK’s first AI-powered physiotherapy clinic.
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Finn Stevenson
15.06.2024
Becoming an entrepreneur can be freeing if you’ve been caught in the rat race for a few years, but have the desire to start your own business. You don’t need to tell HR when you want to go on holiday when you work for yourself and can set your own working hours based on a schedule that suits you.
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Indiana Lee
15.06.2024
Jaron Soh cofounder of VODA, the LGBTQIA+ mental health app designed by leading LGBTQIA+ therapists, shares how his coming out story is also his founding story. VODA just raised a £270K pre-seed round with intersectional investors including Freiraum Ventures, ULTRA VC and Gaingels. VODA was recognised as “Most Inclusive Innovation” by PinkNews (2023), Attitude 101 Trailblazers (2024) and was featured by Google Play’s Pride Campaign last summer.
14.06.2024
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
14.06.2024
The generative AI boom is set to accelerate digital transformation throughout a range of industries and breathe fresh life into a banking ecosystem that still struggles with overcoming legacy processes. With payments already a focal point for challenger banks and fintechs, GenAI can help to deliver efficiency on a broader scale.
14.06.2024
From wildfire prediction technologies, to biodegradable single-use diapers, climate entrepreneurs are increasingly holding the answers to our collective climate challenges. What could you contribute?
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Charlotte Tucker
13.06.2024
At HOLYWATER, we’ve found a way to speed up content production by 10 times using AI, cutting the scriptwriting process from a month to just 10 days. This doesn’t just help us move faster. It lets us focus more on creativity while AI handles the routine stuff.
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Bogdan Nesvit
13.06.2024
What’s the hardest thing about creating a new product? It’s one of the many questions founders have. To gather some views, Adam recently posted a Twitter poll to his 140,000 followers. Twenty-four hours later, we had the results.
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Emily Kucharski
13.06.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Antoine Rostand, President & Co-founder of Kayrros, about satellite imagery, transitioning to a lower-carbon economy and excellence.
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Antoine Rostand
13.06.2024
In the ever-accelerating race to automate customer service interactions, companies risk overlooking a vital component: empathy. While adding AI promises efficiency and scalability, it may inadvertently widen the chasm between the support customers desire and what companies actually deliver.
12.06.2024
Creating a startup is always challenging. Founding one during a tech downturn, cost of living crisis and recession seems near impossible. However, with risk comes reward and many of the world’s most successful companies were founded during times of economic uncertainty. As part of a series with Antler, Maddyness has interviewed founders hoping to become the entrepreneurial success stories to emerge from this time of crisis. This week, Maddyness spoke to Ewa Moskwiak, cofounder of PlanningHub.
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Ewa Moskwiak
12.06.2024
New technologies are arriving thick and fast in the education sector, switching up the conventional dynamic between student, teacher and classroom.
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James McGowan
12.06.2024
Brite Payments recently announced a $60M raise. Maddyness heard from Dawn Capital’s General Partner, Josh Bell and Brite’s CEO and founder Lena Hackelöer to learn what really happens in the build-up to a deal of this size and what modern day funding truly looks like.
11.06.2024
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