Stephanie Opdam, Principal at Notion Capital, discusses why she sees Amsterdam as a city with a lot of potential, the impact of higher interest rates on the VC market, and the importance of targeting sleepy incumbents with software solutions.
17.04.2023
In this post, we will look at several recruiting trends for 2023. By looking at the trends below we can see where recruiting is headed to in the next few years.
15.04.2023
At Maddyness, we have recently launched our job board to connect the right people with the right roles. To shed some light on what these roles mean, we’re talking to professionals at the coalface. This week, we did something a bit different and talked to Matthew Sarre, founder of Jumpstart, who ‘flip the job hunt on its head by getting the best startups to pitch their roles to great candidates’.
14.04.2023
Over recent years, the healthcare sector has focused on transforming the patient experience and helping providers evolve and grow through digitisation. While some of these advances were already in the works, external influences also had an impact, forcing the industry to move faster than expected. Healthcare responded well to a new wave of digital demands, adapting and reimagining its offering to create positive change across the board.
14.04.2023
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
14.04.2023
It’s been three years since Covid threw the world into turmoil and since then we have faced a series of further economic, environmental and political shocks that have tested our businesses’ resilience.
13.04.2023
You’re looking for talent. But here’s the paradox: despite the daily reports of layoffs, there still seems to be a dire shortage of the right people. One way employers are responding is to make their jobs more aligned with contemporary lifestyle choices by offering remote and flexible working options.
13.04.2023
In today’s fast-paced business and investment world, scalability, adaptability, and transformation are critical factors for success. Investors actively seek clarity from prospective portfolio companies on their business capabilities, the technology architecture that enables them, and a value creation roadmap for implementation in order to realise growth potential.
12.04.2023
With courts popping up around the country in the past few years, Padel has caught the eye of investors and notable athletes including David Beckham and Andy Murray. So how did a racquet sport become the next big investment opportunity?
12.04.2023
Artificial though it may well be, ChatGPT sure is intelligent — some argue that we’re just a couple of updates away from the chatbot replacing the lot of us. Since its public release back in November of last year, anyone with an internet connection has been able to jump on and chew the fat with OpenAI’s intelligent language-processing model, which now enjoys the traffic of over 100 million active users.
11.04.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Hugo Kimber, founder and CEO of Carbon Responsible about the commercial case for CO2 reduction, keeping up with regulatory changes and understanding what a corporate journey to Net Zero entails.
11.04.2023
With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we spoke to Kanira Shah, Investment Principal at Astanor.
10.04.2023
Mergers and acquisitions are the only sure fire way I know to double the size of your business in an afternoon. By selling companies you can create meaningful wealth that gives you choices in life, that allows you to go where you want, with whom you want, and do the things you want.
10.04.2023
Do you want to improve your organisation’s productivity? Turns out the answer was staring us right in the face for so long. Improve workforce diversity.
08.04.2023