The Super Connect for Good competition powered by Empact Ventures and Hays returned earlier this year for a third year. The competition features tech startups and scaleups that bring positive social change and impact people’s lives through technology.
09.11.2022
The new report from Startup Genome looks at the current state of startup activity and related investment in the blue economy.
08.11.2022
Come and get your toes wet! From goldfish to megladons, TANQ is the future of interactive virtual worlds where fully featured species explore and engage with a complex world of oceanic splendour. The Aquaverse is a subterranean playground, where gamers and collectors build environments of unlimited creativity and their collections live, learn and play together.
07.11.2022
Maddyness reflects on GITEX 2022, an event that, according to Trixie LohMirmand, Executive Vice President Dubai World Trade Centre set “Record scale across all measures for an event in a desert”. From flying cars to launching in new markets, GITEX has the startup world enthralled
03.11.2022
The 12 week investment acceleration programme has chosen to support 13 high growth impact companies looking to raise capital. The program aims to back the bright ideas that put biodiversity, the climate, and sustainability first.
01.11.2022
As the information war rages in Ukraine, volunteers have become crucial to its collective effort. Ukrainian tech businesses therefore need to be able to offer flexible working conditions to make such volunteering possible. We profile one such business, as well as detailing some of the more notable aspects of the info war.
26.10.2022
The game publisher, responsible for the world's most downloaded mobile game, has raised its Series B and also gone through a rebrand. Maddyness caught up with co-founder Daniel Nathan for an interview.
20.10.2022
GITEX GLOBAL got off to a strong start on October 10 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, with impressive speakers tackling AI, the metaverse and beyond. GITEX GLOBAL’s 42nd edition made clear to visitors what locals have known since before the pandemic: Dubai is the jewel in the Arab tech world’s crown.
19.10.2022
Pioneers in the metaverse explored the rich opportunities in the emerging virtual universe on the second day of GITEX GLOBAL 2022. Diverse industries from gaming, retail, fashion and sports are looking to explore an increasingly vast and rich virtual ecosystem in Web 3.0, with Dubai Metaverse Strategy envisioning more than 40,000 new virtual jobs by 2030 in the Emirate.
18.10.2022
GITEX GLOBAL has announced that it will be embarking on a new journey into Africa - the world’s next biggest digital economy - leveraging its ability to forge connections between tech innovators, governments, startups, investors and global innovation hubs, to accelerate, collaborate, and explore new ventures in the world’s rising tech continent.
17.10.2022
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
14.10.2022
With the much-debated and long-anticipated Ethereum Merge having finally come to pass, decisively altering the digital machinery at the core of the world's second-largest cryptocurrency infrastructure, already it become a periodic divide in the history of cryptocurrency and digital assets. Developers and commentators are already referring to events taking place either Pre- or Post-Merge.
13.10.2022
The music legend is the latest entertainer using the metaverse to create novel experiences for fans. The David Guetta Experience enables players to save the future of music in a rhythm-action gameplay.
10.10.2022
For its second fund, Ada Ventures will zero in on ‘breakthrough ideas’: focusing on climate, healthcare and ageing, as well as economic empowerment. The early stage VC firm says it aims to solve society’s biggest problems, and this second fund is testament to its LP’s belief in its unique scout network that uncovers the hidden talent that will build the next generation of global companies.
06.10.2022