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Fintech, or financial technology, has been one of the fastest-growing areas in the startup ecosystem in recent years. However, we’re currently seeing a significant drop-off in funding across all startups, with the fintech sector suffering most of all – fintech funding dropped faster than any other sector in Q1 2023, down 83% from the same period in 2022.
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Ritam Gandhi
09.05.2023
The investment industry has experienced a significant shift in recent years, with the online retail brokerage platforms transforming the ways in which people invest their money.
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Stavros Lambouris
05.05.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Charles McManus, CEO at ClearBank about providing transactional solutions, functioning as a bank and being built on innovation.
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Charles McManus
04.04.2023
The rise of fintech shows that the game of finance is now wide open. Traditional services now find themselves sharing the pool of trust with the newest players in finance - across blockchain, neo-banks, embedded finance, payments and much more…
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Rob Straathof
29.03.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Marcin Walaszczyk, cofounder, CTO & COO of ZIPZERO about reconsidering advertising, communication between consumers and retailers and the cost-of-living crisis.
23.03.2023
Peter Beckman talks us through his company Treyd, who enable retail businesses to sell products before paying for the goods, allowing fast-growing companies to sell more goods, control cashflow, and free up capital for growth. The Swedish company launched in the UK last May.
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Peter Beckman
20.03.2023
In partnership with Maddyness, Launch Mappers – the on demand modular growth marketing team – is back with the third edition of its Future Unicorn report. The report unearths a new selection of 10 European startups in hypergrowth, demonstrating their potential in reaching the unicorn valuation.
14.03.2023
Steven Bartlett and Oliver Yonchev have launched Flight Deck – a new tool that looks at online factors to find out what is influencing investors, and ultimately impacting stocks and crypto price action.
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Maddyess UK
09.03.2023
As a female cofounder, securing funding can be a challenging battle, even in times of strong economic performance. In this article, Edyta Sliwinska, cofounder and CMO at Frost shares insights from her own experience across the past 12 months. On International Women’s Day, Edyta provides tips on how female-led businesses can hurdle gender gaps within the venture capital market and tackle implicit biases to ultimately ensure they receive funding suitable to their business’ needs.
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Edyta Sliwinska
08.03.2023
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 Tom Barltrop, cofounder and CEO of SuperFi.
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Tom Barltrop
22.02.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Amar Kotak, Head of Partnerships at Integrated Finance about the launch of Fintech Foundation, the incubator helping more innovative Fintech startups get to market.
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Amar Kotak
25.01.2023
With Sam Bankman-Fried now released from prison on a record $250M bond to await trial on a slew of fraud charges, collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX enters the next chapter of what will surely become a long-running saga.
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Olliver Barr
17.01.2023
Few people would disagree that 2022 has been a difficult year. In communities across the country, individuals have struggled to fight against the toxic combination of inflation, a weakening pound, as well as the continued fallout from Covid-19 and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Businesses are beginning to feel the pinch too, with the UK’s economy now teetering on the edge of a recession.
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Amy Whitell
28.12.2022
The festive season is crucial for thousands of small businesses in the UK. Many depend on this period to make the vast majority of their sales - and more so this year than ever.
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Ann Juliano
15.12.2022
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