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As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Meeri Savolainen, cofounder and CEO of INZMO on pivoting the business, the burden of rental deposits and the importance of creating a seamless and user-friendly customer experience.
06.07.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Melanie Vala, Chief Commercial Officer at Deko about checkout finance, improving customers’ ecommerce journeys and keeping the startup mindset after a decade in the industry.
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Melanie Vala
28.06.2023
Fintech investment in the capital recently plummeted. Yet despite the doom and gloom, Andzejevski sat down with us to explain why the slump is actually a blessing in disguise. He is confident it will force fintech startups to grow organically, and become less reliant on venture capital firms for funding.
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Rafal Andzejevski
21.06.2023
Last month, the Together Through This Crisis initiative published a worrying piece of research that revealed nearly 40% of people in the UK end the month with no money left. That same report found that most months, nearly a quarter of Britons now also run out of money for everyday essentials. The harrowing information compounds further research from the Office for National Statistics, which recently found that more than half of renters would be unable to afford an unexpected £850 bill.
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Pawel Oltuszyk
13.06.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Maysam Rizvi, CEO and founder of Elifinty about helping businesses improve how they engage with their borrowers, and creating a better way to manage debt.
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Maysam Rizvi
06.06.2023
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Jesse Hemson-Struthers, CEO and cofounder of BVNK about experimenting with crypto, rapid global expansion and a hunger for uncovering efficiency gains.
13.05.2023
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
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