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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
For most of us, starting out on our financial journey as an adult isn’t easy. And for Millennials and Gen Zs today, learning to budget with limited disposable income can feel like a fruitless exercise.
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Anita Woods
24.11.2022
As part of a series with Google for Startups Black Founders Fund, Maddyness spoke to Maurice Iwunze, CEO at SympliFi about funding, plans for the future and their advice for other founders. You will meet several of the forty-strong Google cohort through this series of QFQs, which aims to amplify the voices and missions of Black Founders. We have chosen to highlight Black Founders whose business’ exist in a variety of sectors and regions, exemplifying the full breadth of the UK tech sector.
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Maurice Iwunze
18.11.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Tom Sichel and Adam Greenberg, cofounders of Nova Finance about DeFi, crypto assets, giving access to powerful financial tools previously reserved for the wealthy and the Nova token.
09.11.2022
From the consumer’s perspective, checkout finance and credit cards fulfil more-or-less the same function. They both allow the consumer to purchase an item through a short-term loan, which is repaid through monthly instalments.
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Todd Latham
28.10.2022
Fintech Moss recently set up shop in the UK. Max Lunn caught up with their CFO, Christian Müller, to ask about the move, their platform and what big corporates can learn from SMEs.
13.10.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Shruti Rai, cofounder and chief growth officer at Novus, about the power of people to transform the world, growing a remote team and building a super app for the conscious consumer.
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Shruti Rai
20.09.2022
The UK is one of the world’s leading adopters of Open Banking solutions, and yet, some of the nation’s leading fintech experts openly criticise the technology as a flop. The perceived successes, or failures, of the Open Banking concept largely depend on who you ask. However, what is clear, is that the technology has reached a point of inflection, with many innovators ready to redefine its role within financial services.
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Lili Metodieva
14.09.2022
Exuding entrepreneurial spirit, Joe Dalton is the CEO of marine finance startup SALT. A self-confessed people person with an upbeat attitude, his equal levels of integrity, ambition and confidence are in part due to his well-travelled childhood as the eldest of six siblings, combined with a deep-rooted belief in his desire to achieve.
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Joe Dalton
20.08.2022
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