Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
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David Johnson
14.02.2025
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) have been at the forefront of corporate conversations for years, yet progress remains slow and, in some cases, performative. While companies are more vocal about their commitments, the reality on the ground doesn’t always match the rhetoric. Many businesses have taken steps forward, but are we actually creating lasting change, or are we still stuck in cycles of tokenism and box-ticking?
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Darren Rebeiro
13.02.2025
“I spent 10 years making my first film and it was awful. I cried every day on set”, admits Alastair Siddons. The BAFTA-nominated filmmaker has just released his psychological teleshopping parody Up The Catalogue, but was determined to make it differently to spark change within the industry.
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David Johnson
13.02.2025
Operating in an ever-competitive and fast-paced business environment, companies are continually seeking ways to grow, innovate and set themselves apart.
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Simon Peet
12.02.2025
Exploring new frontiers, pushing boundaries, discovering new worlds. Welcome to AI. There are no rules here. Rules are boring; they limit ingenuity and progress. The UK Government has said they want a “pro-innovation” approach, avoiding legislation and regulation to encourage growth, and Trump has already abolished the Biden-era AI Safety Executive Order. Hop on for the ride.
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David Sully
12.02.2025
Top UK and French leaders in artificial intelligence converged to share their visions for leveraging AI as a catalyst for growing the economy, driving innovation and building a more inclusive society.
11.02.2025
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Giselle Boxer, founder of East Healing about the possibilities of healing, getting investment from a Dragon and bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern life.
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Giselle Boxer
11.02.2025
ULTRA.VC, an EU-based impact accelerator and early-stage investor, has gathered insights from its community and identified key startup ecosystem trends for 2025. AI-driven apps, tools and products are expected to be at the forefront of developments in 2025.
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Eugene Valuev
11.02.2025
It has been a choppy few years for those working in fintech and the wider financial services sector. Redundancies have cut headcount across a swathe of companies and organisations. In 2023, PayPal, Coinbase, N26, GoCardless and Synapse were just some of the companies which slashed jobs.
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Kirstie McDermott
11.02.2025
On February 10 and 11, Paris will host an international summit on artificial intelligence. With this major event, France and Europe aim to position themselves as competitors to the United States and China. Here's the complete guide to make sure you don't miss a thing.
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Maxence Fabrion
10.02.2025
2024 was the year LLMs (large language models) went mainstream. Now in early 2025 and turbo-charged by the recent launch of Deepseek with its performance-on-a-shoestring claims and low cost pricing, there’s a debate about the long-term defensibility and even necessity of these massive and expensive models.
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Mikael Johnsson
10.02.2025
I dropped out of school at 16 due to poor mental health and a desperate lack of fulfilment. I remember being sat in the school’s careers office being told - in no uncertain terms - that without higher education, I would never make it in life. “Fine”, I thought, “there are more important things than success to me right now”, and what I meant by that was survival.
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Lea Turner
08.02.2025
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
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David Johnson
07.02.2025
Satellite junk could threaten space exploration. We spoke with ClearSpace founder Luc Piguet about how to prevent a global disaster.
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Karin Killander
07.02.2025
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