This year Amazon UK turned to Growth Studio to implement their national innovation programme AIA (Amazon Innovation Accelerator) across the UK.
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Rayan Jawad
19.03.2025
Europe is making its most ambitious move yet in the artificial intelligence race. With the InvestAI initiative—a €200B funding push aimed at positioning the continent as a global AI powerhouse—the European Union is attempting to challenge the United States and China. But can a financial injection of this scale really close the gap and give Europe a competitive edge in the age of AI?
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David Johnson
19.03.2025
The French insurtech Dalma has completed a €20M Series B funding round. This new investment round marks the entry of Bpifrance Digital Venture and Breega, Dalma's first French investors.
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Aurelie Pasquier
18.03.2025
Startup ecosystems thrive when talent, capital, and support align, but success demands more. From Silicon Valley to Dubai, the most dynamic hubs combine bold ideas, strategic investment, and a culture that embraces risk. Gianna Pinasco, Senior Programme Manager at Metta explores how understanding these ingredients is key to building lasting innovation.
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Gianna Pinasco
18.03.2025
Startup founders are often celebrated for their grit and resilience. They navigate uncertainty, fight for funding, and push innovation forward usually with little sleep, no safety net, and the weight of their business and employees on their shoulders. Yet, behind the glossy narratives of funding rounds and scale-up successes, there is a mental health crisis brewing.
18.03.2025
On April 25, 2025, Cornwall will host the next edition of the Interceltic Business Forum, bringing together business leaders, policymakers, and entrepreneurs from across the Celtic nations. This forum has become a key platform for fostering trade, investment, and collaboration between businesses in regions with shared cultural and economic ties.
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David Johnson
17.03.2025
Mirakl has unveiled its financial results for 2024 and is looking ahead. In 2025, the French unicorn plans to double down on artificial intelligence.
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Maxence Fabrion
17.03.2025
With #QVCs, Maddyness UK profiles different organisations to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. This week, we speak to Carlos Alberto Silva and Carlos Moreira da Silva, Managing Partners at 33N Ventures.
17.03.2025
Let’s be real: pitching is brutal. You pour your soul into a startup. It becomes your 4 AM wake-up call, your all-consuming obsession, the thing you love so much that when the time comes to sell it—really sell it—you choke. Not because you don’t believe in it, but because you believe too much.
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Mathilde Bacholle
14.03.2025
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
14.03.2025
As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Andriy Dovbenko, Founder and Principal of UK-Ukraine TechExchange about how necessity leads to technological innovation, strengthening commercial ties between the UK and Ukrainian defence sectors and the need to de-mine Ukraine.
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Andriy Dovbenko
14.03.2025
Last month, I got a new job. Except this didn’t come with the standard trappings of a fresh role - no new colleagues, changed commute, nor complicated coffee machine to contend with. Instead, I was taking on a new position in the organisation I co-founded and have helped lead for nearly a decade.
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Dr Jing Ouyang
13.03.2025
In a turbulent economic landscape for startups, building trust is more important than ever. What is AI sovereignty and how can it help? Maddyness UK investigates.
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13.03.2025
HMRC’s R&D relief scheme exists to support fast-growing tech businesses, promote innovation among them, and ultimately make a significant contribution to the UK economy and GDP. However, the process has become more complex over time, with HMRC bringing in increasingly stringent rules and regulations to ensure the scheme is used correctly.
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Hari Sandhu
13.03.2025
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