The renowned pair, who also founded Code First: Girls, reveal the secrets to becoming a successful founder: from initial idea conception to finding your ‘Founder Edge’ and raising your first funds.
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Maddyness UK
24.08.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Nick Woolley, CEO and cofounder of ev.energy, about electric vehicles as batteries, rewarding EV users, and the EV market as the new Wild West.
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Nick Woolley
24.08.2022
The VC-funded tech ecosystem has enjoyed a period of rapid growth as people’s belief in the transformative potential of digital startups has fuelled an explosion of innovation. In a low interest rate environment, there’s been no shortage of capital seeking a place on startup term sheets in search of a return (when it’s been difficult to do so in more traditional asset classes).
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Neel Pandya
24.08.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Huib Van Bockel, founder and CEO of TENZING about his choice to make a positive impact, climbing Everest, the power of nature and plans for a TENZING festival in the future.
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Huib Van Bockel
23.08.2022
The European accelerator EIT Digital is launching the 9th edition of its EIT Digital Challenge, the first competition for digital DeepTech scale-ups in Europe and a veritable springboard for developing companies. Applications close on September 19th, 2022.
23.08.2022
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With #QVCS Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today we speak to Přemysl Rubeš, founder and managing partner of Presto Ventures.
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Přemysl Rubeš
22.08.2022
The cross-European hackathon, organised by Sigma Software partnering with Tech Nation, will unite developers and experts from The UK, Sweden, Portugal, Poland, and Ukraine.
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Maddyness UK
22.08.2022
It’s widely documented that entrepreneurship is fraught with challenges. Even the most seasoned of entrepreneurs have tackled many obstacles over their career. It is the lessons that these challenges provide which set you up for future success. These learning opportunities can be even further enriched by consulting entrepreneurs who have overcome similar hurdles.
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Maddyness UK
21.08.2022
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
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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Maddyness UK
19.08.2022
A food supply crisis lies behind the headlines this summer of record high temperatures, wild fires and water shortages. Farmers in the UK are seeing two-thirds of the rainfall they normally would in the driest summer since 1976 and Europe is baking. The way we currently feed ourselves isn’t just killing the planet, it’s killing us too and we only have ourselves to blame.
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Daniel Waterhouse
18.08.2022
As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Max Rofagha, founder of Finimize about democratising the unnecessarily complex and overwhelming world of investment information, building a community and acquisition by global investment company abrdn.
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Max Rofagha
18.08.2022
Cryptocurrency has a reputation for being a complex field that attracts younger, potentially more impulsive investors. With the likes of Bitcoin losing over 50% of its value in a matter of months, it is more important than ever that trading platforms use education to empower their users to navigate such a volatile market.
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Joe Jowett
17.08.2022
The world of work is changing, with a preference toward remote teams, asynchronous timetables, and diversity of work force over in person, timetabled, and supervised work. Technology has had a significant part to play in this development, but, Tariq Rauf, founder of work hub platform Qatalog, believes that what has been achieved by technological development is only a fraction of what it can actually achieve.
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Jamie Walker
17.08.2022
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