A digital wealth management platform is providing access to global investment funds through a mobile app targeted at black and minority ethnic communities. The app will open up access to wealth creation opportunities within communities which are overlooked in most wealth management platforms.
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Abby Wallace
18.10.2021
The last year has shown us that synthesised videos are becoming a new media reality. The alternative Christmas speech by Queen Elizabeth and deepfake Tom Cruise TikTok videos generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are vivid examples that such technology has the potential for viral proliferation.
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Anna Bulakh
15.10.2021
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
15.10.2021
Maddyness UK speaks to Duncan Barrigan, chief product officer at GoCardless, about revolutionising the payment collection process, why he believes existing payments systems are broken, and the common errors businesses make when it comes to invoicing.
14.10.2021
A new report titled ‘The State of European GovTech: Key Themes and Plays in the European Govtech Ecosystem’ has been launched by government-focused technology company Public, outlining how startups can best engage in the delivery of public services as needed by the government.
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Maddyness UK
14.10.2021
Until recently, it was hard to imagine PayPal adopting cryptocurrencies. In addition to multiple reports of a crackdown against digital asset users, Bill Harris, the former CEO of the financial giant, called Bitcoin "the greatest scam in history."
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Arina Kulackovska
14.10.2021
The UK has produced 105 unicorns, with 20 reaching a $1B+ valuation in the last 6 months according to Tech Nation and Dealroom. On top of this, VC investment in UK startups almost tripled at $18B in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period last year.
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Simon Philips
13.10.2021
One of the things that we most commonly associate with the world of startups is youth. When we think of startup founders, the classic image that comes to mind is of a twenty-something-year-old in Silicon Valley, dropping out of university to start the next big tech firm. Think Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, for example, who were 19 and 21 respectively when they started Facebook and Apple.
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Georg Westin
13.10.2021
Never before have remote teams existed at the unprecedented scale seen today. This new reality of an entirely dispersed workforce threatens one of the most important principles of an Agile approach: collaboration.
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Bryan Stallings
13.10.2021
Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) has named its annual cohort of the 50 most ambitious, high-growth technology businesses in the UK joining the 2021 Scale Up Club.
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Maddyness UK
13.10.2021
There is no question that the world of work has changed immeasurably over the past 18 months or so. In the shift to remote working, organisations have taken on a plethora of new tools and processes to ensure the smooth running of their businesses.
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Nikolas Kairinos
12.10.2021
Most successful entrepreneurs are driven by a single mantra: “I’ve gotta sell more product.” Taken in the “corporate” context, that sentence can evoke images of faceless companies steamrolling everyone to push a few more units out the door — and into this quarter’s earnings report. But for a smaller startup, selling additional product is more about flexibility than brute force.
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Joe Procopio
12.10.2021
The UK government plans to ease rules for gene-edited (GE) crops in England. GE allows scientists to remove unwanted gene sequences, enabling faster development of new varieties than traditional cross-breeding. GE is a tool that can help in tackling some of the biggest challenges the country faces, said the environment minister, George Eustice.
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Anja Pries
11.10.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we're talking about Facebook's outage, and why pressure for greater regulation of the social media giant is mounting.
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Abby Wallace
11.10.2021
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