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 interview Nic Brisbourne Managing Partner at Forward Partners.
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Nic Brisbourne
10.05.2021
Potentially dangerous particles leach from disposable plastic face masks (DPFs) when exposed to water, a Swansea University study reports. Researchers examined seven DPF brands, ranging from standard plain masks to novelty children’s masks. All were found to contain significant levels of pollutants, including lead, antimony and copper.
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Nicola Watts
10.05.2021
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd, revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
08.05.2021
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
07.05.2021
Acumen Business Law has teamed up with Creative Pod to help small businesses looking to rebuild post-COVID.
07.05.2021
Caroline Franczia, founder of Uppercut-First, looks to Fight Club’s Tyler Durden to teach readers how to finesse their meetings.
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Caroline Franczia
07.05.2021
As Silicon Valley has fostered innovative startups in the U.S., in Korea there is Gangnam Startup Valley. It is a startup cluster located in Gangnam, Seoul, where startups and VCs are concentrated the most, and is mainly led by TIPS Town.
07.05.2021
Two and a half million British people are expected to be unemployed this year after the fall out of the pandemic. The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is more than twice those who are able bodied.
06.05.2021
The impact that Brexit will have on attracting talent to the UK’s scaling tech businesses has been a primary area of concern as companies adjust to life outside of the European Union (EU).
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Richard Leslie
06.05.2021
Maddyness UK has teamed up with SeedLegals for a new conversation series that will tackle a different issue faced by startups and scaleups in each episode.
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Kirstie Pickering
06.05.2021
Maddyness is partnering with environmental publication Ours to Save to bring readers fresh perspectives on sustainability. Today, we look into how Kristine Tompkins and her team are rewilding ecosystems in Chile and Argentina.
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Ellie Roxburgh
06.05.2021
The tracking cookie is withering away, leaving an increasingly cookieless world in its wake. These tiny text files empower advertisers with myriad data on the online consumers they intend to reach. However, they also violate privacy standards that have continually grown tighter and more respectful toward individual users. In a privacy-centric world where advertisers seek to maintain the upper hand on consumer insight, how can we move on from the cookie?
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Spencer Cowley
05.05.2021
Rosa Lina Swaby is a Data & Analytics PM at Microsoft for the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud team. She recently joined Microsoft and before that she was working as a front-end engineer at American Express on the Customer HomePage team for around 2 years. She is currently based in NYC and is a 2018 NYU Computer Science Graduate. When she is not working, she loves to cook and find new rom-coms to watch.
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Rosa Lina Swaby
05.05.2021
Have you tried to book a UK holiday for this summer? With certainty on overseas holidays being allowed still unclear, more people than ever before are using their annual leave to stay on home soil and explore what the country has to offer.
04.05.2021
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