While the financial industry is making greater progress in terms of gender balance in the workforce, women are still underrepresented in the investment sphere. This is often attributed to the lack of inclusivity in their work environment, especially on the trading floor. However, increasing female representation in finance can potentially lead to better risk management and greater economic yield.
07.08.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
07.08.2020
Set to revolutionise the sleep market, Levitex has designed mattresses, pillows and more to tackle back and neck pain using a specific foam technology. Maddyness spoke to James Leinhardt, Founder & CEO to get to know more about the company's story, how they have coped during COVID-19 as a team and to look at their strategy for the future.
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James Leinhardt
07.08.2020
What drives entrepreneurs? Money? Respect? Adoration? For whatever reason, when an entrepreneur goes out with their MVP, ensuring its success in the market can take up a lot of their thinking space over, say, having a considered 360-degree strategy regarding their staffers. That’s not to say founders don’t care, but that laser-focus, and being lean, can make it an added challenge.
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Ella Bowman
06.08.2020
Cypher is the coding school that your kids will love! Learning the language of code is probably the smartest decision you can make as a parent for your child. It is a skillset that when paired with traditional academics will transport them to the future world with a leg up! Remember coding is for everyone, not just for boys!
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Cleo McGee
06.08.2020
August is here, the heatwave is making me dream of the Caribbean and I thought I’d take you there… Today we will talk about treasure, pirates and tough negotiations. And who else than the amazing Jack Sparrow to demonstrate that yes, you can still be efficient while consuming huge amounts of rum. So make yourself a Daikiri or a Mojito and enjoy reading matey.
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Caroline Franczia
06.08.2020
Maddyness caught up with Nikita Tchesnokov, Partner at Gauss Ventures, who has been thinking about the current trends in Fintech in a post COVID-19 world and what we can expect to see in the coming months as the world starts to try and recover from this global pandemic.
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Darren Rebeiro
06.08.2020
Less than a year after TidyChoice launched in 2015, Homejoy and Handy from the US and Helpling from Germany entered the London home cleaning market. Both Handy and Helpling had over $100M venture capital funding whilst Homejoy had around $45M funding. By contrast, we had less than £50,000 marketing budget to bootstrap the business to £1M revenue.
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David Reeson
05.08.2020
Headspace is a worldwide pioneer in mental health, wellbeing and mindfulness and has 65M subscribers across 190 countries. Maddyness spoke with Renate Nyborg, General Manager of Headspace Europe to dig into the future of healthtech and to know more about the company's approach.
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Renate Nyborg
05.08.2020
Giles Corbett and his brother Julian co-founded Ksubaka initially as a new way for brands to advertise to shoppers in stores at mass scale. But working with retailers, they came to understand the need to improve the in-store experience and so shifted their focus to help physical retailers revitalise by providing in-store digital interface products and services.
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Giles Corbett
05.08.2020
It’s one of the most crucial divides in the business world. On one side we have large corporations, faced with the ever-growing shadow of digital transformation. They’re driven to adopt technology and evolve, or face the consequences of being outed by new business models... On the other, we have startups. Young, nimble and innovative, their breakthroughs often hold the answers for established giants. Andrew Humphries tells us more.
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Esat Dedezade
04.08.2020
As we are all very well aware the first hit of COVID-19 or Coronavirus was indeed a shock to the system. Little did we know, or could we grasp the impact that this would have on our mental and physical health, the stress on our families and loved ones, our careers, our friendships, and life as we knew it.
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Cleo McGee
04.08.2020
In order for your business to survive and successfully thrive, it has to grow. Constantly. But most entrepreneurs doom themselves by mistaking a fast metabolism for a steady high-growth diet, here Joe Procopio explains the different rates of growth to help you find your ideal balance.
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Joe Procopio
04.08.2020
No more new starter lunches, team drinks or bonding over coworking ping-pong tables, the London tech startup scene is dramatically different in 2020. We interviewed seasoned entrepreneur Sian Morley-Smith about how to grow your team in a pandemic and the changes she’s made to hiring and training for the 10 new team members joining ToucanTech during COVID-19.
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Sian Morley-Smith
04.08.2020
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