The Black Lives Matter movement has pushed facial recognition technology into the spotlight once more, with privacy concerns being overshadowed by a remerged focus on its inherent bias. Nick Finegold, Founder & CEO of Curation explores the situation and the actions of tech giants.
22.06.2020
Of the 2,871 areas in the UK, Islington comes out on top as the number one hotspot for new startups with 18,590 new businesses created there in the last year.
22.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
20.06.2020
Founded by Charlotte McMillan, Storychest is a digital scrapbook app that allows people of all ages to record their unique and powerful personal stories by writing about what, is, and has, happened throughout their lives and their aspirations and dreams for the future.
20.06.2020
Slush and the European startup ecosystem have joined forces to redefine entrepreneurship. Based on Slush whitepaper’s findings, future European success stories will be driven by diverse teams, purpose-driven businesses, and revolutionary innovation through collaboration. Here's a recap of the whitepaper.
19.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup scene. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
19.06.2020
Maddyness provides you with a quick digest of three news items to keep you up to date with the startup scene, emerging trends and other noteworthy stories.
19.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week we look at how the pandemic has impacted the job market.
19.06.2020
London and New York-based e-commerce platform provider Localised has raised £5.1M from BGF and Peter Jones to expand its activity across Europe, Americas, the Middle East and the rest of Asia, and to boost its global pricing syndication and CRM.
18.06.2020
With large and small events around the world being cancelled due to the public health crisis there are lots of questions across many industries, none more so than the industries involved with organising and running events. How badly will the events and hospitality sector be affected? Can all events be recreated virtually? These questions were addressed in a Maddyness Masterclass.
18.06.2020
Whilst every day we are venturing into the unknown with COVID-19, this isn’t humanity’s first global pandemic. One area that is different to how we deal with this pandemic is the use of technology, enabling the ability to work from home. George Evripidou asks will remote working be the new normal?
18.06.2020
Following multiple encounters with Jedi founders, Caroline Franczia takes us back to Tatooine to see what lessons can be learned from these entrepreneurs (as well as C-3PO, Anakin and Yoda) and their battle with the dark side.
18.06.2020
Experimentation and failure are not new concepts that are unique in startup culture, we spoke with Sheona Barlow of W. L. Gore & Associates (the makers of Gore-Tex) about how a deep-rooted focus on company culture and innovation can lead to generations of success.
18.06.2020
Healx is an AI-powered, patient-inspired technology company, accelerating the discovery and development of rare disease treatments at scale. There are 7,000 known rare diseases that affect 350 million people across the globe but only 5% of those conditions have approved treatments. Healx’s mission is to identify and progress novel therapies for the 95% of rare diseases without approved treatment.
17.06.2020