COVID-19 is forcing freelancers to adapt quickly to change and rethink their business models, their skills or even create new initiatives to manage and thrive in these new circumstances. Maddyness has selected some of these freelancers pivoting amid lockdown and shares their journeys.
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Audrey Langevin
06.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you MaddyCrowd revealing our selection of projects available on crowdfunding platforms. Here's this week's selection.
06.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we look at how the UK economy is doing while nearing the end of COVID-19 lockdowns and how the nation can recover from this crisis.
05.06.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup scene. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
05.06.2020
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.
05.06.2020
When Attic Self Storage started in 2006 the founder vowed to ensure a healthy, nurturing culture. He built his business so that it could run with the staff on site or by working remotely, so customers can access their units without any help. In light of recent events, Frederic de Ryckman de Betz sheds light on how businesses can adapt to working remotely and how to interview for staff virtually to avoid toxic employees.
05.06.2020
This funding round was led by Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), Parkwalk, Oxford Investment Consultants and the University of Oxford, GF Piping Systems, Nick Harbinson and GK Goh. With this investment, Oxford Flow intends to fuel its expansion across all markets and scale up its oil and gas product development.
05.06.2020
The seed funding round was led by Oxford Sciences Innovation with participation from genomics and oncology experts. With this new investment, Base Genomics intends to develop its epigenetic technology for early and sensitive detection of cancer from liquid biopsy.
05.06.2020
Leading UK digital fintech Starling Bank has raised £40M, in a funding round led by JTC and Merian Chrysalis Investment Company Limited. The investment from Starling’s existing investors follows a £60M investment in February 2020, bringing the total raised by Starling in 2020 to £100M. Since its launch in 2014, the bank has raised £363M.
04.06.2020
A new study from Rainmaking Innovation shows this crisis is the time for innovation, not hibernation, but the survey found that 200% more businesses are currently cutting innovation spend.
04.06.2020
The leading online investment platform, Seedrs, has partnered with the leading equity management platform in Europe, Capdesk, to create a unique secondary liquidity offering. This will serve the needs of the wider market with the ability to trade shares in private companies.
04.06.2020
Nextgen freight forwarding and supply chain startup Beacon has raised a £12M Series A fundraising round, with investors including Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, and leading US-based venture capital firm 8VC.
04.06.2020
Since schools across the UK closed at the end of March amid the COVID-19 hysteria, parents everywhere have been feeling the strain of setting up an effective home education system for their children.
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Tali Ramsey
04.06.2020
Unless your grandfather is Dennis Ritchie, Richard Stallman or even Linus Torvalds... joking aside, the parallel is obvious: as a startup, allowing a large corporation to tell you what to do when you are by definition, writing the future in your area of expertise is like letting your grandfather to teach you to code.
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Caroline Franczia
04.06.2020
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