Actus

Un must have pour nos lecteurs, cette rubrique "Actu" revient sur l’actualité chaude de l’écosystème entrepreneurial français : annonces financières et gouvernementales, rachats, mouvements etc.
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Nosy helps people take control of the air they breathe
Nosy is a radically innovative line of wearable technology designed to improve your breathing health by removing the mouth coverage which allows users to protect themselves from air pollution without comprising their lifestyle. 
Portfolio by " Maddyness
21.05.2020
Fly Now Pay Later receives £35M to support the travel industry
Travel tech Fly Now Pay Later secures £35M in Series A funding as the alternative payments provider ramps up to support the travel industry in a post-COVID-19 world.
News by " Maddyness
21.05.2020
This interview about hype will blow your mind: read it before your friends do
Maddyness spoke "face-to-face" with author, journalist, keynote speaker and one the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers, Gemma Milne, to discuss why robots won’t steal our jobs, how hype can be used for good and how we can hype-proof ourselves.
Portfolio by " Ella Bowman
21.05.2020
Blink raises £8.2M to connect key workers during COVID-19
Blink, a new smart employee app, officially launches this week. Over the past 15 months, Blink has been developed and deployed in partnership with leading organisations including Stagecoach, Domino’s and the NHS to empower and protect frontline and key workers inside their organisations.
News by " Maddyness
21.05.2020
How Tuft+Paw reimagined the litter box
Jackson Cunningham shares how Tuft+Paw started out as a retailer of boutique international pet brands before redesigning an over-looked but essential product, the litter box. From product design to crowdfunding, here's the inspiring journey.
Decoding by " Jackson Cunningham
21.05.2020
ISA platform Smarterly raises £7M Series A
London-based digital WealthTech company Smarterly has reportedly raised £7M in a Series A funding round led by Major Oak along with other angel and crowdfunding investors.
Portfolio by " Maddyness
20.05.2020
4 pillars for rebuilding a global workforce
Guy Ryder, General Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) was interviewed as part of the Financial Times webinar series "The Global Boardroom" and shared the four pillars that ILO's is working on to rebuild a global workforce post-COVID-19.
News by " Audrey Langevin
20.05.2020
Quantum Motion raises £8M in oversubscribed Series A
Born in the UK, Quantum Motion Technologies Ltd (QMT), a quantum computing company founded on world-leading Silicon spin tech and architectures developed at UCL and Oxford University, has completed an £8M Series A round of investment.
News by " Maddyness
20.05.2020
Huboo helps businesses with stock fulfilment amid COVID-19
Consumers are spending more than ever on smaller online retailers and smaller businesses are suddenly creating new categories in coronavirus-related products such as hand gel or PPE. Maddyness spoke with Huboo, a fulfilment company in Bristol that serves UK SMEs and startups amid coronavirus lockdown.
News by " Maddyness
20.05.2020
COVID-19: Interview with Liam McQuillan, CEO of Liopa
Created in 2015 and headquartered in Belfast, Liopa is an expert in Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) technology, which deciphers speech through video by analysing discrete lip movements. Maddyness spoke with Liam McQuillan, CEO to understand how their company is coping during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Portfolio by " Maddyness & Liam McQuillan
20.05.2020
COVID-19: Interview with Salvatore Notaro, Co-Founder of Vivo Life
Vivo Life produce 100% plant-based health and fitness supplements and are finding new ways to serve their customers and community while keeping faithful to their core values and purpose. Maddyness spoke with Co-founder Salvatore Notaro to find out more about how the business is adapting during the COVID-19 crisis.
Portfolio by " Maddyness & Salvatore Notaro
19.05.2020
Alternative banking solution Modulr has secured £18.9M
Digital alternative to commercial and wholesale transaction banking Modulr has secured £18.9M in growth capital to further develop its platform and expand into new products and markets.
Portfolio by " Maddyness
19.05.2020
Graduate job market more prepared for COVID-19 than we thought
Despite the long term recession forecast caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent Europe-wide survey by JobTeaser, student career and recruitment specialists, found that the graduate job market is more optimistic than first thought.
News by " Maddyness
19.05.2020
Tech investments forced by lockdown are good, but should have been made sooner
At the height of the dotcom boom two decades ago, investors were ecstatic about the possibilities of the internet. However, while investors were pouring billions into companies looking to capitalise on this cutting-edge technology, the asset management community itself failed to invest in tech for its own purposes.
Portfolio by " Mash Patel
19.05.2020

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