Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup scene. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
22.05.2020
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we look at what Dyson have been up to during COVID-19.
22.05.2020
Christopher Lowe, Founder and CEO of NOTWICS has been speaking to his community of startups and investors to gauge the current investor climate, working practices, valuation and the wider impact on the industry as we continue in COVID-19 lockdown.
22.05.2020
As we have adjusted to the new normal, the time is right to re-think about what we want for the future. Do we want to go back? or is now the moment to move forward, make change and rethink our habits. Maddyness spoke to the founder of Baba+Boo about their business during COVID-19 and the positive changes that can become the norm in the world post-lockdown.
22.05.2020
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.
21.05.2020
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.
21.05.2020
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.
21.05.2020
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.
21.05.2020
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.
21.05.2020
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.
20.05.2020
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.
20.05.2020
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.
20.05.2020
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.
20.05.2020
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.
20.05.2020