With £10.1B raised by UK startups in 2019 the confidence in new technologies to disrupt and respond to today's biggest challenges is clear, and we are delighted to share the hotly anticipated Tech Nation 2020 Report which focuses on UK tech for a changing world.
20.03.2020
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week we look at the impact the Coronavirus outbreak is having on the environment.
20.03.2020
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. Here's what's been happening in the news this week.
20.03.2020
Many of us are on the brink of or have well and truly fell into the black hole of burnout, a place that is almost inescapable once entered.
19.03.2020
Founded in 2015, Cognism helps companies to be data compliant offering one of the world’s leading all-in-one globally compliant B2B prospecting solutions. The introduction of GDPR in May 2018 provided Cognism with the opportunity to build this world-leading product, and today they have raised £9.4M in a funding round led by AXA Venture Partners.
19.03.2020
Earlier this year, Alex Ainsworth received an email from Citymapper offering early bird access to their new product — an Oyster card rival designed especially for London. As he hadn't signed up to a new fintech card in at least two weeks, he knew he had to get my hands on it, here's what happened.
19.03.2020
Like many across the world, we’ve changed the way we work – our whole team is working remotely. We’ve been lucky: many of our team at Web Summit have decades’ experience working from home, while others are based in offices away from our Dublin, Ireland headquarters. We’d like to share some of the things that have made our transition to remote work as painless as possible. The first section deals with how our teams have adapted to working from home: the nuts and bolts of working remotely. The second deals with the broader, structural changes we’ve gone through as a company. We hope some of it helps.
18.03.2020
Failure is part of being an entrepreneur. Remember Evan Williams? Before he co-founded Twitter he failed to make a success of his previous startup, Odeo? The reasons for failure must be analysed and lessons can always be learned. In this article, some founders have agreed to talk about how their ventures came to a sudden end.
18.03.2020
Tandem Bank is one of a number of fintech pioneers coming out of the UK. Like Revolut and Starling Bank, these challenger banks are looking to gain market share from existing financial institutions by offering enhanced seamless digital services, and last week Tandem bank raised £60M.
18.03.2020
One of the biggest challenges for brands today is to continually enhance an online presence while providing high-quality user experiences and growing their market share. Google currently holds over 90% of the global search engine market share, but some startups are thinking outside the box to disrupt the SEO market. One such startup, DeepCrawl has just raised £14.9M.
17.03.2020
Joe Procopio explains how you can strike a balance between growth and profitability from the earliest stages of your company.
17.03.2020
Barclays and OpenFin are committed to supporting all types of companies – from growing startups to established businesses that are shaping the future of financial services and are offering a unique opportunity that could take a startup business to the next level. If you are based in EU/UK and focused on building the next generation of financial desktop technology, you can apply now.
16.03.2020
As we adapt to working and communicating from home and potential self-isolation it is timely that MessageBird, the cloud communications platform company, should launch Inbox.ai offering a seamless multi-platform communication experience wherever you find yourself.
16.03.2020
Skyports, the urban air mobility infrastructure provider and drone delivery operator, received an additional £6M Series A funding to continue its ground-breaking development of cargo and passenger ready vertiports.
16.03.2020