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.
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Alex Ainsworth
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.
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Tomé Duarte
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.
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Céline Deluzarche
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.
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Joe Procopio
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
“Operating Partner? Is this really a job?” This is the polite but slightly mocking question I used to get when presenting my Job at Serena 3 and a half years ago. I remembered this when more and more “young” Operating Partners approached me recently, as they were starting their jobs in different kinds of VCs. It reminded me of how unknown this position was when I started.
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Serena Operating
16.03.2020
The cyber risk level has also increased this week on the back of Coronavirus as criminals have launched email phishing attacks to steal private information. The US secret service stated criminals are posing as legitimate medical and health organisations to mass disseminate emails tricking individuals to install malware and gain access to logins.
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Laurent Guyot
16.03.2020
Manchester is leading the way once again as a Northern powerhouse and European hub for industry, but today it isn't manufacturing and textiles, but tech and startups leading the renaissance. #ManchesterDigital. From fintech to AI and machine-learning, here are 10 startups from Manchester driving this tech revolution in 2020.
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Audrey Langevin
16.03.2020
Marking the end of London Blockchain Week, the Crypto AM Awards 2020 took place on Wednesday afternoon in Canary Wharf, and here you can find details of all the winners.
13.03.2020
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup scene. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
13.03.2020
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