With #QVCS, Maddyness profiles different funds to give founders and entrepreneurs the information they need to choose the right investor. Today, we speak to Roman Gurskiy & Kirill Gurskiy, Managing Directors at GEM Capital.
10.06.2024
Whether you are working for an SME or a larger national or multinational corporation - good onboarding is crucial for employee retention. And the shocking statistic is that 35% of companies spend £0 on onboarding new hires!
08.06.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Tom Robinson, CEO and Founder of Adaptavate, about carbon-negative technologies, scientific rigour, and the construction industry.
08.06.2024
The State of Online Learning Report surveyed 2,500 employees in the US, UK, and France to understand their perspectives on digital learning methods at work.
07.06.2024
Supply chain organisations in the UK and Ireland are facing significant barriers to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) owing to challenges with collecting and analysing data.
07.06.2024
Did you know we have better chances of getting hit by lightning or attacked by a bear than winning a lottery? Yet we find ourselves buying online lottery tickets or queuing at convenience stores hoping to win huge sums of money despite the odds being against us.
07.06.2024
Every week, Maddyness brings you the latest investment news from the UK startup ecosystem. Here's a recap of this week's investments.
07.06.2024
As part of our quick founder questions series - or QFQs - we spoke to Dr. Andrea Cullen, CEO and Co-founder of CAPSLOCK about the cyber skills gap, flexibility and trusting your instincts.
06.06.2024
Reset Connect London, the leading sustainability and net-zero event and flagship event of London Climate Action Week, returns to ExCeL London on 25-26 June 2024. Uniting business leaders, investors, policymakers and industry experts to drive forward the global sustainability agenda.
06.06.2024
Founders of Blue Earth Summit launch an exciting new competition to accelerate innovation in climate health.
06.06.2024
Creating a startup is always challenging. Founding one during a tech downturn, cost of living crisis and recession seems near impossible. However, with risk comes reward and many of the world’s most successful companies were founded during times of economic uncertainty. As part of a series with Antler, Maddyness has interviewed founders hoping to become the entrepreneurial success stories to emerge from this time of crisis. This week, Maddyness spoke to Watson Gardiner, cofounder of cartd.
05.06.2024
Mathias Léopoldie is the co-founder of Julaya, an Ivory Coast-based startup that offers digital payment and lending accounts for African companies of all sizes. Julaya serves over 1,500 companies, processes $400M of transactions and has raised $10M in funding.
05.06.2024
Europe is in a lending crunch, and SMEs are bearing the brunt of it. Although SMEs make up the backbone of the European economy, accounting for a staggering 64.4% of EU employment, 73% of SMEs say they can’t even secure a meeting with their bank and that a quarter of all SMEs say that lenders don’t understand their business. There’s really a quite simple explanation to this – the typical SME isn’t the ideal loan candidate for the typical high-street bank, and hasn’t been for a long time.
05.06.2024
Annual research from ESG_VC and BVCA analyses data from almost 600 start-ups backed by leading venture capital firms.
05.06.2024