Continuing a recent emphasis on separating the good from the bad actors in the venture capital market, anonymous venture capital review site Landscape launches Landscape Lists, a service that aggregates anonymous founder feedback to highlight top performing venture capitalists and funds.
24.03.2022
If the past 30 years have shown us anything, it’s that with the start of a new decade comes the start of a new era of technology. Personal computing enabled the web and the web empowered mobile computing. The ubiquity of devices and the swathes of data they create fuelled cloud computing, and as we move through 2021, we’re entering the next era of deep tech.
23.02.2022
Investors have traditionally been seen as intimidating entities who entrepreneurs must dance for, cap in hand, to raise funds. But times have changed rapidly.
30.12.2021
The influence of social media on the stock market is undeniable. In many ways, it's a double-edged sword: while social media can promote stocks and make them go viral, it can also lead to their downfall when investors start shorting them or betting against them.
02.12.2021
Every week, Maddyness curates articles from other outlets on a topic that is driving the headlines. This week, we're talking about Tesla CEO, Elon Musk's selling more than $5B in company shares after a popular Twitter poll
15.11.2021
A digital wealth management platform is providing access to global investment funds through a mobile app targeted at black and minority ethnic communities. The app will open up access to wealth creation opportunities within communities which are overlooked in most wealth management platforms.
18.10.2021
The UK tech sector is set to see a record year of investment after a series of deals across the industry saw investment soar to £13.5B in the first six months of 2021. Investment has now tripled the amount achieved by UK tech the same period last year.
22.09.2021
Despite the pandemic throwing multiple industries and businesses into jeopardy, figures show that almost 20,000 tech startups launched in 2020 – and this sustained level of innovation and creativity brought with it a flurry of cash from sharp-eyed investors.
20.09.2021
Maddyness UK speaks to Rémy Astié, cofounder of wealth container platform Vauban, about launching a business from a dingy flat, hurdles for new angel investors and the change in approach to investing.
25.08.2021
As more and more businesses are staying private for longer, a strategic partnership from Crowdcube and Crunchbase is seeking to provide new opportunities for private investment in Europe. The platform allows investors, supported by a rich database of companies, the opportunity to invest in high-growth companies they have previously not been able to access.
31.07.2021
The Breakthrough programme, announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak at budget 2021, is now open for applications. The UK-wide programme will deliver £375M of government funding via British Patient Capital, a commercial subsidy of the British Business Bank, to the breakthrough technology sector.
21.07.2021
The number of first-time funding rounds into UK seed-stage startups has declined in 2020, for the second consecutive year. The data, commissioned by the UK’s most active seed-stage investor, SFC Capital, has revealed that the number is now 36% below the 2018 peak for such rounds.
20.07.2021
UK tech startups have received almost twice the amount of capital in the first six months of 2021 from across Asia as they did during the whole of 2020. The data, which was released by Dealroom.co, can reveal that by the end of June, Asian and Middle Eastern investors had poured more than £1.7B into UK tech companies, equating to 13.2% of total investments made in the country.
20.07.2021
Founded on the belief that the most successful future businesses will be built to solve social and environmental challenges, Eka Ventures plans to invest in consumer technology companies that positively shape the world. Having recently become the largest impact-driven early stage venture capital fund in the UK, the recently closed fund will be used to support this mission.
17.07.2021