Building the world’s tech hubs

 

  • The British Phonographic Industry runs the BRIT Awards and the Mercury Prize. Abbey Road Red is the technology incubator of the globally renowned Abbey Road Studios in London.

    With funding from London and Partners, we're working together to build a scale-up programme along with Angel Investing School to grow new technologies, innovations and ideas supporting the music industry to increase revenue and jobs.

Corporation · Music · UK

  • Spring is the UK's innovation centre and accelerator aiming to transform the future of water with new innovations and technology. Microsoft is one of the world's largest technology companies.

    We're working together to build new accelerators and invest in innovations to solve the UK's biggest problems in the water sector for millions of customers in the UK.

Corporation · Water · UK

  • Barclays Eagle Labs is a UK network of coworking spaces, growth programmes and mentors for ambitious entrepreneurs and startups. Codebase is the UK's largest technology incubator.

    We're working together to advise and mentor entrepreneurs and startup teams building new technologies to increase revenue and jobs and shape the future of the UK tech economy.

Bank · Finance · UK

  • The University of Edinburgh's innovation hub for data science and artificial intelligence delivers an accelerator aimed at scaling new technologies in AI.

    We're working together to advise cohorts of 12 new ventures each year building AI technologies focused on AI good, global health and climate change, improving life for millions of people.

Education · AI · UK

  • Airbnb is the world's largest hospitality company, with annual revenues of more than $8 billion. They're building communities of entrepreneurs globally using a new experience platform.

    We worked together to design and deliver a startup programme for anyone from any city internationally to learn about building startups. Joined by more than 750 entrepreneurs from 170 cities around the world.

Corporation · Technology · UK

  • The Austrian Embassy develops and delivers international programmes to support the growth of the Austrian ecosystem and startups and enter new markets.

    We work together to advise and support multiple startups and scale-up ventures each year from Austria to explore strategies to enter the UK market, find new customers and raise venture investment.

Government · Technology · Europe

  • Telefónica is a multinational telecommunications company. Their scale-up innovation hub, Wayra, helps to scale startups globally and connects them to more than 300 million customers via their mobile network O2.

    We worked together to support their portfolio of 60+ startups across 3 accelerators each year over 4 years. Advising on acquiring customers and partners and raising investment of £1 million to £5 million.

Corporation · Technology · UK

  • The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre aims to keep people safe at home, work and online. NCSC for Startups is a startup programme that supports new ventures in cybersecurity.

    We're working together to advise 10+ startups each year building products and services that aim to keep millions of people safe in the United Kingdom and around the world.

Government · Cybersecurity · UK

  • The International Centre for Migration Policy Development is an organisation of 20 member states. They're working in partnership with the European Union and African Union to explore new ways to increase investment into Africa.

    We're working together to explore building a new investment marketplace platform enabling UK and European investors to invest in growth-stage ventures across multiple African countries.

Government · Finance · Africa

  • Wa’ed Ventures is the $500 million fund backed by Saudi Arabia’s biggest company, Saudi Aramco. They invest in new technology ventures and entrepreneurs across the region.

    We worked together to advise the Wa'ed team on ways to improve their incubator programme to better source, select and service entrepreneurs and technology companies.

Fund · Finance · Middle East

  • Investec is a global investment bank based in South Africa. They wanted to learn more about the growth strategies of European fintech companies to help invest in and grow fintech ventures in Africa.

    We worked together to advise the African Investment bank on strategies that UK fintechs use to grow, acquire customers and raise investment across the UK and Europe.

Bank · Finance · Africa

  • Industrial Bank of Korea and Higo Bank in Japan were exploring partnerships with European-based fintech companies to provide new banking services to their customers and to enter new markets.

    We worked together to design and deliver two fintech hubs that connected the banks with 16+ UK and European fintech companies building new banking and payment services for customers.

Bank · Finance · Asia

  • Building a next-generation family office based in London - investing in technology platforms and funds focused on the future of finance, banking and life.

Fund · Finance · UK