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Agenda
5:45 Registration and networking
6:30 Squire Patton Boggs introduction
6:45 The evolution of Manchester's Tech Ecosystem
7:00 Building Tech Companies the Techcelerate Way
7:30 Fireside chat with Jeff Barr - chaired by Andrew Threlfall
8:00 Panel discussion
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Jeff Barr
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Safe Hammad of Arctic Shores
● Amila Gamage of WireApps (Techcelerate Fractional CTO and Product Development
Partner)
● Ant Chisnall of DriverNet
8:30 Networking
9:30 Head to the local Bar for networking until midnight and beyond
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Growth of Manchester’s Tech Ecosystem
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Pre-2006: Dot com era
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2006 to 2013 Phase I development by Techcelerate (Manoj and friends)
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First Sponsor: KPMG
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Sun Startup Essentials (Stewart Townsend)
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2007: Jeff Barr’s first visit
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2008: Webmission (edocr) & 2009 (Yuuguu)
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2009 Tech Mission London (Michael Birch, ….)
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2009: Difference Engine (Jon Bradford) - CANDDi, Screech, ….
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2011: Northern Tech Awards
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2011: Tech Centre Manchester
○ Malinko + Intuitive Business Intelligence + …..
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2012 to 2016 Phase II development by SpacePortX (Doug Ward, Shaun Gibson and friends)
○ Winning £4m from Cabinet Office and losing it
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Growth of Manchester’s Tech Ecosystem
● Since 2015 multiple entrants:
○ Manchester Science Park (Anne & Bruntwood)
○ Tech North. 2017 onwards Tech Nation
○ Manchester Tech Trust (Peter Lusty)
○ Tech Manchester (Patricia and UKFast)
○ Female Tech Founders (Chi-Chi Ekweozor)
○ Manchester Digital
○ GP Bullhound
○ Business Cloud
○ Barclays
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Growth of Manchester’s Tech Ecosystem
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Today
○ Bruntwood
○ Allied London - Enterprise City (accelerator)
○ GP Bullhound
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KPMG
○ Barclays (accelerator)
○ NatWest (accelerator)
○ Chris McGuire
○ GCHQ
○ Manchester Digital
○ Host Salford (accelerator)
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Female Tech Founders
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So many others
Growth of Manchester’s Tech Ecosystem
Growth of Manchester’s Tech Ecosystem
Building Tech Companies since 2004 and
Supporting others to do the same since 2006
Manoj Ranaweera
manoj.ranaweera@techcelerate.ventures | +44 7769734491
https://techcelerate.ventures
https://deallite.uk
https://skilledup.life
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Positioning in 2023
Techcelerate
Know how in building
tech companies
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Experienced Tech
Founders with Exits
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Peers
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Specialists
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Partners
Deal Lite
Intelligence to build tech
companies
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Identify competitors
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Find investors
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Find customers
● Understand valuations
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build tech companies
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Free talent
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Build functional teams
● Go global
Techcelerate Community Hub
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Grow from £0 to £10k MRR and beyond
Idea Validation
Product
Development
User/Customer
Acquisition
Customer
Support
HR and team
performance
Operations
Management
Revenue growth
& metrics
● Brand building
● Demand generation
● Product Launch
● Product refinement
● User/customer acquisition acceleration
● Operational efficiency
improvement
● Cash flow management
● Capital adequacy
● Market analysis
● Competitor analysis
● Surveys
● Digital marketing
● Social media marketing
● Content marketing
Concept
Validation
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Next 24 to 36 month Plan
● Help 100 UK Tech Founders
● Go global and help 1000 Tech Founders
● Build the UK’s Premier Tech Founder Network
Remember:
● Trust
● Start to EXIT
We need all the support we can get and your buy in
Building Tech Companies since 2004 and
Supporting others to do the same since 2006
Manoj Ranaweera
manoj.ranaweera@techcelerate.ventures | +44 7769734491
https://techcelerate.ventures
https://deallite.uk
https://skilledup.life
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