ELEVATOR PITCH TechSPARK is the one-stop community hub for the Tech Industry in the West of England. Through our network, editorial stream, events, and specialist programmes, we sit at the heart of the UK’s most connected and collaborative tech cluster. , OUR STORY Founded in 2011 by a team of volunteer tech & […]
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500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. It is one of the most active venture capital firms in the world. Ana Paula Gonzalez, Innovation & Partnerships Director Since its inception in
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Code Explorers is a technology research and training development organization. Today’s global workforce faces an urgent need to gain new skills to keep up-to-date with the changing requirements of their jobs. Similarly, the global workforce of tomorrow – today’s children and youth – urgently need an education that sets them up for the 4th Industrial
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CIC is an established platform that enhances a location’s innovation infrastructure and creates a physical center of gravity. As a vehicle that transforms an economic development opportunity into a mature innovation hub, CIC’s mission is to fix the world through innovation by creating and managing developing multifaceted communities that support changemakers on their entrepreneurial journeys.
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For 35 years the Arts & Business Council has led the movement to empower the creative ecosystem with high-impact partnerships between business, entrepreneurs, and the arts. As Miami’s only organization that leverages the arts for economic vitality, ABC programs inspire employees, stimulate innovation & foster creativity. We assist 500+ arts groups and 150+ artists through
Briony is Associate Director and West of England Scaleup Enabler at Engine Shed. Briony champions the scaleup business ecosystem and helps overcome challenges faced by fast-growth companies such as access to investment. She runs a variety of organisational development projects for Engine Shed. Briony’s career has spanned Deloitte Consulting, Teach First, the Open Data Institute
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Innovation is key to resilience. Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer, Miami-Dade County From my experience as a public servant, innovation is key to building resilience in a community. Innovation forms the basis of the solutions we need for the issues of today and tomorrow. For Miami-Dade County, those issues are very real, from sea level
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Innovation and a knowledge-based economy have to be at the forefront of industry in every city in the world. In Miami, we’re doing as much as possible to foster innovation, starting with the government itself. In the U.S., we’re number one for job creation, for startups, and for small-business growth. We’re number five in the
If you aren’t growing, you are dying. Attention: Progressive businesses, startups & scaleups. Hypercharge growth with business model innovation and strategic digital. Recently, a social enterprise shop in Sandeep’s hometown just outside Bristol had to shut down. Sharon, the owner, had sold locally sourced arts and crafts from local craftsmen for nearly a decade,
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In 2014, crowdfunding and alternative finance were at an early stage and it was almost impossible for new businesses to raise funding to start-up, grow, and scale as bank lending had dried up. Oliver Mochizuki, Derek Ahmedzai, and Baraka Zahabian co-founded Fundsurfer as a new crowdfunding and fundraising company to tackle the lack of access
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Develop Me is a tech-career accelerator. We exist to empower people to thrive through education. We believe the future of innovation will continue to be through disruptive technologies and collaborative social business models. More importantly, we believe positive change in society will come from people with ideas who are given the skills and knowledge to
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Adversity Is a Leadership SuperpowerA leader is forged through the trials and tribulations of life. And when faced with negative influences, instead of giving into personal doubt and insecurities, leaders demonstrate the qualities of resiliency, passion, and authenticity enabling them to overcome the challenges of life empowering them to reach their full potential. THIS IS
ELEVATOR PITCH When we first started Stratus.hr, we didn’t have a written business plan. Although Michelyn had experience with PEOs (Professional Employer Organization) in the past, I had to convince her to start a new PEO instead of pursuing real estate or developments. John Farnsworth, CEO and Owner of Stratus.hr I envisioned an innovative company
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The Project was created in 2009 and is housed in the Woodbury School of Business at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. ELEVATOR PITCH The mission of the Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) is to strengthen the impact of Utah girls and women through informing, engaging, and developing their voices, confidence, influence, and leadership.
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RevRoad (short for roads to revenue) is a venture services firm. Venture services is a new term in the industry depicting the unique space in the heart of three intersections of the diagram shown below. RevRoad shares characteristics of accelerators, agencies, and venture capital firms, but in more important ways, it is not like any
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Open Source Maker Labs (OSML) opened in 2014 as North County’s first and only maker space and business incubator. Founded by a retired U.S. Navy Captain, Dan Hendricks, OSML’s mission is to develop the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, problem solvers and leaders. Palomar College STEM Academy at OSML The lab is located in the
ELEVATOR PITCH We document a plan for efficiency and success. That plan could include hardware, software, app development, or just the use of apps that offer better efficiency. We measure our progress, document the improvement, profitability, and savings that are produced by our efforts. Then we help our customers identify areas where they can wisely
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When Novo Nordisk acquired our company, Ziylo, in a deal potentially worth $800 million, it exceeded our wildest expectations. Four years earlier, in 2014, I was finishing my Ph.D. in Professor Davis’ lab at the University of Bristol. We’d designed a set of molecular ‘sugar switches’ that sense how much glucose is present in solutions,
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ELEVATOR PITCH The Pitch is an annual competition that aims to find Britain’s best new startup. It’s run by Box 2 Media, although it’s been in different hands in the past. The Pitch is over a decade old, so we’ve had the chance to meet and support some amazing businesses over the years. OUR STORY
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ELEVATOR PITCH TEDxBristol is one of the largest TEDx events in Europe, delivering talks to sell-out audiences, working with creative partners across the UK and reaching a global audience online. We’re a largely voluntary and not-for-profit organisation dedicated to creating thought-provoking, world-class TEDx talks and delivering inspirational, inclusive and friendly TEDx events in Bristol. Licensed
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ELEVATOR PITCH Watershed opened as ‘Britain’s first Media Centre’ on 7th June 1982 on the first floor of two refurbished Grade II listed sheds on Bristol’s historic harbourside – the same year that Channel 4, the Commodore 64 and Sony’s first CD player also launched. Our aims were to champion independent media creativity and emergent
ELEVATOR PITCH We’re an award-winning employee engagement agency that helps large organisations to communicate with their people. It’s our mission to make sure every employee understands the company they work for and the vital part they play in its success. Doing this helps create cultures that energise, inspire and transform and makes every employee feel
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ELEVATOR PITCH With the fourth industrial revolution, the UK tech sector is booming, creating more jobs than it can fill. Women make up 47% of the workforce in the UK, yet only 20% of tech jobs are held by them. When looking further at the next generation, only 1 in 10 young women are currently
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ELEVATOR PITCH SR2 stands for Socially Responsible Recruitment. We are a community-driven tech recruitment start-up. The recruitment industry doesn’t have a great reputation – and we’re here to change that. The cornerstone of our business is built on putting people ahead of profits. It’s only by prioritising our people, our clients, our candidates and our
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