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Introducing the top 33 early-stage tech companies in the UK: Rising Stars 2.0

After searching the UK far and wide for the most exciting and innovative early-stage tech companies, and receiving an unprecedented level of interest – applications were up 39% from 2018 – we are delighted to announce the top three early-stage tech companies in each country and region of the UK.

Raising the Game

Now in its second year, Rising Stars, the UK’s only national early-stage tech scaleup competition, is designed to help the most exciting early-stage tech companies take their business to the next level and become the world-leading tech companies of the future. 

Mike Jackson, Entrepreneur Success Director, Tech Nation, commented: “The Rising Stars regional winners announced today are testament to the UK’s exceptional tech sector, and demonstrate that there are hugely exciting tech companies across the entire nation. Rising Stars is an excellent platform for early-stage tech companies to build their profile as they look to scale their businesses and support the UK in maintaining its position as a world leader for producing successful tech companies.”

Meet the semi finalists

Selected by a panel of industry experts, including Louize Clark, Director ConnectTVT, Mark Lyons, Investment Director, Praetura, Simon Bailie, CEO, Digital DNA and Pam Sheemar, Entrepreneur Development Manager, Natwest, the following companies have been regarded as early-stage tech leaders within their respective regions. 

CLOSE Aitrak

Holkham | Artificial Intelligence | @AitrakCo

Aitrak is a visual optimisation solution for brands, retailers, and advertisers. It provides all the benefits of traditional eye-tracking studies, but with results in minutes, not days. Aitrak’s app allows brands, retailers and advertisers to upload, analyse and optimise their creative in minutes, without the need for special cameras, software, or study participants

https://www.aitrak.co/

CLOSE Apricity Compliance

Darlington | Fintech | @apricitycomply

Providing compliance support to financial advisers nationwide, Apricity Compliance has a mission to bring more young people into the ageing industry of financial services. Driving the industry forward, and encouraging good practices along the way, they enable their adviser clients to do the best thing for the end users.

https://apricitycompliance.co.uk/

CLOSE Block Matrix

Newcastle | Fintech | @block_matrix

Block Matrix's mission is to make Bitcoin accessible to everyone. With the intention of introducing Bitcoin to 1 billion new users over the next 5 years, they plan to implement this through innovative digital wallet technology, UX, merchant payment services and payment gateways.

https://blockmatrix.network/

CLOSE Bluesona

Belfast | Fintech | @_Bluesona

Bluesona builds connected insurance solutions that deter distracted driving and incentivise safe on-road behaviour. Founded upon the principle of protection over repair, its product range encourages drivers to stay safe on the road and empowers insurers to meet the expectations of digital-savvy customers.

https://bluesona.co.uk/

CLOSE Branswer

Leeds | Adtech & Marketing | @TheBranswer

Branswer is a smart content writing platform that helps businesses write effective customer communications. Writing prompts give users peace of mind that they have included the right information, tone analysis measures content, and AI insights determine whether it matches brand values.

https://branswer.com/

CLOSE ClearGlass

London | Fintech | @ClearGlass

ClearGlass is a digital intermediary between asset managers and pension funds. It collects underlying costs and performance data from asset managers and helps pension funds decide which is the best fund to invest in for their members.

https://clearglass.com/

CLOSE Codices Interactive

Truro | Digital Entertainment | @quizkit

Codices Interactive provides viewers with a live interactive video platform, enabling any broadcaster to create interactive shows. Its first product is now the most used gameshow creation tool on the Twitch platform, with 1,000+ monthly active broadcasters and 300,000 unique monthly viewers.

http://codices.io

CLOSE CoGrammar

London | Tech For Good | @hypdev

CoGrammar operates the largest coding education provider in Africa - HyperionDev. Through this, they source, select, train, and integrate full-time code reviewers from top African tech talent. This allows Western companies to affordably assess developers and technical team quality, whilst creating hundreds of jobs in African countries.hypdev

https://www.cogrammar.com/

CLOSE Conundrum

Cambridge | Artificial Intelligence | @conundrumai

Conundrum is an AI powered software for industrial companies. It oversees a whole production process and assists factory engineers in decision making, helping to reduce waste and downtime.

https://conundrum.ai/

CLOSE Cooperative Innovations

Leeds | Digital Entertainment | @CoopInnovations

Cooperative Innovations build, license and implement high-quality immersive development tools to create worlds to play in, explore, learn from and share with others, regardless of sector or end user.

https://www.coopinnovations.co.uk/

CLOSE Culture Shift

Manchester | Tech For Good | @reportsupport_

Culture Shift’s tech for good product Report + Support is a revolutionary online platform that allows victims and witnesses of any kind of bullying, abuse or harassment to report it, either anonymously or with details. The system also signposts those in need of support and provides organisations with vital information to help them tackle toxic behaviour and cultures.

https://www.reportandsupport.co.uk/

CLOSE Drinkly

Edinburgh | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @wearedrinkly

Drinkly is a drinks-on-demand service that promises “chilled beers, spirits and wines to your door in one hour”. Over 650 carefully-curated drinks and snacks are available for delivery to customers in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.

https://www.drinkly.co.uk/

CLOSE Filmily

Totnes | Adtech & Marketing | @filmilyapp

Fans at large scale events record every moment and share it on social media and currently rights owners get little or no value from it. Filmily’s patented algorithms collect content from thousands of phones, automatically learn about it through AI and edit the clips together to create branded films.

https://www.filmi.ly/

CLOSE Fluence World

Birmingham | Artificial Intelligence | @FluenceWorld

Fluence allows regulators to automate complex, subjective quality assurance processes, enabling them to automatically review documents based on their own values, requirements and standards. This means regulators can disseminate quality assurance in ‘predictive models’ through their respective industries, creating new revenue streams, improving quality and reducing cost.

https://fluence.world/

CLOSE Foundries.io

Cambridge | Hardware & Devices & IoT | @FoundriesIO

Foundries.io is addressing security and device management for IoT and Edge devices. FoundriesFactory is a self-service cloud solution that provides turnkey services to develop, secure, deploy and maintain embedded IoT and Edge compute products. They enable secure IoT devices and provide lifetime software maintenance at a fraction of current costs.

https://foundries.io/

CLOSE Gener8

London | Adtech & Marketing | @Gener8Ads

Gener8 enables people to monetise their own data. They do this by tailoring the advertising that people see online and sharing the advertising revenue with them.

https://www.gener8ads.com/

CLOSE IMGeospatial

Slough | Tech For Good | @IMGeospatial

IMGeospatial changes the way you see the world, by changing the way the world uses data. It deploys artificial intelligence in unconventional ways to digest, distill, and disseminate data efficiently, regardless of how imperfect or vast that universe of data becomes.

https://www.imgeospatial.com/

CLOSE Marketing Engine

Newcastle | SaaS | @MEngineTweets

Marketing Engine is for every marketer who wants to plan, share and report on a platform like no other. By recording all your marketing activity in one place, and reporting on this activity in real-time, Marketing Engine lets you access everything in a visual and easy-to-analyse canvas.

https://www.wearemarketingengine.com/

CLOSE Moneyshake

Newport | Fintech | @moneyshakeuk

A car lease comparison website focused that provides a quick, easy-to-use UX experience which streamlines deals from some of the UK's top leasing brokers. Their pioneering technology is set to evolve "price comparison" to “price competition”.

http://Moneyshake.com

CLOSE Neatebox

Edinburgh | Tech For Good | @neatebox

Tackling personal loneliness and communication, the Neatebox “Welcome” platform removes barriers and promotes empathetic relationships between consumers and customer service teams, promoting real societal change and heralding a new age of understanding and communication.

https://www.neatebox.com/

CLOSE Péarlaí

Newry | Adtech & Marketing | @PéarlaíLtd

Péarlaí delivers eCommerce type shopper analytics and marketing capability to shopping centre operators, retailers and brand owners. It identifies, targets, tracks and messages shoppers in real time.

https://business.pearlai.com/

CLOSE Pitchbooking

Belfast | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @PitchBooking

Simplifying the bookings process for sports facilities to help make sport accessible to everybody, Pitchbooking's platform delivers the best way to find, book, and manage sports facilities. It eliminates the administration of managing facilities, increases bookings for facilities, and helps get local populations more active.

https://pitchbooking.com/

CLOSE Resooma

Cardiff | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @resoomahq

Resooma is the first subscription-based, end-to-end rental platform designed around the needs of the tenant. The platform uses technology which enables tenants to search, view, secure and manage their home, taking the stress out of renting.

https://resooma.com/

CLOSE Seakr

Slough | Tech For Good | @seakrcarer

Seakr Carer gives home carers the power to choose their hours, clients and income, so that they receive recognition and reward for delivering important societal good. The company vet, train and support the most trusted of carers and match them with elderly and vulnerable clients.

https://www.seakr.co.uk/

CLOSE SeeAI.

Leeds | Healthtech & Biotech | @SeeAI_LTD

The shortage of radiologists in the UK is causing an increase in the number of misdiagnoses. SeeAI addresses this by using AI to reduce the number of images assigned to radiologists for reporting - only sending complex images to human specialists and automatically reporting the remaining images.

https://www.seeai.co.uk/

CLOSE Shopper.com

Birmingham | Ecommerce & Marketplace | @shopperdotcom

Shopper.com is a community-driven global marketplace for online and offline voucher codes, covering thousands of e-commerce sites. It automatically applies the best value voucher code at checkout in one click for both mobile and desktop devices.

https://www.shopper.com/

CLOSE Sparkbox

Southampton | SaaS

Working in the retail and fashion space, Sparkbox uses machine learning to reduce stock, improve profitability, and prevent over-discounting by optimising prices. Their AI helps retail teams leverage their data, understand the impact of pricing decisions and make the most of the inventory they own

https://www.sparkbox.co/

CLOSE StaffCircle

Leicester | SaaS | @staffcircle

An all-in-one culture and performance management platform, Staffcircle creates consistent connections and processes between management and workforce. It offers an integrated performance and communications experience for growing businesses, enabling the digitisation of comms, recognition, appraisals and check-ins across office and non-desk employees.

https://www.staffcircle.com/

CLOSE Talking Medicines

Glasgow | Healthtech & Biotech | @TMedicines

Talking Medicines captures the digital voice of the patient, aggregating it into patterns of behaviours and commercialising it to brand managers in pharmaceutical companies through subscription access. They put patient centricity at the core of what they do, aiming to improve outcomes of medicines.

https://www.talkingmedicines.com/

CLOSE tootoot

Manchester | SaaS | @tootootofficial

tootoot is award-winning software that supports the psychological safety and wellbeing of individuals within education, sport and the workplace. tootoot provides a way for individuals to raise a concern to their organisation with complete confidentiality

https://tootoot.co.uk/

CLOSE UrbanChain

Altrincham | Artificial Intelligence | @UrbanChain_

UrbanChain develops world-leading products and services by using blockchain and AI technologies to integrate services in utility sectors, such as energy, transportation and health. They aim to transform these markets, democratise their structure, and optimise and integrate processes to reduce the costs for end users.

http://urbanchain.co.uk/

CLOSE Value Xd

Exeter | Data Analytics & Cyber security | @ValueXd

Value Xd is a cloud-based analytics platform that reinvents the analytical value chain. Its platform provides a variety of tools through which businesses and investors can align their decisions with environmental responsibility and sustainable development goals, all while covering conventional analytical techniques.

https://valuexd.com/

CLOSE We Build Bots

Cardiff | Artificial Intelligence | @ebuild_bots

We Build Bots delivers AI powered automation to the public sector, helping organisations deliver better, faster and cheaper citizen services. Leveraging bots, voice and conversational analytics, they help the public sector make better use of the data they collect, making it more predictive and more productive.

https://wbb.ai/

These national Rising Stars semi finalists will travel to Manchester in January to attend two days of expert training, before pitching for a place in the final. Following the semi final in January, the competition will culminate in a Grand Final to be held in London in February 2020, where the top 20 finalists will pitch to a high-profile panel and 200 high-profile investors and corporate leaders for a chance to become one of Tech Nation’s 10 Rising Stars.

Esme Caulfield, Competitions Lead, Tech Nation, commented: “As the UK’s only truly national early-stage tech scaleup competition, Rising Stars is an incredible opportunity for companies across the whole of the UK. We are hugely excited to shine a light on these early stage scaleups across the nation and to support in creating opportunities for them to scale their business and one day become the UK’s next generation of tech leaders.”

More on the semi finalists

East of England

Aitrak (Holkham, Visual Optimisation) @AitrakCo Founders: David Bailey, Michael MacMillan, Kasper Kuijpers Aitrak is a visual optimisation solution for brands, retailers, and advertisers. It provides all the benefits of traditional eye-tracking studies, but with results in minutes, not days. Aitrak’s app allows brands, retailers and advertisers to upload, analyse and optimise their creative in minutes, without the need for special cameras, software, or study participants.

Conundrum (Cambridge, Industrial Autopilot) @conundrumai Founders: Konstantin Kiselev, Victor Portnov, Vlad Mironov Conundrum is AI-powered software for industrial companies. It oversees a whole production process and assists factory engineers in decision making, helping to reduce waste and downtime.

Foundries.io (Cambridge, Devices & IoT) @FoundriesIO Founders: George Grey, Ian Drew, Trina Watt Foundries.io is addressing security and device management for IoT and Edge devices. FoundriesFactory is a self-service cloud solution that provides turnkey services to develop, secure, deploy and maintain embedded IoT and Edge compute products. They enable secure IoT devices and provide lifetime software maintenance at a fraction of current costs.

Highly Commended in East of England: Robok, Pickr, Insurtechnix

London

ClearGlass (London, Fintech) @ClearGlassL Founders: Ritesh Singhania, Chris Sier ClearGlass is a digital intermediary between asset managers and pension funds. It collects underlying costs and performance data from asset managers and helps pension funds decide which is the best fund to invest in for their members.

CoGrammar (London, Tech for Good) @hypdev Founder: Riaz Moola CoGrammar operates the largest coding education provider in Africa – HyperionDev. Through this, they source, select, train, and integrate full-time code reviewers from top African tech talent. This allows Western companies to affordably assess developers and technical team quality, whilst creating hundreds of jobs in African countries.

Gener8 (London, Adtech & Marketing) @Gener8Ads Founder: Sam Jones Gener8 enables people to monetise their own data. They do this through tailoring the advertising that people see online and sharing the advertising revenue with them.

Highly Commended in London: Proportunity, Oncare, Taxscouts

Midlands

Fluence World (Birmingham, AI) @FluenceWorld Founders: Jennifer Hore, David Hore Fluence allows regulators to automate complex, subjective quality assurance processes, enabling them to automatically review documents based on their own values, requirements and standards. This means regulators can disseminate quality assurance in ‘predictive models’ through their respective industries, creating new revenue streams, improving quality and reducing cost.

Shopper.com (Birmingham, Ecommerce & Marketplace) @shopperdotcom Founders: Sonu Bubna, Manoj Krishnapillai Shopper.com is a community driven global marketplace for online and offline voucher codes, covering thousands of e-commerce sites. It automatically applies the best value voucher code at checkout in one click for both mobile and desktop devices.

StaffCircle (Leicester, SaaS) @staffcircle Founder: Mark Seemann An all-in-one culture and performance management platform, Staffcircle creates consistent connections and processes between management and workforce. It offers an integrated performance and communications experience for growing businesses, enabling the digitisation of comms, recognition, appraisals and check-ins across office and non-desk employees.

Highly Commended in the Midlands: Kinnami, iScout, CarerDirect

North East

Apricity Compliance (Darlington, Fintech) @apricitycomply Founders: Cathi Harrison, Natalie Bell, Kim Binks Providing compliance support to financial advisers nationwide, Apricity Compliance have a mission to bring more young people into the ageing industry of financial services. Driving the industry forward, and encouraging good practices along the way, they enable their adviser clients to do the best thing for the end users.

Bottle Pay (Newcastle, Fintech) @bottlepay Founders: Peter Cheyne, Peter O’Donoghue Bottle Pay’s mission is to make Bitcoin accessible for everyone. The team has a vision of introducing Bitcoin to 1 billion new users over the next 5 years, which they plan to implement through innovative digital wallet technology and UX, payment gateways and opening their tech stack for others to build on.

Marketing Engine (Newcastle, SaaS) @MEngineTweets Founders: Aimee Muirhead, Kieron Goldsborough Marketing Engine is for every marketer who wants to plan, share and report on a platform like no other. By recording all your marketing activity in one place, and reporting on this activity in real-time, Marketing Engine lets you access everything in a visual and easy-to-analyse canvas.

Highly Commended in the North East: Fair Custodian, Veritent, WotJob

North West

Culture Shift (Manchester, Tech for Good) @reportsupport_ Founders: Gemma McCall, Carl Sadd, Stuart Bradley Culture Shift’s tech for good product Report + Support is a revolutionary online platform that allows victims and witnesses of any kind of bullying, abuse or harassment to report it, either anonymously or with details. The system also signposts those in need of support and provides organisations with vital information to help them tackle toxic behaviour and cultures.

tootoot (Manchester, SaaS) @tootootofficial Founders: Michael Brennan, Kieran Innes, tootoot is award-winning software that supports the psychological safety and wellbeing of individuals within education, sport and the workplace. tootoot provides a way for individuals to raise a concern to their organisation with complete confidentiality.

UrbanChain (Altrincham, Blockchain/AI & Energy) @UrbanChain_ Founders: Somayeh Taheri, Mohammad Hajhashem, Ayesha Naureen UrbanChain develops world-leading products and services by using blockchain and AI technologies to integrate services in utility sectors, such as energy, transportation and health. They aim to transform these markets, democratise their structure, and optimise and integrate processes to reduce the costs for end users. 

Highly Commended in the North West: Dr Fertility, VoiceIQ, Immersify Education

Northern Ireland

Bluesona (Belfast, Fintech) @_Bluesona Founders: Mel Morrison, Denis Bourne, Oliver Ferris Bluesona builds connected insurance solutions that deter distracted driving and incentivise safe on-road behaviour. Founded upon the principle of protection over repair, its product range encourages drivers to stay safe on the road and empowers insurers to meet the expectations of digital-savvy customers.

Péarlaí (Newry, Adtech & Marketing) @PéarlaíLtd Founders: Peter McCaul, Jim Finnegan, Wayne McComb Péarlaí delivers eCommerce type shopper analytics and marketing capability to shopping centre operators, retailers and brand owners. It identifies, targets, tracks and messages shoppers in real time. 

Pitchbooking (Belfast, Ecommerce & Marketplace) @PitchBooking Founders: Fearghal Campbell, Chris McCann Simplifying the bookings process for sports facilities to help make sport accessible to everybody, Pitchbooking’s platform delivers the best way to find, book, and manage sports facilities. It eliminates the administration of managing facilities, increases bookings for facilities, and helps get local populations more active. 

Highly Commended in Northern Ireland: gofyt, Obbi Solutions, Oroson

Scotland

Drinkly (Edinburgh, Ecommerce & Marketplace) @wearedrinkly Founder: John Robertson Drinkly is a drinks-on-demand service that promises “chilled beers, spirits and wines to your door in one hour”. Over 650 carefully-curated drinks and snacks are available for delivery to customers in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London. 

Talking Medicines (Glasgow, Healthtech & Biotech) @TMedicines Founders: Jo Halliday, Elizabeth Fairley, Scott Crae Talking Medicines captures the digital voice of the patient, aggregating it into patterns of behaviours and commercialising it to brand managers in pharmaceutical companies through subscription access. They put patient centricity at the core of what they do, aiming to improve outcomes of medicines.

Neatebox (Edinburgh, Tech for Good) @neatebox Founder: Gavin Neate Tackling personal loneliness and communication, the Neatebox “Welcome” platform removes barriers and promotes empathetic relationships between consumers and customer service teams, promoting real societal change and heralding a new age of understanding and communication. 

Highly Commended in Scotland: Frog Systems, Good-Loop, MyCustomer Lens

South East

IMGeospatial (Slough, Tech for Good) @IMGeospatial Founders: Alexis Hannah Smith, David Charles IMGeospatial changes the way you see the world, by changing the way the world uses data. It deploys artificial intelligence in unconventional ways to digest, distill, and disseminate data efficiently, regardless of how imperfect or vast that universe of data becomes. 

Seakr (Slough, Tech for Good) @seakrcarer Founder: Ian Rajan Seakr Carer gives home carers the power to choose their hours, clients and income, so that they receive recognition and reward for delivering important societal good. The company vet, train and support the most trusted of carers and match them with elderly and vulnerable clients.

Sparkbox (Southampton, SaaS) Linkedin: Sparkbox.co Founders: Kevin Blackmore, Lindsay Fisher, Alex Stemler Matt Wong Working in the retail and fashion space, Sparkbox uses machine learning to reduce stock, improve profitability, and prevent over-discounting by optimising prices. Their AI helps retail teams leverage their data, understand the impact of pricing decisions and make the most of the inventory they own. 

Highly Commended in the South East: Personal Data Management, Streeva, Percept Imagery

South West

Codices Interactive (Truro, Digital Entertainment) @quizkit Founders: Tim Edwards, Fernando Pombeiro Codices Interactive provides viewers with a live interactive video platform, enabling any broadcaster to create interactive shows. Its first product is now the most used gameshow creation tool on the Twitch platform, with 1,000+ monthly active broadcasters and 300,000 unique monthly viewers.

Filmily (Totnes, Adtech & Marketing) @filmilyapp Founders: Andy Doyle, Ian Kenny Fans at large scale events record every moment and share it on social media and currently rights owners get little or no value from it. Filmily’s patented algorithms collect content from thousands of phones, automatically learn about it through AI and edit the clips together to create branded films.

Value Xd (Exeter, Data Analytics) @ValueXd Founders: Armen Papazian, Aleksandr Grigoryan, Akram Ojjeh Value Xd is a cloud-based analytics platform that reinvents the analytical value chain. Its platform provides a variety of tools through which businesses and investors can align their decisions with environmental responsibility and sustainable development goals, all while covering conventional analytical techniques.

Highly Commended in the South West: Blockchain Ventures, Scribeless, Service Robotics

Wales

Moneyshake (Newport, Fintech) @moneyshakeuk Founders: Eben Lovatt, Gavin Donlon, Jason Ellison A car lease comparison website focused that provides a quick, easy-to-use UX experience which streamlines deals from some of the UK’s top leasing brokers. Their pioneering technology is set to evolve “price comparison” to “price competition”. 

Resooma (Cardiff, Ecommerce & Marketplace) @resoomahq Founder: Daniel Jefferys, Jack Jenkins  Resooma is the first subscription-based, end-to-end rental platform designed around the needs of the tenant. The platform uses technology which enables tenants to search, view, secure and manage their home, taking the stress out of renting. 

We Build Bots (Cardiff, AI) @webuild_bots Founder: Paul Shepherd We Build Bots delivers AI powered automation to the public sector, helping organisations deliver better, faster and cheaper citizen services. Leveraging bots, voice and conversational analytics, they help the public sector make better use of the data they collect, making it more predictive and more productive. 

Highly Commended in Wales: Disberse, Simply Do Ideas, Coincover

Yorkshire

Branswer (Leeds, Adtech & Marketing) @TheBranswer Founders: Kayla Herbert, Tom Dean Knight Branswer is a smart content writing platform that helps businesses write effective customer communications. Writing prompts give users peace of mind that they have included the right information, tone analysis measures content, and AI insights determine whether it matches brand values.  

Cooperative Innovations (Leeds, Digital Entertainment) @CoopInnovations Founders: Simon Barratt, Brian Marshall Cooperative Innovations build, license and implement high-quality immersive development tools to create worlds to play in, explore, learn from and share with others, regardless of sector or end user.

SeeAI. (Leeds, Healthtech & Biotech) @SeeAI_LTD Founders: Saile Villegas, Reo Ogusu The shortage of radiologists in the UK is causing an increase in the number of misdiagnoses. SeeAI addresses this by using AI to reduce the number of images assigned to radiologists for reporting – only sending complex images to human specialists and automatically reporting the remaining images. 

Highly Commended in Yorkshire: Checklate Media, Additive Automations, Calbot

The Judging Panel

Ed Prior, Associate, GP Bullhound, commented: “It was great to see such a high calibre of applications for this year’s Rising Stars competition. This year there was the highest ever number of entries and it is proving increasingly difficult to select just a few to go through to the Semi Finals. For many years entrepreneurs have automatically gravitated towards London when starting a tech company – however this years applications have shown that this no longer needs to be the case. Innovative startups are being created and built all over the country”

Andrew Dean, Director, We Are Nova Bindi Karia, Founder & CEO. Bindi Ventures Brian Corcoran, Founder, Turing Fest Briony Phillips, Scaleup Lead, Rockermakers Calum Forsyth, CEO and Founder, Seedhaus Carwyn Edwards, Co-Founder, North Wales Tech Clare Hawthorn, Business Support & Outsourcing Specialist, BDODrive Dan Pritchard, Managing Director, Astley Media Darren Upson, VP Small Business, Europe, Soldo Ed Prior, Investment Banking Associate, GP Bullhound Elaine McKechnie, Business Development Director, Oxford Innovation Emmi Nicholl, Deal Sorcerer, Cambridge Angels Etienne Piciocchi, Managing Partner, Lanai Consulting James Merryweather, Investment Manager, KM Capital James Parton, Managing Director, The Bradfield Centre Julia Robertson, Head of Startups & Scaleups, Soldo June Angelides, VC, Samos Investments Kathryn White, Innovation Manager, Impact Lab @ Exeter Uni Laura Stuffins, Director, BDODrive Lori Anderson, Director, Creative Dundee Louize Clarke, Director, ConnectTVT Magda Posluszny, Associate, Seedrs Mark Dowds, Founder, Ormeau Baths Mark John, Co-Founder/Director, Tramshed Mark Lyons, Investment Director, Praetura Mark Sykes, National Head, BDO Drive Mark Traynor, Partner, TLT LLP Matt Hyde, Founder, FinTech Wales Awards Michael Dickinson, Investment Manager, Launchpad Miceal O’Kane, Partner, Ignite Naomi TImperley, Co-founder, Tech North Advocates Neil Purcell, CEO & Founder, Talentworks International Niki Haggerty-James, Manager, Barclays Eagle Lab – Cardiff Nina Searle, Partner, TLT LLP Oliver Hammond, Associate, Fuel Ventures Pam Sheemar, Entrepreneur Development Manager, Natwest Paul Newnes, Talent Works Rachel Burdis, Tech Specialist, Economic Development Gateshead Council Richard Abrahams, Founding member – Raise, PWC Richard Charnley, Investment Manager, Northstar Ventures Richard Godfrey, CEO, Rocketmakers Sam Michel, Founder & CMO, Chinwag Sarah Tulip, Director Of Operations, Software Cloud Limited Simon Bailie, CEO, Digital DNA Simon Jacobson, EMEA SMB Segment Lead, Microsoft Advertising Steve Pette, Co-Founder, Ormeau Baths / Central Working Stuart Clarke, Festival Director, Leeds Digital Festival Teddy Kim, Principal, Mustard Seed Impact Tim Robinson, COO, Tech East Tracey Johnson, Director, Enterprising Barnsley Volker Hirsch, Partner, Amadeus Capital

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