In a fast moving world with fluctuating markets, your technology business is under constant pressure to flex strategies and adapt to changing market conditions. Whether you are reviewing your performance, restructuring or raising expansion capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology Industry team is passionate about growing entrepreneurial businesses and is dynamic in meeting your needs. This enables you to stay on the right track and bring your vision to reality. If you are interested in meeting with the team, please contact Nigel Reynolds, or visit the website at www.pwc.com/uk/visiontoreality for a list of technology specialists in your region.
Taylor Wessing is a leading law firm providing legal support for commercial organisations doing business in Europe. Based in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, Taylor Wessing provides the full range of legal services to major corporations and growing enterprises.
Taylor Wessing is currently one of the leading firms acting on venture capital transactions in the UK and beyond, with a team made up of 25 corporate lawyers across the UK, France and Germany. Our London office is augmented by our technology-centric offices in Cambridge, Munich and Shanghai. The team is involved in matters ranging from early-stage investments, subsequent funding rounds, convertible debt interim fundings, through to trade sales and IPOs.
A key factor to being able to provide commercially aware advice is the fact that Taylor Wessing has experience of acting not only for those who are seeking to invest in technology companies, but also for the companies themselves that require investment.
Taylor Wessing's intellectual property group is one of the largest in Europe and is consistently ranked as one of the top IP practices. Many of our lawyers in this group have IT and science degrees, have worked in-house and/or have been seconded to technology companies and therefore have frontline experience of what drives the business as well as an understanding of the importance of intellectual property rights that underpin these companies.
Woodside Capital Partners is a boutique investment banking firm based in Silicon Valley providing M&A and capital raising financial advisory services to emerging growth companies in the digital media, semiconductor, and alternative energy sectors. Our reputation is built on deep industry expertise, senior-level attention, and a proven track record of building value for our clients. Our business network encompasses strong relationships with venture capitalists, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs throughout the world.
Established in 2003, UKTI’s Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP) specifically targets and attracts overseas-based entrepreneurs and early stage technology companies to the UK. Its aim is to create scalable and sustainable global technology businesses from a UK hub.
The GEP maintains a borderless perspective in the way it works with clients, connecting them to sources of finance, management talent and strategic partners both in the UK and internationally.
GEP has recruited experienced and successful entrepreneurs as “Dealmakers” to identify, evaluate, attract and deliver the highest calibre dealflow to the UK. The key ingredient of all dealmakers is past and continuing entrepreneurial success, as well as current activity in their chosen fields and businesses.
The strategic business advice provided by GEP to its clients helps to de-risk potential investments and provides investors with access to our proprietary dealflow. This has helped GEP pioneer the transformation of entrepreneurship from a regional to a global initiative providing a soft landing for global entrepreneurs into the UK networks.
Red Herring, Inc., founded in 1993, is a media company whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity. Its staff of award-winning journalists tell readers what's first, what matters and most importantly, why.
Our journalists, research specialists and newsletter editors investigate on a global basis and report how the world of innovation and entrepreneurship are transforming business and how the business of technology is transforming the world. We provide a deep understanding of venture capital and capital markets.
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP is a full service European law firm with offices in Brussels, Hamburg, London and Paris and exclusive relationships with Spanish firm Jiménez de Parga and Italian firm, La Scala. With 117 partners, over 220 other lawyers and nearly 300 support staff, we assist a wide range of international clients, advising across the full range of legal issues.
Our main areas of practice are corporate and commercial, IP and technology, banking and finance, regulatory and real estate. We also have particular expertise in competition & EU law, dispute resolution, employment and tax.
Catapult presents a unique opportunity for European early-stage companies to meet key business and financial leaders from the United States. We bring the “best of the business” to Europe where companies planning to expand into the US Market can network with experts crucial to being successful in the United States.
Mills & Reeve is one of the UK's leading full-service law firms. Whether you are a business, an institution or an individual, we give you access to advice worldwide and provide a service that is efficient, pragmatic and jargon-free.
With offices in Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, London, Manchester and Norwich, we have built a 806-strong firm on the basis of our commitment to our clients, our expertise, and outstanding teamwork. Mills & Reeve is a firm that ranks very highly both within the profession and in the minds of our clients.
Founded in May 2001, Bridge Bank is the brainchild of some of the most experienced and creative bankers and business people in our community. Our vision was to create a bank that reflects the unique needs of our business community. By combining the resources and services typically associated with larger banks with an unparalleled commitment to personal service. Bridge Bank offers banking solutions created specifically to help your business grow and prosper.
Teneros was founded to produce zero-downtime, non-intrusive, “plug-and-go,” Application Continuity Appliances. Teneros Application Continuity Appliances assure corporate users continuous, transparent operation of mission critical applications during planned down time or failure of the systems running these applications.
The Teneros appliance architecture includes the capabilities for Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery, and completes the business continuity continuum by finally solving the problem of Always-On application continuity.
VentureNavigator is a state-of-the-art online service designed to help start-ups and small businesses improve their chances of success. The service is funded by the UK Government, ensuring that the service is free of charge to end users.
Fish & Richardson P.C. is an international law firm with more than 425 lawyers in 11 offices throughout the United States as well as in Munich, Germany. The firm is one of the largest in the United States practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and offers global services that include worldwide IP strategy and representation in multi-national litigation.
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g2i is a highly successful investment readiness programme helping to
deliver early stage private investment to exciting young London businesses
with high growth potential.
Designed to maximise the success of London based companies raising private
investment, g2i offers a structured programme of support to help companies
develop their teams, propositions and pitches. g2i offers companies the
opportunity to work with experienced entrepreneurs and investors to become
'investor ready'. The success of the programme has seen over £21 million
of private investment raised by participating companies.
Backed by the London Development Agency, g2i is delivered by a consortium
of six private sector companies, all with proven skills of adding value in
the area of entrepreneurship and private equity investment. Led by Grant
Thornton, the consortium includes Library House, Quotec, Pembridge
Partners, E-Synergy and The Innovatory.
Download further details of sponsorship opportunities at UK Technology Innovation & Growth Forum 2008.
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