budget 2020

Review of UK Budget 2020

Resources: Tide Bank: How will Budget 2020 affect your small business? Enterprise Nation: The small business & self-employment measures you need to know ICAEW: Welcomes spending measures Tech Nation: What the 2020 Budget means for UK tech  

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Microsof for Startups

Why do big brands like Microsoft think that others should work for them for nothing?

When Microsoft’s startup programme, BizSpark launched in the UK in 2009, the old Techcelerate (2006 to 2013) was the launch partner for the Northern UK.  We sent tens of northern tech startups to Microsoft. This time around, our application to partner with Microsoft for Tech Startups UK was rejected. Yet they want us to send […]

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budget 2020

What Venture Capitalists (VCs) say about the Budget 2020

Bruce Macfarlane, Managing Partner, MMC Ventures, said “Today’s budget was a strong signal from the government that it remains committed to supporting the UK’s SMEs. We see the announcement of additional funding for startup loans and the British Business Bank along with increased investment in R&D as a necessary and welcome stimulus for the startup […]

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Techcelerate Pricing Workshop 1

SaaS Pricing Workshop – Peers helping each other

Today, we held our 9th Workshop, this time on Pricing at Techcelerate Member Company, My Digital Accounts in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. Both pre-revenue startups, as well as those generating well over £50k Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), took part. Among the participants were:   Revenue generating: Malinko CEO, Andrew Threlfall My Digital Accounts, CTO, John Morris […]

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$120k IBM Credits

Get up to $120,000 IBM Credits (for UK Tech Companies only)

I am thrilled to announce that Techcelerate Members (UK Tech Companies) can now benefit from up to $120k of IBM Credits in addition to $100k AWS Credits and $100k GCP Credits. $120k allows you to get access to services such as AI, blockchain and data science to build leading-edge solutions at scale. Unlike the AWS […]

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Tatton consulting

Grant funding update March 2020 by Tatton Consulting

This grant funding update is brought to you by Techcelerate Partner, Tatton Consulting who has secured over £40 million in grant funding over the last 5 years. Recent successes include: £4,000,000 for an InnovateUK national food traceability project. £15,100,000 for Clean energy project in Africa from the Energy Catalyst scheme. £1,150,000 SBRI grant for the big […]

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Techcelerate is not just for first time founders

Is Techcelerate only for the first time founders?

Today, I received an email from a prospective Member (Tech Company) who said our alignment with their business is not quite there. “I think it’s a great resource, especially for early stage, scaleable businesses and first time founders.”    I’m not one to accept defeat. So let’s take a look at some of our tech […]

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Techcelerate is building its marketing competency starting with Airbase

With Airbase partnering with Techcelerate, we can finally start to build our marketing competency. Here’s Phil Slorick, CEO of Airbase introducing the company and how he plans to help Techcelerate companies accelerate growth.   What does your company offer? Let me tell you about Simon. Simon runs a startup with big ambitions. He knew the […]

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alexandra Morris

Alexandra Morris crowned as Entrepreneur of the Year

A massive congratulations to Alexandra Morris, CEO of MakeUrMove, a Techcelerate Company who won Entrepreneur of the Year award at last night’s Prolific North Tech Awards held in Manchester. Alex has worked tirelessly over the years for MakeUrMove and deserved this amazing recognition. Alex is not just a super-efficient CEO of a tech company. She […]

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TCMCR22

Running Highly Productive Tech Events

I don’t expect you to be a nutter like me, but this is what works for me in Manchester, and this simple strategy in whole or in part might just work for you as well. So brace yourself, as there’s a lot of work at the micro-level. So let’s pick up the Techcelerate Coffees Manchester […]

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