techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.
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Previous techpitch 4.5 events
8th February 2012
The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A
Congratulations to Bantr for winning the pitch competition on both the judges and audience vote followed by Bluefieds.com in second place and Seek & Adore in third place! The winner of techpitch 4.5, Bantr, will be invited to participate in an investment meeting arranged by Par Equity to explore investment opportunities.
Pitching companies:
BantrBluefields.com
CompareMySolar Limited
Ditto
Livemusicstage.com
Novativ Media
Pepper
Seek & Adore
Judging panel
Danvers Baillieu, Pinsent Masons / Bootlaw
Co-founder of Bootlaw and senior associate at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, representing many web startups and technology companies.
Sophie Cox, Founder, Worldeka
Sophie is the founder of worldeka.com a collaborative platform for social change aimed at helping charities, policy makers and global activists harness social media for social good.
Juliana Koranteng, Founder & Editor, MediaTainment Finance
Juliana is the founder and editor of Mediatainment Finance, the business journal that tracks financial investments in the creative industries, the associated technologies and copyright issues
James Smith, Commercial Operations Director, Black Sheep Fund
Partner of Black Sheep Fund and commercial operations director at BBH, responsible for all aspects of the operational running of the agency. The Black Sheep Fund is a venture between Zag (BBH's brand invention business) and Spark Ventures.
Serge Taborin, Group Digital Director, Archant Media UK
Serge is the Group Business Development Director at Archant, UK's largest independently-owned regional media business active in fields of publishing, contract printing, events, internet and mobile.
Greg Young, associate, Passion Capital
Greg is a businsess Associate at Passion Capital and working directly with the partners and investee companies regarding business models, traction, growth and creating value.
7th December 2011
The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A
Congratulations to Flooved for winning the pitch competition on the judges vote followed by Civicboom in second place and Hirematch.me in third place! The winner of the judges vote, Flooved, will be invited to participate in an investment meeting arranged by Par Equity to explore investment opportunities.
For the first time the audience vote provided a very different result to the judges vote. The audience vote was won by Digital Shadows followed by Hirematch.me in second place. 2012 will prove if the judges or the audience was right!
Pitching companies:
CivicboomDigital Shadows
Flooved
Fortresse Digitalle
Future Copyright
Hirematch.me
Miicard
Simplified Recruitment
Judging panel:
Chaired by: Danvers Baillieu, Pinsent Masons / BootlawClare Crean, AudioFuel
Wayne Gibbins, Viadeo
Duane Jackson, kashflow
Steve Kennedy, angel investor and serial entrepreneur
Ben Tompkins, Eden Ventures
Ben Tompkins, Partner, Eden Ventures
Ben joined Eden as a General Partner in 2006 and is one of Eden's Investment Managers.He joined the Eden team after 18 years of corporate finance experience in Europe and the US, most recently as Managing Director at Broadview International (now Jefferies) where he was responsible for building the global digital media practice. Ben focuses on opportunities in the internet, e-commerce, SaaS and games markets. He currently sits on the boards of Borro, Green Man Gaming, huddle, LOOKK and Reevoo. What he loves about working for Eden is the daily interaction with entrepreneurs looking to build world-class companies. In his spare time, Ben enjoys racing cars, hang gliding and snowboarding.Clare Crean, founder and managing director, AudioFuel
Before teaming up with colleagues Sean Blair and Howie Saunders to launch AudioFuel in 2009, I worked for the Virgin Group helping to set up new Virgin branded businesses. Working as one of a small management team, I was involved in developing the proposition, branding and communication strategies for Virgin LifeCare, Virgin Health Bank and Virgin Healthcare. While working for Virgin Management, I set up a new fund raising initiative on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support. The auction and ticket sales from the Off The Wall photographic exhibition, first held in September 2007, raised over ?200,000. Before that I worked for the consultancy SRU, founded by Dennis Stevenson and Peter York. Clients included a wide range of high profile retailers (e.g Mothercare), The Labour Party, broadcasters (Channel Four), the Department of Culture Media & Sport and Virgin Management.Duane Jackson, founder and CEO, kashflow
Duane's interest in IT started at 14. He was living in a childrens home in Newham, East London. He was suspended from school. The staff at the children home were left to teach him. As they weren't teachers they didn't know what to do so they left him with a ZX Spectrum and a book on how to program it. After spending his late teens contracting for organisations such as the CBI, the BBC, Proctor & Gamble, Eidos and Reuters he found himself at aged 19 between contracts and out of cash. He made some very bad decisions that would change his life forever. His peers from his upbringing in care were involved in criminal activities and he got involved in a bid to earn some fast money. This ultimately resulted in him being arrested and spending time in prison in the US and the UK. In the 2.5 years he served in prison in the UK he spent his time teaching basic IT skills to other inmates and received a Millennium Volunteers Award from the then home secretary, David Blunkett. On his release he received support from the Prince's Trust to start a web development business. He quickly stumbled on the market opportunity for an easy to use accounting application as explained in more detail on our About Us page. Duane was so impressed by the support he received from the Prince's Trust whilst establishing his first business that, with the approval of the Trust, he set up trustNetworkers. trustNetworkers was a non-profit organisation that arranged networking events for Prince's Trust startups with the help of the London Youth Support Trust and sponsorship from DLA Piper and Workspace Group. In February 2006 KashFlow Software Limited was formed when The Rt Hon. Lord Young of Graffham invested in the KashFlow product. Duane has since gone on to meet leading figures from the business and IT world, including receiving praise from Bill Gates in 2008. As well as the numerous awards the company has won, Duane has also won numerous awards himself including Young Entrepreneur of the Year and was named as one of The Most Impressive Businessmen aged 30 or Under by Esquire Magazine in 2008. Duane is also a trustee of the London Youth Support Trust and a moderator at the UK Business Forums.Steve Kennedy, angel investor and serial entrepreneur
Steve has been in the industry for over 20 years. Initially designing hardware and programming in the medical electronics industry, then a stint at Cellnet (allegedly as a programmer, but rapidly moving into systems admin and network admin, designing and rolling out their wide area tcp/ip network - this was in the early '90s). After 5 years of trying to persuade Cellnet that the Internet was going to be big and being told that no-one would ever want the Internet at home let alone on their mobile phone Steve joined a small start-up called Demon Internet in 1994 and helped it grow to the largest consumer ISP. Demon was consumed by Scottish Telecom to become THUS. After leaving THUS Steve consulted for various companies and then joined Textic Ltd as Chief Strategy Officer again in a business development - product/technology role. Steve is also a director of UKEC Ltd which is the governing body for ENUM in the UK and CSO of DBVu Ltd a centralised database monitoring and performance analytics company (like Google Analytics tm but with contextual help based on the actual database characteristics). More recent Steve has founded Storyworks Interactive which is developing an interactive eBook platform aimed at children's publishing. Steve writes for various sites and has extensive knowledge of mobile/ISP/telco and wireless. Steve is also an early stage investor, usually in technology companies.Wayne Gibbins, Communications Director, Viadeo
I guess once a geek, always a geek. I started using computers at the tender age of 6 when the BBC micro and BASIC programming was about all you had to get you by and entertain the boring hours of lunch at primary school. That first contact led to many an hour programming bat and ball games into various models of early computers. I went on to complete a software engineering degree in Manchester when software was beginning to be delivered online and built an online document management tool. After graduating I took on a job as a software architect and spent just under 4 years developing and marketing online project management software. The business skills I developed combined with the ability to understand and speak the technical language enabled me to move into product management and bridge the gap between commercial and technical that so often exists in companies. During this time I had great exposure to business in the UK, Europe and USA working in various capacities to deliver sales, marketing and product development for online software services. Now as communications and partnerships director, my team and I represent Viadeo, online, through social media and other channels, speaking at events, interviews with the press, forming strategic partnerships and generally explaining the business to the outside world. I personally enjoy the challenges of partnerships and communication: two of the hardest things to get right but also two things that make a world of difference if done well.techpitch 4.5
5th October 2011
The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A
Congratulations to StylePilot for winning the pitch competition on both the judges vote and the audience vote! They were closely followed by Ticket tailor in the runner up position - again on both the judges vote and the audience vote.
Pitching companies:
BlottrContentment
Invizua
LetEngine
Planvine
Stylepilot
TicketTailor
WhatTalent
Judging panel:
Danvers Baillieu,co-founder of www.bootlaw.com and senior associate at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, representing many web startups and technology companies. You can follow him on Twitter @DanversBaillieuSteve O'Hear is CEO and co-founder of expertise platform Beepl, a London, UK-based startup. He's probably best known for his work as a technology journalist and blogger, most recently Contributing Editor at TechCrunch Europe. He still blogs at last100, which he originally co-founded with Richard MacManus in May 2007 as part of the ReadWriteWeb Blog Network. Along with TechCrunch Europe and last100, Steve has written for numerous publications, including The Guardian, Macworld UK, Mobile Industry Review, TES, ZDNet and ReadWriteWeb, on topics ranging from the social web, educational technology to consumer electronics. From 2006 to 2008 Steve pioneered social web coverage, writing the ZDNet blog 'The Social Web'. He also wrote and directed the Silicon Valley documentary 'In Search of the Valley', which was released in September 2006.
Steve has advised startups and not-for-profit organisations on how to exploit the collaborative and publishing opportunities offered by the Internet. Most recently he was a consultant for Curverider Ltd., the company behind the open source social application engine Elgg, where he advised on product development, UX and market strategy. Curverider was acquired by Thematic Networks in December 2010. You can follow him on Twitter @sohear
Femi T. Adesina revels in being a hybrid. She enjoys working in environments where she gets to use all her skills as a creative facilitator, front-end designer and developer. She discovered the beauty of the web in the 90's when she realised that she could make words come alive through code and has been hooked ever since. A stint at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) learning about the 'Discipline of innovation' encouraged her to find ways to not only express her creativity but to also encourage it others via creative facilitation. She enjoys talking to people about the web, encouraging people to embrace their creativity, finding innovative ways to provide a solution and listening to music. You can follow her on Twitter @designjuju
Principal at Balderton Capital, Harry Briggs co-founded Firefly Tonics, a health drinks company, in 2002. From the initial idea - a healthy alternative to an energy drink - he grew the business into a widely-recognised luxury brand, with customers in 35 countries. He remains a shareholder and board member. Prior to Firefly, Harry was at McKinsey & Co. in London and New York, advising businesses on branding, marketing, and portfolio improvement. He also spent a year at Hutchison 3G, developing their marketing strategy prior to the launch of "3", the UK's first mobile 3G network.
Harry has a first class MA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University. You can follow him on Twitter @h4ryB
Partner at Par Equity LLP, Robert Higginson is a veteran of the TMT sector, having held a number of senior strategy positions within blue-chip organisations, based in European countries and the US. Latterly he has operated as an investor on his own account.
Robert's first technology role in 1980 was as a programmer based in the US, and laterally Applications Development Manager at the start-up which is known today as Artemis International. Robert entered the Financial Services industry in 1986 as manager for equity realtime systems at Reuters. He subsequently joined Telekurs AG (now part of Swiss Financial Market Services AG, owned by the Swiss banking and asset management industry) in Switzerland to head up advanced systems programme, before moving into a strategy role within the Investment Bank at ABN Amro in Amsterdam and finally at Royal Bank of Scotland. You can follow him on Twitter @parequity
Managing Director of Albion, Liz Wilson studied modern languages (French, German and bad) at Kings College London and, as well as a good grasp of the nineteenth century novel, is adept at ordering coffee, lunch and dinner in a number of European markets.
Liz learned her craft at Euro RSCG working on big advertising accounts like Heinz and Cadbury, and some international behemoths like Philips globally. Next at TBWA she worked variously with Hasbro, developing advertising for mums and kids across Europe; with Sony PlayStation helping keep the brand at the cutting edge of gaming across Europe and Australasia; and with News International on their first foray into the digital world with News Network. After a stint at Lowe as the global account director on Lowe's Unilever personal care business - the Sure-Rexona brand - Liz broadened her skills at Brandhouse working on a mix of strategic and creative projects with brands including Mitchells & Butler's, Johnson and Johnson, De Beers and Moet Hennessy.
At Albion, an integrated advertising agency, Liz is responsible for marketing and commercial best practice with new and existing clients. You can follow her on Twitter @lizwilson101
techpitch 4.5
5th July 2011
The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A
Congratulations to Eventasaurus for winning the pitch competition on both the judges vote and the audience vote! They were followed by MyChoicePad in the runner up position - again on both the judges vote and the audience vote!
Judging panel:
Danvers Baillieu,co-founder of www.bootlaw.com and senior associate at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, representing many web startups and technology companies. You can follow him on Twitter @DanversBaillieuFraser Davidson, CEO and founder of Preparation Capital Limited ('PCL') a growth media and software focussed advisory firm and angel investor hub. Fraser is a marketeer turned investor. Fraser has over 9 years private equity investing experience, at PCL and August Equity LLP, with a particular focus on the media and technology sectors. Prior to his financial career Fraser worked at Renault UK in planning, strategy and marketing and had product management responsibility for the Clio. You can follow him on Twitter @PrepCap
Alex Harvey, Associate at Silicon Valley Bank in London and is responsible for the financial analysis, structuring and management of debt relationships with European technology companies. Alex is part of a team that manages over $160MM in commitments and works closely with SVB portfolio clients including Aepona, The Foundry Visionmongers, PicoChip and Zoopla. Previously Alex was with Samsung Electronics Research Institute where he was responsible for building the European mobile app-store team in addition to conducting market and competitor analysis with a focus on next generation smartphones, tablet devices and digital TV software. Prior to this and after graduating with a BA (Hons) from Nottingham University Alex worked in management consultancy for Accenture’s Technology Solutions division. You can follow him on Twitter @AlexHarvey.
Bindi Karia, Bindi is the VC/Emerging Business lead for Microsoft UK and is the UK member of the Silicon Valley Emerging Business Team. She leads BizSpark and BizSpark One in the UK, where she focuses on how Microsoft can drive success for leading edge and early-stage technology companies. She is also responsible for managing the relationships with the UK Investor Community, including Venture Capitalist, Angels and other Investor Organisations. In addition, Bindi sits on many Advisory Boards, including Seedcamp, Astia UK, The Cambridge Phenomenon and TechMediaInvest. You can follow her on Twitter @bindik
Rodolfo Rosini, CEO of Namaste Entertainment and currently busy disrupting the MMO market. Previously, he founded Cellcrypt, a defense startup and sold it to private investors. He has a background in information security, encryption and playing Warcraft until fingers bleed. LSE dropout. You can follow him on Twitter @rodolfor
Sitar Teli, Sitar joined Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures in 2005. Her investment interests include consumer and B2B Internet companies. Sitar is a board observer on SoundCloud. You can follow her on Twitter @sitar
Pitching companies:
AppsplashEmotion AI
Eventasaurus
Focus Mobile
GoingGoingBike
MoodShare
MyChoicePad
Poikos/Measurecam
The Martingale
25th May 2011
The Auditorium, Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Place, London, EC2A
Congratulations to MarketInvoice for winning the pitch competition! They were closely followed by MinuteBox in second place, and Plancentric in third place.
Judging panel:
Danvers Baillieu,co-founder of www.bootlaw.comand senior associate at law firm Pinsent Masons LLP, representing many web startups and technology companiesMegumi Ikeda, executive director at Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC) a $500 million venture capital fund focused on broadband, consumer web, advanced advertising, and enterprise businesses
Eric van der Kleij, CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation
Amine Laouedj, associate at goetzpartners CORPORATE FINANCE, an independent advisory firm covering the Technology, Media and Digital Media spaces across both the US and Europe, and assisting companies and shareholders in fund raisings, exit strategies, disposals and acquisitions
Glenn Shoosmith, founder of Bookingbug
Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson, founder of Silicon Stilettos, VP Marketing at Huddle. Huddle is the leader in cloud collaboration and content management for the enterprise
Grace Yusuf, founder and CEO of KyuBid.coman online dating site that lets you bid for dates. Prior to founding KyuBid, Grace worked as a banker to large financial institutions advising on fixed income financing structures
Pitching companies:
ClickslideDancetothis
Findababysitter.com
Gigaboxx
Intern Avenue
MarketInvoice
MinuteBox
Plancentric
Toolsofdirecting
Photos
Photos from previous techpitch 4.5 events are available on FlickrTo view slideshow of photos from techpitch 4.5 click here
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