Our mission is to help digital tech companies grow through a series of programmes, research and events aimed at building a pipeline of high-growth businesses, raising the profile of the sector, and providing a feedback loop from business to government to help shape policy. We also work to eliminate the issues that hold back startups such as skills and access to finance. Managing finance in online casinos is crucial for a sustainable gaming experience. Players should set budgets and track their spending. Non Gamstop casinos bonus, enhances bankrolls and extends playtime. Utilizing these bonuses wisely helps maximize potential winnings while maintaining control over personal finances in a secure gaming environment.
What we do:
- Help companies grow and scale through business lifecycle programmes
- Promote opportunities in the UK to talented tech workers and founders wherever they are
- Equip individuals with the skills they need to work in digital or start a business
- Share insightful data, knowledge, insight and stories on the sector
- Connect founders, startups, corporates and others to build networks
Why we do it:
- Grow the pipeline of digital tech businesses in the UK
- Tackle sector issues that hinder the success of digital tech businesses
- Sharing knowledge raises standards and inspires others
- Raise the profile of the UK’s digital tech sector and the businesses within it
- Inform government policy to help businesses grow
How we do it:
- Programmes – aimed at specific business stages from aspiring and early to scaling
- Research, data and insight
- Editorial, campaigns, media
- Events and community engagement
From 2010 to now…
Our story began in Shoreditch in 2010, launched by the then Prime Minister David Cameron, to support the East London tech cluster known as London Tech City or Silicon Roundabout. Since then we’ve been on a journey and have spread our activities to cover other parts of the UK including setting up Tech North to run programmes across the North of England.
To launch our Tech Nation 2017 report we toured of some of the UK’s leading city clusters to highlight how the digital tech sectors in those cities are growing. Ecosystems are developing right across the UK and some amazing companies and products are being developed as a result.
We’re here to accelerate this growth and connect these networks.
Our Team
Gerard Grech
Chief Executive Officer
MB Christie
Chief Operating Officer
Caroline Rae
Commercial Director
Parveen Dhanda
Future Fifty Programme Lead
Heika Fu
Head of Products, Digital Skills
Jos Smart
Upscale Programme Lead
Paul Abbott
Tech Lead
Maria Palmieri
Government Relations Lead
Davina Yanful
Events Lead
Reiz Evans
Senior Business Performance & Operations Manager
Francesca Cahill
Research Manager
Ben Cave
Learning Lead
Frances Hemingway
Financial Controller
Eloise Seriau
Future Fifty Programme Manager
Ugne Sapezinskaite
Events & Partnerships Manager
Ben Wackett
Marketing Executive
Stephan Kuester
Head of International Consulting
George Windsor
Senior Insights Manager
Carol Dametto
Operations & Portfolio Coordinator
April Williams
Talent Manager
Vicki Shiel
Head of Content
Laura Coffey
Head of Fintech
Gregoire Michel
Fintech Senior Programme Manager
Orla Browne
Marketing Manager
Jack Preece
Learning Creator
Nicola Clarke
Executive Assistant
Sinead Daly
Upscale Programme Manager
Tech City UK Board
Our board reflect the ethos of the organisation and the sector audience that it serves. Our board members include tech founders, investors and thought leaders in the digital, financial and creative fields. We are grateful that they work on a pro-bono arrangement, reflecting their strong belief in the organisation’s cause and overall mission.
Board Members
Robin Klein
Managing Partner, LocalGlobe & ex-venture Partners, Index Ventures
Eileen Burbidge
Partner, Passion Capital & Chair Tech City UK
Herb Kim
Thinking Digital, Newcastle & Interim Head of Tech North
Tim Luke
Vice Chairman, Tech Media Telecom Group, Barclays
Wendy Tan-White
Partner, BGF Ventures, London
Gerard Grech
CEO and Board Member
Entrepreneur Advisory Panel
Alex Chesterman
CEO of Zoopla & Entrepreneur Advisor
David Buttress
CEO of Just-Eat & Entrepreneur Advisor
Lesley Eccles
Co-Founder of FanDuel & Entrepreneur Advisor
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder of Deep Mind & Entrepreneur Advisor
Riccardo Zacconi
CEO of King.com & Entrepreneur Advisor
Sarah Wood
Co-CEO of Unruly Media & Entrepreneur Advisor
Taavet Hinrikus
CEO of Transferwise & Entrepreneur Advisor
Our Vision and Culture
We are a small, high performance team with high standards and big ambitions.
We strive for excellence in everything we do. Our aim is to be transformative and collaborative in our work. We focus on speed, scale, smart resourcefulness and unbounded optimism. We never ship junk and never start with ‘no’. We’re solution oriented and always focus on the outcome and the impact of any project or priority.
We’re a curious bunch, creative and a little quirky. We debate things passionately in team meetings and stand-ups. We agree and disagree on how the world should work, but we all agree on making a big difference through our work at Tech City UK. Which is why we love it here and never take it for granted.
If you’re interested in working here, drop us a line. Come with ideas, imagination, a strong work ethic and commitment to make a difference.
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Our Impact
We use a variety of indicators to measure our activities and impact. Each programme such as Digital Business Academy, Future Fifty, or Tech Nation has a set of activity KPIs associated with it (for example Digital Business Academy KPIs include number of course registrations, number of course completions, number of rewards granted; while Future Fifty looks at the number of issues resolved via the concierge service and the number of introductions made).
We are both publicly and privately funded. We receive public funding from the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media & Sport. Our funding from government for 2016-17 is £2.1million. This represents roughly 80% of our funding. The rest is generated from sponsorship and paid-for educational programmes like Tech Immersion.
Tech City UK impact: October 2014 – onwards
January 2018: 37 of the UK’s fastest-growing mid-stage tech companies joined Upscale 2018.
January 2018: The Tech Nation survey was launched – We asked tech entrepreneurs across the country to have their say on the challenges and opportunities facing them and their businesses in their area, to inform the Tech Nation Report 2018.
December 2017: Fintech For All: Report – A review of the key findings from the applications to the Fintech For All competition.
December 2017: Tech Nation Talks: Failure – Fail fast, learn young? Tech Business Failure in the UK.
December 2017: Tech Nation Talent: Part 2 – Exploring Tech Skills in the UK.
November 2017: The Digital Business Academy has gone bitesized – We’ve relaunched our online learning platform in to 56 bitesized courses.
November 2017: Fintech For All final – Introducing the winners of our Fintech For All competition.
November 2017: Tech Nation Talks with Eric Ries
November 2017: Hello Tech Nation – The Prime Minister and Chancellor announce £21 million in funding to transform Tech City UK and Tech North in to Tech Nation.
November 2017: Future Fifty at Five – applications open to our late-stage growth programme.
October 2017: Tech City UK announces partnership with Founders Pledge, to help make philanthropists out of tech entrepreneurs.
October 2017: Tech Nation Talent report, part 1. The first of four, monthly reports on talent in the UK digital tech sector is published; part 1 focusses on the nationality of workers in UK tech.
October 2017: Fintech Delivery Panel vision. Guiding principles set out.
October 2017: Upscale 3.0, call for applications. Seeking the next 30 star UK scaleups for our established growth programme.
October 2017: Tech Nation Talks launched. A new talk series, focussed on key topics of importance to the tech industry, such as culture, failure and mental health.
September 2017: ‘Cross-channel cooperation’. We travelled to Paris with Upscale and Future Fifty alumni, and other UK founders and innovators to meet French counterparts.
September 2017: Fintech For All competition opens. Tech City UK launches a competition to find the best fintech companies helping to make financial services work for everyone.
August 2017: ‘Managing your own psychology is the number one challenge founders face’. We launched a knowledge-sharing series with Upscale alumni founders.
August 2017: Upscale cohort become Upscale alumni. After six months of growth workshops, 33 scaleups graduate the Series A growth programme.
July 2017: ‘Europe is raising its tech game. That’s great news for the UK.’ – Gerard Grech, on Europe scaling together.
July 2017: Tech Nation Visa Alumni Network launched, providing networking opportunities, support, and advice for its members.
June 2017: Tech City UK, founding member of Touchpaper. The not-for-profit Touchpaper project offers a free toolkit to help startups and corporates work together.
June 2017: ‘Tech Nation 2022 survey results’ – we asked the industry where they see the UK digital tech sector in 5 years time.
May 2017: ‘Surging tech is set to take on the world’ – Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech discusses the optimistic future for our digital economy.
May 2017: Applications quadruple for the Tech Nation Visa Scheme
April 2017: The Founder to Founder series from Tech City UK is released. A series of informal discussions on growing your business from 10 CEOs.
April 2017: High demand for visas as the Tech Nation Visa scheme enters it’s fourth year
April 2017: innogy Innovation Hub Report 2017 from Tech City UK, innogy and Seedcamp is released, revealing the startup’s investment Needs
March 2017: The Tech Nation report 2017 is released, as salaries surge across the UK for ‘twice as productive’ tech workers
February 2017: Announcing the 26 new companies joining the Future Fifty programme
February 2017: Tech City UK and partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati announce ‘Expansion to the US’ series. Advice on how to take your business across the Atlantic
January 2017: Tech City UK partners with Innogy UK Innovation Hub and Seedcamp to understand startup investment needs
January 2017: 33 of the UK’s Most Promising Tech Companies Join Upscale 2017
January 2017: UK Tech sector reacts to the Prime Minister’s Modern Industrial Strategy
January 2017: Tech City UK FinTech delivery panel is finalised, including 24 industry experts.
December 2016: Tech Immersion from Tech City UK is announced. Providing corporates and SME employees with the opportunity to learn key knowledge about the digital tech sector
November 2016: Tech City UK & HM Treasury Announce FinTech Delivery Panel
November 2016: What does the Autumn statement mean for the UK tech sector?
November 2016: Tech City UK release Tech Nation 2017 survey, giving those in the sector their say on the state of our digital economy
November 2016: ‘UK Tech Sector Ready for Post Brexit Challenge’ – Tech City UK CEO Gerard Grech
November 2016: Applications open for Future Fifty and Upscale classes of 2017
October 2016: Tech City UK Partners With UKActive & AXA on ActiveLab Accelerator
October 2016: Future Fifty Founders urge UK Government to consider access to tech talent in the wake of Brexit
October 2016: The Tech Nation Visa Scheme in numbers
September 2016: The #StartupStack from Tech City UK and Stripe is here
July 2016: Northern Stars 2016 opens for applications
July 2016: The first 30 companies graduate from Tech City UK’s pilot Upscale programme
July 2016: Tech City UK surveys over 1,200 members of the digital business community in first reaction to the Brexit result
June 2016: Tech City UK turns five years old and holds a large community gathering in the centre of London
June 2016: The first Tech Nation: Best Practice report is launched in partnership with Hackney Council
June 2016: Tech City UK partners with Stripe to uncover the ‘Startup Stack’ – tools most commonly used by growing UK startups
June 2016: London Technology Week in partnership with London & Partners takes place across the capital
May 2016: Digital Powerhouse report launched by Tech North to showcase the power of the digital economy in the North of England
May 2016: Tech Nation Visa event held at the Digital Catapult to help potential applicants with any queries they may have
April 2016: Survey of the UK’s digital business community from Tech City UK reveals majority want to remain in the EU.
March 2016: Trade mission to SxSW with 20 UK-based companies and entrepreneurs who were winners of the Northern Stars programme as well as Tech Nation contributors
March 2016: 3 policy roundtables with companies from Upscale and Future Fifty and the insurance community regarding the growth of the digital economy via topics like talent, investment, infrastructure and regulation.
March 2016: Inaugural dinner for new Future Fifty companies at the National Gallery with speakers; the Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy Ed Vaizey, and Andy Bound.
February 2016: Launch of Tech Nation 2016 the second edition of the most comprehensive analysis of the UK’s digital industries.
Jan 2016: Launch of world class leadership mentorship programme Upscale with football legend Rio Ferdinand (ex England and Manchester United football captain) and youngest Arctic solo explorer Ben Saunders.
December 2015: The UK’s diverse tech ecosystem is boosted by 15 new Future Fifty companies who join the existing cohort.
December 2015: Tech City UK roundtables – Tech City UK convenes digital business community for series of roundtables on a wide range of issues
November 2015: CHOGM 2015 – Leading UK Tech Companies Inspire Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta
November 2015: HardTalk from Tech City UK & Hardware Club – Tech City UK & Hardware Club bring together some of the finest hardware & IoT companies in Europe
November 2015: Launch of TechLink – TechLink partnership announced between Estonia and the UK as part of D5
November 2015: 20,000 Digital Business Academy users – 20,000 UK sign-ups to use free DBA courses online
November 2015: Tech Nation Visa Scheme goes live – the Tech Nation Visa process goes live to improve hiring routes for UK digital businesses
November 2015: Launch of Upscale – a 6 month pilot programme for Series A digital businesses in the UK
November 2015: Northern Stars winners announced – 10 winners of the first Northern Stars competition crowned
October 2015: Tech City UK & Silicon Drinkabout – community get together at the launch of Bounce Ping Pong
October 2015: Tech City UK unveils Tech Nation Visa Scheme – an evolution of the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent scheme to help attract top tech talent from outside the EU
October 2015: Tech North Advisory Board – announcement of Tech North Advisory Board
September 2015: Launch of Tech North and Northern Stars – Tech North announce the first Northern Stars competition to highlight growing tech businesses across seven Northern cities – Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Hull, Newcastle and Sunderland
September 2015: Eileen Burbidge announced as Tech City UK Chair, alongside brand new Entrepreneur Advisory Panel.
July 2015: Downing Street Breakfast – Tech City UK convenes breakfast debate at Number 10 Downing Street between digital businesses and policy makers
July 2015: Future Fifty Holacracy Dinner – Future Fifty companies contemplate the Holacracy management method with the founder
June 2015: Tech City UK convenes Digital Single Market discussion between businesses and policy makers
May 2015: Baroness Joanna Shields steps down to take on new role as Secretary of State for internet security and safety
May 2015: Itay Talgam Future Fifty Dinner – Future Fifty companies gain leadership mentoring from Itay Talgam
April 2015: 12,000 Digital Business Academy users – 12,000 UK sign-ups to use free DBA courses online
March 2015: Tech North leaders announced – Tech City UK announces Head and Chair of Tech North
February 2015: Winners of IoT Launchpad unveiled – Tech City UK unveils the seven winners of the IoT Launchpad competition
February 2015: Launch of Tech Nation – the first comprehensive analysis of the clusters powering the UK’s digital economy
February 2015: Launch of HQ-UK in New York – Joanna Shields and Boris Johnson announce HQ-UK initiative to demonstrate the benefits of having a UK HQ for digital businesses
December 2014: New Future Fifty companies – 12 new companies are welcomed onto the Future Fifty programme, as 12 graduate
November 2014: Future Fifty report: companies generate £2.1bn revenue and 15,000 jobs for digital sector
November 2014: Launch of Digital Business Academy – a free online set of courses to teach you how to start, run or join a digital business
September 2014: Future Fifty callout – launch of callout for new companies to join the Future Fifty programme
Press about us:
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Tech City UK’s search for the “big hitters” of the start-up scene has begun for 2018
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Surging UK tech is poised to take on the world
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UK tech visas quadruple after applications soar
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Tech sector growing faster than UK economy with 72pc of investment outside London
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Tech workers are twice as productive for the UK economy
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Tech Nation 2017 Report: Digital salaries reach £50k a year
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26 new “rising stars” of tech join Future Fifty programme
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Meet the 33 tech startups set for stardom
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Tech Immersion course available from Tech City UK
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Applications for UK tech visas soar after Government relaxes rules
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Tech City UK to deliver on Treasury’s fintech measures
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Gerard Grech discusses the UK’s need for tech talent…Quickly!
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Gerard Grech discusses the Impact of Brexit on UK Business
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Five key stats from the UK’s Tech Nation report
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UK digital tech industry rockets
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UK’s digital industries growing 32pc faster than wider economy
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Digital tech employees are offered 36% higher wage than UK average
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Skype founder on speed dial for start-ups as part of new Tech City UK initiative
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Gerard Grech speaks to City AM on how the next Mayor of London can utilise UK technology
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Deliveroo and Lost My Name among tech stars likely to make spectacular IPOs
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Deliveroo and Crowdcube join Tech City UK’s rising stars
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Digital firms in Tech City UK’s Future Fifty raise £470m as international expansion increases
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Tech City UK unveils Tech Nation Visa Scheme to help UK tech companies hire top talent from abroad
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Eileen Burbidge to succeed Baroness Joanna Shields as Chair of Tech City UK
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Cities as Platforms: Gerard Grech discusses the potential of creating a digital social contract in Tech Crunch
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Gerard Grech discusses the changing culture of Tech City in the Independent
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From Tech City to Tech Nation: Gerard Grech discuss the UK’s move form a Tech City to a Tech Nation
Press from us:
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Teach yourself to… learn from your peers
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Gender pay differences aren’t driven by confidence
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Future Fifty at five – applications open
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Smart giving for entrepreneurs – Founders Pledge
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The nationality of workers in the UK tech industry – Tech Nation Talent: Part 1
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Fintech Delivery Panel – Vision
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Cross-channel cooperation – Upscale and Future Fifty founders meet French counterparts
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A good founder’s guide to bad VC behaviour
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Upscale 3.0 – Applications open now
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Fintech For All competition opens for applications today!
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Tech Nation Talks: Bad VCs and Bad Founders
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Tech Nation Visa Alumni Network is here!
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Gerard Grech: Europe is raising its tech game. That’s great news for the UK.
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UK Tech in 2022: “We can’t rest on our laurels”
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What will UK tech look like in 2022? Here are the results of our Tech Nation 2022 survey
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Gerard Grech: Surging UK tech set to take on the world
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Applications quadruple for Tech Nation Visa scheme
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Tech Nation 2017: Salaries Surge Across the UK for ‘Twice as Productive’ Tech Workers
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Announcing 26 New Companies Joining Future Fifty in 2017
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33 of the UK’s Most Promising Tech Companies Join Upscale 2017
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Reaction: Modern Industrial Strategy
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The FinTech Delivery Panel
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Introducing: Tech Immersion from Tech City UK
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Announcing the 12 Companies Joining ActiveLab Accelerator
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Tech City UK & HM Treasury Announce FinTech Delivery Panel
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Autumn Statement: What Does it Mean for UK Tech?
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Tech Nation 2017: Make Your Voice Heard!
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Open for Business: UK Tech Sector Ready for Post Brexit Challenge
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Future Fifty and Upscale Applications Now Open
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Future Fifty Founders Urge UK Government to Consider Access to Tech Talent
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The #StartupStack from Tech City UK and Stripe
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Future Fifty Company LoopUp Begins Trading on AIM
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Cause for Optimism as UK Tech Rises to Brexit Challenge
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Digital Economy Bill
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Tech City UK’s Reaction to the Results of the EU Referendum
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Tech City is Five Years Old!
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Tech Nation Best Practice: Promoting Enterprise & Regeneration
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Tech Nation 2016 reveals that digital industries in the UK are growing 32% faster than the rest of the economy
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Tech City UK selects the first 30 digital companies to join Upscale programme
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New Future Fifty Companies Demonstrate Increase in Diversity in the UK Tech Scene
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Britain Scaling: International Expansion Fuels Future Fifty Growth
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Tech City UK Unveils Tech Nation Visa Scheme (Tier 1 Exceptional Talent)
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Tech City UK Builds Out Digital Business Academy as Over 18,000 People Enrol in 10 Months
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We’re delighted to welcome Eileen Burbidge as the new Chair of Tech City UK
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Digital businesses across the UK! Make your voice heard in Tech Nation 2016
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