Introduction to Tomorrow Croydon
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• Agreements with world class training partners Free:Formers, General Assembly and Apps for Good • Courses taught by professional outfits • Learn tech and R&D, sales and marketing, finance, team building and HR • Offered to companies working in the space, young people from the local community and anyone else wanting to develop their skills • Mixing the best talent across technology, media and arts • Featuring world renowned artists, up and coming artists • BRIT school partnership, collaborate with the best UK music talent • Because it makes people happy, energised, and gives a real purpose • Networking, demo days, pitch events, social events, art shows, music events • State of the art events space • Real mentors, with real track records, no kids or blue sky thinkers • Mentors committed to active support, not just showing up for a speech slot . Not (another) desk rental business . We attract the most talented entrepreneurs and technology inventors . We work with SME and BigCorp to lead innovation projects that actuall matter to THEM. Demonstrable track record of building innovative world leading tech businesses . We have the best network of technology CEO with outstanding track records . We have direct access to over 500 relevant investors, privates and institutionals. • 21,000 sq ft dedicated space (UK largest), split over 2 floors • 300 co-working desks • 10 private offices for more established companies • 150 standing presentation area • 3 kitchen areas with seating area • 3 indoor gardens • Art & Digital showcase • Organic Café , with tons of space to relax • Digital Tech showcase • Revolving digital art gallery • Lounge and play areas • 2 Board rooms, 4 Meeting rooms • Multi-skilled, multi-sector, multi-cultural and multi-background work environment • Constant cross-pollination through events, sponsors, challenges and fun teams • Free desks for the most talented and deserving • Co-working desks, team spaces and private offices for rent • Designed to promote innovation, collaboration and team building across Tech, Media and Arts Adele Amy Winehouse Leona Lewis Jessie J Imogen Heap Kate Nash Katy B Ella Eyre Katie Melua Lynden David Hall Noisettes (Dan Smith and Shingai Shoniwa) Another Level (Dane Bowers &Wayne Williams) The Feeling (Dan Gillespe-Selles) The Kooks (Paul Garred, Hugh Harris and Luke Pritchard) • PARTNERED WITH RISE ART - WORLD RENOWNED ART EXPERTS • REVOLVING ART GALLERY: ART ON ROTATION • ART WILL BE CURATED AND SUPPLIED BY OUR PARTNERS • YOUNG ARTISTS FROM CROYDON • SHOWCASE, BE SEEN, SELL ARTWORKS • FOCUS ON MODERN & DIGITAL ART TECH, R&D FINANCE TEAM CULTURE SALES & IP & LEGAL & WELL-BEING MARKETING TECH, R&D FINANCE TEAM, CULTURE & SALES & IP & LEGAL WELL-BEING MARKETING • Information architecture • Funding sources & types • Key Tools & KPIs • Legal essentials • Data driven UX on a • Channels & Distribution • Termsheet 101 • What’s the right investor • budget First hires • Funnel conversion Analytics • Shareholder agreements for your business • • UX and UI principles Name tags: what titles when • Marketing Comms and • Board • How investors evaluate, • • Programming classes Culture 101 story-telling, not PR • Employment contracts what they look for • Remuneration vs Motivation • Data analytics class • • Social Marketing class Term sheet and valuation • Different teams for different • Hacking APIs & SDK class • • Online Customer Acquisition Compulsory data sets stages • Massive scale architecture • Pitching class concepts and proven class • Board: building and running a models • Agile & Scrum class successful board • (CPM CPC CPA PPC SEM SEO • Ruby on Rails, jQuery, • Best practice class & Native) MongoDB, noSQL, Hadoop, Cassandra… VALUE ADDED SERVICES . TRAINING CLASSES, COURSES & EVENTS . BUSINESS GROWTH SURGERY . Delivered by industry professionals, not academia . Advisory services, M&A, fundraising support, network teachers introductions, free of charge Technical, business, finance, HR . Booked by the hour, open shared calendar, provided by . Social skills, Team building and retention, Well-being our team and advisors. FULL SERVICE STACK, IN-HOUSE. MENTORSHIP . HR, Legal, Accounting, Video & Media production, creative & design, UX/UI, Development, Test bench . Built from our own, global network of senior tech Execs, investors and top 20 VC firms . Uber/GetTaxi/Maaxxi, organic farmer deliveries, Amazon Lockers, Healing and Well Being . MAKE & SHARE . INVESTOR MEETUPS . Community projects, social programmes, group . Quarterly Demo Days, Investor Days every semester activities . 250+ direct contacts, globally . On/off site events . ACCELERATION PROGRAMMES . Develop something for the local community, teach a . Two accelerator programmes per year group, art classes . SOCIAL EVENT CALENDAR . Member voted, not dictated . Live music, art classes . Well-being, meditation, yoga . Food, organic farming, allotment planning IN-HOUSE SERVICES . Web Design . UI & UX . Customer Acquisition Agency . Server Administration . Software Development . Web Hosting . Cloud Storage . Video . HEALTH & WELL-BEING . Well-being for performance . Mindfulness at work . Choice of Apps and tools . Bike racks, showers, Yoga classes, mindfulness classes. 3 RUSSEL BUCKLEY AYELET ELSTEIN MD Europe at AdMob (sold to Google for $750m) Chief Revenue Officer, TONDO Ex-Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association Member of the Board, Artangel Active angel investor (70+ investments) Ran BFAMI (British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel ) FRED COURT GERD LEONARD FELIX Capital, ex-partner Advent Ventures, private investor ‘one of the leading futurists in the World’ (Wall Street Journal, 2006) “Investor of the Year” in 2012 CEO of The Futures Agency Invested in Zong, Fizzback, Dailymotion, Qype, … 5 books including best-seller “The Future of Music” (2002) STEPHANE KURGAN TORBEN MAJGAARD Proven tech CEO and Angel investor COO at King.com Founder and CEO at Ciklum, a 2500-person software development 20+ years executive management in tech company McKinsey & Co. JENNIFER HICKS ANDY CHUNG European Tech correspondent at Forbes Runs Europe at AngelList, the No1 US Peer-to-Peer funding network. Director of Content & Strategy of AlbionDrive. Co-founder WhatsInMyHandbag (online beauty community and magazine ) Top100 Women in Tech, Europe (2012) Associate, Eden Ventures (London VC) CARL SCHREITER MARK HIRSCHFIELD Executive Coach – Communications Ex-Corporate Internet lawyer (PartyGaming IPO) 19 years coaching CEOs and Technology Leaders of Then serial entrepreneur, built and successfully exited two Tech companies Fortune500, global Telco, MNOs Co-founded Zugo, Europe’s largest distributor for Microsoft’s search engine FREE:FORMERS TIMBERYARD GENERAL RISE ART BRIT SCHOOL • Help companies drive • Multiple award-winning ASSEMBLY • Revolving Art gallery: • Europe’s leading digital transformation organic Café. • Global community of Art on rotation Performing Arts School • Teach practical tech • Turned into one the individuals sharing • Art will be curated and • Alumni include Adele, skills to anyone – not most successful co- practical knowledge and supplied by our Jessie J, Rizzle Kicks Tech. working spaces in East teaching others. partners and loads more • 1-to-1: every business End. • Wide range of products • Young artists from person trained pays for on offer Croydon an unemployed young • Web development, • Showcase, be seen, sell person for free, helps startup 101, Data Artworks them get a job Science, Digital • Focus on modern & • Multiple award winner Marketing and more digital art . 12+ YEARS IN OPERATIONAL ROLES, BUILDING TECH COMPANIES . From startup to IPO (twice) . Product management, sales and marketing, Executive Management . 15+ YEARS IN VENTURE CAPITAL & VENTURE INVESTMENT BANKING. EQUATE PARTNERS. Founder and General Partner. Corporate Finance, fundraising, M&A, strategic sale advisory . INCUBATION & ACCELERATION TRACK RECORD. SPEED VENTURES, Europe’s largest accelerator with 26 companies . UK incubator on Old St roundabout, Shoreditch. 2 floors. DIRECT, CURRENT, ACTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH . Top 50 VC funds . 200+ investment organisations, globally. General Partner at Accel Partners, No1 VC firm in London . 15+ years in Venture Capital . SeedCamp: first investor, helped build the company from scratch, on the board for 5 years. Key Mentor and Investor in Techstars Boston . No1 investor in Techstars companies for 2012-2014 . Zoopla, investor + Board member from seed to IPO . Track record of success investing in UK and European startups including Zoopla, PriceMinister, DailyMotion, Secret Escapes, Deliveroo, CurrencyCloud and more. One of the UK’s most active entrepreneurs for Good. Builds businesses that are profitable, valuable and have social good built in . Founder Techlightenment - first automated ad and data platform for Facebook in the world 2007-2011 (bought by Experian Group) . Founder Peer Ltd (bought by TweetDeck/Twitter) . Founder Western Consulting (£1m turnover, no funding ) . Founder Listen Marketing SaaS marketing analytics . Founder Freeformers - the digital transformation company. Founder Code&Canvas . Steering Board Duke of York IDEA (to help 1 million young entrepreneurs in the UK) . On the board of Apps For Good, Maker Wharf, Venture Spring, I Can Make, Booking Bug . Steering Board iRights.uk - 5 digital rights for kids . Investor in Timberyard Coffee, Mews of Mayfair, Citymapper, YPlan, Sleepio (Big Health), Streetlife & Playmob . Baron Knight of Weymouth . Member of the House of Lords . MP for South Dorset from