London’s Tech Scene At a glance Welcome

Welcome to London – one of the world’s leading A unique blend of talent, investment, reach and technology hubs and Europe’s biggest startup innovation makes London a world leader in tech. ecosystem1. London’s tech scene: at a glance has been created to help you navigate this exciting Talent and innovation International reach ecosystem and find the best ways to expand your Four of the world’s top ten universities are in There are more European headquarters in business here. London and nearby Oxford and Cambridge 2, London than in any other European city 4, providing companies with a unique access giving you unbeatable access to major to talent. international contracts and projects. We’ve pinpointed tech hotspots and clusters, Inside you’ll also find resources to help you Entrepreneur-friendly visas make helping you work out whether to set up close spot opportunities and trends, secure staff London excels in tech research and devel- it easy to migrate from around to giants such as Google or Amazon, on the and partners, pitch to investors and win new opment and big data, while hybrid sectors the world. doorstep of potential investors and clients, business. London & Partners wishes you the such as AdTech, CyberTech, FinTech, Med- or in one of the many buzzy accelerators, greatest success in this remarkable world city. Tech and RetailTech offer huge opportunities A growing city incubators and low-cost collaboration hubs for global professionals to relocate. The number of digital across the city. tech enterprises in Major investment London is set to grow by London attracted significantly more venture a third by 2026, taking capital investment than any other major the number of digital European city in 2017 3. As the world’s technology companies to We“ felt that we needed enthusiastic, vibrant, financial centre, London offers exceptional over 61,000. innovative talent and London really has that. access to angel investors, crowdfunding platforms, banks and experienced VCs and corporate venturers. Visit gov.uk for infor- Box mation on the tax breaks and investment schemes available.

1 Compass’ The Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2017 2 QS World University Rankings 2018 3 London & Partners analysis of data from Pitchbook, December 2017 4 , 2014. 2 Lee Valley Park Parliament Gladstone Hill Park Hackney Hackney Marsh

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West Ham Community 27 Park A snapshot of technology, Camden Victoria media and telecommunications Park Newham 9 28 Tower companies in London. Regent’s Park 55 24 Hamlets 42 95 40 15 13 72 44 83 70 49 1 105 67 99 106 88 3 Wormwood 94 52 79 64 Scrubs 8 50 33 41 34 35 104 20 56 22 76 68 71 23 10 61 78 37 CITY 107 31 58 113 47 111 110 17 7 82 14 43 16 66 77 87 98 2 69 45 100 115 38 46 19 103 80 36 53 108 89 96 97 51 65 109 26 116 92 60 6 48 86 74 5 54 93 91 81 75 Hyde Park 21 101 39 59 Kensington 32 73 29 62 Gardens 18 63

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1 Adobe 17 Capgemini 32 dotmailer 48 Gett 63 79 OpenTable 95 Songkick 109 Unruly 2 Adyen 18 Chariot 33 Dropbox 49 Glassdoor 64 Interxion 80 Palantir 96 Sony Computer 110 VodafoneGreenwich 3 Airbnb 19 China Mobile 34 DueDil Battersea50 GoCardless 65 iZettle Southwark 81 PayPal Entertainment 111 Wipro Woolwich Park Greenwich Common 4 Alcatel-Lucent 20 Cisco 35 Early Metrics 51 Google 66 Just Eat 82 Pinterest 97 Spotify 112 ParkWorldRemit 5 Alibaba 21 Citymapper 36 eBay 52 HelloFresh 67 Kano 83 Pivotal 98 Square 113 WP Engine 99 Stack Overflow 6 Alipay 22 CocoonBishop’s Networks 37 EE 53 HCL 68 Kaspersky 84 Plexal 114 YOOX Net-a-Porter 7 Amazon 23 CriteoPark 38 Electronic Arts 54 HootSuite 69 King 85 Qualcomm 100 Stripe Group 8 Appcoach 24 Decoded 39 eToro 55 Houzz 70 Kiosked 86 Revolut 101 Tableau Software 115 Zendesk 9 ASOS 25 Deezer 40 Etsy 56 HP 71 Klarna 87 Salesforce 102 TATA Consultancy 116 Zomato Services 10 Atos 26 Deliveroo 41 Eventbrite 57 Hutchison Whampoa 72 Last.fm 88 Scalable Capital 103 Telefonica Digital 11 Babylon Health 27 Devialet 42 Expedia 58 Huawei Global Finance 73 LG International 89 SAP (Telefonica Innovation) 12 Blippar 28 DeepMind 43 Facebook 59 IBM 74 LinkedIn 90 Shazam 104 Theodo 13 Box 29 Digital Shadows 44 FarFetch 60 ILM (Industrial Light & 75 Mangopay 91 Siemens 105 TransferWise Magic) 14 BT 30 Discovery 45 FON 76 Microsoft 92 Snap Inc. 106 Twilio Communications 61 Improbable 15 busuu 46 Framestore 77 NTT Europe 93 Sky 107 Twitter 31 Dolby 62 Infosys 16 BuzzFeed 47 General Assembly 78 Okta 94 Slack 108 Uber Spitalfields

Explore 14 Brick Lane Market Top tip! Starting at King’s Cross or Stratford our 15 The Old Truman Brewery E1 6QL By foot or public transport, 16 Second Home Spitalfields E1 5JL London is easy to get around. half day tour will take you through some For more on transport visit: of London’s tech hotspots. 17 General Assembly London E1 7PT tfl.gov.uk DLR to Canary Wharf

King’s Cross Shoreditch Canary Wharf

6 The Hoxton EC2A 4DP 18 Level39 One Canada Square E14 5AB Stratford 1 Eurostar terminal EC1R 5EY 19 7 Rise London EC2A 4DP DLR to Stratford 2 Kings Place N1 9AG

8 Central Working Shoreditch EC2A 4BX 3 DeepMind N1C 4AG Stratford 9 Campus London, includes TechHub and 4 Digital Catapult NW1 2RA 19 Here East, includes Plexal, BT Sport, Ford, Seedcamp EC2A 4BX London Cyber Innovation Centre E20 3BS 5 The Francis Crick Institute NW1 1AT 10 IDEALondon EC2A 2BB 45 or 46 bus to Clerkenwell Road 11 Open Data Institute EC2A 4JE Rosebery Avenue 12 BOXPARK E1 6GY Canary Wharf 13 Tea Building E1 6JJ King’s Cross Walk to Spitalfieds

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London’s thriving tech scene at a glance. Grab a coffee Finding tech talent

More than just a great brew: enjoy one of the London offers the best tech talent in Europe. Talent and innovation Major Annual Events capital’s best coffees and check out the tech Find developers skilled in everything from community. ASP. net to Z/OS, and specialists in every ad:tech London Find partners, clients, funders and new ideas other discipline under the sun. london.ad-tech.com Allpress Espresso at hundreds of tech events and meet-ups uk.allpressespresso.com Advertising Week Europe Graduate Talent Pool across London. graduatetalentpoolsearch.direct.gov.uk europe.advertisingweek.com Caravan Campus London caravanrestaurants.co.uk Bett London Startup Jobs campus.co/london/en londonstartupjobs.co.uk bettshow.com Federation Coffee StartupDigest federation.coffee Cloud Expo Europe Propel startupdigest.com/digests/london propellondon.com cloudexpoeurope.com Kaffeine Tech Nation kaffeine.co.uk Infosecurity Silicon Milkroundabout technation.io siliconmilkroundabout.com infosecurityeurope.com Lantana TechHub lantanacafe.co.uk The Europas SpecialistsGrid london.techhub.com/events specialistsgrid.com theeuropas.com look mum no hands! Tech.London events lookmumnohands.com The London Games Festival Stack Overflow tech.london/events stackoverflow.com/jobs games.london MakersCafe UK Tech News makerscafe.com London Tech Week Tech City Jobs uktech.news/events techcityuk.com/jobs londontechweek.com Origin origincoffee.co.uk NOAH Internet Conference Talent Pool talentpool.com noah-conference.com Ozone Coffee Roasters ozonecoffee.co.uk PayExpo Unicorn Hunt unicornhunt.io payexpo.com/europe Shoreditch Grind grind.co.uk Social Media Week Work InStartups workinstartups.com socialmediaweek.org/london The Breakfast Club thebreakfastclubcafes.com TechX365 techx365.com Workshop Coffee Co. workshopcoffee.com Wearable Technology Show wearabletechnologyshow.net

8 9 JLAB The Bakery John Lewis technology incubator The world’s first AdTech accelerator jlab.co.uk thebakerylondon.com

Launch22 The Hoxton Mix Helps early stage entrepreneurs grow their hoxtonmix.com enterprise The Realities Centre launch22.co.uk realitiescentre.com LawTech Eagle Lab The Trampery labs.uk./lawtech Spaces for entrepreneurship, creativity and Level39 innovation Europe’s largest technology accelerator space for thetrampery.com finance, retail, cyber and future cities technology TrueStart companies Retail and fashion accelerator level39.co truestart.co.uk MassChallenge Accelerators, incubators and The most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet co-working spaces masschallenge.org Find big brand mentors, sources of funding and a roadmap to success at these Plexal accelerators and incubators. Or set up office in some of the coolest co-working Europe’s largest innovation ecosys- spaces on the planet. tem on the site of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park plexal.com

Barclays Accelerator Dreamstake Ventures Rise FinTech accelerator powered by Techstars dreamstakeventures.com FinTech community of rising barclaysaccelerator.com startups and industry leaders Founders Factory thinkrise.com Breed Reply foundersfactory.com Funds and supports Internet of Things startups Rocketspace GCHQ Cyber Accelerator reply.com Co-working space for high- Developing the UK’s cybersecurity ecosystem growth startups Campus London through accelerating innovative startups rocketspace.com Wayra Google’s space for entrepreneurs wayra.co.uk/gchq Telefonica’s startup accelerator programme campuslondon.com Startupbootcamp IDEALondon includes Wayra UnLtd For global startups Central Working UCL and Cisco run Post Accelerator wayra.co.uk startupbootcamp.org Your business is more than just a job, this is more idea-london.co.uk White Bear Yard than just an office TechHub Impact Hub Hub for new startup and digital technology and centralworking.com Spaces around the world for tech entrepreneurs to For social entrepreneurship media companies meet, work, learn and collaborate Collider impacthub.net whitebearyard.com techhub.com Accelerator dedicated to marketing & adtech Innovation Warehouse startups Techstars For entrepreneurs working on high growth, high collider.io Global ecosystem for entrepreneurs impact startup businesses techstars.com/program/locations/london CyLon innovationwarehouse.org World-leading cybersecurity accelerator cylonlab.com

10 11 Useful resources

CoWorkingLondon London Business Growth Hub coworkinglondon.com growthhub.london

Creative Entrepreneurs StartUp Britain creativeentrepreneurs.co startupbritain.org

Department for International Trade (DIT) Tech Connect gov.uk/dit tech-connect.co

Digital Catapult Tech Nation digital.catapult.org.uk technation.io

Digital Marketplace Tech.London digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk tech.london

Entrepreneur Handbook techUK entrepreneurhandbook.co.uk techuk.org Co-working space listings News and blogs GROW.LONDON Tech London Advocates Triage

grow.london techlondonadvocates.org.uk/get-involved CoWorkingLondon Stay ahead of the digital curve with these Innovate Finance coworkinglondon.com news updates from around Europe and the The Open Data Institute innovatefinance.com globe. theodi.org Hubble Innovate UK UKIE Easy online marketplace for finding office space Business Insider UK innovateuk.org ukie.org.uk in London uk.businessinsider.com hubblehq.com Growth Business Second Home growthbusiness.co.uk Workplace for entrepreneurs and creative businesses to come together startups secondhome.io startups.co.uk

WeWork Tech.eu Provider of shared workspace, community, and tech.eu/newsletter services Tech City News wework.com uktech.news

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12 13 Find out more For practical information on how to set up your “If you’re serious about business in London, visit our website or contact us growing internationally, for free and confidential advice. London has to be at the very [email protected] London & Partners is the official top of your list. +44 (0)20 7234 5800 promotional company for London. business.london/invest Our specialist business network twitter: @L_Pbusiness can help you:

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