’S TECH SCENE AT A GLANCE 1 London’s tech scene: at a glance London’s tech scene: at a glance 2 Welcome Welcome to London – one of the world’s leading technology hubs and the global capital of innovation. London’s tech scene: at a glance has been created to help you navigate this exciting ecosystem and find the best ways to expand your business here.

We’ve pinpointed tech hotspots and Inside you’ll also find resources London is one of the world’s leading technology hubs, offering your clusters, helping you work out whether to help you spot opportunities business the fastest route to growth. to set up close to giants such as and trends, secure staff and partners, Google or Amazon, on the doorstep pitch to investors and win new An envied ‘world city’ address International reach, of potential investors and clients, or in business. London & Partners wishes clients and contracts A central London base can be yours. one of the many buzzy accelerators, you the greatest success in this Choose from trendy ex-industrial There are more European headquarters incubators and low-cost collaboration remarkable world city. warehouses, collaborative accelerators in London than in any other European city, hubs springing up across the city. sponsored by big business or space giving you unbeatable access to major surrounded by historical grandeur. international contracts and projects. Entrepreneur-friendly visas make it easy Major investment to migrate from around the world. As the world’s number one financial Collaboration and inspiration centre, London offers unparalleled access to angel investors, crowdfunding Use London’s centres of excellence and platforms, banks and experienced VCs 240,000 digital technology employees* and corporate venturers who can provide to evolve your business and develop access to capital and expertise. You can new revenue streams. London excels also take advantage of UK tax breaks and in tech research and development and investment schemes. Visit gov.uk for big data, while hybrid sectors such as more details. FinTech, InsurTech, MedTech and AdTech offer huge commercial opportunities. *Forecasts prepared for London & Partners by Oxford Economics, October 2016 3 London’s tech scene: at a glance London’s tech scene: at a glance 4

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Clerkenwell 9 Tea Building E1 6JJ 1 Warner Yard 5 Google Campus 10 BOXPARK EC1R 5EY includes TechHub, E1 6HT 2 iMakr – 3d printing Seedcamp, Up Europe EC1R 5AR EC2A 4BX Overground to Tower Gateway 3 White Bear Yard 6 Open Data Institute Explore EC1R 5DF EC2A 4JE 4 Innovation Warehouse 7 Hoxton Hotel EC1A 9PT Starting at Clerkenwell or EC2A 3HU 11 Market our half day tour 55 or 243 bus 8 Ace Hotel 12 The Old Truman to Old Street E1 6JQ Brewery E1 6QR will take you through some of 13 Second Home east London’s tech hotspots. Spitalfields E1 5JL 14 General Assembly Spitalfields London E1 7PT Overground to Shoreditch Tower Gateway High St 11 Shoreditch DLR to Canary Wharf 12 11 Brick 13 Commercial Canary Wharf Old Street Lane 15 Level39 and Level42 Clerkenwell Rivington St 8 One Canada Square Old Street A 7 E14 5AB Great EasternCurtain Rd Street 14 Leonard St Street Farringdon Road 9

Warner St Street High Shoreditch Paul St Tower Gateway 10 1 Bonhill St

Clifton St 3 Road City Shoreditch 15 Clerkenwell Road 5 6 Curtain Rd High St Roseberry Avenue Worship St 2 S Colonnade Farringdon Canary 4 Top tip! Wharf By foot or public Beer o’clock Hungry? transport, London is Check out Stop by Shoreditch Grind easy to get around. for a brew or two. for a quick coffee and a bite to eat. For more on transport exmouth-market.com shoreditchgrind.com visit tfl.gov.uk Canary Wharf

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Level39 Europe’s largest technology accelerator space for finance, retail, cyber and future cities technology companies level39.co

MassChallenge The most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet TechHub TrueStart masschallenge.org Spaces around the world Retail and fashion for tech entrepreneurs accelerator Accelerators, Central Working IDEALondon Plexal to meet, work, learn truestart.co.uk incubators and Your business is more than UCL and Cisco run Post Europe’s largest innovation and collaborate co-working spaces just a job, this is more than Accelerator ecosystem on the site of techhub.com Wayra just an office idea-london.co.uk London’s Queen Elizabeth Telefonica’s startup Find big brand mentors, centralworking.com Olympic Park Techstars accelerator programme sources of funding and Impact Hub plexal.com Global ecosystem for includes Wayra UnLtd a roadmap to success Collider For social entrepreneurship entrepreneurs uk.wayra.org at these accelerators Accelerator dedicated to impacthub.net playhubs techstars.com/program/ and incubators. Or set marketing & adtech startups Co-working space locations/london White Bear Yard up office in some of collider.io Incubus for games industry Hub for new startup the coolest co-working Helps entrepreneurs get entrepreneurs The Bakery and digital technology spaces on the planet. CyLon their business ready for playhubs.com The world’s first AdTech and media companies World-leading cybersecurity accelerator programmes accelerator whitebearyard.com Barclays Accelerator accelerator incubuslondon.com Rise thebakerylondon.com FinTech accelerator cylonlab.com FinTech community of Co-working powered by Techstars Innovation Warehouse rising startups and industry The Trampery space listings barclaysaccelerator.com Dreamstake For entrepreneurs working leaders Spaces for dreamstake.net on high growth, high impact thinkrise.com entrepreneurship, CoWorkingLondon Breed Reply startup businesses creativity and innovation coworkinglondon.com Funds and supports GCHQ Cyber Accelerator innovationwarehouse.org Rocketspace thetrampery.com Internet of Things startups Developing the UK’s Co-working space for Hubble breedreply.com cybersecurity ecosystem JLAB high-growth startups Traveltech Lab Easy online through accelerating John Lewis technology rocketspace.com Brings together for finding office space in Campus London innovative startups incubator technology startups London Google’s space for wayra.co.uk/gchq jlab.co.uk Startupbootcamp with big corporates hubblehq.com entrepreneurs For global startups within the travel industry campuslondon.com startupbootcamp.org traveltechlab.london 11 London’s tech scene: at a glance London’s tech scene: at a glance 12

Rainmaking Loft Attracting Growth Co-working space and investment startup hub based at London & Partners’ historic St Katherine’s Business Growth Docks programme helps London rainmakingloft.com SMEs to overcome their growth barriers by Second Home The London VC club providing strategic Workplace for facilitates introductions to solutions including entrepreneurs and London’s leading investors mentoring, workshops, startups Department for Innovate Finance creative businesses allowing startups and business growth advice startups.co.uk International Trade (DIT) innovatefinance.com to come together scale-ups to grow more and opportunities across gov.uk/dit secondhome.io quickly. our London network. Tech.eu Innovate UK If you’re a startup or businessgrowth.london tech.eu/newsletter Digital Catapult innovateuk.org WeWork scale-up seeking digital.catapult.org.uk London Business Provider of shared investment, joining the News and blogs Tech City News workspace, community, London VC Club will techcitynews.com Digital Marketplace Growth Hub and services enable you to put yourself Stay ahead of the digital digitalmarketplace.service. growthhub.london wework.com in front of London’s curve with these news Useful resources gov.uk leading Corporate Venture updates from around StartUp Britain Capital (CVC) firms, Europe and the globe. Co-working London Entrepreneur Handbook startupbritain.org Venture Capital (VC) firms, coworkinglondon.com entrepreneurhandbook. crowdfunding platform Growth Business co.uk Tech Connect Creative Entrepreneurs and angel network. growthbusiness.co.uk tech-connect.co creativeentrepreneurs.co GROW.LONDON Find out more: invest. grow.london london/grow/vc-london 13 London’s tech scene: at a glance Find out more

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