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Supporting climate tech founders
Empowering underrepresented tech founders
Growing late-stage ventures, to IPO and beyond
Equipping scaleups post series A
Pitch competition for early-stage startups
Championing disabled founders and entrepreneurs innovating around disability
Work, Live, Thrive in the UK
Supporting global talent to work live and thrive in UK tech through our various support services
Discover the steps to apply and begin your journey
Gain access to a global talent alumni network to support your journey
Spotlighting top talent from our Visa Programme
Understand the standards applicants need to meet to be considered for a successful endorsement
Celebrating 10 years of global talent in UK tech
Tech Nation is the leading growth platform for tech insights, connections, collaboration and talent, empowering ambitious founders and their teams with the access and knowledge they need from seed stage to success story.
Powered by Founders Forum Group, our approach unites the tech ecosystem placing founders from all corners of the UK and beyond at the forefront, amplifying their needs and challenges and empowering them to grow their businesses so they can positively transform our world.
Your growth partner at every stage of your scaling journey
CEO, Vitabiotics and Dragon, BBC’s Dragon Den
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Founder and President, Elvie
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, Calm
Founder and CEO, Rem3dy
Co-Founder and CEO, Matillion
CEO, HSBC Innovation Banking
Managing Partner and Head of Europe, Google Ventures
General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz
Tej is CEO of Vitabiotics and a Dragon on BBC’s hit TV show Dragons Den. He has led the phenomenal growth of Vitabiotics into UK’s largest vitamin company, while expanding to over 100 countries. Tej has built a leading digital presence in his industry and worked with major brand ambassadors such as Nicole Scherzinger, Heidi Klum & David Gandy. He has won several entrepreneur awards and is ranked as one of the most influential Asians in Britain.
Michael is the co-founder and co-Executive Chairman of Calm, the leading mental health brand with the #1 App for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation. Calm has grown to over 100 million downloads, was the Apple 2017 app of the year, and is the world’s first mental health unicorn.
Long fascinated by neuroscience, flow states and mental fitness, he is passionate about spreading meditation as a simple but valuable skill around the world.
Prior to Calm, Michael was the founder of Mind Candy, along with Firebox.com, Ping Pong Fight Club, and Berwickstock music festival. In 2014 he was awarded an OBE for services to the Creative Industries.
Melissa Snover is an award-winning entrepreneur and disruptor in the world of food technology and 3D printing. She is passionate about developing innovations which offer solutions to her customers, challenge her competitors, and innovate current market offerings. She is currently the founder and CEO of Rem3dy Health which pioneers personalised solutions across preventative and curative health under the brands Nourished (Personalised Nutrition) and Scripted (Personalised Medicine).
Melissa has been a successful entrepreneur for over 15 years, is a registered nutritionist and the inventor or several new patented technologies. She is a visionary for the use of 3D printing in mainstream manufacturing on a global scale and recently raised the highest ever female founder seed round in UK history for Rem3dy. She is an ambassador for women’s equal access to finance, as well as being an avid supporter and mentor; supporting young people of all backgrounds to begin studying in STEM fields.
Matthew Scullion is the co-founder and CEO of tech unicorn Matillion.
Having started his career in software and IT, Matthew founded data productivity provider Matillion in 2011 to help struggling companies turn their data into meaningful insights.
Today, Matillion helps thousands of customers across the globe – including Docusign, Western Union, Slack, Tui and Cisco – accelerate their time to insights.
Matthew is also on the Capital Markets Industry Taskforce, and is passionate about helping more UK businesses succeed on home soil.
Matthew lives in Hale, Manchester, with his wife and two daughters, but splits his time between home and Denver, Colorado, Matillion’s joint HQ.
Erin Platts is CEO, HSBC Innovation Banking UK and is responsible for leading, developing and scaling the Bank’s business across the EMEA region. HSBC Innovation Banking business is a full-service UK Bank with all local operations under her leadership. Erin has a strong background in market and product development and delivering upon banking and debt transactions for technology and life sciences companies and their investors.
Tom leads GV (Google Ventures) in Europe. GV has over $8bn in assets under management; Tom’s investments include Lemonade, Multiverse, Stripe, Snyk, Currency Cloud, and Nothing.
Previously, Tom led IDEO’s startup efforts globally, incubating Omada Health and multiple other startups. Tom’s TED talk on design has been viewed over 1.7 million times and he has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has been featured in WIRED UK’s Top 100 Digital Power Brokers and the Evening Standard list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People.
Sriram is a builder, engineer and podcast host. He invests in crypto/web3 as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He spent the previous decade working on consumer internet software running product teams at Twitter, Meta and Snap. He also hosts a podcast with his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy covering tech, creators and how people can make it to the “inside”. Sriram’s specialties include product development, strategy, general management, deal structuring and community building.
“The climate programme gave our company great access to resources and elevated us a business to investors. Though for me personally as a founder, the access to mentors has been invaluable, providing a safe space to discuss and start to solve many of the thoughts that keep you up at night!” Antony Yousefian Bx
“The climate programme gave our company great access to resources and elevated us a business to investors. Though for me personally as a founder, the access to mentors has been invaluable, providing a safe space to discuss and start to solve many of the thoughts that keep you up at night!”
Bx
“Tech Nation’s climate programme has been an excellent support network, enabling us to explore some of the challenging topics that we face as we grow and scale. What’s more, we are now part of a community of committed and passionate impact founders for life, and I can’t wait to see what amazing things they deliver over the next decade.” Brittany Harris Qualis Flow
“Tech Nation’s climate programme has been an excellent support network, enabling us to explore some of the challenging topics that we face as we grow and scale. What’s more, we are now part of a community of committed and passionate impact founders for life, and I can’t wait to see what amazing things they deliver over the next decade.”
Qualis Flow
“We’re really excited to be working with other entrepreneurs from top notch UK businesses through this programme. Amongst other things, it will help us stay up to date with the evolving needs of our country’s top talent; continuing to deliver on our promise of making our products as enjoyable and relatable to them as possible.” Chieu Cao Perkbox
“We’re really excited to be working with other entrepreneurs from top notch UK businesses through this programme. Amongst other things, it will help us stay up to date with the evolving needs of our country’s top talent; continuing to deliver on our promise of making our products as enjoyable and relatable to them as possible.”
Perkbox
“This was by far the best accelerator in the UK” Genevieve Patenaude Earthblox
“This was by far the best accelerator in the UK”
Earthblox
“Being part of Tech Nation’s programme not only gave us access to a community of like-minded peers, but it helped put us on the map. It was a huge moment of recognition and celebration for our team. We have featured in many leading publications – and being selected for Tech Nation’s Net Zero programme absolutely contributed to establishing our credibility as an ambitious and innovative tech scaleup.” Jo Parker-Swift CEO, Solivus
“Being part of Tech Nation’s programme not only gave us access to a community of like-minded peers, but it helped put us on the map. It was a huge moment of recognition and celebration for our team. We have featured in many leading publications – and being selected for Tech Nation’s Net Zero programme absolutely contributed to establishing our credibility as an ambitious and innovative tech scaleup.”
CEO, Solivus
“It’s a fantastic network of great people and companies. Great support from the Government which is doing a fantastic job in the UK tech industry.” José Neves Farfetch
“It’s a fantastic network of great people and companies. Great support from the Government which is doing a fantastic job in the UK tech industry.”
Farfetch
“There isn’t a pipeline problem, there is a social and financial capital allocation problem. For female founders, the ecosystem is five years behind the current status quo, and for black and ethnic minority founders, the ecosystem is 10 years behind. Programmes like Libra will help to hopefully narrow the gap.” Tom Adeyoola, CEO & Co-Founder Metail & Extend VC
“There isn’t a pipeline problem, there is a social and financial capital allocation problem. For female founders, the ecosystem is five years behind the current status quo, and for black and ethnic minority founders, the ecosystem is 10 years behind. Programmes like Libra will help to hopefully narrow the gap.”
Metail & Extend VC
Don’t live in the UK? We know that global talent drives innovation. And if we want technology to work for everyone, it has to be built by everyone. Our global talent visa programme fast-tracks the acquisition of exceptional people in the digital technology sector – enriching the UK’s entrepreneurial workforce with a diverse pool of talent from around the world.
“We are delighted that HSBC Innovation Banking is the founding partner across the relaunched Tech Nation programmes including Libra, Climate and Future Fifty. These programmes provide high-impact founders and their leadership teams with invaluable skills, access to a powerful network of peers, investors, and potential clients, as well as expert advisory and mentorship to foster their companies’ growth. In partnership with Founders Forum and Tech Nation we will supercharge our shared mission to fuel growth by providing unparalleled support and opportunity for the innovation ecosystem, across all life stages and sectors.”
Erin Platts, CEO, HSBC Innovation Banking
