UK #1 for increase in digital business births 2006-16 at 568%
The city’s cultural quarter is being transformed into a hub for creative and digital tech startups. At the centre of this activity is Leicester Tech Startups, which rallies the community and aims to close the gap between universities and startups.
CEO, JumpLead
About Jumplead
Jumplead is inbound marketing software designed to move your leads through your sales funnel from visitor to customer.
Why Leicester?
Being SaaS geography isn’t important for us and the majority of our customers are in the US. We get a great quality of life in Leicester and the city has provided us with the raw talent we need to develop and grow a world class marketing automation system.
Founded: 2011
CEO, Reviews
About Reviews
Reviews.co.uk is the worlds most advanced review collection and publishing technology.
Why Leicester?
We are in Leicester due to two excellent universities, and good transport links to London.
National & International focus
Apart from our office in Leicester, we have offices on the west & east coast of America.
The Tech Nation 2018 Survey was conducted between January 2018 and February 2018, in partnership with Streetbees. This year’s survey received the largest response yet from members of the UK tech community. In a total of 3,428 submissions, people told us about the opportunities and challenges their local ecosystems face, and the digital tech leaders they admire. The majority of respondents (33%) were founders and CEOs.
Director, UltimateWeb
About UltimateWeb
Originally a web & app development agency, my company UltimateWeb has now pivoted to become a startup studio (i.e. working for equity on joint ventures rather than paid work.) We have a growing portfolio and are looking for people with great startup ideas to partner with.
Unique to Leicester?
The Leicester tech scene is very grassroots with a bootstrapping attitude and little of the “Silicon …” hype. Whilst more publicity and investment would be welcomed, it’s great to be surrounded by people who are quietly getting on with it!
Strengths & Challenges
We need to get more local founders to come out of the woodwork and help each other out with things like the Founders Round Table and mentoring sessions. Get that happening and I believe the investment and recognition will follow. We also need our public sector partners to support more grassroots activity rather than primarily focussing on big infrastructure projects.
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