Cambridge Business Lounge is delighted to announce the return of StartUp Grind to Cambridge - the knowledge sharing group for entrepreneurs, powered by Google and hosted by the Lounge's Ed Goodman.
Startup Grind is a global community powered by Google and designed to educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs in 125 cities around the world. Now Cambridge is taking its rightful place among the most entrepreneur-friendly cities and startup ecosystems including Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, New York, Boston, Seattle, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore and Melbourne.
Agenda
6:30 Networking and Food
7:30 Fireside Chat
8:30 Networking
Tickets: £15+VAT
Since the Deep Mind acquisition by Google, the world has started to closely watch the UK as a centre of deep tech again, and Cambridge is perfectly positioned to capitalize on that. It's a great combination of talent, location and investors that is very exciting to watch.
Frank Meehann
What better place to host a Startup Grind community than the city at the heart of Silicon Fen – Cambridge! Our heritage includes Charles Babbage, Hermann Hauser and Clive Sinclair and history is still being made with the likes of ARM, one of the UK’s most successful companies, Raspberry Pi, Autonomy, Aurasma, Bango, BlueGenome, Jagex, RealVNC, Red Gate and many more.
Cambridge is now ranked as one of the top three "innovation ecosystems" in the world, according to a recent international survey. It is where Microsoft chose to set up its major European research lab. Ditto Toshiba. And it's where AstraZeneca has chosen to locate its global R&D and corporate headquarters, a decision that will involve spending upwards of £300m and bring about 2,000 researchers and support staff.
Startup Grind Cambridge is kicked off by a man who knows all about finding and supporting exceptional entrepreneurs that are building strong, category defining companies and helping them to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.
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Frank Meehan is a Co-Founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures and a Partner at SparkLabs, Asia’s premier accelerator based in Seoul. Frank was selected as part of the 2012 Wired UK Top 100 in tech, and Vanity Fair's The Next Establishment list 2010.