Sponsors
Growth Platform
Growth Platform is Liverpool City Region’s growth company established to help strengthen, simplify and coordinate the business landscape for the City Region – making it easier for businesses to start, grow and invest. Our mission is to deliver growth across the City Region – through business support via our Local Growth Hub Service; championing the region’s sector strengths as well as attracting investment through our inward investment service to create a fairer, greener and more inclusive economy for all who live and work in the city region.
Find out more: www.growthplatform.org
KPMG
KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, operates from 20 offices across the UK with approximately 17,000 partners and staff. The UK firm recorded a revenue of £2.72 billion in the year ended 30 September 2022.
KPMG is a global organisation of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG is the brand under which the member firms of KPMG International Limited (“KPMG International”) operate and provide professional services. “KPMG” is used to refer to individual member firms within the KPMG organisation or to one or more member firms collectively.
KPMG firms operate in 145 countries and territories with more than 236,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. Each KPMG member firm is responsible for its own obligations and liabilities.
KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients. For more detail about our structure, please visit https://kpmg.com/governance
Baltic Ventures
Baltic Ventures is a tech accelerator supporting game-changing founders who are building the solutions and businesses of tomorrow. Based in the Baltic Triangle, Baltic Ventures accelerates early-stage tech businesses with global ambition. Through an inclusive space, Baltic Ventures is on a mission to ensure that the Liverpool City Region is a place where the best founders can succeed, and anyone has the opportunity to realise their company's potential.
Baltic Ventures will officially announce the Accelerator 2023 cohort at Slush'd. Over the next 4 months, 9 ground breaking companies will participate in a 4-month cohort programme, including £50k investment, weekly workshops, VC investor meetings, and mentorship.
Find out more: https://balticventures.uk
Gather
Gather is the place for the digital, creative and tech community in the Liverpool City Region to connect, unite and grow. It offers industry-leading business support (some fully funded and some part-funded)-accelerating the growth and impact of companies across the region. Delivered by Form in partnership with Growth Platform, LCRCA & The Metro Mayor,Gather has supported over 180 businesses to date and is launching a new wave of programmes in Autumn 2023.
Find out more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gathers-next-chapter-tickets-704822933367?aff=Gathersite
LCR Angel Network
The Liverpool City Region Angel Network provides opportunities for angel investors to be connected with innovative start-ups and high -potential entrepreneurs across the LCR Region. The network aims to create growth for the local economy, and improve access to finance by driving opportunities for businesses and investors across the region.
Find out more: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lcr-angel-network/
University of Liverpool
Founded in 1881 as the original ‘red brick’, the University of Liverpool is one of the UK’s leading research-intensive higher education institutions with an annual turnover of £614.9 million, including an annual research income of £145 million.
We are at the global forefront of translational R&D with distinctive world-leading capabilities in infection, materials chemistry, high performance computing and AI solutions. As a university, we are committed to developing partnerships that meet the needs of the rapidly evolving tech landscape through close collaboration with industry, local and national governments and the third sector.
Collaborate with us to help address your need, connect with the right people and access funding.
Find out more: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/collaborate
Marks and Clerk
Marks & Clerk are dedicated to serving businesses of all sizes, delivering unparalleled expertise in legal, commercial, and technical matters. Their extensive team of patent attorneys, trademark attorneys, commercial lawyers, and IP litigators has empowered countless businesses worldwide to safeguard, enforce, and optimise the value of their intellectual property
Find out more: https://www.marks-clerk.com/global-presence/europe/uk/manchester/
DTM Legal
We are a regional law firm with national expertise taking pride in our legal excellence and outstanding service. We work closely with clients to become their trusted partner by combining commercial acumen, passion and a can-do approach and have worked with Digital, Tech and Fintech businesses, from start up to PLCs, across the UK for over 10 years.
We take a proactive and holistic approach where we develop a key understanding of the clients’ business and work in partnership with them at every stage – providing commercial, employment, dispute, property and succession planning legal advice always in our clients’ best interests.
As one of the fastest growing legal teams in the North West, DTM Legal is a Top Tier law firm with a highly talented and experienced team of legal professionals. We have the right people, the right contacts and the right expertise to take your business to the next level.
We also provide training, seminars and regular contact to ensure we make valuable contributions to strategic decisions and have taken a leading role in the Liverpool City Region FinTech ecosystem including the production of the 2023 Liverpool City Region FinTech Report and being part of panel discussions at a number of FinTech events across the region.
Find out more: https://www.dtmlegal.com/our-work-innovation-tech-and-digital/
Lloyds Bank
Supporting British businesses and the UK economy is central to what we do. Whether you are an entrepreneur starting out or an established business, we can help you manage your business. Accessing finance, supporting with day-to-day business needs, and helping to protect businesses from the growing threat of financial fraud, are just some of the ways we can support.
For many tech businesses, access to banking other sectors take for granted isn’t always available. Our knowledge of the sector means we can provide banking that’s crucial to managing your money from the get-go. Our local Relationship Managers across Merseyside and beyond are experienced in the sector and keen to support further UK tech growth. We have a range of different products and services designed to meet your banking needs so that you can focus on growing your business in this fast-paced industry.
As you begin to scale up, you need a bank that grows with you. Whether it’s managing FX, deposit options or access to third-party support, we can connect you to the right people to maintain your trajectory.