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Informatics Ventures
Danny Helson
Slide2School of Informatics
Slide3Come to Edinburgh
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and don’t get a job
Slide4Robotics & Autonomous Systems:
Data Science
Centres for Doctoral Training – partner network
Pervasive Parallelism
Slide5Partnerships
Farr Institute
Safe haven for all NHS Scotland data EIT Digital
Part of the UK node + UCL, Imperial
8 European nodes, ~ €80M/pa spend
Design Informatics
In partnership with Edinburgh College of ArtConnected Digital Economy CatapultUK ‘
Digital Economy
’
push
Alan Turing Institute
DataScience Centre of ExcellenceEdinburgh, UCL, Cambridge, Oxford, WarwickWe connect with a wide group of organisations
Slide6School of Informatics
Scale:
Largest Informatics research centre in Europe
Excellence: UK leader in Research Power since 1992
No.1 in 2010 Guardian survey for teaching
Disruption
: most start-ups & spin-outs in UK
61 in the last 8 years256 from University of Edinburgh since 2000Heart of the Edinburgh Tech Cluster#2 tech cluster in UK
Dedicated
commercialisation team, home to Informatics Ventures
Slide7School of Informatics, Commercialisation Team
David Richardson, Director of Partnerships (Data Science)
John
McAleese
Senior Business Development Manager
Keith Edwards
Senior Business Development Manager
Slide8Informatics Ventures Team
Steve
Director of Operations
Danny
Programme Manager
Ronnie
Events & Communications Manager
Nicola
Marketing Manager
Siobhan
Events Administrator
Slide9www.launch.ed.ac.uk
Slide10Student Entrepreneurship Support at the University of Edinburgh
Launch.ed offer:
Free expert business advice
One to one appointments with a business adviser
Workshops, bootcamps, and competitions
Mentoring
Access to University of Edinburgh labs and facilities
Patent support and funding
Free legal and accountancy advice
Slide11Once upon a time in 2006
Buccleuch
Place
Slide12Waverley Gate
CodeBase
Techcube
Edinburgh’s tech eco-system 2015
16 tech incubators
Silicon Walk
Appleton Tower
Evo House
Quartermile
Slide13‘
Unicorn
’
(Aileen Lee, Cowboy Ventures) = software companies started since 2003 and valued at > $1bn. There are ~
80 today (Fortune).
Scotland
’
s 1st
‘
Unicorns
’
?
Slide14Informatics Ventures
Slide15DEVELOPING THE
ENTREPRENEURIAL
COMMUNITY
Slide16EIE18
See videos from EIE17
www.eie-invest.com
/eie18
Slide17Slide18Timeline
Bootcamp
22-24 JAN
Investor readiness
and
investor100
28 FEB
Pitch2Pitch panel
14-16, 20-23 MAR
Countdown to EIE17
30-31 MAR
Extended pitch rehearsal & stage craft
TBC APR
10-11 MAY
Slide19WWW.INFORMATICS-VENTURES.COM
WWW.EIE-INVEST.COM
Danny Helson
Wilkie Building22-23 Teviot RowEdinburgh
EH8 9AG
danny@informatics-ventures.com
0131 650 4427@infventures
Slide20School of Informatics