Partners

White Horse Capital LLP

White Horse Capital & Consultancy has developed and funded the launch of the Accelerator Academy and is leading the Accelerator Fund initiative.

White Horse Capital works with high growth Technology, Media/ Marketing, & Telecoms (TMT) businesses to build revenues, profitability, equity value and shareholder returns.

Mayor of London

City Hall and the office of the Mayor of London have been supportive of the Accelerator Academy since its inception.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson said:
“The Accelerator Academy represents exactly the type of investment in London’s future businesses that will secure our position as Europe’s digital capital. Using the nous of seasoned entrepreneurs to mentor those in the very early stages, alongside much needed access to investment, the Academy will give entrepreneurs a real leg up in a tough economic climate, helping to create London’s future jobs.”

eTeamTool

eTeamTool was developed by Manchester Business School to create a better understanding of how to form and develop a successful high growth startup team. It is used as the Applicant Assessment process for the Accelerator Academy.

Xcite Digital

Xcite Digital Design Build and Market websites for fast growing businesses trying to keep hold of their brand and maintain the relationship with their customers. They have produced the Accelerator website.

They have consistently achieved high growth and now produce digital campaigns to a wide range of FTSE 100 clients

“What we do well for any client is deliver their brand consistently to their customer base and we help clients engage with their customers more effectively.” Robert Walker – Managing Director

Wirehive

Wirehive are specialists in providing tailored solutions for agencies and other businesses requiring robust and foolproof hosting and operating environments for their own and customers’ websites. They are hosting the Academy site.

Enterprise Nation

Enterprise Nation is focussed on helping people start a business and grow a successful venture. Through their website and books, events and fund, they help individuals start and grow businesses. They have been supportive of the Accelerator Academy since its inception.

Punch Communications

Supporting the Accelerator Academy with PR activity is Punch Communications who have an integrated approach to PR, search and social media.

Since it was founded in 2003, Punch has evolved from its roots as a PR agency to integrate PR, Search and Social media activities for clients in Europe, the US and elsewhere around the globe, managing their reputations both on and offline. The team manages global social media and SEO activities for brands such as Sony Ericsson, creating and managing social media activities which have seen this brand rise to become the most engaged, globally, to be using Facebook, as of September 2011 (AllFacebook).

Communication Partners

Communication Partners UK is a marketing communications agency created by an experienced team focussed on delivering profit improvement for their clients.

CPUK is coordinating the marketing and advertising activity for the Accelerator Academy.

StartUp Britain

StartUp Britain is a campaign by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, launched in 2011. Designed to celebrate, inspire and accelerate enterprise in the UK, it has the full backing of the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and HM Government.

This is a response from the private sector to the Government’s call for an ‘enterprise-led’ recovery.

TMT Connect

It’s hard to keep up with the proliferation of new technology

TMT Connect helps businesses discover the technical breakthroughs that will keep them ahead of the competition.

By understanding our clients objectives and how they tick, we work closely with our global partners to find and select exciting new technology that will add value.  Helping our clients to innovate quickly, efficiently and successfully.

It doesn’t stop there, for the new technology providers we protect their interests and work closely with both parties to ensure lasting and valuable relationships are formed.

NatWest

NatWest is a Corporate Sponsor of The Accelerator Academy. NatWest provides a wide range of products and services to personal, business and large corporate and institutional customers. They have teams of locally-based Relationship Managers who provide day to day banking support to small and medium sized businesses. They also benefit from a broad range of specialist teams including Media and Technology, Professionals and Healthcare.

Helping businesses achieve their ambitions is at the very heart of their business proposition and they are committed to providing added value that will benefit all business sizes.

haysmacintyre

haysmacintyre is an award winning, top 20 London firm of Chartered Accountants and tax advisers.  They have an excellent reputation for advising entrepreneurs and their businesses from start-up through to exit.  Meet their Team or call them today on 020 7969 5669 with your query or to request an initial exploratory meeting with one of their advisers.

Nabarro Lawyers

An early supporter of the Accelerator Academy, Nabarro LLP is an energetic and ambitious law firm with over 550 lawyers delivering advice across the full range of commercial legal disciplines. Their clients range from individual entrepreneurs launching their first venture to FTSE 100 companies.

Their Entrepreneurs and SMEs practice is well-established. They have been closely involved with investors and start-up businesses for many years and understand the needs of the entrepreneur community, so no matter how complex the situation, they offer plain, unequivocal advice, not pages of jargon.

Rackspace

Rackspace was started 14 years ago by three college kids looking to build a company that many could rely on. A couple iterations later and Rackspace has grown into an international, publicly traded company powering more than 200,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a portfolio of products including Public and Private Cloud, Dedicated Hosting and Hybrid. Rackspace ‘Open Cloud’ is built on the open-source OpenStack framework, founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010, and today including over 800 organizations and 6,000 developers around the world. Rackspace haven’t forgotten their roots and remain committed to helping entrepreneurs drive the next generation of businesses.

Rackspace are a top tier sponsor of the Accelerator Academy, directly supporting high growth UK tech startups.

UCL

UCL (University College London) is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with 8000 staff and 22000 students. The Accelerator Academy is working with the Faculty of Engineering Sciences & Enterprise and the Management Science & Innovation Department. UCL are working with the Accelerator Academy to support Entrepreneur Attraction.

Fresh Business Thinking LIVE!

Fresh Business Thinking LIVE! is the annual event for entrepreneurs and decision makers looking to grow and improve their businesses. It brings together more than 40 expert speakers, 2,000 business decision makers and over 60 exhibitors in one place on one day – a great day for learning, networking and reaching new customers. Attendance is free for Accelerator Academy participants.

Capital Enterprise

Capital Enterprise is the membership organisation for providers of business advice, training and resources to new entrepreneurs and small businesses in London. The Accelerator Academy is part of Capital Enterprise’s London Accelerator Programmme.

BCS

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT champions the global IT profession and the interests of individuals engaged in that profession for the benefit of all. They have partnered with the Accelerator Academy to support Entrepreneur Attraction.

London Business Angels

London Business Angels (LBA) is one of Europe’s leading Angel Investment Networks. LBA connect innovating fast growth technology companies to equity finance through their membership of experienced angel investors. LBA are participating in the Accelerator Academy’s investor presentations.

London & Partners

The official promotional agency for London attracting and delivering value to businesses, students and visitors.

Angel Capital Group

Angel Capital Group creates high value businesses by identifying the right opportunities and combining these with knowledge, capital and expertise. ACG are participating in the Accelerator Academy’s investor presentations.

Angel News

AngelNews is the leading European news service for the investment market, especially for business angels, investors and the companies they back. They report on over 1,800 fast growing businesses, and every day break exciting news about the great companies of tomorrow. Angel News are participating in the Accelerator Academy’s investor presentations.

All About Brands

All About Brands plc is an international diversified communications group, working across the communications and business strategy arena, building, creating and support brands around the world.

They have partnered with the Accelerator Academy syllabus to support Entrepreneur Training on branding and marketing communications.

The Entrepreneurs Club

The Entrepreneurs Club London is a free quarterly networking event for over 200 entrepreneurs, co-founded by Academy Mentor, Spencer Gallagher. They have partnered with the Accelerator Academy to support Entrepreneur Attraction.

The Sandpit

The Sandpit is an entrepreneurial organisation dedicated to finding, developing and launching the best technologies within the sales and marketing arena.

As an innovation and investment business, we’re constantly on the look-out for new and exciting products to take to market. We currently offer two cutting-edge technologies – one designed to generate a return on social media, and the other to simply and effectively improve your website’s performance on search engine results pages.

The Nurture Network

The Nurture Network is the UK’s first on-demand marketing department for start-ups and entrepreneurial businesses – bringing great marketing people into the team, just when they are needed – be it one day a week, or just two days a month.

Their team of highly-trained marketing people run dynamic one day workshops to define and create an effective marketing strategy – ideal for business plans and investment pitches. Then they work side-by-side with entrepreneurs and business owners to make those plans happen – calling in creative specialists from their network as and when they are needed.

Innovation Warehouse

Innovation Warehouse (IW) was formed by a group of seasoned entrepreneurs, in alignment with City of London Corporation and IWGROW. This collaboration spearheaded the development of an active startup Community and runway that helps high-tech and high-impact startup businesses achieve sustainable growth. IW provides startups with incubation workspace, hot desks, meeting/event rooms, and access to financing, professional business advice and guidance.