The founder journey is one like no other. 95% of the population will never understand the excitement and hurdles that must be overcome.
Let Techcelerate be your trusted partner. Our team and the community can help open opportunities and reduce the roadblocks you will come across on your journey from concept to exit.
From prototyping to extensible MVPs and fully blown software products. Our partners can support all your product development needs including any AI/ML and integrations.
Building a product is one thing, gaining traction is another matter all together. Tap into the Techcelerate Growth Network to gain the help you need to grow and scale.
People build companies. Fill your skill gaps with volunteers from SkilledUp Life. Let our recruitment partner(s) and RecruTech companies take care of your paid talent needs.
We strongly support gaining traction before founder equity dilution. Let Deal Lite guide your next fundraiser and help you save time by finding best fit investors for the stage you are in.
Ranges from pre-revenue and pre-product (1 person) to £1m+ ARR (25+ person) market leader.
From 2006 to 2013, we built Manchester’s tech ecosystem when there was no support structure for tech founders. Today, we are developing four inter-connected networks, to give tech founders the best chance of survival and growth.
We have plenty of scars in getting things wrong in building tech companies. We would like to help you avoid making the same mistakes.
Let us help you with building the extensible MVP and attracting the first wave of customers.
Providing support to demonstrate a deep understading of the problem solved whilst increasing initial traction.
Develop the product further whilst continually refining distribution channels to accelerate growth.
From daily interactions via WhatsApp groups to weekly activities. Share your challenges. Someone within the community would have experienced the same challenge before. We have been building tech companies since early ’00s. Learn from the combined wisdom of our experienced Founders.
Ranges from legal and financials services to product development and beyond.
We have the know how to strengthen your team with experienced commercially driven talent from interim CTO to taking the full ownership for fundraising. We call this CxO as a Service.
Worth over £1800/yr to give you that extra edge from understanding the competitive to investment landscapes and free talent for your tech startup to getting better at progress reporting.
Gives you an unparalleled understanding of the tech ecosystem including investment landscape.
A global multi-disciplinary talent pool from 30+ countries ready to help you survive and grow your startup free.
Free tool to help you inform your progress once a month to your investors, Board and stakeholders.
Get access to perks including up to $5k of AWS Credits, $120k IBM Credits, free fees on next £15k Stripe transactions, extended trials to SeedLegals, free quota for many products including Twilio and SendGrid, and discounts to Canaree.
Trust isn’t achieved overnight. It has to be earned. Here’s what some of our founders say about Techcelerate.
"Manoj has the innate ability to cut through the noise and get the core of the problem when it comes to starting or scaling a tech business. That combined with his ability to listen empathetically and always adopt a solution-oriented mindset is what encouraged us to work with Techcelerate."
Ram Raghavan
"Techcelerate has been an invaluable guide – helping me to benefit from the experience and knowledge of others. I would strongly recommend it to anyone seeking aggressive growth of their tech business."
Russell Groves
It is your journey, but by being a part of the Techcelerate community you can take advantage of opportunities quicker and reduce some of the wheel spin that founders normally go through.
The more you engage, the more value you get.
Workshops
Companies
Partners
Simple pricing based on the stage of your company, i.e. level of investment and revenues.
Validating the Concept
Earliest stage of the journey (pre-revenue and pre-investment)
Problem/Solution Fit
Early revenues (funding under £150k or revenues under £100k)
Metrics Driven
Proven business model (revenues or investment under £500k)
Growth Channels
Strong demand (revenues or investment over £500k)
Product/Market Fit
Getting there (Revenues over £1m or investment above £1m)
Starting to Scale
Effective Sales (Revenues over £2m or investment over £2m)
Hell no! There are overlapping features with accelerators, but we are here for the long run (start to exit) and not taking a cohort led approach.
Yes. At present, we can support you to secure $5k AWS credits and $120k IBM credits.
No, we do not. We strongly believe that founders should not give away equity willy nilly. We operate through a simple annual membership plan.
No. If they undertake a project with deliverables, you would need to enter into a commercial agreement with the Partner.
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