The Tech Founder journey is one like no other. 99% of the population including your family and friends may never understand the excitement and hurdles that must be overcome.
Techcelerate is a community of first-time and exited tech founders, specialists and service providers all united to help your tech founder’s journey a success.
Let us be your partner in your founder journey from concept validation to the eventual Exit.
An Exit event (acquisition) can happen any time during your tech founder journey. Manoj’s two exits were opportunistic. Andrew’s exit was planned over a period of 2 years, where he optimised the exit price. It’s best to be open-minded and be prepared as much as possible to improve the exit price.
Let us guide you through the early stages of your tech startup journey from concept validation, product development and early metrics before founder equity dilution.
Once you have a product, customers, a team and growing revenues, debt and equity finance become an attractive proposition to accelerate your growth.
Post Series A, it's all about scaling from geographical expansion to multi product launches, sector and market domination, and establishing growth channels.
Once you hit Series B, acquisitions become a regular growth strategy, as organic growth slows down. An Exit event for your early investors become inevitable.
From first time Tech Founders to Founders with multiple Exits – you are in good company.
Join relevant peer groups as you validate your concept, build your product, acquire customers, provide customer support, build your team, set initial metrics and start thinking about growth capital.
Ideas are just ideas until they are validated. Concept validation could last from few days to a few months. Let the community help you validate your idea.
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.
People build companies. Fill your skill gaps with free talent from SkilledUp Life. Let our recruitment partner(s) and RecruTech companies take care of your paid talent needs.
Ranges from pre-revenue to £1m+ ARR with potential to be market leaders.
Once you have achieved Problem/Solution Fit through the Startup Stages, you are ready to start exploring the growth stages and get closer to achieving the mythical Product/Market Fit.
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.
Get your finances in order and select the initial metrics to home in.
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.
Swopping equity for capital is not something you should consider lightly. With capital comes greater accountability and new masters.
Learn funding strategies, get your pitch deck reviewed and get advice in negotiating your Term Sheet.
Find the best fit investors and raise Seed funding from strength and not weakness.
Ensure your metrics are spot on before starting on the pivotal Series A fundraising.
Ranges from legal and financials services to product development and beyond.
From 2006 to 2013, Techcelerate built Manchester’s tech startup ecosystem when there was no support structure for Tech Founders.
From 2018 to 2022, we helped up to 30 Tech Founders annually.
In 2023, we are refocusing on knowledge share, learning and greater collaboration through a bespoke Community Hub, events and workshops.
We are also aligning with SkilledUp Life to provide free talent and with Deal Lite to help find best-fit investors.
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.
From daily interactions via the bespoke Community Hub to monthly Techcelerate Coffees.
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.
Know how along isn’t sufficient to build a successful tech startup. Get the vital intelligence you need through Deal Lite including finding investors.
Gives you an unparalleled understanding of the tech ecosystem including investment landscape. Use Deal Lite to find best-fit investors.
A global multi-disciplinary talent pool in excess of 20,000 from 104 countries ready to help you survive and grow your startup FREE, once subscribed
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, Segments credits, HubSpot discounts and many more.
Trust isn’t achieved overnight. It has to be earned. Here’s what some of our Tech 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."
"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."
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.
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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.
Tap into the wisdom of the Techcelerate’s trusted community of tech entrepreneurs, partners and specialists to accelerate the growth of your tech startup.
We share straight forward suggestions and strategies to survive, grow and scale your tech startup.
This is the key lesson I am taking from last night’s discussion with Robert Wakeling regarding his 20 year journey of building Wadaro. We are all unique. As tech entrepreneurs, we are all trying to steer our boats and ships to a destination on a course through rough seas. Some never even leave the harbour. […]
Full house but 2 cancelled and 1 didn’t turn up. Networking 22 tech founders and those who could help them. This is the best Techcelerate Coffees Manchester event we had since Covid. Prior to Covid, we had achieved 100% attendance. Does this mean we are back to good times? Perhaps not. But hard work paid […]
Revenue Targets The Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) benchmarks for funding rounds continue to rise, where demand for equity finance is high. Techcelerate ChatGPT Claude Gemini Grok Pre-Seed £0 – £10k £0 – £40k £0 – £8k £0 – £5k £0 – £15k Seed £10k – £100k £40k – £160k £8k – £32k £5k – £100k […]
