Join Jane Slimming (Founder, Zeal) as she hosts the first of three in this series of webinars. To kick off, Jane will be discussing how to run a tech build and what to expect from your agency, covering such topics as: • What a timing plan looks like and how to manage it • Roles
Nova Pangaea Technologies is a Clean Tech company based in Redcar in Teesside, with a mission to use its technology to unlock the pathway to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). After recently successfullly completing a £5.3million funding round with Mercia and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, we spoke to CEO, Sarah Ellerby as she explains how
Slingshot Simulations, a digital twin company, is a spin-out from Leeds University, spearheaded by its Founder, Dr. David McKee. Its technology allows them to positively impact the biggest challenges faced today: climate change; sustainability; resource management, public health, and more. Watch as David explains more about the digital twin technology, and hear from its staff
Axis Spine Technologies has a clear vision. That vision is to provide surgeons with implant systems that achieve and maintain superior spinal alignment for improved clinical outcomes. Axis completed a £10.8million funding round in October 2022, including direct investment from Mercia. CEO and Founder, Jon Arcos, spoke to Mercia TV, about its truly unique technology
Personal branding is the buzz word on everyone’s lips right now, and for founders, it’s even more key that they invest in their own brand to drive sales. Join Paiger‘s, CEO and Founder, Darren Westall, as he talks you through why and how to get started, with insights into LinkedIn’s algorithm. Paiger is an automated
Join Glenn Fletcher (CEO, Tribosonics), Simon Hartley (Founder, Be World Class), James Roach (MD, Headstar) and Sarah Hex (Mercia) for this panel discussion. The panel discuss topics such as: – The effects of business growth within the leadership team and succession planning – Dream vs Reality of building a strong team – Testing character when
Join Anna Gordon HubSpot for Startups learn how to create an effective email marketing strategy. Do you want to learn how to close more deals without more tools? Or attract and convert leads with your email marketing efforts? Anna Gordon from HubSpot for Startups joined us for the second webinar series. During session two you will
Join Anna Gordon HubSpot for Startups learn how to create an effective email marketing strategy. Do you want to learn how to close more deals without more tools? Or attract and convert leads with your email marketing efforts? Anna Gordon from HubSpot for Startups joined us for a two part webinar series covering just this. During
Matthew Batchelor works with Mercia as a growth partner to help our portfolio businesses resolve challenges and accelerate growth. Drawing upon on his expertise as a CTO for businesses such as Thomson Reuters and FindMyPast, Matthew has worked with Mercia backed businesses; Pimberly as an adviser and Rockar Tech as interim CTO and then as
Former HR Director Natasha Wallace supports teams and leaders to optimise performance without compromising on wellbeing. Her business, the Conscious Leadership Company, seeks to help leaders to thrive in their roles using technology to continuously allow leaders to reflect and track how they feel so they can transform their leadership style. “Leaders who want to
Nigel Owens, Mercia Portfolio Director; Sarah Williams, Mercia General Counsel and Company Secretary; and serial non-executive Frank Collins, sat down to discuss exits to trade or secondary buyouts. With a combined 59 years of exit expertise, our panel advised our guests at our Chair Summit 2022 on how businesses can best prepare for exit. Prepare
Join nDreams CEO and Founder, Patrick O’Luanaigh, as he takes us on an exclusive tour of its brand new offices and studios in Farnborough. Watch an nDreams exclusive interview with Patrick here Watch more Mercia TV videos here
Mercia TV sits down with nDreams CEO and Founder, Patrick O’Luanaigh, where he tells us all about the inception of the company, what it was like producing the incredible Ghostbusters VR, its expansion, the current VR market and what the future has in store for the Farnborough-based company. Take a tour of nDreams studios here
After raising £8.5million from new and existing investors in December 2021, Manchester-based Intechnica recently completed the demerger of its exciting bot management cyber security business, Netacea. Mercia now holds stakes in both growing businesses, equal in value to its pre-demerger holding value. Watch our exclusive interview with the Group’s Co-founder and CEO, Jeremy Gidlow as he
Zendesk makes customer service better. It builds software to meet customer needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync. Jeremy Ambrose joins us once again, this time focusing on those looking for investment or next round investment. This sesson will cover: • A fun look at how to grow your valuation
Zendesk makes customer service better. It builds software to meet customer needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync. Jeremy Ambrose joins us once again, this time focusing on those looking for investment or next round investment. This sesson will cover: • A fun look at how to grow your valuation
Axiologik is a Leeds-based consultancy that helps organisations such as The Home Office, NHS Digital and Selfridges establish, develop and evolve their digital transformation programmes. Mike Quate, Gordon Cullum and Adam Cockburn from Axiologik, will share their thinking about the considerations needed to start and develop greener and more sustainable technology plans. The session covers: ✅ How vital is the development of
Zendesk makes customer service better. It builds software to meet customer needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync. Jeremy Ambrose from Zendesk presents ‘How to turn your Customer Service Centre into a profit centre’. Jeremy covers such topics as: • A deep dive into CX trends that have been used
Zendesk makes customer service better. It builds software to meet customer needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync. Jeremy Ambrose from Zendesk presents ‘How to turn your Customer Service Centre into a profit centre’. Jeremy covers such topics as: • A deep dive into CX trends that have been used by scale-ups
Liz Wood from Comply Direct will discuss the feasible actions businesses can take to reduce their carbon emissions and work towards a net zero target. During this webinar we will provide a comprehensive overview of what net zero means, as well as the importance and benefits for businesses of committing to a net zero carbon
Anna Sutton is the co-founder of The Data Shed, and will be looking at the impact of good data on investor confidence, due diligence and, most importantly valuation. The Data Shed is a Data Consultancy working with organisations of all shapes and sizes at varying stages of their investor journey. Specialising in integrating data sets
Helen Darlington is Founder and Director of Woven, a global, multi-award-winning brand engagement agency. Woven is a place where you can be your true self, a place that brings together diverse talent that generates brilliant ideas and successes for our clients. Put simply it helps luxury, ambitious and best-in-class brands attract new audiences, engage more
IN-PART‘s incredible growth journey started in 2016 at a pitching event where Co- founder and Co-CEO, Patrick Speedie, received £50k of investment. Six years later, and it was acquired by Inova.io Listen to Patrick detail how investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, via Mercia, helped accelerate its matchmaking academia platform, which is used by over 250
Deep Tech is now a fashionable sector for investment. Since 2015, global investment in Deep Tech has increased 20% year-on-year[i]. This is not because the visionary ability of entrepreneurs has improved – there have always been big-picture thinkers – but the Deep Tech ecosystem around them has changed. Critical resources like financing, skilled workers and
Fully self-serve SaaS has been seen as the holy grail for founders and investors alike. Many of the most successful software businesses over the past 10 years such as Dropbox, Slack and Zoom have leveraged a ‘human-light’ business strategy that doesn’t rely on sales departments, onboarding resources and/or customer success teams to scale more quickly
Based in Letchworth Garden City, Forensic Analytics are digital forensic experts whose innovative analytics software is revolutionising government agencies and law enforcement investigations in the war against crime. Watch Founder Joe Hoy, CEO, Steve Rick and CFO, Dan Alexander explain how its lead product CSAS is rapidly helping police forces with solving investigations, as well
From bootstrapping the company in 2018 to turning over £2.65million of revenue in 2021, Dundee-based Broker Insights has been on an incredible growth journey. Backed by Mercia’s Northern VCT Funds in 2021, CEO, Fraser Edmond tells Mercia TV the inspirational story of the company’s beginnings, the recent £6million raise and future plans to bring its
At one time, businesses had to prepare for the digital age. Now, the newest vanguard of technological development is the metaverse. In October 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth would be rebranded as Meta, indicating the company’s intention to dominate the emerging metaverse market. A metaverse is a Virtual Reality
Mercia sat down with experienced financial professional Daniella Wainwright to hear what her experience of working as portfolio/plural finance director in Yorkshire-based SMEs is really like. Next month, Dani will be joining one of our portfolio companies Sock Monkey Studios as their part-time finance director. Ahead of that, Dani spoke to us about why pursuing
Menopause matters to business strategy. It sits across talent, business continuity, culture, risk and retention, it’s a central pillar in ESG strategies and businesses are speeding head-long into a real crisis that will affect growth and exit returns it they don’t act now, as menopausal women are the fastest growing demographic in the workplace.
Andrew Wood and Emma Chilvers from HCubed outline its partnership details in this quick video. HCubed are coaches, facilitators, consultants and adult development practitioners, committed to enabling leaders, teams and organisations to grow through learning. They create and hold spaces filled with warmth, dialogue, challenge,knowledge and insight – the perfect conditions for growth. Back
Join Space HR‘s CEO, Victoria Bond on this webinar about how to retain and engage your team. Space HR are specialists in employee engagement. We work with businesses to help them retain their best talent and perform at their best. Its platform captures employee insight and feedback to help you make better decisions. It
Frank Sagnier joined nDreams in August 2021 as Chair. His career in the video games industry spans more than 25 years, having most recently retired from Codemasters following its acquisition by Electronic Arts Inc. In this extended interview, Patrick O’Luanaigh (CEO, nDreams) and Frank the duo speak in details across a broad range of topics
Warwick Acoustics creates highly innovative audio products for both the automotive market and the personal and studio headphone market. In the last 12 months, the company has achieved a number of significant milestones for its automotive grade ElectroAcoustics Panel (“EAP”) solutions, with the successful completion of three customer-funded proof-of-concept projects and the passing of key
Zendesk makes customer service better. It builds software to meet customer needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync. Brad Bowery, Business Development for Zendesk tells us more about the offer they have for your start up Back to videos
Mercia recently invested £1.6million as part of a £10.0million syndicated round into existing direct investment Locate Bio, a Nottingham-based business developing a range of orthobiologics. CEO, John von Benecke outlines how the new investment will help accelerate its life changing products, Locate Bio’s extraordinary start to the year, as well as sharing more about how