The Cambridge Start-up Billion Pound Scale-up Challenge

How can Cambridge Start-ups Grow to Billions, not Millions? Would you like to hear the story of the former CTO at HP Autonomy and why he's on a mission in Cambridge? Or perhaps the story of the fastest growing tech start-up in Cambridge could give you some insights?

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Why Cambridge Start-ups Don't Become Billion Pound Companies?

What Can You Do to Make Yours Grow to Billions, not Millions?

Would you like advice on growing your business from the former CTO at HP Autonomy?
Or perhaps the former MD at Yahoo! Europe could give you some insights?
Perhaps one of ARM VP's advice would be useful too?

If you're a Cambridge start-up facing a growth challenge, perhaps:

Wondering how big you can be and if you should sell up to that corporate offering to buy you out
Wondering if you should go for series B or C of investment (raise money to grow faster but end up owning less of your company; or bootstrap for longer, owning more but perhpas growing slower)
Feeling unsure about how to build and lead your teams through significant business change, as they are spread across continents (hiring people who can scale, hiring people who are unlike you (e.g. salespeople for tech founders and visa versa), hiring abroad in different cultures, etc.)
You are launching in new markets (if it requires investment and time, how do you open up offices in other places, like the US).

Have other growing pains you may be experiencing that you'd like advice

Bring your growth challenges to the Investors and Executives who have been there and done it!

You'll have the chance to pitch your challenge* (max 3min) to the panel and get answers from the panel on 3 actions you could take to help you grow.

*Only Cambridge startups that have secured a min of £250,000 investment, are growing, may have even reached millions of pounds turnover but have challenges as a result of growth.

Panel of experts that will answer your questions:

Suranga Chandratillake - former CTO at HP Autonomy in San Francisco, has grown startups to billion pounds, now Angel and VC Investor passionate about growing to billions of pounds Cambridge startups
Martina King - runs the fastest growing tech start-up in Cambridge (Feature Space) and has run billion pound companies in her role as MD for Yahoo! Europe
Monika Biddulph - VP Planning and Delivery, IPG, at Arm Ltd - one of Cambridge's biggest startup successes and a multibillion pound company. Monika is experienced in leading multi-million dollar contract negotiations as well as commercial discussions with customers in industry segments such as IoT, Industrial, Robotics, AI and Automotive, in Asia, EU and US. She is a proven leader of change management with experience in building and leading international high performance teams.
Adelina Chalmers a.k.a.The Geek Whisperer - helps engineers at billion pound Cambridge startups like ARM grow with the company. She is passionate about nurturing engineers and scientists to help start-ups grow sustainably when scaling.

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