BLN Partners
The BLN is delighted to partner with a range of world-class organisations:
BDO LLP
Whether your business is a start-up or a multi-national, we can help you achieve your goals. BDO LLP has over 235 partners and 3,150 staff in the UK & 14 offices across the country. BDO International is the world’s 5th largest accountancy network with more than 1,000 offices in over 110 countries with 44,000 employees worldwide.
Gary Hanson — Partner
Tel: +44 1223 535 050
Email: gary.hanson@bdo.co.uk
Twitter: @BDO_Cambridge
Deloitte
The Deloitte Technology Group in Cambridge serves a client base comprising of start ups through to listed multinational businesses. The focus of the group on technology based businesses enables us to provide a service designed specifically for the needs of your business.
Experienced staff within the Technology Group will work with you to build your business. Services can be selected from our extensive portfolio. As your business evolves we will adapt our service to meet your changing requirements. This service is provided by a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of specialists with extensive experience of working with technology companies.
Our service approach recognises that the needs of growing companies will change as they develop. Our portfolio of services will provide the level of support you require throughout the life cycle of your business.
We would be pleased to meet with you to gain an understanding of how Deloitte can contribute to your success.
Contact
Tel:+44 (0) 1223 460222
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
21 Wilson Street
London, EC2M 2TD
020 7588 0800
020 7588 0555
Dorsey is a business law firm, applying a business perspective to clients’ needs. We make it our first priority to know the context in which you do business – your market, your competitors, your industry. Our partnership began in 1912 to meet the specific needs of a prominent Minneapolis business. Our deep experience, supported by a formidable corporate infrastructure, allows us to resolve our clients’ toughest projects: massive mergers, sophisticated contracts, complex litigation and more. Leading companies think globally. With offices on four continents, Dorsey offers access to native legal experience virtually anywhere in the world.
Partner contacts: Frances Doherty, Roger Gregory
Erevena Search
Erevena provide executive search and recruitment services for companies and investors operating in the technology and online markets. Our clients include some of the worlds leading brands through to the most exciting venture and private equity backed players.
We fulfil assignments across all functions at board level, senior executive, and strategic operational positions. Based in the UK we support companies seeking to establish or grow operations in the EMEA regions and UK based companies expanding globally.
Erevena Ltd
19 Golden Square
London
W1F 9HN
United Kingdom
- Tel +44 (0) 203 328 9600
- Email: info@erevena.com
Gill Jennings & Every
GJE is a London-based firm of European Patent Attorneys and European Trade Mark Attorneys. The firm is consistently in the top tier of Recommended Firms in the Legal 500, Managing Intellectual Property and Chambers UK annual surveys of the IP profession.
GJE acts for a large number of start-ups and spin-out companies, particularly in the Cambridge area, and has guided many of these from an early stage to eventual trade sale or IPO. Through their experience with these companies and their strong connections within the private equity investment community, GJE has developed significant expertise in advising clients on IP portfolio management.
Contact
Peter Finnie — Partner, European Patent Attorney
Tel: +44 207 3771 377
Mobile: +44 7740 634 113
Email: pjf@gje.co.uk
Twitter: MaverickPJF
iMeta
Specialising in the .Net platform iMeta develops innovative software and provides effective advice for visionary companies who can’t afford to get their technology wrong.
The success of iMeta has been recognised with a number of awards including the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, Deloitte Fast 50 and The Sunday Times Best 100 Small Companies to Work for.
Contact: Ben Marsh, Managing Director
Telephone: 02380 763950
Email: bmarsh@imeta.co.uk
Informatics Ventures
For over half a century Scotland has consistently demonstrated global leadership in Computer Science research, with our research cluster rivaling Boston, Pittsburgh, Kyoto and Silicon Valley. Informatics in Edinburgh is confirmed as the best Computer Science department in the United Kingdom and one of Europe’s largest research centres. But despite this thought leadership, Scotland has never produced a global software company of scale. Informatics Ventures is ambitiously trying to change this through nurturing an entrepreneurial ecosystem where positive attitudes, skills and networks thrive. Informatics Ventures is a partnership of the University of Edinburgh, Scottish Enterprise and the European Regional Development Fund.
Contact details: Andrew Mitchell — Programme Leader (@roomitchell)
Tel: +44 7793 111 386
Email: andrew.mitchell@ed.ac.uk
Twitter: @infventures
Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide.
Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech.
Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US9bn in over 1,000 companies in 46 countries. In that timeframe, 174 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 231 were acquired or participated in a merger.
For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com
Contact
Tel: +44 207 292 8782
Email: europe-capital@intel.com
Kleinwort Benson
A trusted wealth adviser for over 200 years, most of our clients have been with us for over two decades.
Understanding your needs and aspirations is important to us and crucial in the creation of our extensive range of bespoke solutions spanning wealth management, for private individuals, to fund administration services, for corporate clients.
We can offer you the best of both worlds; the flexibility of a small local bank with the reassurance of a multinational, secured through our close relationship with parent company Commerzbank and our network of offices across the UK and the Channel Islands.
We are delighted to have been voted Best Private Bank 2008 at the Investors Chronicle / Financial Times Wealth Management Awards by the People who matter most to us; our clients.
Contact
Derek Wright — Head of Distribution Initiatives
Tel: +44 20 3207 7190
Email: derek.wright@kbpb.co.uk
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a leading global investment bank. In the UK, it has an unrivalled track record of IPO’s and a substantial corporate broking business it has a long-standing reputation for the quality of its Investment research and share of UK equity trading.
Contact: Stewart_mcgregor@ml.com
NESTA
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Our mission is to transform the UK’s capacity for innovation. We invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
NESTA Investments combines investment with non-financial support to help companies turn their innovative ideas into commercial successes. We encourage other investors to generate a commercial return by replicating our investment models.
Contact
George Whitehead — Business Development Director
Tel: +44 20 7438 2533
Email: george.whitehead@nesta.org.uk
SVB Financial Group
SVB Financial is the UK arm of a commercial bank specializing in banking and lending to technology, life science and cleantech companies across all growth sectors. SVB banks approximately 60% of the technology companies in the US. SVB also banks venture capital and private equity firms.
Contact:
- Oscar Jazdowski - Head of Origination, Senior Relationship Manager
- ojazdowski@svb.com
- +44 (0) 20 7647 1285
Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a leading international law firm. We provide a full range of legal services for clients from our network of offices in Europe, China and Dubai.
We are particularly noted for our expertise in acting for the venture capital community and entrepreneurs and have a long history of acting for clients in the technology sector. Our top-ranked VC lawyers advise both investors and companies on all aspects of their investments.
The quality of our VC and private equity practices was recognised in January 2009 when we were nominated “Law Firm of the Year” by the European Venture Capital Journal.
Contact
David Mardle — Partner
Tel: +44 1223 446 425
Email: d.mardle@taylorwessing.com
Tech City
Located in the heart of London’s East End, close to the Olympic Park, Tech City is home to the world’s next generation of high-tech entrepreneurs.
Originally a small cluster of high-tech firms, Tech City has grown dramatically to become the capital’s leading destination for digital, creative and high-technology companies. In just three years, it has expanded naturally from around 15 companies to over 300 – growth that is set to continue, with the UK Government actively supporting the area’s development.
Stretching from the vibrant districts of Old Street and Shoreditch to the heart of the 2012 Games at the Olympic Park in Stratford, Tech City offers opportunities for technology companies and investors of all sizes.
Contact +44 (0)20 7215 8000
Trinamo
Trinamo is a team of leading sales and marketing specialists. We have the expertise to help you win and keep more customers and grow the revenues from them. In short, we help you drive profitability—hard.
We make sales and marketing deliver. We don’t just tell you how; we roll up our sleeves and help you make it happen. We work from the inside, not remotely. We commit to targets and pursue these with vigor. We help you enhance the power of your sales and marketing teams to deliver the results you need.
Our experience has shown us that when it comes to optimised sales and marketing, every company needs something different. Companies need a solution that’s tailored for them; their scale, their maturity, their market, their solutions, their personality.
Contact
Simon Stevens – Partner
Email: simon.stevens@trinamo.com
Mobile: +44 7850 861 387
Direct: +44 207 801 6309
