STARTUPS
Osper
Building the worlds first bank for kids. Osper are creating digital tools to teach young people how to manage money responsibly
Techstars
Techstars provides $118,000 in seed funding, intensive mentorship, and an amazing network of mentors and alumni for 7-10% equity in your company. After 90 days with Techstars, our companies average over $2M in follow on investment and more than 35 of them have already been acquired. Start doing more faster
Quickblox
Quickblox are masters at building a server-side backend think API, architecture, stability, scalability, authentication and security. We have built and maintained a professional cloud-hosted platform which can be re-used in thousands of apps by thousands of developers and publishers all over the world.
Line-Up
The UK’s what’s on app. Get a personalised what’s on guide by following recommendations from those in the know. Line-Up’s events also power the what’s on sections for global media brands.
Rummble Labs
Rumble labs is a predictive analytics company that leverage big data, machine learning and social network profiles to build unique behavioral models and provide the most intelligent solution for personalization, recommendation and targeting.
The Tab
The Tab stirred up Cambridge in 2009 and their mischief has spread around the country faster than freshers flu with a million monthly unique readers. The Tab is THE university newspaper.
WeStore
WeStore makes self-storage simple. We deliver boxes to your house or office. You pack them up. Then we collect them at a time that suits you.We’ll keep them safe for as long as you need. And when you want them back, we’ll drop them round the next day. All without you having to lift a finger, or a box.
Code Kingdoms
Code Kingdoms is a game that teaches kids how to code by allowing them to build and share games with their friends.
Pearlshare
Share recommendations with people you trust. Pearlshare is building the apps that collect and connect great opinions from your inner circle… you new, connected, “little black book”.
INVESTORS
Russell Buckley
Works with the UKTI and also does angel investing via Ballpark Ventures. Before that, he started the incredibly successful, AdMob (now part of Google) the mobile advertising network, in Europe as its Managing Director. He’s also the ex-Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association
Hummingbird Ventures
Hummingbird provides early-stage and growth VC funding to help entrepreneurs build highflying, fast growth businesses. they’ve experienced all aspects of building startups from scratch to fast rising stars.
Playfair Capital
Playfair look for companies that are capable of disrupting a market by creating major change in a way that can be sustained sufficiently until growth capital can be found to scale them. We also own and run Warner Yard.
UKTI
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) staff are experts in Helping Your Business Grow Internationally. They provide expert trade advice and practical support to UK-based companies wishing to grow their business overseas.
Richard Fearn
Richard Fearn is Director at the ‘Friday Club London’ an investor in early stage technology companies and a Mentor for Warner Yard and Techstars
Martin Bruncko
Angel Investor at Warner Yard, and current board member of AeroMobil. Martin was formerly head at the World Economic Forum and special advisor to the General Assembly at the United Nations
Colin Willis
Colin Willis is a Partner at Hotspur Capital Partners an Angel Investment Group set up in November 2007 it comprises of high net worth individuals who have been/are successful entrepreneurs themselves with experience of building and exiting businesses.
Paul Taylor
Angel Investor, Playfair Capital and Warner Yard Mentor and sometime consultant. Previously at Google upon the acquisition of Phonetic Arts, a company he co-founded and was CEO. He developed text-to-speech and other speech technology for the computer games industry.
Ben Wirz
Ben is Director of Business Consulting at John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.
Doug Scott
Founder, Investor, Advisor. Mentor and investor in Techstars London, Entrepreneurs First and Ignite100.
Jerome Camblain
Jerome specialises in Hospitality, Financial & E-commerce enabling technologies
Turi Munthe
Media, Start-Ups, Social Business, Politics and the Middle East, former EIR at SeedCamp.
Max Bautin
IQ Capital Partners is a venture capital firm investing in rapidly developing technology businesses, predominantly in the UK. They typically invest during seed/A-series rounds (£500k-£2m range), with further capital added during follow-on rounds.
Peter Cowley
Entrepreneur, angel investor, NED, mentor, chair, director, trustee of several commercial, charitable and social enterprises.
Jeremy Yap
Former Financier at Merril Lynch turned Angel Investor and Techstars mentor
Granatus Ventures
An operationally driven firm that engages in the early stages of product development. Granatus invest in teams worldwide provided that they have core value activities in Armenia
Q Ventures
Q Ventures is a members-only investment Club for sophisticated angels, UHNWIs, venture capital firms, family offices and angel networks.
Ben Austin
Former entrepreneur turned early stage investor. Recent co-founder and venture architect of BuzzMove, and is now representing a handsomely sized venture capital fund investing in arse-kicking entrepreneurial teams. Exits within the investment team total over £1BN+.
William Kirby
Will was previously a hedge fund manager and now does Angel investing through Still Point Ventures at Warner Yard and mentoring at Techstars.
FRIENDS
General Assembly
General Assembly is creating a global community of individuals empowered to pursue work they love. The do so by offering full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century – from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing. All Warner Yard members receive a 15% discount on Workshops and Classes
1776
The Startup Federation is a global network of the world’s top incubators, all of which share an exclusive member base of startups with highly scalable products or services. Through this program, 1776 and select partner incubator programs allow their members to work at each other’s locations while on travel. Warner Yard is one of these select few.
The Fueled Collective
We have partnered with the Fueled Collective in New York. This means that Fueled will offer free drop-in coworking days at its space for Warner Yard members who are visiting New York City on business and vice versa of course
Inspiring Interns
An intern recruitment agency with a difference. Sign up and receive a list of candidates with video cv’s. Warner Yard members receive a 10% discount
Escape the city
Online community for professionals looking to escape the corporate world. Warner Yard members receive £50 off every listing as well as a 20% discount for all startups less than 2 years old
Stack Overflow
Careers 2.0 the recruitment arm of the popular Q&A site stack overflow. Unfunded Warner Yard members are eligible for a 50% discount off the usual price of job listings. Our funded members get support and guidance helping them to hire developers through Stack Overflow.
Makers Academy
Makers Academy is a highly selective, 12 week full-time programme that teaches web development in London. They accept only the top applicants onto the course for a rigorous programme that culminates with the graduation day when we introduce them to London’s top technology companies looking to hire entry-level developers. Warner Yard members get £500 off the usual cost of a course
Zip Car
Zipcar is the world’s largest car sharing and car club service. Warner Yard members get their first years membership for free
ALUMNI
Duedil
Data done beautifully, once due diligence was almost exclusively about minimising risk. At DueDil, we believe that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. We’re on a mission to redefine the way in which you can use company data.
Faction Collective
The Faction Collective was formed in 2006 with the aim of creating the best designed & built freeride & freestyle skis you can buy, with a world-class manufacturing base in the heart of the European Alps and a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability
Taskfirm
Task Firm provides online virtual asssitants for all your administrative requirements, all UK based – so no time-zone differences, language barriers, inefficiency and binding contracts.
Yoyo
Yoyo is creating a better customer experience via an app that simplifies payment & loyalty transactions. For the retailer Yoyo provides a marketing platform that enables digital customer engagement in the physical world. Launched at Imperial College London in late 2013 and serving to over 20,000 students and staff within 32 outlets, in 2014 it is expanding to other leading Universities and to high St. retailers across London and the UK as its first step to fulfilling its global ambition in becoming the simple way to pay.