1. Informatics Ventures
Danny Helson

2. School of Informatics

3. Header
Date
Come to Edinburgh
- and don’t get a job

4. Centres for Doctoral Training – partner network
Robotics & Autonomous Systems:
Data Science
Pervasive Parallelism

5. Partnerships Farr Institute Safe haven for all NHS Scotland data
EIT Digital
Part of the UK node + UCL, Imperial
8 European nodes, ~ €80M/pa spend
Design Informatics
In partnership with Edinburgh College of Art
Connected Digital Economy Catapult
UK ‘Digital Economy’ push
Alan Turing Institute
DataScience Centre of Excellence
Edinburgh, UCL, Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick
We connect with a wide group of organisations

6. School of Informatics
Scale: Largest Informatics research centre in Europe
Excellence: UK leader in Research Power since 1992
No.1 in 2010 Guardian survey for teaching
Disruption: most start-ups & spin-outs in UK
61 in the last 8 years
256 from University of Edinburgh since 2000
Heart of the Edinburgh Tech Cluster
#2 tech cluster in UK
Dedicated commercialisation team, home to Informatics Ventures

7. School of Informatics, Commercialisation Team
Keith Edwards
Senior Business Development Manager
David Richardson, Director of Partnerships (Data Science)
John McAleese
Senior Business Development Manager

8. Informatics Ventures Team
Steve
Director of Operations
Danny
Programme Manager
Ronnie
Events & Communications Manager
Nicola
Marketing Manager
Siobhan
Events Administrator

10. Student Entrepreneurship Support at the University of Edinburgh
Launch.ed offer:
Free expert business advice
One to one appointments with a business adviser
Workshops, bootcamps, and competitions
Mentoring
Access to University of Edinburgh labs and facilities
Patent support and funding
Free legal and accountancy advice

11. Once upon a time in 2006
Buccleuch Place

12. Edinburgh’s tech eco-system 2015
16 tech incubators
CodeBase
Waverley Gate
Appleton Tower
Silicon Walk
Techcube
Evo House
Quartermile

13. Scotland’s 1st ‘Unicorns’?
‘Unicorn’ (Aileen Lee, Cowboy Ventures) = software companies started since 2003 and valued at > $1bn. There are ~80 today (Fortune).
Project/Institute names have hyperlinks

14. Informatics Ventures

15. International Connections
Network Development
IV Tuesday | Executive Forum | Alumnus
Investment Guidance
Engage Invest Exploit | EiR
Preparing to Scale
Teaming | EiR | Alumnus
Grow Ambition
| Founder.org
International Connections
EIT Digital | Smart Camp
Education
Executive Forum | IV Tuesday | IGNITE | GAP
DEVELOPING THE
ENTREPRENEURIAL
COMMUNITY

16. See videos from EIE17 www.eie-invest.com/eie18

18. Timeline 10-11 MAY Extended pitch rehearsal & stage craft TBC APR
Countdown to EIE17
30-31 MAR
Pitch2Pitch panel
14-16, MAR
Investor readiness and investor100
28 FEB
Bootcamp
22-24 JAN

19. WWW.INFORMATICS-VENTURES.COM WWW.EIE-INVEST.COM
Danny Helson
Wilkie Building
22-23 Teviot Row
Edinburgh
EH8 9AG
@infventures

20. School of Informatics