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0: Central Bean
Great coffee, food, ambience, decor and free wi-fi have helped Central Bean establish itself as the place to go for informal meetings between journalists, freelancers, advisors, tech start-ups & anyone involved in the local science & technology world.
Newcastle Science City hold their 'First Friday' breakfast networking sessions here on, yes you've guessed it, the first Friday of each month.
Más sobre Central Bean1: Central Coffee House
Newcastle's newest cofee shop, on Pink Lane, directly opposite Newcastle Central Station (next door to Greggs and @PostOffice).
Offers great food and drink, ample comfy seating and free wi-fi too! Perfect location for business meetings or freelancers to hang out/work from.
Más sobre Central Coffee House2: Codeworks
Membership/support organisation for North East digital/tech professionals. Headed up by
Herb Kim (Wired 100, MediaGuardian 100, TEDster since 06. Producer of 15 TEDx events), Codeworks organises many great events throughout the year including the fantastic
www.thinkingdigital.co.uk conference @ Sage Gateshead in May.
Más sobre Codeworks4: Design Works
Owned & run by the
PNE Group enterprise agency, Design Works is home to
Shell LiveWIRE, the UK's biggest online community for young entrepreneurs aged 16-30, as well as the location of numerous small businesses & not-for-profits.
Más sobre Design Works5: Generator
Generator is the UKs leading Music Development Agency. Originally starting out to serve the needs of the North East and Cumbria the agency expanded its role nationally when asked by Arts Council England to assist other fledgling agencies, organisations and groups in policy, programme development, governance and funding. As such Generator has represented the music development sector at Government level with membership of both the Live Music Forum and Music Education forums. The agency also leads the Music Industry Development Association, a body set up to establish common aims amongst similar organisations in the UK. Generator currently produces robust programmes in the areas of music business development in a regional context, musician support (including the development of commercial viability of artists). Live music (most significantly in supporting promoters) and in supporting and representing the music development sector.
Más sobre Generator6: I6 Business Centre
One of Newcastle's coolest hubs for digital / media businesses, I6 is one of the most desirable office spaces in the city.
Más sobre I6 Business Centre7: ignite100 @ The Loft
The Loft @ Adamson House, Westgate Road is the home to
ignite100, 'Europe's first £1m tech accelerator programme'.
The 10 teams that took part in the 2011 programme are/were:
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ArtSpotter 'An interactive art map that enables art lovers across the world to share, explore, discover and interact with art.'
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Blink Collective 'An online marketplace for experiences. Blink Collective helps you find amazing experiences and learn new skills from real people who are passionate about sharing their expertise.'
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Blooie 'A social media platform that aims to add real substance to online conversations and insights to blog owners.'
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CrowdIPR 'A crowdsourcing platform for patents and other intellectual property rights. CrowdIPR is on a mission to make a high-quality patent and technology search accessible for anyone.'
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Givey 'A social donation platform that enables easy giving via a range of devices and methods including SMS and Tweets.'
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Odimax 'A social media intelligence service set to help businesses make sense of the millions of online conversations potentially mentioning their products or brand.'
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RentMama 'Looking to revolutionalise the car rental market, RentMama brings together car rental companies and the renters. The idea is to allow small car rental companies (25,000 in Europe alone!) to access the online market, currently dominated by the biggest rental companies.'
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Unmagnify 'The idea behind Unmagnify is based on the fact that due to the growing number of smartphones, there’s is an exponentially growing amount of personal information about us available to be analysed. Unmagnify aims to organise and cross-reference this data to help us better understand our habits, the way our bodies work etc.'
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Usable '
A software tool set to help in managing projects involving a range of stakeholders or cross-organisational working. The idea is to provide a simple way to record and control specifications and requirements making it as easy as possible to get signoff from all the stakeholders.'
- VibeTrace '
VibeTrace is an ‘eCommerce recommendation engine with a social twist’. Their first public service, Pin or Peg, is a fashion discovery platform that enables you to search for items with the help of smart recommendations based on your social networks.
To find out more about the ignite100 programme visit www.ignite100.com and/or Follow them @ignite100
Más sobre ignite100 @ The Loft8: Indigo Multimedia Ltd
Indigo Multimedia is an award-winning digital agency with a wide range of clients in the public, private and third sector including the PNE Group and Shell LiveWIRE (Shell's international youth enterprise programme).
Más sobre Indigo Multimedia Ltd9: LINGsCARS.com
Award-winning Ling Valentine is one of the smartest business women in the UK and her car lease website
LINGsCARS.com is a masterpiece in unconventional design. However, don't be fooled by the apparently chaotic website, Ling has won many awards for LINGsCARS.com and there is some incredibly sophisticated work going on behind the scenes. A living legend when it comes to PR and viral marketing, you may remember Ling (or her Chinese missile launcher) from her appearance on Dragons' Den in which she turned down investment. Follow her on Twitter
@LINGsCARS to be shocked and entertained in equal measure!
Más sobre LINGsCARS.com10: loveyourlarder.com
loveyourlarder.com is a fantastic online farmers market where you can find everything from heritage potatoes to artisan chocolates, craft beers to rare cheeses being sold to you directly by the person who made it.
Best of all, however many producers you buy from, it’s still only one payment. Furthermore, they keep costs and food miles down by having your purchases sent directly to you straight from wherever it was made. Follow them on Twitter
@loveyourlarder and
'Like' them on Facebook for latest news and food recipes!
Más sobre loveyourlarder.com11: MobiCart
MobiCart offers a free and simple way for you to build and manage your m-commerce store as a native or web app. MobiCart works on its own, or link it up to your existing website.
Más sobre MobiCart12: Mystaffdeals Ltd
Mystaffdeals is changing the way employers reward & recognise their people using exclusive deals and clever online tools. The new generation of staff rewards software.
Más sobre Mystaffdeals Ltd13: Newcastle Central Station
Providing the main gateway in/out of the city, London is just over 3hrs away by train via the East Coast mainline. Newcastle Central Station also houses the underground Metro system which connects it to the rest of the city & surrounding areas including Newcastle International Airport (approx 25mins away).
Más sobre Newcastle Central Station14: Newcastle Science City
Newcastle was designated as one of six UK Science Cities in 2005 in recognition of the world-class research being undertaken by its universities.
Since then,
Newcastle Science City has continued to support, nurture and promote relationships between the universities, local businesses and investors for the benefit of the regional economy.
Running a wide range of events and training, Newcastle Science City also hosts the monthly 'First Friday' breakfast networking sessions at Central Bean coffee house on the first Friday of each month (between 8-10am).
Más sobre Newcastle Science City15: Northstar Ventures
Northstar is a venture capital company dedicated to building successful high growth businesses across the North East of England. They manage five funds with two that are actively investing:
- £15m Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept Fund
- £20m Finance for Business North East Accelerator Fund
The Proof of Concept and Accelerator Funds are backed by the European Investment Bank, One North East and European Regional Development Fund and form part of the £125m Finance for Business North East Fund.
Más sobre Northstar Ventures16: PNE Group
The PNE Group (formerly known as Project North East) is a not-for-profit local enterprise agency that has been operating since 1980. Offering a range of services including face-to-face business advice, training & consultancy, PNE owns & manages low-cost incubator workspace in central Newcastle (Pink Lane/Westgate Road), the Ouseburn part of the city (Woods Pottery) & Design Works (Gateshead). The Pink Lane/Westgate Road block of buildings has been dubbed 'Silicon Alley' for its high concentration of digital, media & creative businesses over the years. This currently includes the PostOffice (weekly after work events for local developers/tech start-ups) & ignite100 (Europe's first £1m tech accelerator programme). To find out more about the support PNE can provide tech/digital businesses contact Paul Lancaster @lordlancaster or 0191 423 6239.
Más sobre PNE Group17: PostOffice @ Pink Lane
A place to network, collaborate & be inspired in Newcastle upon Tyne. Weekly after work events & speakers for local developers & tech start-ups. Follow
@PostOfficeNE1 for latest news. Más sobre PostOffice @ Pink Lane18: Rivers Capital Partners
Specialising in early stage investments for new, start-up and growing companies, they work to introduce investors to business and manage funds.
Their current main activity is around the investment of the £7.5m Finance For Business North East Angel Fund.
Founded by a partnership of E-Synergy and Finance Tree, Rivers Capital Partners brings together over 50 years direct investment experience in the creation and growth of companies in markets from technology to design.
Más sobre Rivers Capital Partners19: Screenreach
One of the hottest companies in the UK right now, allowing anyone to create real time, two way interactive experiences between a smart device - through the Screach Application - and any content on any screen, or within the mobile device itself. For example, the smartphone can become a game controller, quiz answer pad, voting and polling tool, bingo card or a roulette table! Watch any of the videos at www.screenreach.com and be blown away!
Más sobre Screenreach20: Shark Club Gastro Bar
Newcastle's newest & coolest gastro bar. Situated directly opposite St James' Park (home to Newcastle United FC),
Shark Club Gastro Bar offers a fantastic range of food and drink all day and night. A great place to go for more private meetings and drinks than the nearby Central Bean coffee shop after the First Friday breakfast meetings.
Más sobre Shark Club Gastro Bar21: TH_NK
Situated at 55 Degrees North.
TH_NK are arguably Newcastle's top digital agency with clients including BBC, ITV, Sony, Blackberry, Warner Bros and J.K.Rowling's 'Pottermore'.
Más sobre TH_NK23: The Journal
The Journal (local business newspaper), is a great supporter of the local & regional tech scene, particularly
John Hill through his Science & Technology columns.
Más sobre The Journal24: The Town Wall
The Town Wall pub is housed within Bewick House, a Grade II listed building which was once home and workplace of famous Northumberland artist, naturalist and engraver Thomas Bewick. Since opening in 2011, The Town Wall has fast become a regular haunt of Newcastle's tech scenesters & final destination for those who attend the PostOffice events on Pink Lane.
Más sobre The Town Wall26: think M
Based at I6, Charlotte Square, think M is a 'strategic marketing and agile research consultancy' whose clients include Newcastle University, Sunderland Software City, One North East and many more private sector companies.
Más sobre think M27: Tyneside Cinema
A real gem in the heart of Newcastle, the
Tyneside Cinema is 'Britain's finest surviving news reel cinema' and now independent cinema specialising in cultural film from around the world. Fantastic staff, coffee rooms and event/meeting space inside too. Brilliant place to hang out and be inspired!
Más sobre Tyneside Cinema28: Union Room Ltd
Union Room offer Web Design and Development, Online Marketing, E-Commerce, SEO and many other web delights, since 2003. Pop in for a coffee to see what we can do for your business.
Más sobre Union Room Ltd29: whatusersdo
whatusersdo offer affordable 'Usability Test Videos' (from just £30 per test) so that anyone, regardless of size, type or budget can observe and listen to real people using their website.
Más sobre whatusersdo30: woodholmes
'InnovationCompany' Woodholmes specialises in research, design and delivery of new services, products and markets. Expertise in digital, data and urban sensing technology
Más sobre woodholmes 31: Recite
Gateshead-based start up
Recite is a hosted service that you add to your website so that when people hover over text it translates into speech audio.
(It can also translate text into different languages and strip content down to just high contrast text making it easier to read).
A great tool worth knowing about to make your websites comply with the latest accessibility regulations.
Try it for yourself at:
http://www.reciteme.com/index.php?p=try and Follow them on Twitter
@reciteme Más sobre Recite32: Orange Bus
Orange Bus is an award-winning digital agency based specialising in digital marketing, user experience, creative design and development knowledge. Clients include Sage, Tommee Tippee, MySingleFriend.com, Nexus and Pearson. Follow on Twitter
@orangebus Más sobre Orange Bus33: KyKloud
KyKloud have developed specialist 'lifecycle asset management' software to help owners, managers and operators of complex portfolios capture, manage and report their data.
Más sobre KyKloud34: Sharpe Recruitment
Sharpe Recruitment specialise in Digital, Creative, Marketing & IT Jobs in the North East of England. Headed up by the lovely Laura Sharpe, they're also great supporters of the local tech scene, attending all the key events and providing free pizza for the monthly @PHPNE events which take place @PostOfficeNE1.
Más sobre Sharpe Recruitment35: Boho One
Boho One is the flagship building of Middlesbrough’s new exciting Boho Zone; the digital, creative and business hub of the Tees Valley.
Boho One sits on an impressive site on Bridge Street West in central Middlesbrough, on the borders of the Middlehaven regeneration area and just yards from the railway station. It has been designed to be the ‘heart’ of the Boho Zone – the commercial quarter for the town’s digital media, digital technology and creative sectors.
Más sobre Boho One37: Sunderland Software City
Sunderland Software City is 'inspiring and supporting the growth of the Software Industry in the North East of England, aiming to make the area the place to do business for the international software industry.
The private sector initiated, publicly backed organization brings together the best of the public, private and educational sectors to generate a sustainable software industry in the region and drive the development of world class software businesses.
This includes continuing to work closely with partners like the City of Sunderland and Sunderland University to ensure the regional software industry has the right facilities, the right business support, the right connections and the World Class workforce it needs to compete on a global stage, as well as initiating new approaches to integrating business and universities and acting as a catalyst for the growth of new and existing businesses.
Sunderland Software City is benefiting from over £6.5m of European Union investment from the ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-13, secured through regional development agency One North East. The ERDF programme is bringing over £300m into the North East to support innovation, enterprise and business support across the region.'
Más sobre Sunderland Software City40: Palringo
Palringo is an open platform mobile messaging service that enables teams to send push-to-talk, text and picture messages over a private and secured network. Works on major mobile devices.
Más sobre Palringo41: AK Solutions
AK Solutions provide web development, designing and web hosting in the north east. Our hosting prices start from just £29.88 per year with no hidden cost. VPS packages are as cheap as £120 per year. Our team of sysadmins are responsible of keeping a high availability network while our core team is mainly developers.
visit aksol.com for more details Más sobre AK Solutions45: 4Projects
4Projects collaboration software connects people, information and processes, helping save time, money and mitigate risk.
We provide a secure, 24/7, on-demand SaaS extranet environment for collaborating with disparate teams and suppliers using our collaboration software.
4Projects is simple to deploy, easy to use and requires absolutely no expensive IT infrastructure - all you need is access to the web.
Más sobre 4Projects47: SiteBuilder
SiteBuilder DIY is a premium Online Website Builder specifically designed for SME's and start-up businesses who want to create a business website to market & promote themselves online or sell via e-commerce.
It gives you the opportunity to
create and run your own business website - putting you in control for a fraction of the cost of having a web design agency do it for you.
Más sobre SiteBuilder48: Silverbean
Silverbean is a digital marketing agency specialising in Search Engine Optimisation, Pay Per Click, Affiliate Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing and Conversion Rate Optimisation. We deliver profitable search and digital marketing strategies designed to achieve your goals and make a real difference to your business. Drop us a line to find out more.
Más sobre Silverbean50: MCB Web Design
Web design and development agency based on the Newcastle quayside. Providing website design, CMS development, e-commerce, and web-based application development.
Website:
mcbwebdesign.co.uk Más sobre MCB Web Design51: Durham NEST
The @CDCEA Durham NEST offers wifi and hot desking space in Durham City Centre at very affordable rates to people starting their own business. http://www.cdcenterpriseagency.com
Not all that techy, but sometimes occupied by the web (and phone) developer, @gregorymarler of NoMoreGrapes.com
Más sobre Durham NEST52: Riff Raff
We’re an energetic young company with a thirst for knowledge and innovation; A tight team of hand-picked web and user-experience specialists, determined to help you get the edge over your competitors.
Riff Raff Más sobre Riff Raff53: UsableHQ
UsableHQ is an @ignite100 company busily working on our first product. A powerful yet easy-to-use tool that makes teams focus on what their project really is, Requirements is an innovative application that enables every stakeholder in a project to communicate and collaborate around a set of requirements that will then keep goals at the centre of the project, eliminate “scope creep”, and drive day-to-day tasks.
Más sobre UsableHQ54: Armadillo Creative Ltd
Armadillo Creative is a leading digital design agency based on the Fish Quay in North Shields. We create websites, brand and online marketing that's easy on the eye, highly practical and delivers you real results. From small websites to complex, bespoke e-commerce operations, brand development and advertising. We develop perfect solutions for each unique challenge.
Más sobre Armadillo Creative Ltd56: Big Bite Creative
An experienced team of thinkers, designers and developers building big ideas.
http://bigbitecreative.com/
Más sobre Big Bite Creative58: Atomhawk Design Ltd
Atomhawk Design Ltd is a leading conceptual design and digital art production company based in the North of England. We are a specialist in providing bespoke art productions in 2D, 3D, Adobe Flash and Video media, across all interactive industries including film, games and online.
The company is built entirely around our key goal which is to provide a world class creative production service, helping our customers to visualise their ideas and to present those ideas to the world with breathtaking style and quality.
Our team is made up of only the most talented artists and designers, all of whom are full time employees working out of our Gateshead studio. This means that unlike offshore "outsourcing" companies, we are a specialist creative service provider that is able to work with our clients in partnership and ensure the best possible results.
Más sobre Atomhawk Design Ltd59: AYO Media
AYO Media is here to make the most of your business online. Formed in 2008 by a collection of the finest web developers, designers and marketing brains in the North East, we have become one of the region’s most exciting digital agencies.
Why exciting? Because we never deliver the same digital solution twice. When you work with AYO Media, you work with a company that’s forward thinking. A company that’s responsible for some of the most sophisticated and widely used web applications on the market today. A digital partner that’s constantly looking to evolve your online offering.
We are experts in creating unique web solutions for the ‘now’ and the future solutions that allow you to drive your business forward. Every website we develop is built to industry standards, and then some. Beautifully designed, they are also cross browser compatible and thoroughly tested for user accessibility, guaranteeing you the highest quality.
Combine this with our vast experience of working with some of the UK’s biggest corporations, and with AYO Media, you are partnering with a company that offers unrivalled grounding and technical understanding.
The digital world is our passion. Increasing your turnover is our goal.
Más sobre AYO Media60: CCP Games
CCP Games was founded in the summer of 1997 with the goal of becoming a leading massively multiplayer game company. With the launch of EVE Online in May 2003, CCP has established itself as one of the leading companies in the field, winning numerous awards and receiving critical acclaim worldwide.
Más sobre CCP Games61: Calm Digital
Ambitious creative agency with a clear digital focus. We help organisations get closer to the plugged-in population using all of the tools at our disposal, blending brand, marketing, campaigns with creative and strategic thinking to make sure you don't miss a trick.
Call us on 0845 058 0511
Más sobre Calm Digital62: Sage (UK) Limited
Sage is the only FTSE 100 company in the North East. Even though they've become a global company, they're still rooted in the North East, with their amazing headquarters just outside of Newcastle where around 1,500 of our people work.
6.2 million companies around the world use Sage products and services across 100 countries.
Más sobre Sage (UK) Limited65: Raise A Tree
Raise A Tree (@raiseatree) is a Safe, Educational World for Schools that teaches about the importance of trees, the environment and climate change by allowing pupils to plant and raise their own virtual trees.
Run by Andy Stephenson (@andylstephenson) and Dominic Tarn (@dominictarn) Raise A Tree is currently undergoing significant expansion across the UK, North America, India and more...
Más sobre Raise A Tree