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Welcome to the UK's Premier Growth Network for Tech Founders

The Tech Founder journey is one like no other. 99% of the population including your family and friends may never understand the excitement and hurdles that must be overcome.

Techcelerate is a community of new and seasoned tech founders, specialists and service providers all united to help your tech founder journey a success.

Let us be your partner in your founder journey from concept validation to the eventual Exit.

Image: Techcelerate’s bespoke Community Hub

Start to Exit Tech Founder Journey

An Exit event (acquisition) can happen any time during your tech founder journey. It’s best to be always open minded and be prepared as much as possible.

Startup Stages

Let us guide you through the early stages of your tech startup journey from concept validation, product development and early metrics before founder equity dilution.

Growth Stages

Once you have a product, customers, a team and growing revenues, debt and equity finance becomes an attractive proposition to accelerate your growth.

Scaling Stages

Post Series A, it's all about scaling from geographical expansion to multi product launches, sector and market domination, and establishing growth channels.

Acquiring & Exiting

Once you hit Series B, acquisitions become a regular growth strategy, as organic growth slows down. An Exit event for your early investors become inevitable.

Our Tech Founders

From first time Tech Founders to Founders with multiple Exits – you are in good company.

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Join relevant peer groups as you validate your concept, build your product, acquire customers, provide customer support, build your team, set initial metrics and start thinking about growth capital.

Concept Validation

Ideas are just ideas until they are validated. Concept validation could last from few days to a few months. Let the community help you validate your idea.

Product Development

From prototyping to extensible MVPs and fully blown software products, our partners can support all your product development needs including any AI/ML and integrations.

Growing your Team

People build companies. Fill your skill gaps with free talent from SkilledUp Life. Let our recruitment partner(s) and RecruTech companies take care of your paid talent needs.

Ranges from pre-revenue to £1m+ ARR with potential to be market leaders. 

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Once you have achieved Problem/Solution Fit through the Startup Stages, you are ready to start exploring the growth stages and get closer to achieving the mythical Product/Market Fit. 

Gaining Traction

Building a product is one thing, gaining traction is another matter all together. Tap into the Techcelerate Growth Network to gain the help you need to grow and scale.

Governance and Metrics

Get your finances in order and select the initial metrics to home in.

Fundraising Support

We strongly support gaining traction before founder equity dilution. Let Deal Lite guide your next fundraiser and help you save time by finding best fit investors for the stage you are in.

Techcelerate Value Chain (2)

Swopping equity for capital is not something you should consider lightly. With capital comes greater accountability and new masters.

Pre-Seed - Validating the concept (£0 to £10k MRR)

Learn funding strategies, get your pitch deck reviewed and get advice in negotiating your Term Sheet.

Seed - Problem/Solution Fit (£10k+ MRR)

Find the best fit investors and raise Seed funding from strength and not weakness.

Series A - Product/Market Fit (£100k+ MRR)

Ensure your metrics are spot on before starting on the pivotal Series A fundraising. ​

Cap Table
Source: Deal Lite
Shown for illustration purposes only and we have no relationship with the company shown.

Ranges from legal and financials services to product development and beyond.

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Built on trust.
Created for tech founders by tech founders and those who have scaled tech startups.

From 2006 to 2013, Techcelerate built Manchester’s tech startup ecosystem when there was no support structure for Tech Founders.

From 2018 to 2022, we helped up to 30 Tech Founders annually.

In 2023, we are refocusing on knowledge share, learning and greater collaboration through a bespoke Community Hub, events and workshops.

We are also aligning with SkilledUp Life to provide free talent and with Deal Lite to help find best-fit investors.

Tech Founders

Partners

Specialists

Perks

TCMCR22
Specialists

We have the know how to strengthen your team with experienced commercially driven talent from interim CTO to taking the full ownership for fundraising. We call this CxO as a Service.

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Revenue Officer

Chief Investment Officer

Founder journey no longer
has to be a lonely one.

From daily interactions via the bespoke Community Hub to monthly Techcelerate Coffees.

Share your challenges. Someone within the community would have experienced the same challenge before.

We have been building tech companies since early ’00s.

Learn from the combined wisdom of our experienced Founders. 

Daily Interactions

Events

Workshops

Promotion

Products

Products specifically developed to help you accelerate growth.

Know how along isn’t sufficient to build a successful tech startup. Get the vital intelligence you need through Deal Lite including finding investors. 

Deal Lite

Gives you an unparalleled understanding of the tech ecosystem including investment landscape. Use Deal Lite to find best-fit investors.

SkilledUp Life

A global multi-disciplinary talent pool in excess of 20,000 from 104 countries ready to help you survive and grow your startup FREE, once subscribed

Perks

Extras to keep you flying.

Get access to perks including up to $5k of AWS Credits, $120k IBM Credits, free fees on next £15k Stripe transactions, extended trials to SeedLegals, Segments credits, HubSpot discounts and many more.

What our Tech Founders say

Trust isn’t achieved overnight. It has to be earned. Here’s what some of our Tech Founders say about Techcelerate.

"Manoj has the innate ability to cut through the noise and get the core of the problem when it comes to starting or scaling a tech business. That combined with his ability to listen empathetically and always adopt a solution-oriented mindset is what encouraged us to work with Techcelerate."

ram raghvan
Ram Raghavan

"Techcelerate has been an invaluable guide – helping me to benefit from the experience and knowledge of others. I would strongly recommend it to anyone seeking aggressive growth of their tech business."

Russell Groves, CEO, Training Sensei
Russell Groves
Tech Founder Dinners 2

Stay focused on your vision.
Let us help you deliver it.

It is your journey, but by being a part of the Techcelerate community you can take advantage of opportunities quicker and reduce some of the wheel spin that founders normally go through. 

The more you engage, the more value you get.

Workshops

Tech Founders

Specialists

Take the next step to be part of a thriving group of UK Tech Founders.

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Is Techcelerate an Accelerator?

Hell no! There are overlapping features with accelerators, but we are here for the long run (start to exit) and not taking a cohort led approach.

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Any cloud credits and perks?

Yes. At present, we can support you to secure $5k AWS credits and $120k IBM credits.

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Does Techcelerate take equity?

No, we do not. We strongly believe that founders should not give away equity willy nilly. We operate through a simple annual membership plan.

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Are Partners and Specialists free?

No. If they undertake a project with deliverables, you would need to enter into a commercial agreement with the Partner.

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Join Techcelerate and accelerate your Tech Founder journey

Tap into the wisdom of the Techcelerate’s trusted community of tech entrepreneurs, partners and specialists to accelerate the growth of your tech startup.