Adzuna co-founder Doug Monro has taken part in events around the ‘Silicon Valley Comes to the UK’ initiative. Doug attended a dinner hosted by the Duke of York on Thursday evening alongside world wide web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and investor Eileen Burbidge. On Friday morning he opened the London Stock Continued »
London’s Tech City has quite rightfully received a lot of positive press recently due to its impressive growth. Formed around the beginning of the decade, Tech City has grown from a couple of hundred start-ups to a few thousand today. According to research by Oxford Economics, over the next ten years the number of digital Continued »
Adzuna co-founder Andrew Hunter met with UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday evening to talk tech, entrepreneurship and trading abroad. The Prime Minister met with the founders of the UK’s top tech start-ups and announced the appointment of Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce business, to his Business Advisory group. Andrew Hunter Continued »
What a week we had last week at Adzuna Towers! We are pretty thrilled to report, as our 6 week crowd-funding campaign closes, that we’ve now raised more than £2m through the UK’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. More than 500 ‘crowd’ investors backed the ‘Get Britain Working’ campaign so far ranging from CEO’s and Tech Continued »
Welcome to Guest Post Friday, where today’s words of wisdom come from John Baker at Zazzle, as he weighs up the career options for games enthusiasts: Long-time players will remember video games taking 15 minutes to load on a flickering screen, literally screeching data from a crude device called a tape into the machine. Blocky, simplistic graphics, poor Continued »
As that Friday feeling comes home to roost at Adzuna Towers, we are reflecting on the fact that every single one of our investors and partners is a superstar in our opinion. For one of our newest backers though, celebrity status extends beyond the world of business. We are pleased as punch to announce Eamon Continued »
As the week draws to a close, it’s time for our final Adzuna investor profile of the week, and so, without further ado, please welcome to the stage Mr Phil Chambers. A co-founder of Peakon, a real-time dashboard to help people better manage companies and teams using a data-driven approach, Phil has hands-on experience of Continued »
In the third of our profiles of our amazing investors, Adzuna is delighted to announce a new investor and partner – and one we are pretty delighted to have on board, at that – none other than Sherry Coutu CBE. Introducing Sherry Coutu CBE Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor with a Continued »
With 260 investors now pledging support for the next stage of the Adzuna adventure, we’ve been chatting to another of our existing investors, Robin Klein of The Accelerator Group, to get the inside scoop on his thoughts on the company’s potential. Today, we are pretty thrilled to introduce Robin Klein, who was been involved with Continued »