How many tech startups make a tech scene?
25 August 2010
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TechCrunch recently published a post entitled “Dublin, London and Berlin – How Europe’s hubs started to kick ass” . Guess what – Birmingham wasn’t mentioned. Now that’s probably because, as usual, we are not very good at selling our virtues. But it does beg the question, how many tech start ups do you need to have a tech scene?
We do have a scene in Birmingham that is growing fast, but it is still in its early days. We have groups like StartupMill, Tech Wednesday and GamesCentral all contributing to the emerging tech start up scene. Here is a quick look at 18 start ups based either at Birmingham Science Park Aston, Birmingham or in the West Midlands.
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Qrky – Next Generation Business Cards using QR technology www.qrky.co.uk |
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Socially Accepted Games -Online Social Games www.soshigames.com |
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OnePage is a digital platform for creating, sharing and storing business/contact cards. www.myonepage.com |
| Friendbinder brings together your friends from different social networks. It lets you keep track of all your friends in one place, post updates and replies, saving you time. | |
| Civico is a practical online democracy engagement platform. Civico brings the integration of the latest social media technology to voice & video streaming www.civicolive.com | |
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DataDiscretion delivers a file encryption solution via USB key www.datadiscretion.com |
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HereToNetwork is a mobile event showguide and visitor day planner www.heretonetwork.com |
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Boxed Ice, Server Density provides cloud based server monitoring services www.boxedice.com |
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GoGoSheets is an online canvas for instantly sharing and developing ideas www.gogosheets.com |
| Recip.ly is an online tool for bookmarking your favourite recipes and instantly adding the required ingredients to your online shopping basket. www.recip.ly | |
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Interstate provides businesses and developers alike with a solution for keeping on top of development tasks using awesome roadmaps! www.interstateapp.com |
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Majestic-12 is developing a search engine scalable to billions of web pages that is based on support by the community www.majestic12.co.uk |
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e-resistable is an online takeaway website that connects local takeaway restaurants to customers, facilitating online ordering & payment www.e-resistible.co.uk |
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Nurph is the company that gives you real-time, Internet chat channels www.nur.ph |
| Host my Portfolio allows you to create a free online portfolio, complete with user profile, projects, images, videos and more, and showcase your work to the world. www.hostmyportfolio.com | |
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SoopSee aims to unite all of your listings, shops, photos and scribblings under one roof (or rather, one website – your website). www.soopsee.com |
| Property inventories made easy. The new web application for real estate agents, landlords and inventory clerks. www.optimiseapp.com |
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| Money Toolkit is a set of mobile and online tools to make it easy to manage your money. |
Optimise is a web app being developed by a company based out of Oldbury!
So how many tech conferences do we have here in Birmingham, how about meetups or hack sessions. We just don’t have the scene evolving or local expertise to help develop our brand!
I posted a blog some time ago to try to get some like minded techies together in the midlands, but with no success. Technology in the Midlands – http://www.iphoneappdev.co.uk/index.phpid=5083337363869112257
We have been running our mobile Apps company for four years now and would be interested in having regular meet ups with similar techies whether they are students, startup entrepreneurs, contractors or permanent employees. I just think it would be good to generate some enthusiasm for tech in the Midlands. So Frustrated dev how about it?
[...] Entrepreneurs for the future have a nice little blog post detailing the growing technical startup scene here in the UK’s Midlands. Theres a list of about 18 companies and Money Toolkit gets a mention… [...]
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