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We are delighted to have partnered with @TataCompanies to launch #varsitypitch2025 Varsity Pitch is the longest-running student #business #pitching competition in the #uk All current students and recent grads with a business idea can apply! See varsitypitch.org

Interesting to see how localised this is for different jurisdictions. How will law firms and existing AI-led #legaltech compete with a free service that just appears in their everyday work tools? @latticecut

Love Matt Dowling of @freelancerclub - great friend to @CfEntrepreneurs and our Incubator and Accelerator Network! centreforentrepreneurs.org/ian

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Delighted to see our CEO, Tim Barnes, alongside our research lead @cdh1001 and researcher Jenny Shehaj presenting some working findings of our upcoming report on #startup #incubators and #accelerators in the #uk at @WolfsonCam Thanks to @innovateuk for their support!

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If you skip some or all of college to start a startup, it's on you to develop your mind the way college would have. And that's not something that happens by default in most startups.

That’s what it’s like to be ahead of the curve!

We're on the precipice of massive sociotechnical transformation. In thinking about what root-level technologies will matter most, I keep coming back to two themes. The first is Coordination. Non-linear and asymmetric technology acceleration is going to push things way out of equilibrium over the next couple of decades. We'll need counterforces that hold and pull society together. New technologies, institutions, and movements that can: - amplify trust, connection and collaboration. - drive collective flourishing while preserving individuality. - get us closer to the pareto frontier of shareholder and social value creation. The second is Neurotechnology. Neurological disorders are humanity's biggest barrier to productivity, agency, happiness, and peace. Meanwhile, powerful AI is about to challenge the very foundations of human identity and experience. Applying frontier engineering and invention to frontier neuroscience, I think we can massively shift the trajectory of human flourishing: - understand what makes us “us.” - gain control over psychiatric disorders, learning, cognition, and bias. - solve alignment and symbiosis with hyperintelligent machines. - protect, enhance & preserve the human experience. Thrilled to explore these topics as part of @RenPhilanthropy's growing community of scientists, funders, and entrepreneurs working to slingshot humanity into a better future!

'The UK retained its position as Europe’s leading VC market, attracting more funding than France, Germany and the Netherlands combined and accounting for 41 per cent of total investment across the continent.' Go, Britain! 🚀 cityam.com/quantum-and-ai…

Don't start a startup in high school. What if it works? You'll lose the opportunity you'd otherwise have to explore random, interesting ideas, driven only by curiosity. Because while you will indeed learn a lot from a startup, you won't have any choice about what you learn.

Well, it was needed.

So, thank you to @BarclaysUK for supporting the sector and, as today, the @NatEntNet conference. The signal this sends is that this IS still an important area for their business and that has to be welcomed by everyone in the #UK.

As a rule of thumb, the big banks have slimmed down their support for #startups over the last couple of years and where they have kept things going it's tended to be more and more for their SME customers and for specific under-served groups. 1/2

This is a great way to learn the benefits of working alongside others - vital modern life skill.

@timothy_barnes @innovateuk A good number of requests for info on the new service - so something clearly worked! 👏

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@cdh1001 Looking forward to going through the data, aren't we, Chris?

Are you a UK-based startup support organisation? (i.e. an accelerator, incubator, meet-up, training programme, mentoring scheme, bootcamp or anything else focused on supporting entrepreneurs?) Please let @CfEntrepreneurs know what you're doing! surveymonkey.com/r/IAN2026

@timothy_barnes New communities incoming!