London Silicon Roundabout (LSR) is a new meetup which brings together startups, investors and techies based in and around the Old Street area in east London.
What started a few months ago with the aim of being a small(ish) gathering of like minded people into tech, has already grown to filling StartHub with over 100 attendees.
At last night’s event 6 startups pitched. All had been selected by LSR organiser Shawn for their innovation and being a bit different from all the other stuff out there.
We heard from UGC news site Blottr, Freelancestudents.co.uk, social meetup app Kliqed, ingredient analyser Recip.ly, knowledge share site TagBento and mobile learning tool Zuztertu.
More on the startups and demos of their products will be up on TechFluff next week.
Meetup organiser Shawn spoke about how the Roundabout is different from the Valley.
He said:
“Investors are a lot more cautious with their money here in the UK compared to San Francisco, which can hinder early stage growth. The Valley has a 10 year head start on innovation, but gradually we’re catching up in London and the UK.
“People are seeing that there are exciting things going on here with acquisitions like Dopplr by Nokia a couple of years ago.”
He’s confident that with meetups like LSR giving startups a chance to collaborate, show off their product and seek advice, we’ll close the gap.
Here’s our interview with Shawn in full:
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