Last chance to buy your ticket - Dragon's Lair II on 26th March in Central Manchester

Last chance to buy your ticket to Dragons Lair with 51 tickets sold with 6 Dragons and 8 pitching companies confirmed. Act now to avoid paying higher fees at the door.

The event is likely to be filmed by BBC and Manchester Evening News. In additon, press will include Insider NW. So make sure you let them know about your startup or company what you are doing to promote the region as a tech hub

Dragons

I am thrilled to welcome Nic Brisbourne of DFJ Esprit which has over $6 billion under management. This is Nic's second visit - a clear sign of London based VC's desire to engage and support Northern talent. Nic will be joined by our own Carl Allen (£200m of funding through 3000 investing Non Executive Directors), Scott Fletcher (Angel Investor and CEO of ANS Group), Simon Howship (first time Angel Investor and Senior Executive of Freeserve, and ex-CEO of Callserve Communicaions and Vyke Communications plc), Amin Amiri (a2e Venture Catalysts) and Alex Stevenson (Aquarius Venture Partners). Simon, Amin and Alex are new to Northern StartUp 2.0. Do use the event to impress all of the Dragons with Northern talent.

Who is this event for?

Are you a tech startup looking for funding? Are you an Angel Investor or Venture Capitalist looking for investment opportunities? Are you interested in attending a lively event where up to 8 tech startups will pitch to a panel of Venture Capitalists and Business Angels? Whatever your interest is, I am happy to announce the return of Dragon's Lair to Central Manchester on 26th March 2009 at UMIC after the successful pilot in December 2008. The event runs from 5:30pm to 9pm followed by networking at a local bar till early hours.

Presenting Companies

8 Cracking startups with propositions from streamlining purchase-to-payment and order-to-cash cycles (PostDox), recycling (RecycleLocal), travel experience (TourDust), data migration for legacy systems (DataNovata), document publishing, distribution and interactivity (edocr), location based social network (CaptivePortals), proximity based marketing (DCS) and location history online (mapme.at).

Opportunitis

Sponsor this prestigious event - sponsorship starts from £500+VAT. Sponsorship will go towards catering and beer

First Dragon's Lair

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Forthcoming Event - 15th April in Central Manchester - Cloud Computing

We already have Microsoft (Bindi Karia), Doughty Hanson (Ivan Farneti) and Thispace (StartUp4Slaughter) confirmed and waiting to hear from Amazon Web Services, Sun Microsystems and others. Following our event, there are two other events taking place in London on Cloud Computing. As you can imagine, Cloud Computing has become a hot topic. Startups like edocr.com are relying heavily on cloud computing for their products. Opportunities:

1. Sponsor this themed event
2. Be a speaker

Event page: http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/apr09

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Forthcoming Event - 8th June - LondonTechMission

We are planning to take number of northern tech companies to London on the 8th June. Two sessions: 2pm to 5pm Workshop just for tech entrepreneurs from North and London followed by Dragons Lair from 6pm to 9pm. Opportunities:

1. Startups
2. Dragons
3. VCs
4. Sponsorship

We have also discounted prices for Being Digital which will run from 9th to 10th June in partnership with Northern StartUp 2.0

Event page: http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/jun09

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