Championing regional growth together: Tech Climbers partners up with The Data City
A meeting of innovative minds
Here at Tech Climbers, we’re always striving to enhance the profile and growth of tech clusters throughout the UK. Our broadening nomination pool is allowing us to better profile new regions and the tech businesses within them, as we continue to expand. With each new round of entries, we gather data to explore how the industry is growing, by examining a range of topics including ESG impact, funding appetite, diversity and inclusion, and job creation.
With all of this in mind, we’re extremely excited to announce our new partnership with The Data City, a UK data provider with a mission to help map and understand the UK’s emerging economy. The Data City uses an innovative SaaS platform to combine machine learning with company data, building a platform of over 5.2 million companies. It’s a platform already used by many public sector companies, ministerial departments, and some of the UK’s top organisations – meaning we’re in great company!
Through our partnership with The Data City, we’ll be taking our data analysis of the UK’s tech industry to the next level - profiling not only services but products, and delving even deeper into tech clusters. The Data City offers real-time data that is accurate, pulling out specific evidence of growth to supplement the anecdotal data we gauge from entrants.
Telling regional stories
Anna Heyes, CEO at Active Profile and founder of Tech Climbers says:
“At Tech Climbers, we always aim to tell the stories of each region - whether that’s a race for funding, or the creation of jobs for the local economy. Our partnership with the team at The Data City will really build on this, as we’ll be able to chart the region’s fastest growing businesses and look at where clusters are forming around tech sectors - be it AI, health, Ed-tech or travel for instance... The macro data that we’ll be able to leverage in this partnership will allow us to widen our nomination pool, showcasing the companies we should be pulling in entries from. Overall, we’re excited to get going, starting with profiling the Yorkshire region before moving on to other areas!”
Alex Craven, CEO at The Data City, added:
“We knew from the off that teaming up with Tech Climbers would make a great partnership. Anna and the team are already doing a fantastic job of gathering anecdotal data, detailing success stories of businesses in the UK, and together we’ll be able to create a top-down analysis, utilising our real-time data on millions of companies. Something that we’re really proud of is the depth and breadth of our data, and the sheer size of our database, so combining that with the data that Tech Climbers gathers will definitely tell a powerful story.”
You can find out more about the Data City here: https://thedatacity.com/
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