Startups of London: A Mini Documentary Series
Our Why
StartupsofLondon.com launched with the goal to tell the stories of London based startups and put them on a map. We want to help their growth by giving them more visibility in the eyes of investors, users, talents, mentors, consultants and entrepreneurs.
Our core belief is that startups really are the change engines of the world today.
From ecological crises to political ones; from how we misuse technology to our need to belong and feel cared in the digital age, we are not short of problems to solve. We see startups as the peak of human ingenuity. They allow us to tackle much bigger problems than we individually can. They rely on collaboration, inspiration, problem solving and most important of all, relentless learning.
Why London? Because despite being called Europe’s #1 Startup Capital; the sources of in-depth information about startups are lacking. Sure, there are sources of basic factual and statistical information. But we think there is value in painting a more detailed picture about who these startups are.
We want to tell the stories of the founders, the team and the business itself. Focusing on their culture, problems they care about solving the most, the challenges they overcame and currently have, the technologies they depend on, the people they depend on, their physical working environment, their growth in terms of team and users, their goals for the future and more…
A lot of hard work goes into each episode. We book the startups, coordinate with the video team, visit their offices, interview founders & employees, edit the video and publish on Youtube, publish the audio-only version as a podcast create a startup fact sheet to summarise the startup and write a long form editorial. And we do this on a weekly basis. (You can find links at the bottom of this post if you do want to follow.)
Watch the First 5 Episodes
ChargedUp #5
ForwardHealth #4
WeGift.io #3
SeedLegals #2
JobLab #1
Core Pillars of the Interviews
We have a number of central pillars to our founders interviews which serve as a core part of these. We still go off to some tangents depending on the business but make sure to touch base on all the topics below.
- Value to users / customers & problem they are solving.
- Value to Investors / past investment history.
- Value to Talent / Employees & Company Culture.
- Their growth journey with pivots & iterations & finding product-market fit.
- Tech tools (mostly SaaS tools) they depend on to sustain the business.
- And of course, what living and working in London is like!
Next confirmed episodes are with some fantastic London based tech startups such as Soldo, Citizen.me, Elder, Tandem, iProov, Lavanda, Feast-it and more.
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For applications write to us at hello@startupsoflondon.com with a short summary of key data about your startups such as office location, number of employees, growth stage, previous investments and links that you think are relevant.
If you want to follow us on social channels, here are the links.
Startups of London Youtube Page
Startups of London Twitter Page
