Deal Lite UK Tech Investment Weekly takes place every Monday at 12 pm UK time on Clubhouse, hosted by Manoj Ranaweera of Deal Lite (a product of Techcelerate) with co-hosts, Andrew Threlfall of Malinko (Techcelerate’s largest tech company, which makes scheduling community nursing a walk in the park for the NHS) and Stewart Townsend, a SaaS Channel Specialist who helps Techcelerate Member Companies scale through channel partnerships.

Episode 62 will take place on the 04th of July 2022 at 12 pm UK Time.

The friendly discussion will focus on:

Founder journeys
Investment journeys
Growth Plans

We hope the audience will benefit from the knowledge shared.

Speaker

1. James Symes – Bike Club (Series B)

James is the CEO of Bike Club, which recently secured £16.75 million Series B investment led by Circularity Capital.

James is a Chartered Accountant. He started his first business at the age of 20, which is now a multi-million pound turnover company. James has ridden a motorbike to Mongolia (yes, from the UK) and stood for parliament in 2015. In 2019, James left KPMG to take over as CEO of the Bike Club.

The Bike Club is the UK’s largest bike subscription service providing premium quality kid’s bikes for children aged 0 – 14 years. Once joining Bike Club, bikes and scooters are delivered straight to customers’ homes and can be exchanged at any time as their child grows.

The Bike Club secures £16.75 million Series B investment led by Circularity Capital

2. Kerem Alper – Neol (Seed)

Kerem is the Co-founder and CEO of Neol, which recently secured £4.23 million Seed investment co-led by kyu Collective and Global Ventures.

Kerem is a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded ATÖLYE and Collective Innovation and Design Association in 2013. Prior to which Kerem worked at Nest Labs as a Digital Product Manager. Kerem was selected the Lightspeed Venture Partners Fellow in 2012, Young Creative Entrepreneur of the Year by British Council in 2014, a Young Global Leader by the Council for the U.S. Kerem is a board director of imece, Toyi, and Urla Digital Agriculture and serves on the advisory boards of kyu Community Platform.

URBYNO (t/a Neol) is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community and enabled by Web3 to produce more equitable value creation and exchange.