Tech City & IOT in London

Tech City & IOT by designswarm.com

South of the river

South bank

West London

North London

Fitzrovia Soho

East London

The City

Tech City

Canary Wharf

Old Street Station

Overground Line extension (2010)

Old Street Station

Overground Line extension (2010)

2008: £150 for a desk £18/sq ft

Old Street Station

Moo

2008: Silicon Roundabout

S&W

Tinker.it

Ketlai Dopplr

2008: Matt Biddulph (@mattb) CTO of Dopplr acquired by Nokia in 2010.

2008: Moo.com (tiny business cards with Flickr pictures) hosts in their offices: •  Dopplr •  Ketlai •  Ben Terrett & Russell Davies

Tinker.it is first UK distributor of the Arduino platform. Pachube is launched.

2010: Dopplr was acquired by Nokia Ketlai starts to work on gov.uk beta Ben Terrett & Russell Davies start RIG London Tinker.it closes

2012: Ketlai starts to work on gov.uk beta In 2013 Ben Terrett & Russell Davies become Lead architects of the government’s online presence.

2012: Moo.com hosts Tweetdeck in their offices on Scrutton St Tweetdeck is acquired for £25M. Pachube is acquired by LogMeIn for £15M.

2012: Lanyrd move to Rivington Studios above the Foundry an old building which was meant to be demolished and turned into a hotel in 2011.

2013: Gov.uk wins Design of the Year award.

2013: Lanyrd is acquired by Eventbrite and has now moved to SF. Tom Insam their developer used to work for Dopplr.

2014: IOT meetup is 2.5K members. Monthly gatherings in Shoreditch since 2011 sponsored by Xively.

Old Street Station

Overground Line extension (2010)

2014: £300 for a desk £37/sq ft

Tech City & IOT by designswarm.com