Luke Loveridge @ Propflo, Dan Pritchard @ Tech South West Awards and Ben Cooper @ Bristol Private Equity Club | The Journey To Making The South West A Vibrant Regional Hub

In this episode it’s been great to talk to founder Luke Loveridge about his experience not only exiting a startup with HomeLINK but then going on to currently launching another one with Propflo - for which he recently won Startup of the year at the Tech South West Awards.

Tech South West was conceived of and launched by Dan Pritchard in 2018. A brand expert who moved to the region, he recognised the opportunity to supercharge its potential as a major tech hub. In that time, Dan also launched the Tech South West Awards in 2019, and with the Tech South West team, developed the tech cluster organisation to run virtual accelerator programmes, commission key reports and build its membership to over 3000-strong, all helping to put the South West as a region firmly on the UK’s tech map. 

Bringing the perspective of the regional investor to the conversation is Ben Cooper, who as well as now being involved in the Awards is an active member of the Bristol Private Equity group -  a leading regional angel syndicate. As well as being an active NED and strategic advisor to startup and scale ups.

With these 3 perspectives, this episode is a real window for anyone wishing to get an insight into how you begin to nurture, stimulate and interconnect the various nodes of a region to create the conditions for a vibrant regional hub outside of the traditional founder and investor London bias and focus.

As with all guests on the Series 4, we then walk and talk and overlay the insights of the above through the framework of The Switch Deck together.

Connect further: 

• https://propflo.co.uk/ 
• https://www.techsouthwest.co.uk/awards-2022 and https://program.agency/
• https://www.bristolprivateequityclub.com