Digital and tech entrepreneurs needed for first Fellowship programme of 2019

11 January 2019

DigitalCity is recruiting Tees Valley-based digital and technology innovators to its first Fellowship Accelerator Programme of 2019.

Some of the members of the previous DigitalCity Fellowship Accelerator cohort.

DigitalCity Fellows benefit from a programme of workshops and bespoke mentoring, as well as a grant of up to 拢5,000.The programme is designed for early-stage businesses who have been trading for less than 12 months. Led by 海角直播 in partnership with the Tees Valley Combined Authority and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), DigitalCity has been responsible for helping to create some of the region鈥檚 most successful companies.

As the wider sectors continue to embrace digital technology, the diversity of the businesses DigitalCity supports is expanding. The most recent programme included companies providing digital solutions to problems in the areas of health and end of life care, live music and space technology.

Scott Watson, DigitalCity Cluster Innovation Manager said: 鈥淭hrough the Fellowship Accelerator we support the exciting digital start-ups coming out of the Tees Valley. We鈥檙e particularly interested in working with businesses that are involved in transforming traditional sectors with their digital and tech skills. We鈥檙e also keen to work with innovators who are commercialising an idea, product or service that they want to develop to seek further investment.鈥�

DigitalCity was acknowledged as one of the key drivers of digital growth in the Tees Valley when Middlesbrough was listed in the Tech Nation 2018 report as being in the vanguard of the UK鈥檚 burgeoning digital and hi-tech economy.

Its work on the digital transformation of Tees Valley businesses was also recognised with the 鈥楰nowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of The Year鈥� at the 2018 Times Higher Education Leadership & Management Awards (THELMA).

The Fellowship Accelerator Programme will be delivered in Boho 5 on Bridge Street East, Middlesbrough, from February 鈥� April 2019.

Deadline for applications to the Fellowship Accelerator Programme is 4.00pm on Friday 1 February. If you are interested in applying please call Scott Watson on: 01642 738694 or Email: scott.watson@tees.ac.uk