Are you Collider's Next Head of Programme?

Supercharging Startups. Accelerating Brands. That's what we do.

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Collider is hiring! We’re looking for a Head of Programme to join us in our office at Wework, Southbank.

Now in our fourth year, we have invested in 34 startups,including Seenit, Miappi, Camapaign Amp and Pixoneye. Our community of startups is set to exceed 50 by the end of this year. This is an exciting time in our development as we are seeking to grow the business across the UK and on the world stage. As an accelerator we foster world-class madtech startups, savvy investors and brands who are seeking to harness the technology of startups. We are on the hunt for a dynamic and driven individual to run our world-class programme for startups and support on delivering to clients.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of the Academy Programme
• Liaise with our Partners to find venues for the Academy and manage the events, bringing in team members when needed
• Seek to constantly improve our delivery to the startups through testing new trainers and getting feedback from startups and trainers
• Support the Director in managing relationships with our Brand Partners
• Work closely with the community manager to ensure all Collider companies are communicated to efficiently and effectively

Essential for this role

• Relationships are key in this role, you must genuinely enjoy working with new people. You’re a natural networker, love the startup environment and are exceedingly comfortable with trying, failing fast and learning from it.
• You’ll get stuck in from the first day and be part of the small but impactful team at Collider
• Glass half-full personality and a can-do attitude. Enthusiasm, good-will and persistence will go a long way in a startup.
• You’re resourceful, pro-active and do whatever it takes to get things done.

Why you'll love working us

• Your role at Collider plugs you directly into the heart of the startup eco-system, and allows you to meet a host of successful and inspiring entrepreneurs through work and play. What's more you're at the forefront of Corporate Innovation.
• We run a flat structure; we’re a small, tight team, driven by the same mission – to make London the capital of #MadTech. We are passionate about helping our startups and our Brand Partners.

Interested?

• Send us a covering note and your CV telling us why you'd be perfect for the role

Watch Advertising Week Europe Live

Can't make it to Advertising Week Europe? Catch the live stream from the Sun Room right here - we're on at 11:30am. It's the first day of Advertising Week Europe in London! Four days of incredible back-to-back talks, workshops and networking sessions from the marketing and advertising industry's best will be heading to Picturehouse Central. And we're chuffed to be taking part for the second year in a row.

Last year we spoke about what brands and agencies need to be ready to work with startups, inviting along some of our dedicated brand and agency representatives and Stephen Lepitak from The Drum to moderate. The discussion was a huge success, and the perfect segway into the Class of 2015 Demo Day just a few weeks later. This year we're doing things a little differently.

With the Class of 2016 Demo Day just behind us, we're looking forward to how startups can transform into scale-ups. What network of support is necessary for entrepreneurs to go from 0 to 100 while balancing the expectations of investors, co-founders, employees and customers? How do expectations change from being a hand-to-mouth company, to being a fast-growth company? What qualities should founders look at in mentors they will keep close for the rest of their days? We're discussing this at 11:30am Monday morning (that's today) live at Advertising Week Europe from the people who have done it before.

Guy Wieynk, CEO Western Europe at Publicis, Sarah Wood, Co-Founder & Co-CEO Unruly, Gabbi Cahane, Chairman of Multiple and our very own Rose Lewis, Co-Founder of Collider will be taking to the stage to discuss. They will then be joined by Emily Forbes, Co-FOunder of Seenit, Andrew Foyle, Co-Founder of Miappi and Ofri Ben-Porat, Co-Founder of Pixoneye - three Collider alumni who will be on stage for some live mentoring.

Tune in and tweet at @ColliderGB to get in on the conversation!

Goopi Takes Home the Prize at Collider's Class of 2016 Demo Day

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Over 200 people packed in to see the Class of 2016 startups share their knowledge on the latest and greatest in marketing and advertising technology. Collider investors put a total of £700K into the Class of 2016 startups - alongside expert one-to-one coaching and incredible industry connections. All of this culminated in Demo Day - the public launch of their products.

Three of Collider's brand partners, Haymarket, Exterion Media and Unilever, took to the stage with three Collider alumni, Momentum, Seenit, and Find the Ripple, to talk about the experiences of brands working with startups two years on from where the Class of 2016 are. Insightful and actionable discussions set the stage for the Class of 2016 founders.

Here are the Collider Class of 2016 startups.

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rtobjects helps brands showcase their products and tell new stories through interactive personal movie experiences in the browser.

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Goopi enables mass customisation of video advertising quickly and inexpensively.

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Hotstreet uses highly localised Twitter and Instagram feeds to engage customers and drive traffic to your stores.

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Scoop Retail is an in-store digital platform that helps retailers to engage customers, empower staff and increase sales.

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Kout enables e-commerce websites to sell more products by incentivising customers through games integrated at point of sale, specifically focussing on retargeting and cart abandonment..

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Advifi is the first programmatic WiFi ad network.

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Release is a plug and play referral marketing solution that turns your customers into brand advocates.

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Dan and Rose Lewis, Co-Founder of Collider celebrate the Goopi win, taking home the prize from Collider's Demo Day! The audience voted during each startup's presentation regarding how they imagine using the startup's technology within the brand or agency they work for. Ranging from not understanding the product to needing to use it right away, the Collider team weighted and added up the answers, with Goopi coming out on top. Congratulations!

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The MadTech Digest #1

Highlighting news in European MadTech for this week

At Collider, we like to try things. So we’re going to compile the MadTech Digest, a weekly digest of things our community is sharing, leaders new thinking, and business new in European MadTech. Got something interesting you think we should be sharing? Send it over to alexandra [at] collider.io.

UK based AdTech company Admedo has scored a fresh $6M funding round this week – that’s the second AdTech company based in Europe to receive funding according to The Drum. Is the 2015 slump destined to lead in 2016? It seems unlikely.

As AdTech public company stock dropped on average 37% in 2015, this shouldn’t be used to represent the entire ecosystem, The Wall Blog points out. M&A activity with large corporates, and a convergence of AdTech and MarTech will bring about a new life to the industry.

Econsultancy also noted the increasingly strong relationship between martech and adtech.  They also recommend keeping an eye on the data, native content and mobile spaces. Oh, and publishers are finally talking about ad blocking in a constructive way.

Speaking of ad blocking, Google pulled Adblock Fast, the official Samsung API for ad blocking, from the app store earlier this week according to The Next Web. With such abruptness, we hope it’s in the interest of UX.

But are we heading into a content bubble? The CRO of Forbes, Mark Howard, thinks sponsored content might be one of the side effects of ad blocking for publishers.

We Are Social’s Simon Kemp released a massive report on world-wide digital, social and mobile usage. He then proceeded to challenge the idea that young people are leaving Facebook. Some light(ish) reading for your Friday commute.

Collider portfolio company seenit were named the winner of the BT Infinity Lab competition, reinforcing the importance of user-generated video content for the coming year.

On the VC Side? Fred Wilson argues capital is going urban once again, based on 2012 data compiled by the Creative Class’ frontrunner Richard Florida.

Send us your feedback, and stay tuned for more to come next week!

The Class of 2016 Training Partners are Here

With months of pre-planning, the Class of 2016 is ready to join the Collider team and begin their journey in London. The founders began their four month intensive Academy in December to culminate in a March Demo Day. From workshops, to speed dates with key decision makers within brands and agencies, to hours of one on one coaching, the founders will have met 100+ individuals in the marketing and advertising space, and spent 50+ hours in sessions. The Academy is designed to enhance these early-stage founders with the knowledge they need to build out scalable businesses in 2016. Highly tailored to the demands of creating a business brands and agencies can work with, the programme is tailored to fit the needs of founders ready to scale.

In the first month of intensive academy, we work with three fantastic training partners. Source provide a lean foundation for the startups to think about building scalable products, True & North for sales fundamentals when working with big brands and agencies, and Insight Coaching provide the interpersonal skills necessary to inspire confidence when trying to close a deal. These dedicated individuals provide their time and energy to help the startups better achieve their goals in a shorter amount of time.

David Clayton says;

"Working with Collider is a natural fit for True & North. Collider are the experts at identifying media and advertising startups relevant to brands, agencies and media owners. True & North support start-ups, brands, agencies and media owners in demonstrating business value to their respective clients. Through 2016 I'm most excited about empowering Collider's startups with the mind-set and approaches to agree sustainable business relationships with great clients."

Tambo Silavwe of Insight Coaching London says;

"Working with Collider is always great. Being part of the process they take their cohort through is always exciting, not everyone can do it how they do."