GP Bullhound unleashes tech map
GP BULLHOUND, the investment bank focused on the technology sector, is celebrating a year in the North West.
In the past 12 months the organisation has advised on six deals in the region, including £8m investment in Macclesfield-based CarLoan4U and sale to NorthEdge Capital of Yorkshire software firm Sumo Digital.
The Manchester office, on New York Street, was GP Bullhound’s fifth, and follows London, San Francisco, Stockholm and Berlin. It is also the ‘home base’ of founder and managing partner Hugh Campbell as well as
former AO and Gresham Private Equity executive Adam Rudd, analyst Like Burns and executive assistant and events co-ordinator Bev Beottcher.
Campbell said: “We are very excited to have expanded our service offering to the North. The region is home to so many fantastic tech companies but we are not making the most of what we have. We’ve been lucky enough to advise six of them already and look forward to advising many more.”
In the last 12 months, GP Bullhound has completed more than 30 transactions across Europe and US including sales to Facebook Spotify and Disney.
In the North West it has acquired the Northern Tech Awards and hosted eight other events, reaching more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and investors.
Its latest innovation is the Northern Tech Map, an interactive website showing the make-up of the technology sector in the North West, Yorkshire and Scotland and beyond.
The tech map, is at www.northerntechmap.com and shows the North West is home to more than 270 businesses, spanning e-commerce, digital media, enterprise software, hardware and systems and services.
