Are you an internet of things startup or just looking to understand the internet of things? Here are a few useful ressources we’ve published over the past years.
What to know before quitting your day job and starting an internet of things business Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Written for Startupbootcamp IOT Connected Devices in Spring/Summer 2016)
IP & Business support
- British Library workshops (some of which are free)
- Johnny Martin (managing your finances)
- Fox Williams (a law firm who deal with technology and IP, get in touch with Rosie Burbidge)
- How to structure an investor deck (learnings from Buffer)
- Venture Deals (the best book about how to prepare yourself for investors)
- TeamGantt (online gantt charts for your team)
Investment
- Innovate UK
- 3Cs (quarterly pitching events to a community of seed investors)
- London Business Angels (community)
- AngelCoFund (government co-investment fund)
- Nesta funding (grants and other)
- Knight Foundation (US grant)
- Octopus Ventures (VC)
- Amadeus Capital (VC)
- Playfair Capital (VC)
- Ariadne Capital (VC)
- Index Ventures (VC)
- Passion Capital (VC)
- Balderton Capital (VC)
- Hoxton Ventures (VC)
- Foundry Group (US VC)
- Profounders (US VC)
- Ludlow Ventures (US VC)
- 500 Startups (US VC & Accelerator)
Prototyping
- Adrian McEwen (Liverpool)
- Things Innovation (Cambridge)
- Tom Cecil (Fabrication)
- Cory Burr (Fabrication)
- RazorLab (Lasercutting / Engraving / 3D printing)
- Inition (3d printing)
- Cutlasercut (Lasercutting / Engraving)
- Haymar Acrylics (Acrylic lasercutting & fabrication)
- 4D modelshop (materials)
- Ajax Stationary (stationary in Old Street)
- Kingswood Steele (printing / banners)
- Moo (business cards, letterhead, postcards)
- Gardner’s (bags / packaging)
- Viking Direct (office supplies)
- Clerkenwell Screws (tools)
- Camden Boss (enclosures)
- Diginate (stickers)
Industrialisation
- Lawrence Archard (electronics engineering & firmware development)
- 7th London (industrial design / design for manufacture)
- Christopher Pett (supply chain design)
- Burgopak (packaging design / supplier)
- RPD (Design for manufacture)
- Project Map Office (Design for Manufacture)
- Koobe Global (UK/China manufacturing) wrote about how to choose a manufacturing model.
Other resources are on the London Internet of Things Meetup site we author.