UK Technology Startups

The London Technology Fund, the capital’s specialist investor in new technology companies, has introduced the London Technology Fund Competition 2008.

The competition offers London-based technology start-ups the chance to share up to £1m in investment, participate in exciting workshops worth more than £100,000 and also confer with leading players in the technology world.

Richard Irving, a partner at venture capital firm Pond Venture Partners, sees that making all the exciting consumer advances work together is a big challenge for the CE industry.

This month saw the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, formerly known as 3GSM. Along with the Consumer Electronics Show, these shows are probably the main events for the global electronics industry.

As everyone knows, the cutting-edge of the mobile world is in Europe or Asia, and while MWC has about a third of CES's attendees, Barcelona is also a much nicer place than Las Vegas (receptions in an 11th century monastery certainly beat anything in Vegas!), so there is an amazing number of US VCs and entrepreneurs who head over each year.

And while it seemed a little more subdued than last year, there were several things worth noticing.