Addleshaw launches search for unicorns
LAW FIRM Addleshaw Goddard has launched a search for the best high-growth tech businesses.
Addleshaw is launching its fifth AG Elevate programme – an accelerator for those looking to become the next tech unicorn.
AG Elevate is a fast-track tenmonth programme designed to advance tech businesses in all sectors of the economy through legal challenges that arise as they grow. It has supported more than 30 tech entrepreneurs since it launched in 2017.
Having recently opened in Luxembourg and Ireland, taking AG to 17 international offices, the firm is again extending AG Elevate to all of the markets that it operates in. Previous AG Elevate cohorts have included Yorkshire businesses Crysp and Just Transcription.
Elvan Hussein, partner and coprogramme lead at Addleshaw
Goddard, said: “We have emerged from the pandemic into a different environment, with tech integrated in all aspects of our lives and this continues to both offer opportunities for high growth and the chance for tech businesses to play a huge part in rebuilding and growing our economies wherever they are based.
“AG Elevate is tried and tested and we understand what matters most to these businesses, and what challenges they will inevitably face. Our mentors have the specialist sector knowledge to bring tangible added value to the relationships with their Elevate members, beyond their undoubted legal expertise and we can’t wait to meet our new cohort.”
To qualify for consideration for a place on the programme, businesses need to have existing plans for high-growth and have received external funding.