Angel of the North Aims To Create New Northern Stars

Last night was the NWStartup networking event in Manchester. Manoj Ranaweera the organiser has a long post on the event and further details about a few of the people who attended.

The keynote speaker was Lee Strafford who recently sold his company Plus.net to BT for £67m. Besides discussing his experiences of growing and selling Plus.net, Lee also spoke about Project Sahara, his new angel investment project designed to help incubate and mentor Northern startups along the lines of TechStars.

Lee and Manoj will be revealing more details in the coming weeks about this exciting new project and how you can get involved either as a startup or mentor. In the meantime you can access several discussion documents on the project here.

One of the more interesting startups who attended was Stephen Morrisey of Clipstar: Stephen has an extensive network of investors and has recently put together Clipstar, a YouTube type venture he plans to launch in the City with various celebrities. Again more information will be revealed in the coming weeks but please do watch the video which gives more details.

Another attendee was Valerie De Leonibus of Inventya. Valerie plans to run the first Northern Girlie Geek Dinner sometime in early November 07. Again we will post details of the event once Valerie publishes them.

For details of the next NWStartup 2.0 event in January 2008 please read Manoj’s blog.