Presentation on how Red Gate went about selecting two start-up companies to join our 'Incubator' in Cambridge as part of a Mentor-ship program. This was done in collaboration with IDA (Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore).

1. Selecting start-ups for the
Incubator
Singapore

2. Where did it all start?
• Angus in Singapore – Nick W, Angus and Tim
Pullan (Taylor Vinters) met with IDA
(government org promoting tech in Singapore)
• Long process, various contacts, ended up with
contact (through IDA) at e27, run a tech start-
up event called echelon. They provided us
with a list of 50 start-ups in a few days.

3. Stage 1 – the long-list
50
↓
30
Red Gate and IDA want “True
technological advancement”

4. Stage 2 – basic RG sift
30
↓
10
James, Marine, Angus -
quality of the idea, market
size, competition, fit with
Red Gate, founders
backgrounds, etc.

5. Stage 3 – RG interviews
10
↓
2
RG interviews – Tom Harris,
Richard Mitchell the Great,
James Murtagh, Mark Cheverton, Matt
Dickens, Michael Christofides, Richard
Muscat, Marine Barbaroux,
Bart Read, Gareth Marlow

6. Feedback form for this stage
• Does the business sound viable?
• Is there anything that aligns with Red Gate’s
business? What?
• Can we learn from them? What?
• Can we teach them anything? What?
• Would they fit in well at Red Gate?
• Do you recommend they go through to the
final stage?

7. Stage 4 – Final Two
2
↓
2
Judging at Echelon
conference, Singapore

8. Winner 1 – Sent.ly (Varun Chatterji)

9. Winner 2 – Novatap dockPHP (Kshitiz Shankar)