Addleshaw Goddard has launched its search for the best high-growth tech businesses to join the fifth cohort of its accelerator.
The law firm's Elevate programme is aiming to find the next tech unicorn, with a 10-month schedule designed to advance 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 the firm to 17 international offices, it is again extending Elevate to all of the markets that it operates in. Previous cohorts have included Scottish businesses BlackArrow Financial Solutions, Trojan Energy, Amiqus, Trace and OBR.
Designed, developed and delivered by the firm's lawyers, the programme helps businesses tackle the legal and other challenges they may face when scaling up. Chosen businesses will have access to legal mentors, advice and industry networks.
To qualify for consideration for a place on the programme, businesses need to have existing plans for high-growth and have received external funding.
Up to a third of places on the programme will be ring-fenced for allocation to businesses with a proposition which has a strong focus on sustainability.
David Anderson, partner and co-programme lead at Addleshaw Goddard, said: "Our teams are embedded in the ecosystem of the high-growth technology sector and regularly advise businesses and their founders on their strategic objectives.
"We also understand where technology investors and acquirers are coming from, and this combined experience allows our mentors to help the cohort meet their commercial goals."
Elvan Hussein, partner and co-programme lead at Addleshaw Goddard, added: "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."
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