Asians in Tech join Tech Nation’s Upscale 4.0 programme

Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech alumni including Suryansh Chandra (Automata), Suman Saha (Doctify) and Tushar Agarwal (Hubble) are among those joining Tech Nation’s Upscale 4.0 programme. Following a record number of exceptional applications last year and an intense judging period, the 30 fast-growing tech companies have been invited onto the programme which runs from January – July 2019. The six-month programme is designed to help fast-growth tech companies with fundamental growth challenges, from hiring and international expansion to maintaining company culture.

“I’m delighted to welcome this year’s companies onto the Upscale programme,” said Sinead Daly, Mid-Stage Programme Lead at Tech Nation. “As we enter our fourth year, Upscale has built an incredible network of over 100 alumni, who have a wealth of experience to share with the cohort.”

With a strong focus on peer-to-peer learning, alumni come out of the programme with invaluable knowledge on the pressing, practical and often painful issues founders face. Some of these insights can also be seen in Upscale: the book, which features honest advice from some of the UK’s leading technology entrepreneurs and investors.

Asians in the Tech Nation Upscale 4.0 cohort

Automata
London | Hardware, Devices & Internet of Things | B2B | @automata_tech
Founders: Mostafa ElSayed, Suryansh Chandra

Automata’s mission is to empower people to automate the physical work they should no longer have to do. Its first product, Eva, is a simple, affordable, desktop robot arm built for professionals, helping to improve productivity on a production line or in a lab.

Doctify
London | Healthcare & Biotech | B2B & B2C | @doctifyuk
Founders: Daniel Jung, Stephanie Eltz, Suman Saha

Doctify allows patients to search, compare and book the best doctors near them. Its online booking tools, complete with patient reviews, enable users to make an informed decision about health professionals, and book an appointment, treatment or scan, from any device, 24 hours a day.

Healthera Ltd
Cambridge | Healthcare & Biotech | B2B & B2C | @ourhealthera
Founders: Jin Dai, Martin Hao, Quintus Liu

Healthera connects patients to a network of hundreds of pharmacies and NHS GPs. Using the Healthera app, which is listed on the NHS Digital apps library, patients can order and track their prescriptions, access clinical services, and monitor their medication intake in one digital end-to-end solution.

Hubble
London | Ecommerce & Marketplace | B2B | @Hubble
Founders: Rohan Silva, Tom Watson, Tushar Agarwal

Hubble is London’s biggest online marketplace for renting flexible office space. Its platform enables large, flexible office brands, small independent brands and those with spare space to let their offices. Making it easy for businesses between 1 and 250 people to find and move into an office space, Hubble cuts the average move time from three months to three weeks.

The Plum Guide
London | Ecommerce & Marketplace | B2C | @plumguide
Founders: Alex Lee, Arif Meharali, Doron Meyassed, Imran Arshed, Will Smith

The Plum Guide is on a mission to build a marketplace of the world’s best holiday homes. Solving the issue of quality control in the homestay market, it separates the good from the great using the Plum Test, which leverages an innovative combination of tech, data and expert human curation to determine if a home has what it takes to deliver a perfect stay.

For further information visit https://technation.io/programmes/upscale/