TechCrunch Europe Summer #CrunchUp – The Evidence

Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

Thursday, August 4th, 2011


It was a simple plan. We checked the weather. It looked good. We found a huge venue, with all the facilities. We told you to come. And you did. At least 300 tech people swamped London’s Southbank yesterday for our long overdue Summer #CrunchUp, and the festivities went on late into the night.

For an event with not much organisation – and not even name tags – it seems like everyone managed to have a lot of fun and find eachother. Random tourists may well have been bemused by the conversations about startups, venture capital, Google+ and APIs as they walked past.

I’d like to formally thank the generous people who bought everyone wine, beer and jugs of ice-cold Pimms!

• NHS.info@dawson, Founder of Cambridge Healthcare
• Viadeo.com@viadeo thanks to @waynegibbins
• Peoplebrowsr.com @peoplebrowsr “social analytics with 1,000 days of tweets”
• Corkbin.com@corkbin, “your pocket wine memory”

Here are some photos from the event, thanks to Paul Clarke and, er, me: