• TechCrunch Europe Summer #CrunchUp – The Evidence

    Mike Butcher

    Mike Butcher is the European At Large with TechCrunch. As such he has a roving brief to write about Startups, Venture Capital, technology trends and emerging markets. 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... → 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: