Project: Digital Mission to Washington DC
Lead partner: Chinwag
Date: July 2011
Brief
Working in partnership with Chinwag, FutureGov and the UKTI we organised taking a group of companies from the UK on a Digital Trade Mission to Washington DC.
The Response
The DC mission featured twelve leading government-focused digital start-ups.
Mission visits included: meeting seventeen federal agencies, meeting with Obama’s office, the World Bank, Google, the Governor of Maryland and key influencers inside the Beltway.
Most importantly, we helped the businesses get the most out of the mission, organised a crash course in operating a business in DC, hosted by Microsoft and were hosted by Deloitte for key networking meetings.
The development of the Digital Missions have been highly successful – interacting with over 150 of the UK’s leading digital SMEs, raising $18m+ in VC (from nine companies reporting) and dozens of new business deals, and overseas offices opened.
