Prolific North is launching a new weekly tech newsletter, GRAFT, designed to track the deals, decision-makers and innovations shaping the North’s tech ecosystem.
Landing in inboxes for the first time Thursday morning, and every Wednesday after that, the GRAFT newsletter is for anyone building, backing or following tech businesses in the North.
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Each week, the newsletter will bring together the most important Northern tech stories of the week – covering where the money’s flowing to the hard graft behind the region’s fastest-growing businesses, investors and ecosystem builders.
The launch comes in response to a growing gap in detailed, region-specific coverage of Northern tech. While headline-grabbing deals are often reported at a national level, the context, consequences and hard-won progress behind those stories are frequently overlooked.
What’s become clear is that Northern tech doesn’t lack ambition or talent, it lacks champions. That’s why GRAFT is here: to shine a light on the companies, founders and innovators driving the region forward, and explore the pivots, pressures and opportunities shaping Northern tech ecosystems.
It will go beyond the headlines to unpack how founders survive setbacks, why businesses change direction, and what major investments and exits really mean for the wider Northern economy.
Alexandra Balazs, managing director of Prolific North, says: “Northern tech is built on pure graft, and we wanted a newsletter that reflects that standard. We’re thrilled to launch GRAFT as a weekly home for the builders and scale-ups who are quietly — and not so quietly — changing the game in our region.”
Tomorrow’s launch edition features an interview with senior leaders at Manchester-based scale-up Kaboodle, going behind the scenes of its acquisition deal last year. Expect insights from a tech roundtable held this morning, exploring growth, scaling and what’s next for Northern founders – plus a closer look at the TikTok trend convincing Gen Alpha to shun AI.
Over the coming weeks, GRAFT will chart the latest investments, deep dive into the stories behind expansions, pivots and new products, and map the comings and goings of talent and businesses across the North.
So if you work in tech and have a story to share – or if you’ve got an opinion and would be interested in becoming a guest columnist – get in touch via [email protected].
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