We are delighted to announce, alongside Norwich City's only incubator, our partnership with blockchain community ETHAnglia and leading Ethereum scaling solution – Polygon – to deliver a world-first ‘builder hub’ which will lead a boot camp, running with a Polygon-designed program.
This affirms our ongoing aim to support the UK, starting with the East of England, to become a powerhouse of creative, use case-based engineers building with blockchain technology. This partnership with Polygon allows us to provide facilities, workspace and a network of entrepreneurs and advisors to support the new bootcamp, which Norwich-based Tech Educators will run.
Polygon – which recently raised $450m from an investment round led by Sequoia Capital India, valuing the ecosystem at $20bn – will support the partnership by helping to showcase the initiative on a global stage. As projects start to demonstrate traction, Polygon will also commit support through:
- access to world-class speakers and mentors,
- social and community-building events,
- welcome vouchers with a value of up to $40000
- grants for early-stage concepts, ranging from $5000 – $15000
- smart contract auditing,
- hosting packages
- providing introductions to scaling VC investment
Tech Educators has been given access to the high-quality web3 coding boot camp program from Polygon, with the target of training over 200 developers to code using the technology over the next 10 months. These courses will be offered free of charge, both in-person and online.
Our Managing Director, James Adams explained how this marks a significant step forward towards the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak’s vision on making the UK a ‘global cryptoasset hub’.
“Furthering our relationship with Polygon in such a concise and action-orientated manner is a leap forward with our vision of developing the capability for blockchain, starting in Norwich, the East of England and then ultimately across the UK. We have all heard the vision of Rishi Sunak to make the UK a ‘global cryptoasset hub’ – if we are going to do that, we need the developers, the creatives and the entrepreneurs to build high-quality projects that solve real-world problems. We believe we have all the requirements with this partnership to accelerate education and community to deliver those very building blocks and the support structures to create the businesses that contribute to that vision.”
Akcela and Tech Educators have both demonstrated strong capabilities in the blockchain space since launching in 2021. The Akcela incubator is home to a number of businesses working with blockchain technologies, some of which are already attracting investment from well-respected global investors such as Animoca. In addition, Tech Educators has already helped to grow two pre-launch businesses that started from the first EVM-based blockchain coding bootcamp.
About the Author
Tim is the course director at Tech Educators and brings with him almost a decade of experience working in various tech sectors, as well as the added benefit of being an alumni to a Full Stack Bootcamp.
