He also is the founder of Kuato Studios, a leading educational games studio, and INQ Mobile, an early pioneer in mobile internet.įrank started with Ericsson in 1994 as a coder and troubleshooter, lived in Singapore and HK, and then joined Hutchison Whampoa in 2001 and was responsible for the technical integration of the first 3G(WCDMA) networks around the world, launched under the Three(3) brand in multiple countries in 2003. Previously Frank was with Horizons Ventures (HK), representing them on the boards of Spotify, Siri, Summly, Affectiva, Bitcasa, Fixmo, DoubleTwist, Ginger, Desti and Magisto. Frank was selected as part of the 2012 Wired UK Top 100 in tech, and Vanity Fair's The Next Establishment list 2010. The Cambridge chapter of Startup Grind will kick off this January by a man who knows all about finding and supporting exceptional entrepreneurs that are building strong, category defining companies and helping them to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.įrank Meehan is a Co-Founder & Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures and a Partner at SparkLabs, Asia’s premier accelerator based in Seoul. Now Cambridge is taking its rightful place among the most entrepreneur-friendly cities and startup ecosystems including Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore and Melbourne. Startup Grind is a global community powered by Google for Entrepreneurs and designed to educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs in 125 cities around the world. So, there really is no better place to host a Startup Grind community than the city at the heart of Silicon Fen – Cambridge! Our heritage includes Charles Babbage, Hermann Hauser and Clive Sinclair and history is still being made with the likes of ARM, one of the UK’s most successful companies, Raspberry Pi, Autonomy, Aurasma, Jagex, RealVNC, Redgate and many more. It is where Microsoft chose to set up its major European research lab and where AstraZeneca has chosen to locate its global R&D and corporate headquarters, a decision that will involve spending upwards of £300m and bring about 2,000 researchers and support staff. Cambridge is now ranked as one of the top three 'innovation ecosystems' in the world, according to a recent international survey.

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