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Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. Mike has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by media outlets such as Wired magazine and The Daily Telegraph. He is a regular tech commentator on the BBC, Sky News, CNN, CNBC, and Aljazeera. He has advised the UK government on tech startup policy and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the technology industry. He co-founded The Europas Awards for European startups, the non-profits TechVets and Techfugees, a judge on hit TV series “The Apprentice UK” and named one of the 100 Most Connected Men by GQ magazine.

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JOURNALIST | SPEAKER | Twitter/LI/IG: @mikebutcher | mikebutcher.me. Editor-at-large, TechCrunch. Frequently named as one of the most influential journalists in European tech. Regular on broadcast news outlets. He founded Pathfounders and The Europas, plus, the non-profits Techfugees and TechVets.

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Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology and is a regular broadcaster. He founded Pathfounders and The Europas, plus, the non-profits Techfugees and TechVets.

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Mike Butcher has been named one of the most influential journalists in European technology by several newspapers and magazines, including Wired. As well as being a founding editor on TechCrunch, he also co-founded Pathfounders:AI100 (index of AI startups in Europe), The Europas Awards (for European startups), TechHub (the UK’s first co-working space for startups), Techfugees (the humanitarian tech charity), TechVets (the tech charity for military veterans), and Startup Coalition (the policy thinktank for UK startups). He has advised both the EU and the UK government on startups, and was awarded an MBE in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

SHORT BIO (217 words):
Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has been named one of the most influential people in tech by The Daily Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Independent newspapers. British GQ magazine has named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK. Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of top 100 most influential people in European technology by Wired UK for 5 years running. He has spoken at the Monaco Media Forum, Le Web, Web Summit, DLD and the World Economic Forum, where he is a ‘Media Leader’. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. He has also advised the UK Prime Minister and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy. He is the co-founder of TechHub.com (which creates spaces globally for tech entrepreneurs); Coadec.com (which lobbies for UK startups); The Pathfounder event series; The Europas the annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards; and the non-profits, Techfugees.com, a community of refugee-focused tech innovators, and most recently TechVets, aimed at helping UK military veterans into cyber-security. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

LONG BIO (515 words):
Mike Butcher MBE is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. Mike has been named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. As well as being a long-time Writer, Broadcaster and Editor Mike is also co-founder of TechHub (@TechHub), a project to merge a thriving community with office space for fast-moving startups. Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard magazine. Since 1996 he has launched or re-launched numerous media web sites and in 2000 he was nominated as NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year. In 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was awarded the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. In 2009 it was named as one of the Top 10 blogs out of the UK. Also in 2009 he was named one of the Top 10 bloggers on Twitter in the UK. In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In April 2010 he was in Wired UK’s Top 100 influencer list, in 2011, in 2012, (there was no 100 list in 2013),in 2014 and again in 2015. In April 2010 TechCrunch Europe was shortlisted in the Specialist Digital Publisher category of the prestigious UK-based Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards. In November 2010 he was named as one of London’s most influential people in New Media and “king of dotcom commentators” by The Evening Standard Newspaper. He has been listed as one of the Top 100 most influential people on Twitter in the UK. He was named in the TechNation200 Almanac. He has been named as one of “The 100 coolest people in UK tech” by Business Insider. He was named in the “Smith & Williamson Power 100” which shines a spotlight on those who help shape policy and those who champion, mentor, support and promote entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in the UK. British GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK He has spoken at the prestigious Monaco Media Forum, Le Web, Web Summit and DLD among many other conferences. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike has advised the UK Prime Minister on tech startups, served on the Mayor of London’s Digital Advisory Board, the ‘Smart London’ Board and been a Technology Ambassador for London. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism. Mike’s personal blog is MikeButcher.me, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.

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There is no better time to start up a startup, The Guardian

The Financial Times

The Irish Times