Product Heads has been named as the Professional Services Startup of the Year at the 2024 East of England StartUp Awards.
Product Heads helps tech startups, scaleups and SaaS businesses build exceptional products and high performing teams through training, consultancy and recruitment services.
Tim Wilkinson, founder of Product Heads said: “We're delighted to be a winner at the East of England StartUp Awards for the 2nd year in a row. During a very turbulent 9 months for the tech sector we've worked closely with our early stage and growth stage clients, helping build great teams and realise value from their products as efficiently as possible. We've also been working with larger organisations such at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, helping their product teams shape up to meet the opportunities and challenges of the incredibly dynamic tech landscape we all now operate in."
The UK StartUp Awards were established to highlight the success of startups across ten UK nations and regions, including the East of England, and to celebrate the achievements of entrepreneurs in all sectors of the economy.
Supported nationally by Starling Bank, Airwallex, Chime Agency, Development Bank of Wales, EvaBuild, ForrestBrown, GiftRound, GS1 UK, Join Talent, OVHcloud, Project Simply, ScoreApp, SFC Capital and Welsh Government, Harriet Rees, CIO at Starling Bank says:
“Turning an idea into a successful business takes a lot of courage and dedication. Congratulations to Product Heads on winning their category in the East of England and making it to this year’s UK national final. Start-ups need certainty to plan ahead. It’s great to see so many thrive, especially in these challenging economic times.”
Nearly 70,000 new firms were created in the East of England in 2023 and according to Professor Dylan Jones-Evans OBE, creator of the awards, this demonstrates the growing importance of entrepreneurs to the regional economy. He is also excited that the awards are, yet again, recognising the best new firms from Cambridge to East Anglia to Essex and celebrating the amazing entrepreneurial talent from every corner of the region.
He said: “Start-ups are the life of any economy and that is especially true in the East of England where those new businesses are contributing to job creation, innovation, and prosperity across the whole of this entrepreneurial region. It’s been an honour and a pleasure to read the stories of those founders who have spotted the opportunity and taken the risk to launch their own venture. All of the winners have demonstrated that they deserve to win their categories and I’m looking forward to having the ‘best of the best’ from the East of England competing at the UK final later this year”
As a regional winner in their category, Product Heads will now progress to the UK Startup Awards final being held at Ideas Fest on September 12th, dubbed ‘the Glastonbury for Entrepreneurs’