Richard Lane

Nesti is the AI-first personalized 1:1 video platform, backed by world-class VCs and sales & marketing investors. Nesti enables sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams to create endless personalised videos with AI, hosted on unique 1:1 dynamic landing pages. We have customers across B2B SaaS, recruitment, healthcare and much more, driving real business outcomes and transforming how they interact with their audiences. Were actively on the lookout for partners, investors and new hires - so if youre interested in working on the bleeding-edge of AI-driven go-to-market tech, please reach out.

Swarm Energy is dedicated to empowering people to take control of their clean energy journey. Our brand purpose is to enable customers to effectively manage and sell their own energy. With a cutting-edge energy management device designed to optimise savings from solar and battery installations. By creating an intelligent battery charging schedule each day, the Swarm Hub:One automatically manages home energy storage, consumption, and export events most cost-effectively. Leveraging insights from solar availability, grid pricing, and historical household usage, ensures maximum efficiency and savings. With Hub:One, you can manage all your renewable energy sources in one easy-to-use app, reduce your energy bills, and benefit from automatic battery charging and discharging at the best times to secure the best prices.

Fabric is the award-winning learning and coaching platform built exclusively for marketers, by marketers. We exist to transform the way marketing teams learn, grow, and perform. Through personalised 1-1 coaching, group coaching, on-demand mentoring and practical hands-on training, we give marketers the tools and confidence to deliver commercial impact, build resilient teams and lead with strategic clarity. Our approach blends coaching excellence with data-driven insights - helping businesses identify skills gaps, benchmark team performance, and measure progress against real results. We work with marketing leaders and their teams worldwide to drive growth, retain top talent and futureproof marketing functions. The outcome? Marketers who think bigger, move faster and consistently outperform the competition. At Fabric, we’re not just raising the standard of marketing education - we’re redefining it. 🚀

At AutoComms Solutions, we build awesome customer satisfaction software. Our platform, AutoBuzz, is focused on the Order to Handover stage of purchasing a car. AutoBuzz creates an automated customer journey, within a journey, offering buyers a highly personalised post-sales experience for complete customer satisfaction.

The Test Factory was created with a single aim – to enable clients to easily manage their own online tests. Our ‘on demand’ application enables our customers to create questions and tests, issue them, allow candidates to take tests securely online, and to mark and review results.

The Entrepreneurs’ Forum brings together like-minded business owners to share experience and help each other grow their companies faster. Founded in 2002 as a not-for-profit organisation by Sir Peter Vardy and Lorna Moran OBE, weve grown from 40 founding members to over 300 North East entrepreneurs. Joining from all sectors, our members regularly meet at inspirational events and through peer-to-peer mentoring to share ideas, make valuable new connections and learn from those who have been there and done it all before. Helping North East entrepreneurs is our only agenda and, by providing a vibrant events environment, we help entrepreneurs to feel empowered to create and grow their businesses, innovate, take risks, move forward and fulfil their ambitions.

Nesti is the AI-first personalized 1:1 video platform, backed by world-class VCs and sales & marketing investors. Nesti enables sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams to create endless personalised videos with AI, hosted on unique 1:1 dynamic landing pages. We have customers across B2B SaaS, recruitment, healthcare and much more, driving real business outcomes and transforming how they interact with their audiences. Were actively on the lookout for partners, investors and new hires - so if youre interested in working on the bleeding-edge of AI-driven go-to-market tech, please reach out.

Swarm Energy is dedicated to empowering people to take control of their clean energy journey. Our brand purpose is to enable customers to effectively manage and sell their own energy. With a cutting-edge energy management device designed to optimise savings from solar and battery installations. By creating an intelligent battery charging schedule each day, the Swarm Hub:One automatically manages home energy storage, consumption, and export events most cost-effectively. Leveraging insights from solar availability, grid pricing, and historical household usage, ensures maximum efficiency and savings. With Hub:One, you can manage all your renewable energy sources in one easy-to-use app, reduce your energy bills, and benefit from automatic battery charging and discharging at the best times to secure the best prices.

Fabric is the award-winning learning and coaching platform built exclusively for marketers, by marketers. We exist to transform the way marketing teams learn, grow, and perform. Through personalised 1-1 coaching, group coaching, on-demand mentoring and practical hands-on training, we give marketers the tools and confidence to deliver commercial impact, build resilient teams and lead with strategic clarity. Our approach blends coaching excellence with data-driven insights - helping businesses identify skills gaps, benchmark team performance, and measure progress against real results. We work with marketing leaders and their teams worldwide to drive growth, retain top talent and futureproof marketing functions. The outcome? Marketers who think bigger, move faster and consistently outperform the competition. At Fabric, we’re not just raising the standard of marketing education - we’re redefining it. 🚀

At AutoComms Solutions, we build awesome customer satisfaction software. Our platform, AutoBuzz, is focused on the Order to Handover stage of purchasing a car. AutoBuzz creates an automated customer journey, within a journey, offering buyers a highly personalised post-sales experience for complete customer satisfaction.