August in London was quite a contrast to the climate around our team meetings and conferences in San Fran and Atlanta, but despite most of Europe being on holiday it proved a good time to explore partnerships with organisations such as EBRD and IMG and explore things further with HSBC and BT.

We also finalised a partnership with UK India Business Council this week which sees us collaborate to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs and increase the IP and capital flow between UK and India. We'll announce our partnership at their event at Mansion House on Monday 1 September.

UKIBC, under Sharon Bamford's leadership and championed by a great board of advisors including Vijay Mallya and Karan Billamoria, has done a great amount to increase the impact of Indo-British relations.

After the British and Indian governments launched the India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) in 2006, the House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee recognised the group (then IBPN) as the ‘de facto’ chamber of commerce for UK and India. IBPN evolved into UKIBC and in January 2007 Gordon Brown announced that the Government would significantly boost the annual funding to £1 million with a strategic partnership implemented through UK Trade and Investment.

Our team will identify the next generation of high growth start-ups and entrepreneurs, as we aim to broker greater access to mentoring and support from organisations such as TiE and access to capital from UK India Business Angels Network. Our Enterprise team in the UK will also help customers leverage Indian technology skills with partners such as TCS.