He founded TechRound, now one of the UK’s fastest growing startup publications and platforms in 2016 and says: “I know this may sound like a typical startup cliché, but a business is like a house; you need to build the foundations before anything. Then you build the necessary structures to support everything else, then you ensure everything functions correctly and then you can scale and extend the property or in this case the business.” Now boasting just shy of half a million readers per month, TechRound is one of the UK’s eminent brands in startups and all things tech and innovation. The site has featured companies like TikTok, Curve and YuLife, well before they have hit their current lofty heights and with TechRound, David and his team have been growing a real gem. On TechRound’s origins, David comments: “I started TechRound in 2016 when I realised that there were a few very large publications that were always featuring the Ubers and Deliveroos of startups. Amazing as those companies are, there are countless other startups throughout the UK alone, that are incredible and which are doing amazing things. At TechRound, we always make a point of telling people that funding alone is not a measure of success, it is simply a rung on the ladder, helping you climb to success. Having owned and run an SEO agency for many years now, I have has exposure to so many startups that I have helped grow and TechRound is testament to that.” TechRound went from around 4,000 readers per month in 2019 to boasting more than 200,000 readers per month in under three years, and now almost doubling that number when their awards listings are published, which has demonstrated incredible growth in stature and audience. Interestingly, although David has a wealth of experience in SEO, digital marketing and startups, he also holds a BSc degree in Biomedical Science. “I was going to go into medicine, as it’s something I retain a real passion for. However, life has a funny way of working out and I ended up going into SEO and digital marketing, working for a few startups before founding my own companies to offer better services to clients and startups.” It is this passion for medicine and the knowledge he retains in medical research that then led David to co-found GlobMed in 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic was taking hold of much of the world, David and his co-founder realised that people were struggling to access the healthcare they needed for all medical “I know this may sound like a typical startup cliché, but a business is like a house; you need to build the foundations before anything. Then you build the necessary structures to support everything else, then you ensure everything functions correctly and then you can scale and extend the property or in this case the business.”
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