Today, 25th September 2020, Awen Collective celebrates it’s 3rd birthday as an official limited by shares company registered at the Companies House of Wales & England.
CEO & Cofounder Daniel Lewis registered the company this time in 2017. What an amazing three years these have been: developing two software products, gaining our first customers and revenue, raising investment rounds, travelling around Europe telling people about Awen. We have evolved from one person working on Awen full time (Daniel) into an amazing team of innovative, caring and hard working people who not just work for Awen, but who are Awen.
2020, as for everyone, has been challenging for Awen. The UK wide lockdown meant the team were not able to physically meet. When the tech team managed to meet at the office at the end of August 2020 and early September for a few weeks, a new set of local lockdowns begun. We are, however, in a privileged position being at the intersection of software and cyber security, where working from home is not as huge a challenge as in other sectors. Even from a marketing and sales perspective we have been fortunate to gain traction during the COVID-19 pandemic, powered by some good energy and empathy!
The future for Awen looks good. The next year will see the real beginnings of our international expansion, plans are afoot - plans which are, in part, supported by schemes such as the UK DIT Tech Exports Academy. We have some partnerships which we hope will be able to be made public in the next few months, and new clients in the pipeline. The team will continue to grow, and we will continue to be the values-driven and mission-focused industrial cyber security business that we always have been - and which will continue to evolve into the great business that we are destined to be.
We would like to thank the many people who have helped us along the way. There are too many to mention, but a particular shout out to the help given by: Our investors, KTN/DCMS prior to starting the company in 2017, The Accelerator Network in 2018 for IoTAWales & Cyber101, Tech Nation in 2019 for Cyber 1.0, Google in 2020 for the UK Immersion Programme, Cardiff Eagle Labs and Welsh ICE, MOD for our DASA project, BAR Associates (and Robin in particular) and all the individual people who have given support along the way!
Here is to a successful next few years!