London · Advisory for high-growth technology companies

Business development and strategic advisory for technology vendors entering the UK

Primotech brings Silicon Valley experience to high-growth companies in cyber, AI, fintech and quantum. We find the right partners for your solutions, connect you with senior leaders across UK enterprise, and work alongside you to achieve success.

Steve Dodsworth speaking on stage about cyber, AI and fintech
$10m+Client contracts with UK enterprises
20+Technology companies advised on UK growth
$400mGlobal organisation led in Silicon Valley
13 yrsOperating from London
The challenge

Your technology works. The UK is a different market.

CISOs, CIOs and CTOs in London are looking for new solutions and innovation. They act on trust, timing and internal sponsorship. Building those relationships from overseas takes years. Without the right partners, a first UK customer takes eighteen months and a local hire you cannot yet justify.

How it works

Four steps to a first UK customer

Step 01

Focus

We agree 20 to 30 UK organisations where your solution fits, and the leaders inside them worth meeting. Focus comes first.

Step 02

Position

We reshape your proposition for a UK enterprise audience. What lands in San Francisco reads differently in Canary Wharf.

Step 03

Convene

Senior leaders meet you in a curated peer setting under Chatham House rules. No pitch decks. Real conversations.

Step 04

Partner

Conversations become pilots. Pilots become long-term partnerships and the reference customers your UK growth depends on.

What sets us apart

The right room, the right people

Cyber & Beats is our private, invite-only community for senior UK security leaders, co-founded with board-level CISO Todd Wade. Dinner, a moderated roundtable and live music in Soho. Trusted relationships start here.

Cyber & Beats: a roundtable dinner at The Groucho Club and live music at Ronnie Scott's
1,700+UK security leaders in the network
300+Cyber leaders have attended
10 to 12CISOs at every table
98%Would recommend an evening to a peer

Invite-only and vetted

Every seat is personally vetted. No delegates. No junior proxies.

Chatham House rules

Phones away. No photographs. Nothing leaves the room.

No slides. No pitches. No selling.

One carefully selected partner each evening, joining as a peer.

Moderated by a CISO

Todd Wade, board-level CISO and author, leads every discussion.

Iconic Soho venues

Live music at Ronnie Scott's. Private stand-up comedy at The Groucho Club.

Current topics

Agentic AI threats, identity security, SOC automation and ransomware.

Track record

Success achieved with clients

$5.0m
US exchange operator. Emerging vendor into exchange infrastructure, routed through UK labs.
$2.0m
UK exchange group. Emerging vendor into financial market infrastructure.
$1.5m
FTSE 100 retailer. New market entrant, small UK team, no board access. Built on an existing CISO relationship.
$1.0m
Global investment bank, London. Emerging vendor entering tier-one banking.
$0.5m
Financial data provider, London. First contract, followed by a reference customer relationship.
$10m+in enterprise contracts achieved with emerging vendors since 2013.

Client names withheld under confidentiality. Buyers described by sector. Full detail available on a call.

What you get

A senior partner in London

Someone who represents you with senior leaders in the UK, and stays accountable for what happens next.

The founder

Why Primotech exists

Portrait of Steve Dodsworth
Steve Dodsworth · Founder, Growth Advisor & Business Partner

Primotech exists because of one decision. Stop flying. Start connecting people.

Steve Dodsworth spent his career as a road warrior. As VP Sales for a high-growth Silicon Valley startup he built teams across the US, China and Europe and took revenue to $100m. He led a major IP agreement with Huawei, negotiating it personally in Shenzhen and Shanghai. It guaranteed the company $34m.

Excellent for air miles. Less good for everything else. So he based himself in London, in Notting Hill, and looked at what he could do with three decades of contacts instead of three flights a week.

The opportunity was clear. Small technology companies with strong products kept arriving in the UK and stalling. They lacked relationships with the right people. Cyber, fintech and AI are growing fast, and the firms in them need trusted introductions and an adviser with experience at this level. Primotech was built around exactly this.

Thirty years of relationships, working for your growth.

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Creativity and technology

The other half of the job

Steve is also an award-winning film producer with Worthily Films, a London company whose work has drawn Oscar and BAFTA recognition. In 2025 he pitched on stage at the Marché du Film in Cannes.

It is not a hobby kept separate from the day job. Convening a room, holding an audience and making people want to be there are production skills, and they are exactly what makes Cyber & Beats work. Technology opens the conversation. Creativity is what makes senior people turn up and stay.

Steve Dodsworth pitching on stage at the Marché du Film, Cannes, 2025
Pitching at the Marché du Film, Cannes, 2025
Clients

Where we have achieved success

CyberHuman risk & awareness

Behaviour-change platform, US-founded

No UK presence and no board-level sponsor. Positioned against UK regulatory pressure on human risk, then introduced to security leaders already under audit scrutiny.

First UK enterprise contract in seven months
Trading technologyNetwork monitoring

Low-latency monitoring vendor

Strong product, wrong story for a London trading floor. Repositioned around latency accountability and taken to exchange infrastructure teams.

$5.0m contract, US exchange operator
CyberMicrosegmentation

Zero-trust segmentation vendor

Long enterprise buying cycles and no reference customer in UK financial services. Sponsored into a tier-one bank through an existing CISO relationship.

$1.0m contract, global investment bank
AIAI-driven SOC

Autonomous detection and response

Crowded market, similar messages. Narrowed to alert-triage cost and taken to leaders carrying SOC headcount pressure.

Paid pilot, then reference customer
FintechMarket infrastructure

Post-trade data vendor

Needed access to exchange groups rather than banks. Routed through UK labs and infrastructure teams.

$2.0m contract, UK exchange group
RetailEnterprise security

New market entrant, small UK team

No board access at FTSE 100 level. Built on a long-standing CISO relationship and a proposition rewritten for a UK retailer.

$1.5m contract, FTSE 100 retailer

Client names withheld under confidentiality. Sector and technology focus shown instead. Named references available on a call.

Let's talk

Tell us where you want to grow

Thirty minutes. You describe your goals for the UK. We tell you plainly where we can help, and what it takes.

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