Value proposition

Here East is the UK’s fastest growing tech and innovation campus, located on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Once the Press and Broadcast Centre for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Here East has been transformed into a tech and creative campus that is home to a highly collaborative community of start-ups, creatives, academics and corporates. There are now 5,400 people who work and study onsite.

The campus provides dedicated and versatile space for start-ups and entrepreneurs to co-exist and collaborate with top global businesses and world-renowned academic institutions – such as UCL, Staffordshire University London and Loughborough University London to reinforce the capital’s credentials as an epicentre of growth. The campus also includes Plexal, an innovation centre and start-up community addressing the biggest challenges facing society.

Here East is also the fastest growing cluster of creative businesses in London, with tenants such as Studio Wayne McGregor, MATCHESFASHION and The Trampery on the Gantry, 21 studios for artists and designers. Drawing on its sporting legacy, Here East has emerged as London’s esports cluster. Sporting giants such as Sports Interactive - makers of the hugely successful Football Manager and Esports Engine, a gaming broadcaster are based here.

This is a unique environment that showcases London’s ambition to compete with the very best innovation spaces in the world. Well connected into the local area and the rest of London’s business landscape, the Here East community is producing world-beating technologies at the forefront of the world’s fastest growing industries.