Sheffield · South Yorkshire
Are you a high roller in Sheffield?
Plenty of rooms will take your money. Very few filter who else is in them, which is the only thing that makes a room worth joining.
The Operator is a private, vetted membership for people building real things. Sheffield is a steel city that became a materials and manufacturing one. Advanced manufacturing and materials research, with the university's park pulling Boeing and Rolls-Royce money into a city whose business culture is still more engineer than salesman.
Apply for membershipApplications are reviewed by hand. Not everyone is accepted.
What most high rollers in Sheffield are dealing with
- Networks that sell access rather than curate it
- Rooms full of people selling to each other rather than building
- Paying for proximity to a name rather than to peers
What membership gives you
- Vetted membership, so everyone in the room cleared the same bar you did
- Small and deliberately capped rather than scaled for volume
- Operators with real businesses, not a mailing list with a price on it
Members meet online and, in Sheffield, in person. Around Kelham Island, the Devonshire Quarter, Ecclesall Road and the rooms you would expect: JÖRO, Rafters, Domo.
Membership in Sheffield is by application
Tell us what you are building and what you want from the room. The vetting is what keeps it worth being in.
Apply now