Raising capital, scaling teams & the hurdles that come with being Founder & CEO of one of the UK's most exciting early stage start-ups. Our Director of Manchester, Chris McGowan, sat down with Co-Founder & CEO of Tootoot, Michael Brennan, to hear about his investment journey when scaling Tootoot and the challenges, hurdles and lessons he faced along the way.


Tootoot is the pupil voice and safeguarding app trusted by over 15,000 teachers. Michael founded Tootoot back in 2015 with Co-Founder Kieran Innes. Drawing on his own experience of being bullied when he was younger, Michael & Kieran built an app to give children being bullied a voice, and have now helped over half a million children and young people in the UK.