Join Digital Catapult for this online investor panel focusing on the fundraising challenges startup founders could face over the next few months, the impact that the COVID-19 outbreak might have on their businesses.

This webinar will provide advice on how to approach fundraising and engage with investors during this unprecedented period.

With the impact of COVID-19 on business, the fundraising and investment landscape will completely change over the next few months. We have already seen valuations start to go down and the amount invested in the UK’s startup ecosystem in Q1 of 2020 (seed and series A) has now reached numbers as low as 2012 figures.

This investor-led panel will explore the challenges that entrepreneurs and innovators may face with fundraising, the sectors and type of products that investors will actively look at, metrics they would expect, and steps that startups need to take in order to survive this downturn.

Who is suitable for the webinar?

This webinar is designed for startup founders, innovators and entrepreneurs interested in understanding the current investment landscape and the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Join this webinar to learn:

How the focus of investors has changed or will change over the next few weeks and months
The whole fundraising cycle, from angel/pre-seed to seed to series A+
The impact the COVID-19 outbreak might have on your deal capacity and how that will change over the next few months
Advice for founders looking at fundraising and what their focus should be for the next few months
What sectors will flourish during this period
What are the challenges that your portfolio companies are facing

Speakers include:

Carmen Alfonso Rico

Partner at Samaipata VC, a pre-Series A fund investing in platforms and market networks with offices in London, Paris and Madrid. She co-heads the London Marketplace Startup group - largest community of marketplace founders in London- and is a mentor at Techstars, Backstage and Huckletree Alpha, amongst others. Carmen is also the co-founder of a direct-to-consumer online fashion brand for pregnant women selling into the UK & US market and she previously co-founded a crowdsourcing journalism marketplace.

Peter Cowley

A Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 39 years. He has built up a portfolio of over 70 angel investments with eight good exits (including one that is 107X and returned all his invested cash) and twelve failures. He is the President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), former chair of the Cambridge Business Angels and was UK Angel of the Year 2014. He is a fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Cambridge Judge Business School and on the investment committee of the UK Angel Co-fund.

Ed Lascelles

An invester with AlbionVC for 15 years and leading the technology investing outside healthcare. Albion’s focus is on UK software companies and marketplaces at Series A. Albion also manages the UCL Technology Fund. Prior to his time at Albion, Ed was a banker advising public companies during the dotcom boom and bust.

How to get involved?:

Registrations are closed

Fundraising in challenging times - angel to pre-seed to series A investment landscape: Webinar