Success in the US: Getting investment, building business with UKTI and Frie...

Join us at WeWork’s brand new Spitalfields location for an evening exploring the world’s biggest tech market, the USA. Hosted by UK Trade & Investment, Pitch NYC and Fried Frank the evening will feature top insight fuelled by drinks and snacks from our friends at WeWork.

Discover the market opportunities, how to build your business and hear how to target US VCs to secure investment. UKTI’s staff from San Francisco, Chicago and New York will provide a pan-US perspective. Plus we'll hear the warts'n'all Entrepreneurs' perspective.

Find out more about Pitch NYC, a new event series to help fast-growing UK tech firms pitch New York’s top investors, with an intensive bootcamp and support programme.

Speakers

• Tate Turner, UKTI SF
• Tim Bakke, UKTI Chicago
• Erica Juergensen, UKTI NYC
• Nancy Fechnay, Flight.vc
• Megan Hannum, FundedBuy / Comcast Ventures
• Joe Braidwood, Swiftkey
• Paul Fifield, MyUniDays
• Sam Michel, Chinwag & Pitch NYC
• Moderated by Fried Frank partner Daniel Glazer
• Plus, a discussion of the US VC landscape
• And, real-life entrepreneur tales of breaking the US
• more tbc

Agenda

18:30 Drinks & Networking

19:00 Speaker programme

• Welcome & introduction to Pitch NYC
• Transatlantic money trends - US investment, UK deals
• Panel: Inside US VC - what’s getting funded and why?
• Panel: Business Development in the USA
• Success in the US: An Entrepreneur’s View

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