Venture Capital Night 2022 In-Person London Event
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About this event
Attend our LIVE event in central London, Network 1:1 with leaders in VC (plus drinks!)
Our event is in-person with panels of experienced VCs chatting about the startup world. Attend for two panels of VCs and industry experts, meet 10 great startups who are currently fundraising, network and learn from investors over a few drinks :-)
Which VCs are attending?
Hummingbird Ventures, Newzone Ventures, Sapphire, MMC, Sustainable Ventures, Begin Capital, Founders Factory
Want to Pitch your startup?
Head to MeetFounders.co/pitch and submit your deck :-)
Thanks to our sponsors!
Silver Sponsor: OVHcloud Startup Program
OVHcloud is a leading European cloud hyperscaler and has been a cloud and infrastructure provider for over 20 years, with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide served by 32 global water-cooled data centres. The Startup Program provides tech startups with €10,000 of cloud hosting credits and up to €100,000 for scale-ups, enabling them to facilitate exponential and international growth.
Host Sponsor (our venue): Mindspace
Mindspace believe that when people are excited about coming to work, businesses thrive. Our members enjoy better employee engagement and satisfaction, realize higher productivity and innovation, and attract and retain the best talent. We give business owners the peace of mind to focus on their core business priorities, while we take care of the rest.
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Panel 1: Advice from VCs on Traction & Sales
Nikita Andersson, Hummingbird Ventures
Part of the Hummingbird Ventures team with a focus on the Nordics, Baltics and CEE. I am here to help entrepreneurs and companies grow faster.
David Boulton, Newzone Ventures
Passionate about working to help daring founders build legendary companies from early-stages to IPO and beyond.
An open and accessible VC
Abhishek Krishna Lahoti, Sapphire
Abhishek leads Sapphire’s business development efforts in the European market, focusing on expanding the Sapphire Ventures CXO network and helping portfolio companies accelerate their growth in the region. Abhishek works on initiatives around thought leadership, CIO and CXO networking, market penetration, GTM best-practices, and more.
Charlotte Barttelot, MMC
Charlotte leads the digital health investing at MMC and has been venture investing into early stage companies for over 3 years. Prior to this, Charlotte spent 5 years at SVB in leveraged finance working with late stage software companies.
Panel 2: Questions VCs ask Startups
Sarah Melaney, Brown Rudnick
"Sarah is a corporate partner at the international law firm of Brown Rudnick and has been working in VC for 6 years. Prior to that Sarah was a capital markets lawyer. This unique skill set allows Sarah to stay with companies from start-up stage to exit and beyond. In fact, Sarah acts as quasi-general counsel for a number of companies and funds. Sarah also co-heads Brown Rudnick's impact investment team and is the leader and founder of Brown Rudnick's Women in Business Hour which offers extensive support to founders."
Andrew Wordsworth, Sustainable Ventures
Andrew Wordsworth is a Founder and Managing Partner of Sustainable Ventures which was established in 2011 with a vision of the world in which the twin challenges of climate change and resource scarcity are addressed by commercial solutions. . Our team includes some of the country’s most talented venture development and early stage investment professionals all dedicated to creating value for our community whilst making the world a better place.
Ruslan Sarkisyan, Begin Capital
Launched Begin Capital in 2019 as a founder and Managing Partner. Prior to Begin Capital was a part of Runa Capital venture fund focusing on Series A/B deals in Europe. Ex-McKinsey strategy consultant.
Edward Kandel, Founders Factory
At Founders Factory, lead our investments in Fintech, Insurtech & Proptech as well as supporting all our fintech portfolios with raising from VCs across different stages. Previously part of Creator Fund & Campus Capital and co-founded a startup at school.