The acclerator playbook: Early-stage tactics & secrets
Join us for a strictly off-the-record session with alumni founders from the Grishin Robotics Accelerator.
These founders are in the trenches right now. They have battle-tested the tactics learned in the accelerator against hundreds of investors, early customers, and shifting markets. Now, they are here to spill the tea on what actually works when building an early-stage company.
Agenda:
9am- 9.30am - Coffee & Breakfast;
9:30am - 10.30am - Panel & Q&A
10:30am - 11.30am - Networking - your chance to connect with ambitious founders.
What to expect:
The Reality Check: Successes, failures, and the early-stage growth tactics that finally moved the needle from zero to one.
The Capital: Real talk on the fundraising landscape—pitch volume, handling investor pushback, conversion rates, and the reality of closing terms.
The Execution: How to balance shipping a great product with securing capital, and managing the psychological toll of the founder journey.
We are keeping this intimate so our alumni can speak freely about their experiences. This is your chance for a candid, closed-door chat about what it actually takes to build, scale, and fund a startup today.
Why attend? You’ll leave with actionable company-building and fundraising strategies you can use immediately, plus a clear understanding of how the Grishin Robotics Accelerator acts as a catalyst for founders building the future.
About Grishin Robotics Accelerator
The Grishin Robotics Accelerator is London's highly selective, one-month intensive program dedicated to pre-seed and seed tech startups.
Applications for Cohort 3 are still open. Apply now 👉https://www.grishinrobotics.com/accelerator
Grishin Robotics is an early-stage Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We back founders of consumer and consumerised enterprise startups that disrupt large and growing markets.
The fund has backed category-defining companies such as Ring (acquired by Amazon for $1B), Spin (acquired by Ford), Zipline (autonomous drone delivery), Starship (last-mile delivery robots), Sphero (robotic toys), and Eero (acquired by Amazon). We invest in Seed and Series A startups targeting large consumer markets such as online entertainment, gaming, food, education, team productivity and collaboration.