Build. Pitch. Fund. - Startup Funding Event - London

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​This is a curated event. We vet and qualify every attendee to keep the room high quality, the right mix of founders, builders and investors, and nobody just coasting in.

​When you sign up, please answer the questions accurately. Tell us your company, what you actually do, whether you're a VC or investor, and why you want to be in the room. We read every application, and a spot isn't confirmed until we've reviewed it.

​Get it right and we'll see you there.

​Builders Collective presents: A full day for founders, builders and the people who fund them.

​Start the morning with open coworking. Bring your laptop, work on your idea, and make progress alongside other founders, operators and people building real things.

​In the afternoon, selected founders take the floor to pitch what they're building and get feedback from the room, with experienced founders, operators and investors taking part. Straight after, we run founder office hours, a focused window to keep the conversations going rather than letting the day dip.

​In the evening, VCs, angels and people who actually fund startups join us for talks, a panel and an open Q&A on how raising really works, what investors look for, and the routes worth knowing beyond VC. Networking either side, so you meet the room properly.

​Speakers

​Maria Luque
Maria Luque - is an AI/ML engineer, published author, and MSc AI graduate (DeepMind Scholar), and co-founder of YAMLRG, one of London's leading ML research communities, now backing exceptional technical founders at Entrepreneurs First.

​Shreya Choudhuri
Founder & CEO of BuildHer Labs, who's building an ecosystem for women across tech, startups and VC. She can give you insights into the complete fundraising ecosystem from a bird's-eye view.

​Colton Botta
Colton Botta is co-founder and CEO of Perpetual Automata, a machine learning research and product company working at the boundary between AI and operating systems, which recently closed a £1.5m pre-seed led by Outward VC and Techstart Ventures. He holds an MPhil in Engineering from Cambridge's Machine Learning Group and an MSc in Cognitive Science from Edinburgh, both funded by a Marshall Scholarship, and previously worked as a software engineer at IBM and Pendo.

​Kateryna Golushko
Ex VC and founder of Momentum Mill, helping founders get noticed by investors and customers by building momentum. She has done early GTM work for portfolio of impact vc fund Ultra VC and fundraising prep and investor-founder connector events at Launch Club Capital.

Tiffany Wang
Tiffany is Head of EMEA at FLock.io, an AI research and infrastructure company pioneering enterprise-grade federated learning and distributed AI solutions, where she leads regional growth through strategic partnerships, go-to-market execution, and full-scale regional operations. She also serves as Programme Manager at the Blockchain for Good Alliance, the non-profit arm of Bybit (the world's second-largest crypto exchange), which includes an incubation program for blockchain startups.

​Team Kickstart
Member of Kickstart team, dealing with VCs.

Kickstart Global
Partnering on the event are Kickstart Global, a prominent startup accelerator and incubator in London. Joining us to judge pitches is Ilya from the Kickstart team. He can provide insight into idea validation, raising rounds, and navigating the startup ecosystem.

​More speakers to be announced very soon.

​Whether you're heads-down building, getting ready to raise, or just want to understand the money side of startups, come for the part that fits or stay the whole day.

​Free to attend. Spaces are limited.

​Preliminary draft agenda (Subject to change)
The full agenda will shift as we lock in sponsors and speakers closer to the date, but the shape of the day stays like this.

​10:00 — Doors open

​10:00–14:00 — Founder coworking — Open coworking for founders, builders and startup teams. Bring your laptop, work on your idea, meet other people building things.

​13:00 — Lunch break — Grab food locally, room stays open.

​14:00–14:30 — Pitch prep and founder intros — Short reset for anyone pitching. Founders get ready, the room mingles.

​14:30–16:00 — Startup pitch session — Selected founders pitch what they're building, with feedback from the room. 3 minutes to pitch, 2–3 minutes feedback, 8–10 startups max.

​16:00–17:15 — Founder office hours — A focused window for selected founders to talk with experienced founders, operators and mentors.

​17:15–18:00 — Evening arrivals and networking — Evening guests, speakers and investors arrive. Open networking before the programme.

​18:00–18:10 — Welcome and intro

​18:10–18:35 — Talk: What makes a startup fundable?

​18:35–19:00 — Talk: Funding routes beyond VC

​19:00–19:45 — Panel: How startup funding really works — With Shreya Choudhuri (BuildHer Labs) and speakers to be announced.

​19:45–20:10 — Audience Q&A

​20:10–21:30 — Founder, investor and builder networking — with a little birthday toast to send everyone off.

​Big thanks to Oneder for making this happen. Oneder is a modern, cutting-edge coworking space built for tech startups and entrepreneurs. Learn more here: https://www.withoneder.com/