Founder Drinks
The London Haynes Boone team is excited to invite you to the Summer 2026 edition of its quarterly Founder Drinks.
Join us for what is sure to be an exceptional evening, designed to bring Founders together in a meaningful way to exchange ideas, build connections and collaborate in a relaxed setting.
We are excited to announce that Zero Carbon Capital and Volution VC will be joining us as our "Resident VCs" for the evening, to share their experience and insights with our founder community.
We are also pleased to welcome our trusted partners and sponsors:
Amplifi Solutions, CSC and Philip Hare.
We’ll be outside in the courtyard with champagne and homemade Tibetan momos doing the rounds - a great backdrop for a summer evening of conversation and connection.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Haynes Boone Investment Management Team
RSVP as soon as possible – tickets are limited and all registrations are subject to review and approval.
Your hosts for the evening are Karma Samdup and Andrew Pannell
For more information contact Caroline Vickers at caroline.vickers@haynesboone.com.
About our Resident VCs:
Zero Carbon Capital, a London-based leading deep tech climate VC, backs visionary scientific founders across Europe at pre-seed and seed stage, investing in transformative technologies that reduce costs and emissions to accelerate the transition to net zero
Volution is a venture capital firm focused on scaling Europe's next generation of productivity leaders. The firm invests in high-growth FinTech, B2B SaaS and enterprise technology companies at the scale-up inflection point — a critical and often undercapitalised stage of growth. Volution invests primarily in the UK, with selective investments across Europe, targeting companies generating £4m - £20m in revenue that are transitioning from early traction to international scale. The team combines experienced investors with founders and operators who have built and scaled technology businesses. Through its strategic partnership with Japan's SBI Investment, Volution provides portfolio companies with access to capital, customers and expansion opportunities across Asia.
About our partners and sponsors:
Amplifi Solutions: At Amplifi, our purpose is to accelerate innovation for growth businesses in the UK and Ireland. We bring enterprise level experience and process to SME businesses, helping them to reach their goals faster and enabling investment to go further.
We're driven by the belief that harnessing the potential of HMRC entrepreneurial tax schemes, namely R&D reliefs, not only fuels business growth but propels the entire landscape of innovation forward. We're not just navigating tax regulations; we're on a mission to empower your journey, transforming challenges into opportunities for your business. Join us in redefining success through the lens of innovation.
Amplifi have a highly experienced team which includes qualified accountants, tax advisors and technical experts with backgrounds in manufacturing, engineering , software and life sciences. Our aim is to optimise claims for companies, whilst ensuring that all claims are accurately prepared and defendable under any HMRC or Revenue Commissioners scrutiny.
CSC: CSC is the trusted partner of choice for more than 90% of the Fortune 500®, more than 90% of the 100 Best Global Brands (Interbrand®), and more than 70% of the PEI 300. We are the world’s leading provider of global business administration and compliance solutions, specialized administration services to alternative asset managers across a range of fund strategies, transactions involving capital markets participants in both public and private markets, domain name system management and digital brand and fraud protection, and corporate tax software solutions. Founded in 1899 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, CSC prides itself on being privately held and professionally managed for more than 125 years. CSC has office locations and capabilities in more than 140 jurisdictions across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. We are a global company capable of doing business wherever our clients are—and we accomplish that by employing experts in every business we serve. We are the business behind business®. Learn more at cscglobal.com.
Philip Hare & Associates - Award-winning tax advisers specialising in the SEIS, EIS and VCT tax reliefs.
About us (the organiser)
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international law firm with a cross-disciplinary team of 700+ lawyers providing a full spectrum of legal services to clients across the nation and around the world.
Note: By registering for this event, you agree that your contact details may be shared with one of our event partners. Please be aware that event photography will be taking place. If you do not wish to be photographed or featured, kindly inform a member of the team.