AMA with Alex Godber, Envestors | Innovator Founder Visa | Breakthrough Founders
About event:
Join a live AMA with Alex Godber from Envestors, the company contracted by the Home Office to endorse Innovator Founder visa applications. If you are a current or prospective international founder, this practical session will help you understand whether the Innovator Founder visa is relevant to you, what assessors look for, what evidence is required and how the application process works.
More than one fifth of Breakthrough Founders applicants are migrant or visa-dependent founders. Clear information about how to build, remain and raise capital in the UK is vital if high-potential founders and businesses are not to be held back or lost to the UK.
Meet Alex & Envestors
Alex Godber is an Investment & Visa Endorsement Manager at Envestors. Alex has screened hundreds of applications under the Innovator Founder visa route, supporting Envestors' cohort of 400+ international entrepreneurs building high-growth startups in the UK. With a background in venture investment, he supports entrepreneurs with investment readiness, fundraising, and UK market entry. He also leads research on founder migration and entrepreneurship, including Envestors' annual Innovator Founder Visa Report.
Envestors is the only company in the UK driving innovation which is both contracted by the Home Office (UK Government) to endorse under the Innovator Founder visa category, and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority to connect entrepreneurs with investors. It is ranked one of the UK's most active investors by independent research agency Beauhurst, having invested over £120m in 200+ growth businesses.
Why Attend
For international founders, it can be difficult to establish whether the Innovator Founder visa is relevant, what assessors look for, what evidence is required and how the application process works. This session is designed to give you clear, practical information straight from someone who assesses these applications. The conversation will cover:
The Innovator Founder Route: Whether the route may be relevant to you and your business.
What Assessors Look For: The business assessment criteria behind an endorsement decision.
The Evidence Required: What you need to show, and how to prepare it.
The Application Process: How the process works, step by step.
Your Questions: A live Q&A with Alex.
The Format
5 mins: Welcome and framing
10 mins: Alex on the Innovator Founder route and what assessors look for
40 mins: Open Q&A where you can ask Alex whatever you want
5 mins: Closing advice for founders
Please note: this is a general information session and will not provide individual immigration or legal advice.
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