SYNC 2.0 - Co-Founder Matching Evening
Find a Great Co-Founder
This private event is designed to help entrepreneurial students, researchers, and recent alumni of the University of Cambridge meet potential co-founders and form founding teams.
Please note: capacity is limited. Entry is by acceptance only, and only those approved via Luma will be admitted on the day.
Eligibility: attendees must be in their final year of study or otherwise in a position to start a company full-time during or shortly after the summer. We only have capacity to invite those actively looking to meet potential co-founders.
About us: Founders at the University of Cambridge
SYNC: Cambridge's co-founder matching accelerator.
START: Pre-seed accelerator for AI and DeepTech startups.
Community: 300+ founders, investors, and industry contacts.
SYNC 2.0
The second SYNC cohort comprises 40 final-year students, researchers, and recent alumni of the University of Cambridge, selected from nearly 200 applicants.
This Co-Founder Matching Evening takes place in the fourth week of the SYNC programme and serves as our invitation to a small number of additional aspiring founders to join the room for one evening. Exceptional attendees may receive late-entry offers to join SYNC 2.0.
Follow our LinkedIn to track the cohort’s weekly progress.
Event Partners:
Pillar VC:
Pillar VC is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests at inception in deep tech companies solving the world's greatest challenges. As an ARIA Activation Partner, Pillar VC is proudly building Encode: AI for Science - a fellowship embedding world-leading AI / ML engineers who want to build companies in frontier science labs full-time for 12 months, salary and compute included.
Cohort 2 applications open on 15th February - apply here.
redalpine:
redalpine is the pan-European venture capital firm that empowers GameChangers. Founded in Zurich in 2006, with offices in Berlin, London, and a presence in San Francisco, redalpine brings together financial investment, operational expertise, and a vast international network to help ambitious entrepreneurs transform their vision into a reality. redalpine has over $1.3bn in assets under management and has backed some of Europe’s most disruptive software and science companies, including N26, Taxfix, Mistral, Klarna, Proxima Fusion, 9fin, and Hilo. With a multi-stage investment approach, redalpine invests Europe- wide and counts over 100 companies in its portfolio.
Find out more at www.redalpine.com