2025 Wrap Party ✨
Calling London’s founders and CFOs - are you ready to see the year out in style? 🥳
SeedLegals and Wise Business invites you to an exclusive End of Year celebration combining key insights into the trends to look out for in 2026 for businesses from Seed to Series B along with high value networking opportunities and a ton of festive fun 🎊
We'll kick off the evening with a panel session looking back at the trends and transformations that defined 2025 before shifting our focus onto what fast-growing startups and CFOs can expect as they double down on growth in 2026, with key insights and trends. Hear from leading founders and industry experts on the biggest opportunities to take advantage of in the new year.
Speakers:
Anthony Rose
Co-founder & CEO, SeedLegals
Known as “The man behind BBC iPlayer”, Anthony Rose is a seasoned entrepreneur and the driving force behind SeedLegals, the platform powering a third of all early-stage SEIS/EIS funding rounds in the UK.
With a background in internet video, P2P tech, and social platforms — plus a patent portfolio spanning content discovery and interactive TV — Anthony brings a rare mix of technical depth and commercial know-how to the startup world.
Rohan Vadgaonkar
Product Director, Wise Business
Rohan is the product director for Wise Business, where he leads a team of product managers and engineers scaling and rolling out new features for 700,000+ business account customers globally. Before joining Wise, Rohan was co-founder and CEO of Carnot Technologies, a data science platform for agricultural technologies, which was acquired by Mahindra after Series B funding round in 2022. He is also co-founder at Viviva Colours LLC, a global paint and art supplies company used by 50,000 artists and Hobbyists in more than 40 countries.
Theo Games Petrohilos
Co-founder, Unknown Works
Theo co-founded Unknown Works after leaving Studio Egret West (SEW), where he led a wide portfolio of large-scale architecture and urban design projects. He represented SEW on the TfL Design Governance Board and undertook an extensive feasibility study for Lewisham Station and Interchange (LSI). Theo also co-authored the London Underground Design Idiom and led SEW's work on LU's Integrated Station Program (ISP), which focused on the reimagining and rebuilding of stations across the network.
Theo is a Masters tutor at the London School of Architecture and a visiting critic at the Bartlett, University College London.
Lucy Smith
Co-founder at Welleness
Lucy is the Co-founder of Welleness, a pioneering financial wellness app helping women take control of their finances with confidence.
Her mission is simple but urgent: by 2030 women will control over $113 trillion in wealth globally, yet 53% of female-held assets remain unmanaged. Welleness is changing that by blending AI-powered insights with trusted, female-led financial advice to make financial guidance accessible, personal, and genuinely supportive.
Take the opportunity to reflect on the challenges and progress made in 2025 with like-minded business leaders and learn more about how SeedLegals and Wise Business can help support your plans to scale up in the next 12 months.
Expect warming drinks, seasonal bites, a festive surprise raffle with genuinely useful prizes, and the chance to win a (less useful) prize for the most festive outfit! 🎁
Dress Code: Get Festive! Christmas jumpers, elf hats, tinsel - the merrier you look, the better! ☃️🎉🎄
Agenda:
6.30 pm Welcome drinks & networking
7.30pm Panel discuss "New Year, New Steer? The Strategy Glow-Up for 2026"
8 pm Networking
8.30 pm Festive surprise raffle
8.50 pm Networking & festive fun
10.30 pm Close
We hope to see you on the 4th! 🥂