The Pitch Grand Final - London
Welcome to The Pitch - powered by SeedLegals - the UK and Ireland's largest pitch competition connecting UK founders with expert mentors, potential investors, unrivalled networking, and prizes worth up to £25k!
The journey all comes down to this: The Pitch 2026 Grand Final.
Join us for an unforgettable evening as the top 12 founders from across the UK and Ireland take the stage one last time to pitch their startups in just 90 seconds, competing for the champion title and £25k prize package.
Hosted in the heart of London’s innovation community, the Grand Final brings together entrepreneurs, investors, partners, and supporters for a night of bold ideas, game-changing ambition, and inspiring conversations.
What to expect:
Live 90 second pitches from the 12 regional finalists
Insightful feedback from our judging panel of investors
A buzzing room filled with founders, investors, and ecosystem partners
Elevated networking, drinks, and an atmosphere buzzing with innovation.
This is the pinnacle of The Pitch 2026 - the Grand Final, where the most exceptional founder will be crowned and the next breakout success story begins.
Please note: You must register for a ticket in advance to attend - there will be no tickets available on the door.
Entry is first come, first served and doors will close once we reach room capacity or at 7pm (whichever comes first).
Our 2026 Grand Finalists💡
Rocketbox - Dublin Judges' Winner
Recaptureone - Dublin People's Choice Winner
The Long Run Club - Glasgow Judges' Winner
Voxblock - Glasgow People's Choice Winner
APIMS - Manchester Judges' Winner
North AI - Manchester People's Choice Winner
Mucka AI - Bristol Judges' Winner
Taught by Humans - Bristol People's Choice Winner
SymbioTex - Birmingham Judges' Winner
Chapter2Dating - Birmingham People's Choice Winner
Intotum - London Judges' Winner
Nucasa - London People's Choice Winner
Meet the judges🎤
Dan Bowyer
Co-Founder & Partner @ SuperSeed
Dan is a 4x exited entrepreneur and early-stage investor, supporting technical founders transforming business software. With 25 years as a founder, operator, and investor, he’s experienced both failures and spectacular successes. Passionate about helping startups move beyond problem-solution mode, Dan focuses on building the right team, energy, and infrastructure to hit that first £1M in recurring revenue.
Kristina Pereckaite
Founder @ South East Angels
Kristina Pereckaite is the Founder and Managing Director of South East Angels, an award-winning members club for angel investors. Since its formation in 2021, South East Angels actively deploys £2M+ into startups each year, and has received recognition from UKBAA as “Most Active Investor in the Regions” (2024), while being named a finalist for Angel Group of the Year for two consecutive years.
Roger Wade
Founder & Chairman @ BoxFund VC
Roger Wade is a pioneering British entrepreneur with 30+ years building and investing in purpose-driven consumer brands. Founder and Chairman of BoxFund VC, he backs early-stage UK businesses with social and environmental impact. Roger founded Boxfresh in 1989, grew it into a global brand, and later launched Boxpark, the world’s first pop-up mall from shipping containers.
Our host for the evening🎤
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.
Venue partner📍
Only Google Cloud brings together innovations and expertise from across Google, empowering organisations for the future of business with AI at the core. We help customers transform by integrating industry-leading AI across six product lines: infrastructure, developer tools and platforms, data, security, AI agents and applications, and the world’s most popular productivity suite with more than 3 billion users.
Thanks to Google Cloud, tickets for the grand final are free!
Event supporters🤝
Seapoint
Seapoint is the financial home for startups and scale-ups: combining multi-currency business banking, payments, and finance automation in one platform.
Startups can open business accounts in both EUR and GBP, send and receive payments across borders, and manage day-to-day finance operations from a single dashboard, including payroll, company cards, collaboration and more.
Replacing the fragmented finance stack most startups rely on, Seapoint helps early-stage teams move faster, stay compliant and gain real-time visibility across all their accounts.
The people-first insurance group with employee ownership at its heart.
With 23,000 employees across the globe, Howden is the UK’s 5th largest employee-owned business – and every single person is a specialist in something. This means their expertise spans the full spectrum of insurance, covering broking, reinsurance, underwriting, risk consultancy and employee benefits.
Whatever the size of your business or the industry you’re in, Howden’s dedicated teams are ready to support you and your business ambitions.
K3C
K3C are a no-nonsense team of doers helping B2B businesses grow and scale for less.
Through a combination of strategy, workflow optimisation and AI-powered go-to-market tools, K3C helps startups and scale-ups avoid critical growth challenges by building revenue growth systems designed to last.
From establishing a product-market fit to transforming sales functions, they help teams secure new clients and new revenue – all without adding fixed costs.
Emerald Technology helps startups and scale-ups recruit, hire and pay exceptional talent anywhere in the world.
By combining specialist global recruitment with Employer of Record (EOR) and payroll services, we enable ambitious companies to build global teams without setting up overseas entities. Emerald delivers dedicated, hands-on support from experienced specialists who move at startup speed - giving founders the flexibility, clarity and confidence to scale globally.
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