The Pitch Regional Final - London
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The Pitch 2026 regional tour wraps up in style — London, it’s your turn!
Join us for an unforgettable evening as ten of the capital’s brightest and boldest founders take the stage to showcase their startups, share their stories, and compete for a place at The Pitch 2026 Grand Final, which returns to London in March.
Each founder will pitch live to a panel of expert judges, investors, and mentors - all ready to discover the next big success story from London’s world-class startup scene.
Hosted in the heart of London’s innovation community, this event brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and startup supporters for a night of fresh ideas, collaboration, and inspiration.
What to expect:
Live pitches from 10 exceptional startups
Insight and feedback from top industry judges
A buzzing crowd of founders, investors, and ecosystem partners
Networking, drinks, and plenty of inspiration
Don’t miss the grand finale of the Pitch 2026 regional series - The Pitch London Regional Final is where the UK’s most exciting founders come together to shape what’s next.
Startups pitching on the night:
- Zance
- The Fish Friendly Hydro Co
- Setmixer
- Carbonaires
- Retapp
- Pharmaceutech
- Coldwater Salmon
- NuCasa
- Intotum
Meet the judges🎤
Vasily is an active early-stage investor and founder of Rare Founders, one of London’s most popular startup communities bringing together founders and investors through high-energy events and demo days. His investment portfolio spans deep tech, AI and frontier industries, including OpenAI, Groq, Varda Space Industries and Superroom.
Kevin is a strategic partner and early-stage investor who thrives on supporting exceptional founders through the challenges of building tech ventures. With a keen understanding of client psychology, he identifies teams with the intrinsic drive to succeed and actively engages with the startup ecosystem. He is a proud investor in companies like Impli, Applied Atomics, and Building Passport.
In the 12 years spent at J.P. Morgan investing for a $12.5B fund, Sutin learned not only how the world’s best investors think, but what it is that separates ideas that get funded from those that don’t. Equipped with this knowledge, she went on to found her own startup before launching The Fundraising Accelerator, a 7-week programme designed to help entrepreneurs master the investor mindset and close rounds in record time.
Venue partner📍
Runway East has been fighting boring offices since 2014. And they’re relentless when it comes to team bliss. Runway East creates countless opportunities to make your team happy all day, every day. Bask in beautiful, customisable office space, where stuff gets fixed by people who care. All under membership plans as flexible as I’m a Celebrity’s definition of celebrity. Plus no hidden fees down under. For teams of 1-100 across London and Bristol.
Event sponsor🤝
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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