Founder x Investor: Fundraising for Physical Startups
🚀 Are you a founder raising capital?
If you’re a founder navigating product, physical tech, fundraising and everything in between, this is the unfiltered event you cannot afford to miss.
We’re cutting through the noise to bring you a real conversation with two brilliant Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumni founders, joined by two investors:
🙌 Katherine Orrell, investor at JamJar Investments
🙌 Alex Bateman, founder managing partner of Ambition Capital
🙌 Ben Beavers, founder of SmartyPlants and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus
🙌 Romi Mathew, co-founder of Roam and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus
Agenda:
9:30am - 10.00am: Registration & Breakfast
10:00am: Doors close and no entry after
10:00am - 11.00am: Panel & Q&A
11:00am - 12.30am: Networking - your chance to connect with our panel and other ambitious founders.
Meet the panel:
👉 Katherine Orrell: Investor at JamJar Investments, an early-stage consumer VC. Katherine focuses on consumer software across Seed and Series A and previously worked at JPMorgan. JamJar’s portfolio includes Deliveroo, Runna, Wild, Healf and Tony’s Chocolonely.
👉 Alex Bateman: Founder of Ambition Capital, investing from pre-seed to Series A and providing expansion capital to high-growth businesses. Previously worked across M&A and capital raising at JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and Prefequity.
👉 Ben Beavers: Founder of SmartyPlants and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus. SmartyPlants smart sensor and app making plant care easier through real-time data. SmartyPlants has generated £140k in pre-launch sales and sold 5,500 sensors. Ben recently appeared on BBC’s Dragons’ Den.
👉 Romi Mathew: Co-founder of Roam and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus. Roam is a subscription-free smart tracker that has shipped to 81 countries and generated over $1M in revenue within seven months—fully bootstrapped. Previously founded the award-winning family-wellbeing IoT company CONNIDO.
About Grishin Robotics Accelerator
The Grishin Robotics Accelerator is London's highly selective, one-month intensive program dedicated to pre-seed and seed tech startups.
We're now accepting applications for GRx Accelerator 5th Cohort, November 2026.
Apply now 👉https://www.grishinrobotics.com/accelerator
Grishin Robotics is an early-stage Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We back founders of consumer and consumerized enterprise startups that disrupt large and growing markets.
The fund has backed category-defining companies such as Ring (acquired by Amazon for $1B), Spin (acquired by Ford), Zipline (autonomous drone delivery), Starship (last-mile delivery robots), Sphero (robotic toys), and Eero (acquired by Amazon). We invest in Seed and Series A startups targeting large consumer markets such as online entertainment, gaming, food, education, team productivity and collaboration