Founder x Investor: Fundraising for Consumer Tech
🚀 Calling all Consumer Tech Founders and Investors 🚀
Raising investment for consumer tech comes with a unique set of challenges. Founders need to prove more than the strength of the technology. Investors also want to understand the real-world use case, customer demand and how the company will manufacture, distribute and scale.
Join us for an open conversation between consumer tech founders and investors about what it takes to build and fund a successful consumer technology company.
Meet the panel:
👉 Ahmed Ejaz: Founder and CEO of Cambridge Spectacle Co., and a healthcare entrepreneur working across medtech, AI and the optical sector. Cambridge Spectacle Co. creates high-quality spectacle frames and supports research aimed at advancing eyecare.
👉 Tatiana K: Programme Director at Grishin Robotics, with over 15 years of experience in venture building, product and innovation. Her work with more than 70 startups spans product strategy, go-to-market, investment readiness and scaling operations.
What we’ll cover:
The opportunity for smart glasses and wearable consumer technology
Identifying customer needs and use cases
The traction investors expect before funding
Knowing when a consumer tech company is ready to raise
Manufacturing, distribution and scaling challenges
What investors evaluate beyond the technology
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.
About our hosts
Making recruitment not sh*t. Jumpstart has connected 1000+ startups with the top 1% of junior-mid level sales, ops, generalist, marketing and chief of staff talent - handpicked from thousands of applicants each month.
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