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.
​👉 Our moderator, Lily Hammond: Strategic Partnerships & Events Lead at Jumpstart
​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