Scaleup Series A+ Founders & Investors - Deeptech & Dual Use Dinner with Taylor Wessing

​About Critical Mass. The room for UK's deeptech community. Founders, operators, investors and policy makers across AI, robotics, quantum, fusion, defence, synbio and space, in conversation with each other. Built by people who've shipped, raised, regulated and deployed.

​About this dinner. The Series A+ chapter. Twenty seats. One long table. Founders and operators building UK frontier technology, sat across from the investors funding the next decade of it. Three courses, drinks included - on us.

​The dinner will be hosted by Taylor Wessing, (soon to be Winston Taylor).

​About Taylor Wessing

​Taylor Wessing (which is combining with Winston Strawn to become Winston Taylor from June 1 2026) is a premier transatlantic law firm with hubs in major commercial centres: the US, the UK, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. We support our clients with their key priorities on a cross-border basis across critical transactions, strategic IP advisory, and major litigation. The firm has a long-standing focus on the emerging technology sector (including deeptech, AI, defence and more) spanning over 30 years, as a result, our team has rich sector-specific (including relevant technical) knowledge and expertise in disruptive technologies, advising prominent investors and many of the most successful early and growth stage companies through the entire life cycle, from series A to a liquidity event, be it an exit, PE investment or IPO.

​Our multi-faceted firm is ranked tier 1 across venture and growth capital, M&A and IP advisory (Legal 500, 2026) and our tech sector specialists have been lead counsel on some of the most important deals in the tech sector, involving the financing and scaling of European sovereign capability, including the €600m investment into Helsing AI, the €160m investment into Quantum Systems, the $135m investment into PhysicsX, and many others which remain in stealth.

​No panels. No pitches. No press. Off the record.

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