REBL Sessions: Manchester Edition — The Founders' Table
We're bringing REBL Sessions to Manchester.
An intimate, carefully curated dinner bringing together eight ambitious female startup founders building businesses with the potential to scale.
At REBL, we believe you shouldn't have to live in London, New York or San Francisco to find your people. We're building the network we wished existed when we started — one where founders can share what they're working on, challenge each other's thinking, find collaborators and help one another move forward.
Because the right network doesn't happen by accident.
Every REBL Sessions table is intentionally curated to bring together female founders who share the ambition to build and scale something meaningful, while bringing different experiences, perspectives and ideas to the conversation.
For our Manchester Edition, we're bringing together just eight female founders around one table at Canto in Ancoats, over Mediterranean-inspired tapas, sharing plates and honest conversation.
Whether you're validating an ambitious idea, preparing to launch, finding your first customers, raising capital or scaling your startup, this is a space to connect with women who understand what it means to build something from the ground up.
No panels. No pitches. No awkward networking.
Just good food, honest conversations and meaningful connections with founders who are as ambitious about what they're building as you are.
What to expect
An intimate, hosted evening dinner with eight female founders
A carefully curated table of ambitious women building scalable startups
Mediterranean-inspired tapas and sharing plates at Canto
Honest conversations about building businesses, navigating challenges, fundraising and finding opportunities
The chance to exchange ideas, share learnings and build relationships that continue beyond the dinner
What's included
Your £59 ticket includes Canto's group sharing menu and a place at our carefully curated founders' table. Drinks are available to purchase separately.
The sharing menu
Pan con tomate
Padrón peppers with Maldon sea salt
Mushroom croquetas with black garlic mayo
Serrano ham and Manchego plate
Chargrilled peri peri chicken
Spiced lamb and beef merguez meatballs with fritada sauce
Roasted cauliflower with harissa carrot purée and walnut dukkah
Crispy potatoes with mojo verde and mojo rojo
Desserts
Almond tart with mascarpone mousse
Pastel de nata
Dietary options
Canto also offers pescatarian, vegetarian and vegan group menus, so guests can choose an option that suits their dietary preferences.
Please let us know about any dietary requirements or allergies when registering so we can discuss these with the restaurant. Canto advises that dishes may contain traces of nuts or gluten and that shared fryers are used.
Menu items are subject to availability and may be substituted by the restaurant.
The details
📍 Canto, Ancoats, Manchester
🌙 Evening dinner
👥 Eight founders. One table.
🎟️ £59 per person — dinner included
🍷 Drinks purchased separately
Application required. All registrations are subject to approval.
Who's it for?
Female founders actively building ambitious, scalable startups — from early-stage and pre-seed ventures through to businesses gaining traction, raising investment and preparing to scale.
This isn't a general business networking event.
We're bringing together women who are serious about what they're building, ambitious about where they're going and open to helping other founders move forward.
You don't need to have raised funding or have everything figured out. Just the ambition to build something bigger, a willingness to share what you're learning and an openness to supporting others along the way.
Why we curate the room
Your network is your unfair advantage — but only when you're in the right room.
We keep REBL Sessions intentionally small and thoughtfully review every application to bring together a complementary mix of founders.
We're not interested in filling a room for the sake of it.
We're interested in creating the kind of room where the right conversation can lead to a new perspective, an introduction, a collaboration or an opportunity you wouldn't have found otherwise.
Places are limited, and submitting an application doesn't guarantee a seat at the table.
Bring REBL Sessions to your city
We're building REBL Sessions across the UK, connecting ambitious female founders wherever they're building from.
If you're a female founder interested in hosting a Founders' Table in your own city, we'd love to hear from you.
Reach out to liisa@reblventures.co.
You shouldn't have to build alone.
See you around the table.
REBL
Against the status quo.