2026 Fundraising starts now: prep your round for maximum momentum
Planning a 2026 raise? 💰
Prep your round for maximum momentum now, so you don’t lose it when it matters most.
Fundraising in 2026 starts now. We’ve teamed up with Vestd to bring you the ultimate fundraising workshop, ensuring you hit the new year at full speed.
Join us on Friday, 12th December in London for a power-packed morning designed to help founders kick off the new year with clarity, confidence, and momentum.
We’ll break down the tools, tactics, and preparation needed to make your next round faster, smoother, and more successful — from crafting your story to sharpening your investor pipeline.
Agenda
9:00 - 9:30am — Breakfast & arrivals
9:30 - 10:30am — Panel discussion + audience Q&A
10:30 - 11:30am — Networking & conversations
Perfect for founders planning a raise in early 2026 and anyone looking to tighten their fundraising strategy.
Meet the panel:
Scott Haughton - Founding Director and COO of Envestors Limited. Established in 2004, Envestors is a FCA regulated corporate finance adviser and a network of sophisticated investors. Envestors is also a Home Office contracted endorsing body for the UK’s Innovator Business Founder visa and Scale-Up Sponsor Licence entrepreneurial migration routes.
Prior to co-founding Envestors, Scott spent 16 years in senior sales and marketing roles with blue-chip FMCG companies, including Mars Confectionery, RHM Foods, and GlaxoSmithKline. He then successfully secured £680K in funding to establish a premium family leisure concept.
Dmitry Grishin - Founding Partner of Grishin Robotics, an early-stage Venture Capital firm based in Silicon Valley. The fund invests in founders of consumer and consumerized enterprise startups that are poised to disrupt large, growing markets, with a focus on cutting-edge smart hardware, robotics, and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies.
Dmitry is a highly successful entrepreneur who built and IPO'd a tech company on the London Stock Exchange in 2010, at a $5.7 billion valuation.
Hosted at the beautiful XCHG Spaces in central London, featuring stunning panoramic views of the city. A co-working space ideal for founders building the future of tech!
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 2nd Cohort, start date January, 23rd. Apply now 👉https://www.grishinrobotics.com/accelerator
Vestd is the ShareTech platform for all things equity. Manage your cap table, fundraising legals, and share vesting agreements all in one place.
Get S/EIS ready, set up SPVs, and incentivise those who help you build value - with a slice of the pie, and skin in the game. With full Companies House integration, Vestd makes related filings a piece of cake. Vestd is also B Corp certified and FCA-regulated.
Find out how Vestd can help with share issuance, S/EIS Advance Assurance, EMI Options, and much more by chatting to Amber on Friday or book a call with the team.
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