The Pitch Regional Final - Manchester
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The energy, ideas, and ambition of The Pitch 2026 arrive in Manchester for the third regional final of the year.
Join us for an inspiring evening as ten of the North West’s most exciting founders take to the stage to showcase their businesses, share their stories, and compete for a place at The Pitch 2026 Grand Final in London. Each founder will pitch live to a panel of expert judges, investors, and mentors - all ready to discover the next big success story.
Hosted in one of the UK’s most dynamic startup cities, the Manchester Regional Final brings together the local innovation community for a night of creativity, connection, and opportunity.
What to expect:
Live pitches from 10 exceptional startups
Insight and feedback from top industry judges
A buzzing crowd of founders, investors, and ecosystem partners
Networking, drinks, and plenty of inspiration
If you’re passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, and the future of business, The Pitch Manchester Regional Final is the event you won’t want to miss.
Meet the judges🎤
Amber Jardine is an investor at Mercia Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm backing early-stage, high-growth businesses providing investment of up to £10 million. Prior to joining Mercia in 2024, Amber launched and managed a corporate investment fund at a global EdTech company, overseeing a portfolio of investments spanning EdTech, FinTech, and Consumer.
Ben is the marketing director for PXN Group, an award-winning venture capital investor behind northern success stories such as Modern Milkman, Street Group, Fuuse and more. With over £700m AUM and 120 portfolio companies, the group is best known for their ‘more than money’ approach to supporting early-stage founders post-investment.
After 5 years as an Equities Trader at Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Canada, Ranvir cut his teeth in the startup scene by founding his own company with £250k investment. After a successful Series A exit, Ranvir worked as an investment advisor for Innovate UK, helping early-stage businesses raise over £30m, before joining GC Angels as a Senior Investment Manager.
Our host for the evening🎤
Mo Aldalou
Programme Director & Angel Investor at Baltic Ventures
Mo is the Programme Director & angel investor at Baltic Ventures, an early-stage tech accelerator and angel syndicate investing in and supporting cohorts of game-changing founders every year. Supporting pre-seed and seed tech founders through advisory and consultancy.
Venue partner📍
Since 2022, Barclays Eagle Labs Manchester has been the home of DiSH, Greater Manchester’s Digital Security Hub. By bringing together experts in digital and cyber security from public, private and academic sectors, DiSH offers growing digital security startups and scaleups access to business support, mentoring, training and more.
Event sponsor🤝
Seapoint
Seapoint is the financial home for startups and scale-ups: combining multi-currency business banking, payments, and finance automation in one platform.
Startups can open business accounts in both EUR and GBP, send and receive payments across borders, and manage day-to-day finance operations from a single dashboard, including payroll, company cards, collaboration and more.
Replacing the fragmented finance stack most startups rely on, Seapoint helps early-stage teams move faster, stay compliant and gain real-time visibility across all their accounts.
The people-first insurance group with employee ownership at its heart.
With 23,000 employees across the globe, Howden is the UK’s 5th largest employee-owned business – and every single person is a specialist in something. This means their expertise spans the full spectrum of insurance, covering broking, reinsurance, underwriting, risk consultancy and employee benefits.
Whatever the size of your business or the industry you’re in, Howden’s dedicated teams are ready to support you and your business ambitions.
K3C
K3C are a no-nonsense team of doers helping B2B businesses grow and scale for less.
Through a combination of strategy, workflow optimisation and AI-powered go-to-market tools, K3C helps startups and scale-ups avoid critical growth challenges by building revenue growth systems designed to last.
From establishing a product-market fit to transforming sales functions, they help teams secure new clients and new revenue – all without adding fixed costs.
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