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Day: 4 November 2023

Ensuring Your Founders are Investment-Ready: The 6 Pillars of Fundraising

Whether you are an incubator manager, run an accelerator programme or work in innovation and enterprise for a university, your primary mission is to nurture and support the next generation of innovative startups. It’s a role filled with big responsibility but immense satisfaction seeing founders flourish and find their feet. One crucial aspect of this journey is to ensure that your founders are investment-ready, otherwise without funding they may be completely hamstrung and only stall and stutter to get their vision and venture off the ground.

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Jack Molyneux

Traditional Shipwright and Master Mariner, Superyacht expert.

Passionate about changing the industry for the better. Our mission is to create the world’s first digital marketplace for superyacht ownership, charter and investment.

Dr. Sivaram Nishal Ramadas

Celmetrix offers a cutting-edge rapid battery tester that uses advanced sensors and edge analytics to provide real-time, multi-point inspection, ensuring every cell meets the highest quality standards. By detecting defects early in production, it reduces waste, cuts costs, and empowers manufacturers to produce safer, more reliable batteries efficiently.

Debra Glover

Iron & Velvet is a company that makes plastic-free cleaning products. Their products are water-soluble sachets that dissolve in water, making them kind to the environment. The company also sells a variety of other sustainable products, such as vegan and cruelty-free cleaning products. Iron & Velvet is committed to providing customers with high-quality, sustainable cleaning products that are good for the environment and good for the home.

Dr Henry James, Dr Matthew Tranter & Dr Volodymyr Chapman

Medscribe eliminates the burden of medical admin and gives clinicians their time back, saving the NHS millions in the process. By automating clinical documentation, Medscribe slashes hours of paperwork, freeing up healthcare professionals to focus on what matters most: patient care. Built by doctors for doctors, with unique safety features, we’re unlocking new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and job satisfaction across the healthcare system.

Eugene Patterson

Elevate Your Everyday with Revibed Drinks- superfood-infused beverages designed to fuel your body with essential nutrients while delivering great taste. Stocked in major retailers like Holland & Barrett, Co-op and Ocado. We’re making functional wellness more accessible, helping you stay energised, healthy and refreshed every day.

Francesca & Dominic Fox

Francesca and Dominic, co-founders, embody yin and yang management. Francesca has 10 years in healthcare commercialisation, while Dominic brings 20 years in professional sport and 10 years in marketing.

Imagine a world where revolutionary, personalised stem cell therapy is accessible to everyone at a cost lower than an NHS prescription. Our cutting-edge technology is making this vision a reality, providing life-changing non-pharmaceutical treatments, ensuring that advanced healthcare is within reach for all.

Umar Butt

With a vision of a world where learning to drive is accessible, straightforward, and free from unnecessary complications. The mission of ErmoL is to revolutionise the driving instruction industry through transparency, efficiency, and putting learners first.

Scott Garrett

VitaVoice is the UK’s first preventative vocal health supplement, trusted by West End stars and major soap actors. Formulated to prevent voice issues, not just mask them with cough sweets, it boosts vocal health, cognition, and performance. With over 5 million professional voice users in the UK, VitaVoice is capturing a massive, underserved market.

Henry Clark

TDI Greenway is a market leader in the design, manufacture and deployment of Very Light Rail (VLR)vehicles and lightweight mass transit solutions that are up to 80% cheaper than heavy rail alternatives and 3x quicker to deploy. VLR technology allows for battery-only propulsion systems and net-zero operation to support government decarbonisation targets, offering greener mass transport options the worlds communities.

Dr Matthew Bacon

TCC-CASEMIX, a health informatics platform, revolutionises healthcare by addressing critical inefficiencies in data capture and analysis during surgeries. Through partnerships with NHS Trusts, and a current client base that includes major Medical Device Manufacturers, the company has been validated in clinical environments and is now rapidly scaling.

Tim Telford

UK manufacturing is under siege. From the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, Devtank is disrupting the industry with our award-winning production test and smart monitoring solutions. We play a critical part of the manufacturing data revolution. As industry leading veterans, our solutions drive productivity, energy reduction, quality and environmental improvements.

Paul Rivers

UK manufacturing needs to become more competitive, profitable and efficient. AI and Automation can contribute. We have automation solutions and software that we provide to UK businesses to bring about productivity increases. Automation is usually a large CapEx, but we lend the solution that’s right for a clients business which gives then the quickest gain. For every hour of human labour that is saved with our solution, we charge half of the human “living wage” per hour, charged monthly. We effectively share the savings, instant ROI, no risk to customer, but all of the benefits.

Dr Mahdi Mohammad-pour

TriboDENS is a company that uses software and experimental techniques to address engineering challenges in tribology, dynamics, and energy solutions. The company offers solutions for noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) and tribology of mechanical systems. TriboDENS’s mission is to help companies improve the performance and efficiency of their mechanical systems.

Adriano Randi

R3V Tech is a spinout company from Loughborough University that focuses on creating new revenue streams for industry via circular economy approaches. Their main product is ‘Solketal’, a high-value, eco-friendly bio-derived chemical with diverse industrial through innovative process technology. They offer a cost-effective approach based at the process plants of individual biodiesel producers, using mild conditions at lower break-even volumes than traditional production methods.

Dan Lane

ValidateLabs presents a ground breaking B2B SAAS product for clinical laboratories. It’s AI technology automates the test validation process, reducing the time to complete validation from 3 weeks to 3 minutes!

The platform is currently in beta trials in over 10 clinical lab environments and saving labs huge amounts of time, money, and valuable resource to increase labs outputs and bringing more invaluable clinical tests to use rapidly quicker.

Neuro-Notion

Josh Budd

The world’s first life management and education platform scientifically designed for Adults with ADHD. After growing up and being expelled from school 15 times, due to Josh’s undiagnosed severe ADHD, he’s now building a platform which is desperately needed with the rapid rise of ADHD diagnoses and allows Adults with ADHD to regain control of their lives through positive habits, routines, mental health and everything else in between.a

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