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Pitch & Invest Programme

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Pitch to a panel of industry experts

The NEW Pitch and Invest Programme offers start-ups and scale-ups the opportunity to pitch market-ready solutions to a panel of experts from the investment community across the full spectrum of capital. Together with an audience of pre-qualified funding partners, investors, corporate ventures, and fellow innovators.

This is where groundbreaking ideas collide with compatible capital and expertise

The programme will cover a total of ten sectors, including:

  • Tech and AI
  • Engineering and Manufacturing
  • Public Sector & Urban Regeneration
  • Energy
  • Food and AgriTech
  • Retail Banking and Private Investment
  • Female Founders
  • FMCG/Retail and Fashion
  • Health and Human Science

Sponsored by:

        Clean growth fund logo Seedrs logo

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Propel your start-up or scale-up's funding journey  

Connect, collaborate, and grow with some of the sustainability and impact investment community's leading voices and experts across the full spectrum of capital, including...

  • Angel Investors
  • High Net Worth Individuals
  • SEIS & EIS Investors
  • Venture Funds
  • Impact Investors
  • Investment Principals
  • Portfolio and Investment Managers
  • Heads of Investing
  • Corporate Venture Capital
  • And many more!

Get involved

How you can get involved:

Pitch to our panel of experts

If you have an Exhibition Pod, Exhibition stand, Sponsorship packageVIP Pass or Start-up/ Scale-up Pass, you can enter the Pitch and Invest programme.

After submission, your pitch deck will be reviewed by our panel of investment experts. Those selected will pitch solutions for real-time feedback and connect with investors looking to support the latest solutions.

Be part of the audience

Discover what investors are looking for and connect with the latest start-ups looking for funding to drive their climate innovations and solutions.

All tickets include access to the Pitch & Invest programme. Register now for free to not miss out.

 

Win big at the Startup World Cup!

The most outstanding start-up will be sent as the UK delegate to the Startup World Cup in San Francisco, California, for a chance to win the $1 million grand prize.

The Startup World Cup is a prestigious international pitch competition that draws innovators, tech enthusiasts and venture capitalists from around the globe.

With its extensive network of regional competitions, this event provides a platform for startups to shine and potentially secure substantial funding.

Reset Connect London is honoured to be hosting the regional pitch competition for the Startup World Cup, providing an opportunity for international companies participating in the Pitch & Invest Programme to showcase their talents.

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All about the programme and how to enter

Session breakdown

Each pitch session will last 50 minutes in total. There will be up to four presenters in each category, pitching to a panel of three judges. 

You are allocated four minutes to pitch, allowing time to answer any questions from the judges. After all presentations have been made, the judges will decide on a winner who will then be brought back on stage to make a short speech.

The winner of each category will go on to the Pitch & Invest Winner's Grand Finale, hosted on the Main Stage at the end of day two, 14:25 on the 26th. The winner of the Grand Finale will then go on to be the UK delegation at the Startup World Cup competition in San Francisco with a prize of $1 million.

What to include

There’s no hard and fast rule of what investors are looking for. These are some things you may want to include in your deck, ideally one each slide:

  • Intro

  • Problem

  • Solution

  • Opportunity Size

  • Product

  • Traction

  • Team

  • Competition

  • Financials

  • Use of funds

In the case of a pitch to investors, the narrative for a seed stage company will break down into these three acts:

1. The world is a certain way. What problem are you solving?

How did you get exposure to it / why are you an expert? Why is it an important problem to solve (impact scale)?

2. Something changed. What is your solution? Why now?

3. New World vs Old World. How does the company (therefore investors!) benefit from bringing this solution to market?

 

Please remember you need to be able to present this information in under four minutes!

Pitch & Invest Stage

The NEW Pitch and Invest Stage offers start-ups and scale-ups the opportunity to pitch market ready solutions to a panel of experts from the investment community across the full spectrum of capital. Together with an audience of pre-qualified funding partners, investors, corporate ventures, and fellow innovators.

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