Learn from top Investors how to prepare a perfect Pitch

Would you like to know what it takes to create an effective Pitch? Wondering how is it different pitching to Business Angels, Venture Capitalists or Sophisticated Crowd looking to invest in crowdfunding deals? Thinking what it takes to ‘buy’ funders into your idea?
Use this event as your chance to learn from top experts how to deliver a Master Pitch, practice your skills, and ask questions from selected funders!
At this workshop, we will bring to you one the top UK pitching experts, who trained over a thousand of entrepreneurs and now willing to share with you what it takes to persuade funders that your idea worth investments.
You will be also able to find out what leading funders are looking for whilst assessing your pitch.
For the first ever time, this event like no other BFS workshops offers an opportunity to pitch your business to the experts panel. Want to be considered? Since, we can select only 5 pitches; once you booked your ticket on Eventbrite – respond asap with your pitch deck.
Special guest:
Chelsey Baker, 4 times Award-winning Business Mentor and Pitching Expert

Chelsey is recognised as one of the UK’s leading business mentors, author of “The Pocket Mentor” book and founder of Broadcasting Your Business the pitch, press and publicity programme which has generated millions of pounds in sales and publicity for her clients. Having won the British Bankers’ Association’s “Excellence in Enterprise Mentoring Award” at BAFTA and the prestigious title of “Business Mentor of the Year” awarded by Start Your Business magazine she is a mentor to hundreds of businesses throughout the UK. Her sales, PR & marketing mentoring is well known to deliver outstanding results helping start-ups and SME’s raise their profiles and increase profits. Chelsey has featured extensively in the national media as a leading entrepreneur having worked in the financial markets, launched a national TV channel and floated the company on the stock market. She is an authority on the ‘perfect pitch’ and an expert in pitching for funding where she has judged over 1,000 business pitches. Working with entrepreneurs she helps them to maximise chances of getting investment, making their business attractive and fundable.
Investment Experts:
Guy Ward Thomas, Associate at DN Capital

Guy joined DN Capital in 2015 as an Associate, having gained entrepreneurial experience in a Rocket Internet venture. He began his career in strategy consulting spending 4 years at OC&C advising Private Equity Clients and large European TMT, retail and FMCG clients. Guy graduated from Cambridge with a first in Social and Political Sciences and subsequently spent a year studying Economics and Management at the Judge Business School. His sectors of focus include marketplaces, fintech and software.

DN Capital is a growth capital and early stage investor focused on software and digital media markets with offices in London and Palo Alto. DN Capital’s objective is to identify, invest in and actively support companies with the potential to be global leaders. The professionals at DN Capital bring over 50 years of private equity experience to their investments, and actively work with portfolio companies to steward their growth through the various stages of development.
Andrew Adcock, Chief Marketing Officer at Crowd For Angels

Andrew is the Chief Marketing Officer at Crowd for Angels, where he is responsible for creating Crowd for Angels marketing channels and media, the running of day to day marketing activity and communicating with investors and companies. He is committed to combine his passion for social media and business in providing high levels of client satisfaction and understanding.

Crowd For Angels is an FCA regulated crowdfunding platform for debt and equity funding for both public and private companies at all stages. They aim to bring innovative and appealing products to the crowd and support public and private UK companies through all stages from seed to pre-ipo and when listed. Crowd For Angels does this through equity funding under SEIS, EIS and debt funding through convertible loans.
Luke Smith, Investor at ForwardPartners

Luke joined Forward Partners from REV Venture Partners, a corporate VC, where he was responsible for deal origination, investment due diligence and portfolio reporting. He was previously a consultant with the strategy consultancy Oliver Wyman, where he worked across the retail, aviation, healthcare and FMCG sectors.
Luke originally planned a career in science and he holds a PhD in biochemistry. His focus at Forward Partners is on sourcing and executing new investments.

Forward Partners invests in the best ideas and brilliant people, backing idea stage and seed stage eCommerce and marketplace businesses providing them with funding, office space and the support of an expert in-house engineering, product and growth team.
Katrina Cruz, Private Investor Relations at ClearlySo

Katrina manages ClearlySo’s angel investor network and catalysing private capital into early stage impact businesses. She supports Clearly Social Angels, a members only group of ClearlySo’s most proactive and dedicated impact angel investors. Katrina advises ClearlySo’s capital raising mandates on angel investor outreach and providing such insight to entrepreneurs to aide their pitch.
She also has broad experience across deal distribution and building relations with all major funders in the impact investment market beyond angel investors.

ClearlySo is Europe’s leading impact investment bank, working exclusively with businesses and funds delivering positive social, ethical, and/or environmental impact as well as financial return. It supports capital raising activity through financial advisory work. Originally founded in 2008, ClearlySo has helped nearly 100 clients raise more than £108 million in impact investment from its extensive network of high-net-worth individual and institutional investors.
Plan your evening:
• 5.30-6.00pm Arrival
• 6.00-7.00pm Key ingredients of perfect pitch
• 7.00-7.30pm How to adjust your pitch to different types of Investors
• 7.30-8.00pm Pitching for feedback & opportunities
• 8.00-8.30pm Experts Feedback & Panel Q&A
• 8.30-9.00pm Networking (Time to exchange your business cards and get a fresh pint of beer).
Organisers:

Arina Osiannaya – the founder The Business Funding Events (The only place where you can meet top-finance providers on a regular basis) and Osmond Dsilva, Tech City Coffee Meetups (Chef of coffee with a smell of money…)
Host:

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