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Start-Up Founders
Looking for Funding
Whether you are at the idea stage, pre-seed, seed, early stage or maybe even at Series A, this is for you.
May 2027Telford, UK
Founders,Why Missing This Summit Could Cost You Your Raise
Get In Front of Investors Before They Forget You Exist
Cold emails are a dead end. Stop relying on them. Angels and early-stage investors are far more open to a five-minute conversation in person than to a cold email. Every summit you skip is a room full of conversations happening without you.
Know the market before you're caught off guard. Valuation expectations shift fast. Founders who show up know exactly what multiples, retention numbers, and milestones investors are demanding right now — the ones who don't find out the hard way.
Position Yourself Before Someone Else Takes Your Spot
Visibility compounds — or it doesn't happen at all. Founders who keep showing up at funding events become the names investors already know and trust by the time they pitch. Founders who don't stay invisible.
SEIS and EIS structuring isn't something you figure out alone. The advisors who can help you get this right are in the room — talk to them there, not three months into a stalled raise.
Test Your Pitch Before It's the Only Shot You Get
Your first real pitch shouldn't be your only one. Pitch practice sessions let you find the holes in your narrative while the stakes are low, not in front of an investor who matters.
Facts you can only get in the room and will never get from a webinar.
What you walk away with
Not notes. Not inspiration. Deliverables.
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A pitch deck that survives contact with investors
You arrive with your story. You leave with a structured, investor-tested deck — built in the room, critiqued live by experienced investors and founders.
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A funding map for your specific stage
Grant, equity, debt, or non-dilutive? You'll leave knowing exactly which doors are open to you right now, which open in six months, and which were never yours to knock on.
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Straight answers on the legal questions keeping you up
Founder agreements, IP ownership, university spin-out terms, data protection, contract clauses that will bite you later. Asked directly. Answered plainly.
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A regulatory reality check
Where your product actually sits, what evidence you'll need, and how long it genuinely takes. Better to know today than after your seed round.
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Meet investors, buyers and advisors
Face to face, in a room built for it. No cold emails. No LinkedIn silence.
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Time to network
Your time to meet and speak to the people who can help you get to where you want to go. Angel investors, lawyers, accountants, bankers, other founders, recruiters, other advisors.
Tip; remember, networking is about people and people know other people.
Founders, Speakers & Investors.The people in the room.
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Whatever you build, funding works the same way.
A two-day intensive Summit for founders who are done reading about funding and want to actually raise it.
What funders are looking for, investor-ready pitch deck, legal and regulatory answers.
Real advice and real money in the room.
Saving you time and preventing expensive mistakes.
Get funded!
02 · SponsorsBecome a sponsorPut your brand in the room with 500 vetted founders building, raising and scaling what's next. Four packages, tailored to your goals Showcase Booth, panels and masterclasses Your brand seen across Two Full DaysExplore sponsorship03 · SpeakersSpeakers' CornerInvestors, founders who've raised and expert advisors sharing what really works. Founder stories, told straight What investors look for Masterclasses and live Q&AMeet the speakers
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Built with the best in the ecosystem
We work with organisations that don't just put their name on the summit. They bring the expertise, tools and support our founders need to build, raise and scale.
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May 2027 — Two Days — Telford
Shropshire built
the thing everybody
said couldn’t be built.
1779247 years standing
In 1779, Abraham Darby III spanned the river Severn with cast iron because nobody had a better idea and stone wouldn’t reach. It was over budget, structurally unproven, and it is still standing 247 years later.
That is the founding condition of most good companies: an unproven method, an impatient balance sheet, and a gorge to get across. It has always been possible to build something remarkable — the evidence is a mile up the road, and it has held for almost two and a half centuries.
What’s harder is finding someone to fund it. The talent has never been the problem. The distance to the right people is. The Founders Funding Summit closes it: founders, investors and advisors, in the room, at the Gorge.
Date
May 2027
Venue
Telford, UK
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Full accessibility information will be published as soon as the venue is confirmed.
Getting here
45 min Birmingham
2h10 Euston / 1h45 MAN
Located in the West Midlands with strong road and rail links from Birmingham, Manchester and London. Approximate journey times.