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Founder x Investor: Fundraising for Physical Startups

OCT2
09:30 · Europe / London

About this event

🚀 Are you a founder raising capital?
If you’re a founder navigating product, physical tech, fundraising and everything in between, this is the unfiltered event you cannot afford to miss.
We’re cutting through the noise to bring you a real conversation with two brilliant Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumni founders, joined by two investors:

🙌 Katherine Orrell, investor at JamJar Investments
🙌 Alex Bateman, founder managing partner of Ambition Capital
🙌 Ben Beavers, founder of SmartyPlants and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus
🙌 Romi Mathew, co-founder of Roam and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus
Agenda:
9:30am - 10.00am: Registration & Breakfast
10:00am: Doors close and no entry after
10:00am - 11.00am: Panel & Q&A
11:00am - 12.30am: Networking - your chance to connect with our panel and other ambitious founders.
Meet the panel:
👉 Katherine Orrell: Investor at JamJar Investments, an early-stage consumer VC. Katherine focuses on consumer software across Seed and Series A and previously worked at JPMorgan. JamJar’s portfolio includes Deliveroo, Runna, Wild, Healf and Tony’s Chocolonely.
👉 Alex Bateman: Founder of Ambition Capital, investing from pre-seed to Series A and providing expansion capital to high-growth businesses. Previously worked across M&A and capital raising at JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and Prefequity.
👉 Ben Beavers: Founder of SmartyPlants and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus. SmartyPlants smart sensor and app making plant care easier through real-time data. SmartyPlants has generated £140k in pre-launch sales and sold 5,500 sensors. Ben recently appeared on BBC’s Dragons’ Den.
👉 Romi Mathew: Co-founder of Roam and Grishin Robotics Accelerator alumnus. Roam is a subscription-free smart tracker that has shipped to 81 countries and generated over $1M in revenue within seven months—fully bootstrapped. Previously founded the award-winning family-wellbeing IoT company CONNIDO.

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