investment

StepUp pre-accelerator programme – apply now to secure your place!

StepUp is our new two-day, accelerator programme for start-ups looking to scale. Over the course of the two days, participants will hear from a host of expert speakers and entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled their start-ups in the last few years.

// more

Date: 21 March 2018
Location: Virgin Startup HQ, UK

Virgin StartUp StepUp - for Female Founders only!

Launched earlier this year, StepUp has become so popular that we now receive 14 applications for every place available on the programme.

// more

Date: 22 November 2017
Location: Virgin StartUp, UK

Virgin StartUp – StepUp accelerator programme – apply now to secure your place!

StepUp is our new two-day, accelerator programme for start-ups looking to scale. Over the course of the two days, participants will hear from a host of expert speakers and entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled their start-ups in the last few years

// more

Date: 27 September 2017
Location: Virgin StartUp, UK

Free EdTech Investor Evening

Children’s app Azoomee is holding an investor evening in conjunction with its crowdfunding campaign (it is currently overfunding on Crowdcube). Learn more about the EdTech sector and the opportunity Azoomee is exploiting. The evening includes a talk from EdTech research company Optim Insights. There will be free drinks and snacks.

// more

Date: 4 October 2016
Location: Crowdcube Offices, UK

Success in the US: Getting Investment, Building Business

Join us for an evening exploring the world’s biggest tech market, the USA. Discover the market opportunities, how to build your business and hear how to target US VCs to secure investment. Oh, it's free!

// more

Date: 18 July 2016
Location: Club Workspace London Bridge, UK

The Europas Awards and Conference

The Europas, the European Tech Startup Conference & Awards will be held on June 14, 2016, in London. On one single day you will see great speakers from the US and Europe, deep-dive into niche discussion groups relevant to your business, network with Europe's key founders and investors, and enjoy a stunning awards dinner and party.

// more

Date: 14 June 2016
Location: Old Billingsgate, UK

Planning Your Startup's Global Expansion? Register Interest for Digital Mission NYC, China or Pitch NYC

Digital Mission

It’s almost the holiday season! Christmas is coming and we’re hard at work creating some new and exciting Digital Missions and events for 2016.

We like to keep it simple, so we’ve put it all into one easy calendar (sorry, it doesn’t contain any chocolate :-()

We’d really like to know if you’d like to join a Digital Mission, Pitch NYC or have any suggestions / other destinations you’re considering for international expansion.

// more

PitchUp - Improve your chances of investment

PitchUp puts startups in front of mentors, investors and other entrepreneurs to increase their chances of investment or winning a new business deal. The secret sauce is feedback sessions that help the startup understand what investors and new customers are looking for from them.

// more

Date: 24 November 2015
Location: The Trampery, UK

Event Alert: Success in the US

Success in the US - Free Event - 10 Sep

Chinwag's new project, Pitch NYC kicks off next Thu evening (10 Sep) in London with a free evening event, Success in the US. The event features speakers from across the US as we explore how to raise investment and develop a commercial strategy on the other side of the pond.

The event marks the start of Pitch NYC, a new initiative supporting the UK's top tech startups in raising investment from US investors. The programme features an intensive Investor Readiness Bootcamp in the UK, followed by further training and Pitch NYC itself on 11 Nov in New York City.

// more

Success in the US

Success in the US is an event for UK tech startups looking to grow in the US, located at WeWork in Spitalfields on Thursday 10th September. It's hosted by UKTI, Fried Frank, and Pitch NYC, and will include an expert panel of speakers of UK entrepreneurs and teams from UKTI USA.

// more

Date: 10 September 2015
Location: WeWork, UK

Office Hours with RM2 Share Plan Specialists

Our Office Hours sessions offer you half an hour with experts and mentors in a variety of specialised areas. They are free to both members and non-members and are an excellent resource of information for all you bootstrapping startups.

// more

Date: 29 May 2014
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

Pocket Gamer Connects - East meets West

Brand new for 2014 comes Pocket Gamer Connects, a global mobile games conference from Steel Media, the publisher behind Pocket Gamer and PocketGamer.biz.

// more

Date: 20 January 2014
Location: Vinopolis, UK

SME Growth Hack - Build - Brick by Brick.

Build. Brick.

Chinwag have partnered with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) for Global Entrepreneurship Week, a cornerstone of which is a free event entitled SME Growth Hack: Build. Promote. Sell. Inspire.

It takes place on 21 November in Shoreditch, London.

If you are an entrepreneur or SME with a fast-growing UK business with export potential, book your free ticket.

// more

Big Game Hunting

PLAYA!

IC Tomorrow, a Technology Strategy Board programme designed to bring digital entrepreneurs and investors together, are busy making connections. Not for themselves, mind you, but rather for the game developers and VFX specialists whose ideas are ready to take the big step-up.

// more

Raising Start-Up Capital

Piggy Bank

The path to securing investment for your start-up can be steep, twisted and challenging, Darren Hamer decided to interview a veteran in this field, Mathias Plank , the founder of Sticky, the world’s first webcam based eye tracking platform (formerly known as Eyetrackshop).

Mathias was interviewed by Darren Hamer, (Managing Director UK, Sticky) where he outlines the path to securing investment for your start-up.

// more