I'M INTERESTED IN SPONSORING THE STARTUP INVESTOR PITCH COMPETITION @ THE UK FOOD & DRINK EXPO 2024, SIGN ME UP!
The “UK Food & Drinks - Startup Investor Pitch Competition" is co-produced by Pitch Lounge, Marketing Strategiser, & the UK Food & Drink Expo.
The Expo is taking place between 29th April to 1st May 2024 at the NEC, Birmingham at the Grocers Live Stage.
Sponsor our event to receive significant online exposure, in-person panelist & speaker slots, and introduction to exciting F&B startup business and investment opportunities. Gold and Silver sponsors secure a 10-min speaker slot, and Bronze sponsors still receive the digital and in-event promotional package. See below for details.
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Fundraising startups will present live to local and international investors and be showcased online to community members of all the event partners, including your company. We can also connect sponsors with the applying and shortlisted startups, and involve you in the shortlisting process if you so wish. We are receiving high interest from quality startups and aim to shortlist the best eight.
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If you also wish to secure exposure as a pitch event panelist and have the opportunity to ask the startups questions live during the pitch event in a short Q&A round immediately following each pitch, then apply to be a panelist (or simply express interest on the adjacent form to the right).
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Apply now to sponsor the “Startup Investor Pitch Competition - The UK Food & Drink Expo”, and secure online exposure, in-person platform and connection to F&B startups, and further opportunities.
PARTNERED & SUPPORTED BY
SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES & BENEFITS
✅ Prioritised access to an investor panel slot (investment company only).
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✅ 10-minute pitch event speaker slot / longer promo video (separately 500€).
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✅ Entitled to 30-60 sec promo video pitch event slot (valued at 100-200€).
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✅ Brand logo on the cover of all event materials and brand profile page.
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✅ Dedicated sponsored page on pitch event website as well as a dedicated slide incl. on the in-event as well as recorded video shared presentation slides.
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✅ 2-month promotion package (spanning the pre-, during, and post-event period) celebrating your sponsorship of the pitch event (includes tagging you into all LinkedIn and other social media posts and focused posts dedicated to celebrating your pitch sponsorship as well as thanking your company in all inbound/outbound pitch event emails).
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✅ One-page ad in the pitch event brochure and pitch event programme docs - also used and shared on social media.
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✅ Video interview & podcast creation for publicity (optional).
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✅ (Optional) Extra - sharing a UK Food & Drink Expo exhibition stand in 2024 or 2025 (email info@pitchlounge.net for details)
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✅ (Optional) Extra - additional sponsorship options (email info@pitchlounge.net for further opportunities or with your requests
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WHY SHOULD YOU SPONSOR US?
WIDESPREAD EXPOSURE
You will sponsor the live event as well as it being recorded, and shared to our partner communities. Plus, you will benefit from a 2-month sponsor promotion package in relation to this well-attended and connected event and community:
✅ "The UK Food & Drinks - Startup Investor Pitch Event" is taking place on the "Grocers Stage", one of the stages at an Expo seeing 8-10k footfall over three days.
✅ 1000s of food professionals on the email list for “UK Food & Drink Expo" and across their social media pages
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✅ 50k on the Pitch Lounge startup-investor database and mailing list, approx. 1500 on LinkedIn, 650+ on Facebook, and 100,000+ impressions per month
CONNECTION TO FUNDRAISING F&B STARTUPS
In addition to the 6 pitching startups, we will also connect you with all the startups who apply for the pitch event and promote you to the 250+ businesses in the Expo exhibition area. And also celebrate your sponsorship with our 150+ pitching alumni from our previous F&B startup-investor pitch events.
✅ Post-event, in-person informal networking with startups and others from the F&B industry
✅ Post-event registration and attendee list and introductions to our deal flow of fundraising F&B startups.
✅ Access to our wider F&B Pitch Event community of 1000+ F&B founders and partners
FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES
We produce F&B online and hybrid events on a monthly basis - pitch, panel, and networking formats. There are future opportunities for your company to be actively involved in our events and secure continued access to our community as well as closer bespoke arrangements we can discuss.
✅ Prioritised access to our pitch panels (event series dependent)
✅ Discounted sponsorship/ partner opportunities for subsequent Pitch Lounge and partner events
✅ Bespoke marketing, event production and other services (available on request)
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