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Attention! We're hosting a Startup Investor Pitch Competition @ the UK Food & Drink Expo on 29th April 2024

Interested in pitching at the event?  Register your interest below!

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Pitch Lounge organizes regular “Startup Investor Pitch Lounge” events, providing fundraising startups the opportunity to present to local and international investors and be showcased online to our community members and promoted to our investment and buyer event partners.

Fundraising startups will present to a jury of investors & industry experts live during a 
3-minute lightning pitches at the "UK Food & Drink Expo” on 29th April 2024 at the "Grocer's Stage".

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Pitch event applicants can also request a pre-event pitch deck review and post-event investment fund list as well as introductions to our advisor panelist, investment, and buyer community members.


Apply to pitch and make an impression on the investment and buyer community at the UK Food & Drink - Startup Investor Pitch Competition!

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Thanks for submitting! Remember to check your email to find out if you have been shortlisted to pitch.

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for exposure, feedback, and connection to funding to help you scale and grow

for inspiration, learning, and networking opportunities within our community

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WHY SHOULD YOU PITCH WITH US?

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WIDESPREAD EXPOSURE

You will pitch at the UK's leading food and drink expo live to a jury of investors and startup advisors, this is a hybrid event, we will be recording the event and will be sharing across our network. With everything in one place from food, drink, packaging, technology and the latest equipment, the UK Food & Drink Expo is an invaluable event to help move your establishment forward and inspire your customers.

✅ ​Connect directly with tens of thousands of major buyers and wholesalers from across the world under one roof, over three days.

✅ 89% of visitors specify, influence or make the final decision to spend making this the right platform for exposure.

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✅ 50k investors on Pitch Lounge startup-investor database, 1000+ on LinkedIn, and 100,000+ impressions per month.

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CONNECTION TO F&B STARTUP INVESTOR ECOSYSTEM

In addition to the investor panelists at the event, we will also connect you with the wider ecosystem who actively support startups.  A month long promotion across our social networks will put you across multiple stakeholders from across the globe, this will help you increase your chances of strengthening your goals and help scale you faster.

✅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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PITCH WITH US
IN BIRMINGHAM

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