London’s largest demo day S1E1. 22 Apr 2024

NetworkingOpen mic pitchingDemo day

22 Apr

Written By Vasily Alekseenko

The Royal Society of Medicine

1 Wimpole Street, Westminster, London, W1G 0AE, UK

first ever in London pitching event of this scale

That day👏 was 👏 EPIC 🤯

The Rare Founders Investor Conference and Demo Day was an absolute success. 🚀 (Which we do *not* say lightly, we are usually very critical 😅)

👉But when one of the founders said they had 8 (EIGHT!!) investor conversations after their pitch 😱

👉And another founder literally got chased 🏃‍♀️down by an investor who wanted to make sure they got a chance to talk (how often do things happen that way around) - you know you did something right.

All our hard work, dedication, and creativity eventually paid off . 💪

We had:

✅Over 500 founders applied to pitch

✅ 100 top rated founders pitched at the event

✅ Over 200 investor attendees 📈

✅Over 300 founder attendees 🚀

✅In total, almost 800 attendees + 200 more on the waitlist 😱

✅4 sponsors, 4 partners

✅40 investor partners

✅25 community partners

SEE TOP 100 FINALISTS

If you're part of the startup ecosystem and weren't there - why??? 😂

In all seriousness, we could not be more thankful for the incredible community and the team we had around us. But for now, we are buzzing for one *main* reason:

The FEEDBACK 🔥

😊We seemed to have surpassed everyone's expectations.

People did NOT expect that some scrappy founders could deliver something so different, and get so many people in a room together. 💯

THANK YOU to everyone for being a part of the journey. It means more than you could imagine, not just to us but to a wider startup ecosystem in the UK.