Autumn Investor Day #TMUguru

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This session is part of the TechMeetups Guru Program, a practical 3 month educational and mentoring course to kick-start your Startup. You can choose to attend just this session by booking here, or participate in the full course to receive additional support and mentoring for your company from our Gurus – find out more here (http://techmeetups.com/guru/).

TechMeetups is hosting Autumn Investor Day which gives the startups in our community a platform to reach investors with our support as they prepare for pitch day.

After months of mentoring, hosting business masterclasses and running the first stage of due diligence on a number of companies, we now have 8 startups we have identified as ready to present to investors. Only those startups which we feel are investment-ready will be presenting at our Investor Day and have already satisfied our criteria:

The startup is going after a valid opportunity in an attractive market.

The startup’s solution addresses the opportunity and is well executed The team is strong with good experience, skills and work history.

The startup has an attractive business model with solid financial forecasts.

The startup has set realistic milestones post-investment.

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Investors

Zero Start Ventures (http://zerostartventures.com/)

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Zero Start Ventures (ZSV) offer a breath of fresh air for the new internet & mobile application entrepreneur of today. Our objective is to offer a tantalising way to help build cracking 'tech' start ups. The smart dudes behind ZSV are also entrepreneurs keen to help nurture, incubate, mentor, open doors and most of all offer their hands-on support for that special someone whether it be one man and his dog or a team who require their seed round of finance to get them kick started.

Ariadne Capital (http://ariadnecapital.com/)

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Led by one of Europe's entrepreneurial champions, Ariadne has pioneered a new model for the financing of entrepreneurship - entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs.

Cabot Square Capital (http://www.cabotsquare.com/)

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D.C. Thomson (http://dcthomson.co.uk/)

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