Name: South West Founders
Start: 2023-05-24T17:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-05-24T19:30:00.000Z
Location: Framework

This month we are bringing back the mashup, combining two of our most popular events.

Silicon Gorge is the most established Investor Pitching event in the South West, bringing together the best of the South West's Tech & Creative companies looking for early stage and growth investment to pitch to a room full of interested investors.

This is the second of two competition events which will select the companies to make the Showcase - and as you will see pitches from many talented SW based Founders - we think our SW Founders meet up is be the perfect place to hold it!

Tonight we'll see 12 of the companies, who will be pitching to our panel of expert judges. (The first one will be online the day before and you can find this on our TechSPARK Meetup)

If you'd like to see some fantastic pitches from some great early stage companies covering all aspects of tech from healthtech, fintech, media & VR to sportstech - this is the place for you.

This event will be in person and is we will have beers and pizzas. Note that it's a different venue and timing to our usual SW Founders meetup as we have many pitches to watch.

For the venue we're holding it in the fabulous Future Space, at UWE Campus, and we'll be opening the doors at 4.30pm for a 5pm kick off.

Thanks as always to our Investment Activator Partners for enabling us to run these and many other investment related events throughout the year! [Future Space](https://www.futurespacebristol.co.uk/), [SETsquared Bristol](https://setsquared-bristol.co.uk/), [UKC3](https://ukc3.co.uk/), [TLT LLP](https://www.tlt.com/), [Rocketmakers](https://rocketmakers.com/), [Sanderson](https://www.sandersonplc.com/), [Engine Shed](https://engine-shed.co.uk/), [West of England Combined Authority](https://www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/), [University of the West of England](https://www.uwe.ac.uk/) & [TechSPARK uk](https://techspark.co/)

Thanks to our South West Founder Sponsors:

[Love Your Accountants](https://www.loveyouraccountants.com/)
We welcome entrepreneurs and tech investors with open arms but discourage freelancers, consultants, lawyers and other service providers unless they have a genuine interest in founding or mentoring start-up businesses.

[ISL Talent](https://www.isltalent.com/)
We partner with ambitious startups and scaleups. To us, bringing great people and great companies together is personal. We know that the strongest teams are built up from the inside out, starting with first-class people that embody your values and share your vision. So, we apply our passion and personality to go beyond search engines and algorithms. We offer a range of plans to meet your talent and recruitment needs. We’ll be your talent partner. We don’t just send CVs, we’ll be embedded as part of your team.

South West Founders

Abby Frear

Jonathan Scudder

Richard Godfrey

SW Founders - Silicon Gorge Mash Up

Future Space

**Third Thursdays are a monthly gathering to connect, think, drink and build a better city.**

New location - the wonderful Newark Works

**About this event**

Each Third Thursday follows the same format:

Arrival from 6.00 pm and a drink on us

Around 6.30 pm - we'll have some lightning talks, a panel or a discussion. Something in the world of Tech and Digital to inform and inspire..

Each month our speaker will tell you something that will change your perception and challenge your thinking.

.. and from 7.15 pm we'll have time for a drink and a debrief
9 pm - close

We aim to keep these evenings, fun, light, and a great place to get together.

See you there!

techSPARK Bath

Lucy 

Nathaniel Jackson

Georgios Grigoriou

Third Thursday Social: Drinks & Networking

Newark Works

South West Founders is one of the most popular events in the TechSPARK calendar.

Each month we are joined by a guest speaker. This month's speaker will be announced soon.

Here is the agenda:
6:00 Arrivals and networking
6.30 Talk from guest speaker
7:00 Questions
7:15 More networking drinks and pizza
8:30 Close

Please check out our sponsors:

[Love Your Accountants](https://www.loveyouraccountants.com/)
We welcome entrepreneurs and tech investors with open arms but discourage freelancers, consultants, lawyers and other service providers unless they have a genuine interest in founding or mentoring start-up businesses.

[ISL Talent](https://www.isltalent.com/)
We partner with ambitious startups and scaleups. To us, bringing great people and great companies together is personal. We know that the strongest teams are built up from the inside out, starting with first-class people that embody your values and share your vision. So, we apply our passion and personality to go beyond search engines and algorithms. We offer a range of plans to meet your talent and recruitment needs. We’ll be your talent partner. We don’t just send CVs, we’ll be embedded as part of your team.

We have a strict no selling policy at our events.

Ben Shorrock

James Routley

Framework

TechSPARK

TechSPARK(bristol)

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