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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday for our fourth Founders Camp Summit. The 100 founders in the room joined 🎤 🌲Miguel McKelvey, Stella Smith, Nitesh (Tesh) Srivastava, Beth Carter, Rosie Hoggmascall, Jeremy Ambrose, Olamide Ogunrinola, Maeve Crowley, Sam Marchant, Siddhi Mittal, Daniel Lancioni, and Michael Ginzo for a day of insights and connection 👏 Here are just some of the incredible photos of our speakers that 🎥 Gabriel Isserlis captured during the day 📸 Founders Camp wouldn't be possible without the support of our partners. Many thanks Blue Array | SEO Agency of the Year, Deel, Daedalus, Zendesk for Startups and Techspace, Simon Schnieders, Liam Quinn, Leo Crowe, Jennifer Johnson, PMP®, Philip Ellis 🧡

Wow! What a 2024 we've had 💛 ⛺ 2 Founders Camp summits with 200+ attendees & incredible speakers. 🚀 2 Expand programmes for 90+ seed stage startups. 💻 1 Land programme for 60 first time founders. ☀️ 1 Hotbed Summer series of 10+ events for 300+ fundraising startups. 💰 2 Speed Dating events where 20 investors met 20 founders for 1:1 meeting. 🎙️ 3 Demo Days, featuring 15+ rapidly scaling startups. 🙌 2 new advisors Engin & Chris, who've added so much value already. 🎤 1 London Tech Week event with OVHcloud, Diversity-X & Plexal. 🫶 2 Pitch Relay events, a new format for pitch feedback with Rare Founders. 🎄 1 epic Startup Christmas Party with Rare Founders & SeedLegals. 🤝 7 mentor / judge / speaker gigs for M & Perdie for Take Off Startup Summit, Amsterdam Dance Event, Techstars, DOMiNO Ventures, both Rare Founders Demo Days and SeedLegals startup awards. All with a team of two, and whilst building a product in the background. I think we can safely say we can do a lot with a little... Huge thank you to our 2024 Hotbed partners who made all this possible. Zendesk for Startups, OVHcloud, Daedalus, Novabook, Deel, Blue Array, Carta, Impressit, Techspace and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Even bigger thank you to all the incredible speakers, mentors and experts who've joined us across programmes and events. Too many to name, but we certainly couldn't do what we do without all the time and value they provide. Bring on 2025, it's going to be a *very* exciting year for Hotbed 🧡

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Great times and great people at the Hotbed, SeedLegals & Rare Founders Startups Christmas Party. Thank you to Perdie Alder and M Coyle from the awesome incubator Hotbed and Vasily Alekseenko and Fraya Brinkman and all the crew for organising such a fun evening. What an inspiring group of founders and investors!

🎄✨ The Largest Ever Startup Christmas Party in London 🎉 Our Startup Christmas Party with Hotbed & SeedLegals was nothing short of magical, and we’re so grateful to everyone who joined us! With over 350 incredible guests, 200+ thoughtful Secret Santa gifts and raffle prizes exchanged, unforgettable photo booth selfies taken, and loads of ducks being redeemed as free drinks, the evening was filled with joy, laughter, and plenty of surprises - including real Santa making an appearance! Massive thanks to our amazing sponsors for making this event possible and to our generous Secret Santa and raffle prizes partners for the delightful gifts. The room was alive with endless networking, cheers, and dancing that carried us into the early hours of the morning. To everyone who came: you made this night extraordinary. Here’s to many more celebrations ahead! 🥂 📸 Snapshot Selfiebooth link with pictures are available for download in the comments! Plus don't forget to download the Reelhop app to see the other photos throughout the night, the pin for the album is within your emails! Blue Marlin Ibiza, The Founder Sales Club, Daniel Wardle, MIXO, Djaayz by Cathy GUETTA, Scribe, Chris Howard (PhD), Sunrise Technology Services, Mums Building Companies, Dads Building Companies, Baked Bean Media, The Journey 😍 Organizers: Perdie Alder, M Coyle, Meera Mawkin, Vasily Alekseenko, Olga O., Juliette Salzmann, Fraya Brinkman ❤️🔥 #Christmasparty #London #StartUp #founders #investors #Party #ANightToRemember #RareFounders #Seedlegals #Hotbed

Last night we attended the Startup Christmas Party with SeedLegals alongside Rare Founders & Hotbed at the wonderful Blue Marlin Ibiza ☀️ Grateful for the opportunity to be surrounded by inspiring fellow founders, so wonderful to be in such a vibrant room filled with innovation,connection, collaboration and festive vibes all around! Great music by Djaayz by Cathy GUETTA and a huge Thank you to all the sponsors for hosting such a brilliant event for the community! Vasily Alekseenko Meera Mawkin Anthony Rose Perdie Alder M Coyle Fraya Brinkman Sunrise Technology Services Dads Building Companies Scribe Mixo Snapshot Selfiebooth Reelhop The Founder Sales Club Baked Bean Media #startupchristmasparty #ChristmasParty #FestiveBeats #RareFounders #Hotbed #Seedlegals #StartUp

And that's a wrap for SeedLegals events for 2024. Last nights Christmas Party, hosted alongside Rare Founders & Hotbed at the wonderful Blue Marlin Ibiza in Old Street marked a big 100 SeedLegals events for 2024. Wahooooo! This included webinars, panel discussions, networking events, parties & workshops. I am so grateful for each and every one of our sponsors, speakers, venue partners, attendees and community partners. Our 2025 plans are already on track to bring you a whole stack of new exciting events, collaborations with new speakers, new partners and new venues and even more events outside London. Don't want to miss any of them? Sign up to our events newsletter here https://lnkd.in/eGKFGfNR To everyone I've worked with so far - thank you 💙

🎉 Building Connections and Celebrating Innovation at the Startup Christmas Party! 🎉 As a founder at Women on the RISE AI, I was thrilled to attend the Startup Christmas Party: A Night to Let Loose hosted by the amazing teams at Rare Founders SeedLegals and Hotbed like these are so much more than just a night out—they are a celebration of the entrepreneurial journey and a unique opportunity to connect, collaborate, and share ideas that shape the future. A huge thank you to the incredible sponsors who made this event unforgettable: • Djaayz by Cathy GUETTA Changing the game for DJs with their ‘Uber for DJs’ platform. • @Building Companies: Empowering founders with children through their supportive communities. • @Sunrise Technology Services: Enabling innovation through cutting-edge tech solutions. • Scribe Transforming productivity with AI-driven process documentation tools. • Mixo Elevating the DJ experience with seamless library syncing technology. • Snapshot Selfiebooth : Adding fun and creativity to events with personalized selfie booths. • Reelhop Revolutionizing social sharing with real-time collaborative camera feeds. • @TheFounderSalesClub: Supporting founders with strategies, community, and coaching to build unstoppable sales engines. • Chris Howard (PhD): A visionary leader with extensive experience in scaling startups. At Women on the RISE AI, we believe that innovation thrives in community. Events like these foster the connections and conversations that help founders navigate challenges, celebrate wins, and dream bigger. They remind us that while entrepreneurship can be tough, we are never in it alone. Thank you to the sponsors, the organizers, and every founder who shared their journey with us. Let’s keep building together, and here’s to an even more impactful 2024 for all of us! #Startups #WomenInTech #Innovation #Networking #Community #WomenOnTheRISE

As we ramp up our Money Squirrel soft launch, I'm ramping down work events for the year. The events are amazing, relevant and where I meet the best people and friends. What you don't see (not just from me, from everyone on socials) is the tiredness, the crammed trains, the delays, cancellations, and chaos that goes on behind the shiny photos. Over the festive season, I can't wait to have no work events or calls - so I can do it all again next year! Photos from: London Venture Capital Network winter ball last week for a bit of much needed glitz & glamour Rare Founders & Hotbed startup party for a bit of even more needed fun SHIFT Open Finance Community & Rare Founders panel event (they're always so good) Now remember to go check out our newly launched squirrelling platform! Be a trailblazer. You know you want to.

About last night 🤩. Alongside SeedLegals & Rare Founders we hosted a huge Startup Christmas party with 350+ founders, investors and community members at Blue Marlin Ibiza London 🥂 More photos and thank you’s to come, but for now, huge shoutout to Vasily, Fraya, Meera and M (who couldn’t make it as she’s over in 🇹🇷 for a conference). Events like this aren’t easy to organise and there was a lot of work behind the scenes to make it happen, but it was all worth it to see it come together💛.