Join us this October for a panel celebrating diverse founders and ecosystem leaders leading and supporting the London Startup Ecosystem. For the first time, we’re expanding our focus to spotlight programmes and initiatives that founders from under-represented backgrounds can leverage to thrive.

This year’s panel will feature industry leaders like Gosbert Chagula (Startup Discovery School ), Cecil Adjalo (Foundervine), Yewande Odumosu (HoaQ), and Emma Osman (Google Cloud), who are committed to empowering the next generation of founders through support programmes, direct funding, and infrastructure support.

Together, they’ll offer an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the programmes and strategies designed to support founders, share firsthand experiences from the founders they’ve supported, explore actionable insights that founders can apply to their journey, and share opportunities available for founders to scale.

We welcome everyone to this event, founders from diverse backgrounds, ecosystem builders, community leaders, angel investors, VCs, corporate partners, and everyone in between. 

This event is in collaboration with ICE, a collective of tech founders and investors focused on inspiring belonging, bonds & breakthroughs in the tech community. At this event, they will discuss the launch of their flagship programme, ICE Propel. This programme is designed to support underrepresented founders, with a particular focus on Black and mixed-race founders, in raising institutional capital. In the 2024 cohort, 50% (!) of the founders received term sheets from investors. Find out more at theice.network/ice-propel