Date/Time/Place
Thursday September 13th, Sterling Management Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland. 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Content
Each year YCF’s annual conference takes a broad theme that gives a variety of speakers the opportunity to set out their own knowledge or experience in different ways. We have talks by industry professionals –investors, analysts, business advisers – interspersed with presentations by entrepreneurs from early stage high growth companies.
This year’s theme will encourage delegates to stop and consider what has changed recently in the early stage investment environment, and how this affects young companies and the way in which they access suitable forms of finance. We will open with a general session, in which new trends such as crowdfunding, new initiatives such as the Start-up EIS tax relief, and the general tightening of funds available from traditional sources such as banks, business angels, and VCs, are discussed. This will be followed by three sessions each focusing on a different market sector – life sciences, ICT, and energy – with contributions from cashed-out entrepreneurs turned investors, sector investment experts, and from some recently started entrepreneurs with promising new ventures.
Speakers
Confirmed speakers so far:
Tim Lafferty, Managing Director, Global Corporate Venturing
Carlos Silva, President and COO of Seedrs, an equity based crowdfunding website, the first in the UK to win FSA approval.
Shane Corstorphine, previously Director of Performance for Barclays Corporate, joined Europe’s leading travel search site Skyscanner as Chief Financial Officer earlier this year.
Hugh Griffith, founder of Bioenvision, sold for $345m, and now CEO of angel group Alida Capital International and CEO of NuCana BioMed, a young oncology focused biopharmaceutical company.
Andrin Bachmann, founder of Swedish telecom company Glocalnet which floated and was then acquired by Telenor, then set up a European office for US VC M/C Venture Partners before starting his own specialist VC in London, Piton Capital, which focuses on companies which have “a product or service that gets better the more people use it”.
Stuart Deed, MD of entrepreneurial development company Launch-Point, focused on the clean/green/energy and environmental sectors, and formerly chief executive of SSE Venture Capital.
More Information/Registration
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