From Innovation to Investment

This session will provide the personal observations of two entrepreneurs who have used Innovate UK grant funding along with equity to growth their businesses. An experienced panel including a local VC and a technology crowdfunder will be on hand to contribute to the discussion.

Discover more about the challenges associated with commercialising an innovation and seeking finance and how to become investment ready.

Speakers and Panellists will include:

• Sam Cockerill, CEO, Libertine FPE
• Elaine Warburton, Group CEO, QuantuMDx Group
• Bruce Colley, Access to Finance, Innovate UK
• Ian Tracey, Head of Access to Funding & Finance at The Knowledge Transfer Network, Knowledge Transfer Network
• Julian Viggars, Finance Yorkshire Seedcorn fund manager and also Enterprise Ventures Head of Technology Investment
• Alex Raubitschek, Angel Investor
• Gonçalo de Vasconcelos , CEO of Syndicate Room

Talk Given By:

• Sam Cockerill

  Sam Cockerill is the founder of Libertine FPE which is developing and commercialising free piston and linear generator technology. Prior to founding Libertine Sam was an independent management & technical consultant to the renewable energy industry & public sector. Sam is a non-executive director of Providence Holdings, a £50m turnover agricultural producer and processor. Sam…

• Elaine Warburton OBE

  Elaine is an entrepreneur with over 25 years’ healthcare and biotechnology experience. With an eclectic background in nursing, genetics, accounting and running hospitals, she currently heads up pioneering British biotech QuantuMDx Group. QuantuMDx is developing a low cost handheld molecular lab with inbuilt DNA sequencing to address humanitarian health challenges and detect & track emerging…

• Goncalo de Vasconcelos

  Goncalo is co-founder and CEO of SyndicateRoom. SyndicateRoom gives its members access to the same investment opportunities that experienced business angels are investing in. Goncalo is a serial entrepreneur with a strong background in business angel investment and equity crowdfunding and he is one of the best-networked people in the business angel industry. His passion…