Great Tech Idea. Now What? Inside a Deep-Tech Pitch Night

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This episode explores the journey of deep-tech founders from breakthrough ideas to startup reality, highlighting challenges in securing funding, especially for female founders.

From breakthrough tech to startup reality Great ideas are only the beginning. This episode explores what happens next - how deeptech founders try to turn scientific breakthroughs into real companies. We attended a pitch night at London Business School where startups were presenting their ideas to investors. Among them were Nanoloom, developing sustainable graphene-based fibres for textiles, and Auralytica, building chemical sensors that can detect food spoilage. But raising money isn’t easy. Research shows female founders still receive only around 2% of venture capital funding - despite strong evidence that women led businesses often perform as well as or better than male-led ones.So how do you get investors to believe in your idea? The programme is presented by Ania Lichtarowicz. SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://somewhere-on-earth-the-global-tech-podcast-the-podextra-edition.pod.fan/ Production manager: Liz TuohyEditor: Ania Lichtarowicz Somewhere on Earth Productions UK Ltd. We’re a UK based production company creating podcasts and branded content that bring stories, places and people into focus. We’re all ex-BBC so the quality of the content is excellent and quality of the sound is…

People in this episode

Host: Ania Lichtarowicz

Topics covered

• deep-tech
• startup funding
• venture capital
• female founders
• pitch night

Keywords

• deep-tech
• startup
• venture capital
• female founders
• pitch night
• investors
• scientific breakthroughs

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Organizations: London Business School, Nanoloom, Auralytica, Somewhere on Earth Productions UK Ltd.

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