Member Event: Innovate UK EDGE Guided Pitch for Investment

Innovate UK EDGE East of England team are offering a 5-session workshop ending with a pitch to an IUK edge panel with feedback

About this event About Innovate UK EDGE Innovate UK EDGE is a key part of the UK innovation agency’s investment in the innovative businesses that drive economic growth. It complements Innovate UK project funding with intensive, bespoke, specialist-led support for ambitious high growth businesses. High-growth, innovative businesses benefit from the skills and experience of a dedicated innovation and growth specialist to identify the most effective ways to accelerate its growth. Innovate UK EDGE brings a range of services to help ambitious, high growth, innovative SMEs scale and grow. We help businesses: • Exploiting Business Innovation • Sourcing Funding and Finance • Opening up new markets IUK EDGE specialists can draw on resources such as our programmes, events, innovation & international networks and their domain expert colleagues. Who is this suitable for? Companies with disruptive Innovation with Scalable High growth potential Programme Details 13.09.22 Product Launch – Go to Market Planning Charles Ward, Senior Innovation & Growth Specialist and Scaleup Director 27.09.22 Exploring Internationalisation –Global Business Opportunities and a Focus on the U.S.A Updates on Global Innovation Programmes and International opportunities by Heather Benham with shared knowledge on entering the USA market by Eric Thompson, Innovation & Growth Specialist 11.10.22 Exploration of R&D & Private Funding for R&D / Product Development Arun Muthirulan, Lead Innovation & Growth Specialist 25.10.22 Innovation Project Canvas Simon Atack, Lead Innovation & Growth Specialist 08.11.22 In Person Event: Pitches and Feedback Panel: Simon Atack / Stephanie Aldridge, Arun Muthirulan / Lorraine Smith, Chris Woodward all Innovate UK EDGE Innovation Growth specialists What to bring with to the sessions: An open mind, a willingness to listen and share. Please also bring any issues and problems you are happy to talk about. FAQs I want to book for more than one person from my company? We are looking for 15 companies As this is an invitation only event, if you would like more than one person from your business to attend, please email [email protected]. Within reason this should not be an issue, but this is a small group event. Will this be recorded? Yes this event will be recorded to enable you to revisit the event post-event for a short while through a passworded link. This will be sent out to attendees only after the event. The video will also be stored for evidence for auditing purposes as per the requirements of our funding regulations. This will not be made public to others. How can I contact the organiser with any questions? Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or queries. What will be done with the information I supply? Your information will be stored on Eventbrite according to Eventbrite’s terms and conditions. Upon arrival you will be required to sign in on our attendance sheet, this is to provide evidence of your attendance and will be kept on the server as evidence for our ERDF funding. After your attendance will be stored on the secure Growth Hub CRM system. This is required in order to provide evidence of your attendance and eligibility for the course. This will be kept to the statutory dates any only accessible to Growth Programme and authorised personnel. If you request further contact from an adviser post this event they will use this information to contact you and log any future interactions, again to evidence for ERDF funding. State Aid Declaration This event is delivered, free of charge, to SMEs (SME is defined as an Enterprise with fewer than 250 employees and has either an annual balance sheet not exceeding 43m Euro or Annual Turnover not exceeding £50m) other restrictions may apply. This support is being provided as de minimis aid under EC Regulation 1407/2013 (De Minimis Aid Regulation). The value of this support has been calculated as £62.50. Please note: This is not a request for payment; we are merely required to notify you of the value, which will be relevant if you wish to apply or have applied for any other de minimis State Aid in the future. There is a ceiling of €200,000 for all de minimis aid provided to anyone organisation over a three fiscal year period (i.e. your current fiscal year and previous two fiscal years). This event, as with all the New Anglia Growth Hub events, is suited and intended for businesses already running and established. Please refer to courses by NWES and MENTA for courses more suited for those businesses who are pre-start or have been trading for less than 12 months