Meet the Investors: Glasgow

Meet the Investors is a series of events helping UK tech SMEs navigate scale-up finance. Each event connects SMEs with investors and experts to share insights, funding tips, and networking opportunities.

Other events in the series:

• Meet the Investors: Birmingham - 18 March

• Meet the Investors: Manchester - 1 April

• Meet the Investors: Leeds - 30 September

In October 2024, techUK published its UK Tech SMEs: Driving Economic Growth and Innovation report, highlighting the importance of SMEs to the UK economy and the challenges they face in achieving their growth ambitions.

 

Meet the Investors: Glasgow will look to address one of the key challenges identified in the report – access to scale-up finance. Through keynotes addresses and a panel discussion, you will hear from a number of investors who work in and around the Glasgow area, and have the opportunity to ask them questions.

 

Event details

 

Date and Time: 17 June, 14.00 - 17.00

Cost: Free

Location: Glasgow

 

Why you should attend

• Hear about current investment trends and future opportunities

• Learn what investors are looking for when they are approached by businesses seeking investment

• Get tips on securing investment

• Connect with peers and investors during the allocated networking time

Who should attend

 

If you are a tech SME looking to raise investment to scale your business, come along and hear from investors as they discuss the finance ecosystem in Glasgow and top tips for accessing scale-up finance. 

Agenda

14:00 | Registration and networking

14:15 | Introduction

14:20 | Overview of the region’s tech ecosystem and challenges/opportunities for growth in 2025


Karen Meechan, Chief Executive Officer, ScotlandIS

14:25 | Supporting sustainable economic growth: SNIB's investment criteria and collaboration approach


Jane Reoch, Executive Director - Investments, Scottish National Investment Bank

14:30 | Scale-up story


Fraser Ferguson, Director, KubeNet

14:40 | Q&A

14:55 | Break

15:05 | Fireside chat: scaling female-founded businesses


Amy Burnett, Head of KPMG Private Enterprise Access, KPMG UK (Chair)
Ana Stewart, Chief Entrepreneur at the Scottish Government, Tech Entrepreneur and Investment Partner

15:20 | Panel discussion


Barry McCulloch, Senior Manager, British Business Bank
Ben Leslie, Investment Director, Puma Growth Partners
Patricia El Jichi, Investment Manager, Par Equity
Usman Ali, Partner - Venture Debt, Salica Investments
Sarah Abrahams, Partner, Head of Strategy, KPMG Acceleris

16:10 - 17:00 | Networking

Sponsor

The Bank was launched in November 2020 as a development investment bank, delivering mission impact investment to the Scottish economy. The Bank provides patient (long term) capital to businesses and projects throughout Scotland to support the development of a fairer, more sustainable economy.

The Bank's ambition is to not only invest its allocated public capital, but to encourage additional private capital to invest alongside it, to support the delivery of our missions: Net Zero - address the climate crisis, through growing a fair and sustainable economy, Place - transform communities, making them places where everyone thrives and Innovation - scale up innovation and technology, for a more competitive and productive economy.

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