3 courses, 4 investors, 5 pitches. 

Our finalists joined us for dinner at Piccolino’s in the City prepared to pitch their businesses to our panel. They had attended either the Application Dinner or Application Lunch previously to qualify for the final.

The panel comprised Karri Vuori of Charles Stanley, William Orde of Oxford Capital, Thomas Colmer of Osbourne Clarke and Ben Kirby of Greenhill Capital Partners. They were tasked with scoring the businesses to decide the best investment opportunity.

The format of the evening was a 5 minute presentation with the aid of slides followed by 15 minutes of tough but fair Q&A from the judges.

Introducing the startups…

Emma Watkinson – SilkFred – The online destination for emerging fashion designers. Provide tools and resources for emerging designers to grow their business online. www.silkfred.com

Damien Allison – SiteMorph – A tech start up that helps web sites grow using marketing, engagement and conversion optimisation ideas. www.sitemorph.net/

Jon Prove – Ginicam – A new interactive broadcasting technology that is not flash based and uses very little bandwidth. People can buy and sell services and digital media in real-time globally. www.ginicam.com/

Kevin Quincey – City Beach London – Developing the UK’s largest all weather beach. www.citybeachlondon.com/

Julian Fisher – Look Up Bubbles  – A marketplace to find products and soon, services. It takes the frustration out of online shopping and allows you to search without searching. http://lookupbubbles.com/

And the prize? Well, together with the prestige of being the first ‘TableCrowd Meet Investors Over Dinner’ winner, the winner also receives a meeting with Oxford Capital. This month’s winner was Jon Prove of Ginicam – big congrats from the TableCrowd team!

The reason for TableCrowd hosting this series of dinners was to provide an informal and fun format for startups to meet investors, to practice their pitches, to face questioning and to receive good feedback and suggestions. We intend to repeat the series of dinners, so if you have a startup and could be interested, be sure to join the Startup Engine Crowd to receive notifications.