Friday night was a chance for some of London’s finest, working in e-commerce (startups & established businesses), to wind down with others in the industry over food and drinks. TableCrowd partnered with Eyedea to host an e-commerce dinner for our respective members. Eyedea is a London-based society for young professional women that hosts speaker and charity events aiming to inspire and connect young female professionals – although this dinner was open to gents as well as ladies.

We were joined by diners from SilkFred, Exantediet.com, My Car Gossip, Net A Porter, Entrepreneur First, Orwell & Austen, At Street Hub, Busbud, Chanel, Graze, MMC, TheHutGroup as well as buyers, consultants, bloggers & fashion designers. The dinner was supported by event sponsor, international law firm Taylor Wessing and artwork sponsors, nerv.

The dinner took place at Central Working in Google Campus and started with welcome drinks (thanks Taylor Wessing!) and a chance to mingle with the other guests. We then dined on tasty mexican food, fajitas – burritos with all the usual accompaniments. After plenty of time to eat, drink and be merry, we took the time for round-the-table introductions from all diners, before launching straight into Q&A with our special guest, Emma Watkinson, founder and CEO of fashion e-commerce platform, SilkFred. SilkFred provides online and offline routes to market for emerging fashion brands. Emma managed to keep her focus and talk inspirationally about her project, despite just hitting her fundraising target on Crowdcube literally minutes before! Emma spoke passionately about creating SilkFred, the ups and downs and about how to sell successfully online.

Some snaps from the dinner! Thanks to everyone that was part of the evening and hope to see you at another dinner soon.

The next startups “meet & eat” is for sharing economy / peer to peer startups and takes place on 23rd October. For an invite, you can reach us at hello@tablecrowd.com or @tablecrowd.