"A dinner for London’s Startup Women to break bread, network, share contacts & experiences" Last night was the third in a series of industry dinners, following on from TableCrowd's Food Startups “Meet & Eat” last month and TableCrowd & SilkFred's Fashion Startups Meet & Eat. Some of London's most exciting women led startups gathered at Central Working in Google Campus for dinner and networking. If you're familiar with Central Working, you'll know that by ...
Read MoreChico Bandito on Luke Street is fast becoming the weekly home of The Startup Engine. Why? I’m a fan of the large square table that allows one conversation even when there are 10 diners, the jugs of cocktails and the tasty-not-too-expensive food. And, tonight our waitress treated us to tequila shots on the house, which received varying receptions from diners considering it was a Tuesday night, but a lovely touch ...
Read MoreWith under a week to go, we wanted to give you a sneak preview of the startups that will be dining at TableCrowd’s Startup Women “Meet & Eat” on 14th August at Central Working, Google Campus. They'll enjoy a delicious Spanish themed menu. TableCrowd – a real life social network to meet people over food. Dattch - The social app for lesbians. The Fetch London - Helps professionals share and discover what's happening in London. SwiftKey - for Android replaces ...
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce Start-up Direct as a new online event sponsor for TableCrowd’s Meet & Eat series for startups. The next dinner in the series is Startup Women on 14th August. Start-up Direct are already closely aligned with The Startup Engine and Startup Women on TableCrowd as they provide a valuable service for entrepreneurs seeking financial support for their businesses or idea as well as mentoring from experienced and ...
Read MoreWe’ve had a busy month with social dining at TableCrowd for our startup community. The Crowd is growing week on week and its members are enjoying more and more dinners in and around Tech City. The Startup Engine now has over 600 members. Recently our members dined at Red Dog Saloon with Benjamin Southworth, now ex-deputy CEO at The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO). TCIO was established by UKTI to support ...
Read MoreFollowing the meeting and eating at TableCrowd’s Food Startups Meet & Eat and TableCrowd & SilkFred’s Fashion Startups Meet & Eat, we are pleased to announce a date for Startup Women ‘Meet & Eat’. The third dinner in this series will take place on 14th August 2013 at Central Working, Google Campus. The first 2 dinners in the series were a great success; you can read the write ups, here and ...
Read MoreAfter the success of TableCrowd’s Food Startups Meet & Eat, we are pleased to announce the second in a series of industry dinners at Central Working, Google Campus on 17th July 2013. Fashion Startups ‘Meet & Eat is an invite only event, where all the attending startups are inviting a tech or fashion journalist or blogger to join as their guest. The dinner will be a great networking opportunity for London’s hottest ...
Read MoreWe headed to London favourite BKB in Soho for this week’s Startup Engine meal and my personal fill of social dining. Probably the warmest evening of the year so far, so the Soho streets were packed and people were fighting over the window-side and on-street seats. There were 10 diners, so a busy and lively TableCrowd dinner. The fish finger sandwiches looked delicious but in an attempt to keep it healthy, ...
Read MoreIt’s always a pleasure to try out a new restaurant local to our Old Street office for a TableCrowd dinner and last night our Startup Engine crowd descended on newish-to-the-scene Rotary Bar & Diner, right by Old Street tube. The menu was simple, burgers, steak and fish – all very tasty, as, it was reported, were the virgin cocktails. We had 11 diners from the Startup Engine Crowd, all ready to ...
Read More3 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 ...
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