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October
04
Wednesday
6:45pm
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Dine with early stage investor at JamJar Investments: investing in consumer brands

at Busaba, Shoreditch (map)

Who's coming

  • Snact

    Co-Founder, Snact

  • Wesley

    Founder, The Accountancy Cloud

  • Iglika

    Founder, CEO, USPAAH

  • Guy

    UK/Europe Brand Manager, Marley Coffee

  • Julian

    Co-founder, Khunu Limited

  • Iris

    Founder, Solely Original

  • Aneka

    Hostess Extraordinaire, TableCrowd

  • Joel

    Founder, Nutrifix Ltd

  • Moira

    Founder, Craftiosity

  • Steve

    Presenter, Tech Talk Show

  • Kirsty

    Early Stage Investor, JamJar Investments

  • Chris

    Marketer & Founder

  • Jyoti

    Founder & CEO, Red Rickshaw

  • Andrew

    Founder & CEO, BoroughBox

  • Caroline

    CEO&Founder, A LITTLE FIND

  • Jonathan

    CEO / Founder, City Farm Systems Ltd

  • Phy

    Co Founder - Creating hero characters with a difference., DarcyCurl Dolls

  • Stella

    Founder and Creative Director, Sports Philosophy

  • Sharon

    Founder, Freyda

  • Warren

    Finance and FinTech Ambassador, TableCrowd

  • Radana

    Co-founder, Catalyst Activewear

  • Sarah

    Janner Jam Founder/Owner , Janner Jam

  • Amanda

    Founder, Niche Tea Company

  • Catkin

    Founder, The London Skincare Company Ltd

  • Scott

    Senior Consultant, CIL Management Consultants

  • Charlie

    Founder & CEO, Culture Cake

  • Omari

    Co Founder, Niche Tea

  • James

    Founder & CEO, Rise

  • Stirling

    Founder and MD, The Red Tree Consultancy Ltd

  • Anouska

    Co-Founder & Director, The Office Club

  • Ianstrang

    CEO, Beyond

  • Emilie

    Co-founder, Oddbox

Waiting List

Venue

Busaba

36 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London E1 6HT
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Enjoy dinner drinks and a chance to meet…
Kirsty Macdonald is an early stage investor at JamJar Investments, an Angel/VC fund set up by the Innocent Drinks founders. JamJar focus their investments on consumer brands, both tech & non tech. In the last few years alone, have built up an impressive portfolio of investments in brands such as Graze, Deliveroo, Tails, Propercorn, Toucanbox, amongst many others. They look to invest between £150K to £1m in both early-stage and high-growth businesses.

What JamJar invest in…
Consumer brands where the end user is a consumer and a relationship with them is important

JamJar’s portfolio includes…
Innocent, Graze, Deliveroo, Babylon, Tails, Propercorn, Farmdrop, Toucan Box, PopChips, What3Words, Streetbees, Dojo & Simba.

This dinner is perfect for…
Business owners and CEOs working on consumer brands.

The dinner conversation will be…
JamJar love backing great people with great ideas and Kirsty, as an early stage investor at JamJar, will be sharing all on:
✓ What JamJar look for in an investable consumer brand.
✓ What makes a great team.
✓ Why they have invested and why they haven’t.
✓ What makes a consumer brand nationally scalable.
✓ The story of Innocent Drinks - going from a market stall to being sold to Coca Cola for $500m+.
✓ The next big thing in the consumer brands industry.
Get the chance to speak informally with Kirsty about your own business, learn how JamJar have built their portfolio of investments, as well as the opportunity to chat with your business peers over dinner.

Who is Kirsty Macdonald?
Kirsty Macdonald, has been an early stage investor at JamJar Investments, an Angel/VC fund from the innocent Drinks founders since 2015. Kirsty loves to analyse. She previously worked at Unilever doing marketing and customer analytics for a host of well respected brands.

What’s included?
You get a private dining experience with a knowledgeable speaker, 2 course dinner with wine plus highly curated and relevant crowd.

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P.S. TableCrowd are offering complimentary cab rides home (£15) thanks to their partner, Gett, on first download of the app. Download the app in advance.

Kirsty Macdonald, has been an early stage investor at JamJar Investments, an Angel/VC fund from the Innocent Drinks founders since 2015.

Innocent Drinks was set up from a market stall in 1999 and 15 years later sold to Coca-Cola for north of $500m. JamJar exists to do this for the next generation of entrepreneurs where they believe in both the team and idea.

JamJar focus their investments in consumer brands and in the last few years alone have a portfolio of investments in brands such as Graze, Deliveroo, Tails, Propercorn, Toucanbox, amongst many other growing consumer brands. They look to invest in both early stage and high growth startups looking for between £150k to £1m per round.

Kirsty Loves to analyse and previously worked at Unilever doing marketing and customer analytics for a host of well respected brands.

For any dietary requirements, worry not, we have it covered, as long as we know in advance. If you are vegetarian, vegan, dairy free or gluten intolerant let us know by filling out the dietary requirements section in the your preferences section of your profile on the TableCrowd website.

2 course dinner with wine or soft drinks.

STARTERS
Chicken Satay
Por Pia Jay
Thai Fish Cakes
Edamame
Son in Law Eggs

MAINS
Classic Pad Thai
Sriracha Veggi Ho Fun Noodle
Thai Sweet and Sour Chicken with jasmine rice
Aromatic Pumpking Green Curry
Ginger Beef Stir-Fry
Green Chicken Curry with jasmine rice
Chilli Prawn Stir Fry with jasmine rice

Aneka, one of our TableCrowd hosting team will be on hand to make sure you are welcomed through the door and introduced to the most relevant people to you.

Aneka started her career as a professional dancer but due to becoming ill with meningitis she hung up her tutu and discovered her love of turning nothing into something - entering the life of a entrepreneur and since then has not looked back. Setting up a Lifestyle Management company that has thrown celebrity events that has received international press coverage to providing business development for clients in the entertainment industry Aneka is a natural host!

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