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April
05
Wednesday
6:45pm
Profile_cafe

Dine with early stage investor at JamJar Investments: investing in consumer brands

at Le Café du Marché, Clerkenwell (map)

Who's coming

  • Patrick
  • Swen

    CEO / NED / Author, FTV Ltd.

  • Sophia

    Marketing & Innovation Director, BP plc

  • Kate

    Founder, Mile5

  • Ganesh

    CEO, RightClinic

  • Alex

    Co-founder, Centaur Ventures

  • Vince

    Founder, zeVie Cars

  • Gil

    Pioneering Fastest growing Retiremet Lifestyle Market- Active 50+ Retirement Holiday Living Community Resorts, summers Villages

  • Elliott

    Founder, HOOF

  • Sam

    analyst, seb

  • Rob

    CEO & Founder , Forward Food.Tech Ltd

  • Joanna

    CEO, Makelight

  • Giorgia

    Talent, Community & Culture Leader , InMotion

  • Alan

    --, Mazars

  • Georgiana

    Managing Partner, (Various)

  • Sajni

    Hostess Extraordinaire, TableCrowd

  • Hannah

    Tech Investor, Denizens

  • Charlotte

    Co-founder

  • Ben

    Chief Erotic Officer, Zaboo

  • Henry Palmer

    Co-founder, Elephant Gin | Outset

  • Kirsty

    Early Stage Investor, JamJar Investments

  • Cristina

    Tech Investor , Denizens

  • Antimo

    CEO, AREEA LIMITED

  • Ryan

    Videographer, Williams Lea

  • Sheena

    Director, , Storycake

  • Daphnée

    Founder , The Unibox

  • Mark

    Entrepeneur, DoorstepAgents.com

  • Elsa

    Founder, Innate food limited

  • Alf

    Professor

Venue

Le Café du Marché

22 Charterhouse Square, Clerkenwell, London EC1M 6DX
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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.

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 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.

#MeetandEat

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
Soup du jour (vegetarian)
Or
Salade Lyonnaise - frisée (salad), lardons, croutons and a poached egg.

Mains
Chicken ballotine with spinach and a creamy mushroom and tarragon sauce
Or
Spinach, feta pastilla with yoghurt and harissa
*Mains are served with frites, green salad and vegetables as sides.

Sajni, 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.

Sajni has transitioned from cocktail waitress to investment banker and is now a tech startup geek. She enjoys meeting new people, learning and sharing ideas to make the world a better place. By day she works for Accomable, an online platform to help disabled people find accessible accommodation worldwide and in the evening she loves to host, bringing TableCrowd diners together.

For any advance questions about this dinner, it is best to reach us at hello@tablecrowd.com.

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