📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
Meet Manchester's next generation of founders.
Venture Café Manchester and the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre are joining forces for Manchester Venture Builder Demo Day - hosted as part of a special Thursday Gathering at Sister during the University of Manchester Innovation Festival.
Selected founders will take the stage to pitch their ventures, share their progress and connect with the investors, businesses, mentors and innovators who can help them take the next step.
One Demo Day. One Thursday Gathering. A room full of people who can help ideas move forward.
In partnership with The University of Manchester and InsurTech Corridor
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Step into a space where every conversation could spark something new. Enjoy music, refreshments, and a lively atmosphere designed to bring people together, whether you’re exchanging ideas, discovering collaborators, or simply sharing a laugh. This is the perfect moment to unwind, connect, and let serendipity guide your evening.
Venture Café is a global movement built on a simple but powerful belief: isolation is the enemy of innovation.
Through our weekly Thursday Gatherings, founders, researchers, investors and innovators come together to share ideas, explore new technologies and build meaningful connections. As ecosystem activators, Venture Café Manchester is creating a central hub for the city’s innovation ecosystem, driving visibility, collaboration and community.
And if you’d like to get more involved with Venture Café, there are plenty of ways to join our network:
🤝 Become a partner
🎤 Speak at an upcoming Thursday Gathering
🙌 Join our ambassador team
💬 Connect with us on LinkedIn
📩 Sign up for our weekly newsletter
Meet our Block 1 pitchers as they take the stage to showcase what they’re building:
🍌 ChewChew (Thomas James Minnock & Suebsakul [Aaron] Tonjang): Naturally healthy solar-dried banana snacks combining sustainable agriculture innovation and great taste.
💻 ScaLearn AI (Abdul-Basit Melik): Personalised support for every student, visibility into group work, faster marking for every lecturer
🎵 Mixhaus (Agmada Allen Asa): The client review and revision workspace for music professionals.
🧴 Built For Skin (Yoana Kirilova): Skincare that doesn't irritate.
🔍 Deft AI (Uma Maheswari MS & Jayanth Reddy): Helping brands get found in AI search.
Stretch your legs, grab a drink, take a quick restroom break - then it's back to the pitches!
Meet our Block 2 pitchers as they take the stage to showcase what they’re building:
Oltricx (Ruth Ogbevire): AI-designed enzymes enabling oil mills to recover oil. 'More Oil. Less Harm. Same Land.'
🏢 Atlasly (Shatakshi Patil): is the workspace behind every Architectural project.
🖥️ AirfoilLearner (Baramee Thanawarothon): Al models that let engineering teams test hundreds of designs in the time one simulation takes.
👓 SenseVale (Advik Iyer): Smart glasses for safer, more independent navigation with sight loss.
Khap (Jacob Katz):
🐴 foldES (Lukas Weber): Real-time equine movement intelligence for injury prevention and rehabilitation.
Launched in 2022, the InsurTech Corridor (www.InsuTechCorridor.com) is a collaboration between the UK and Connecticut, which aims to assist scaling UK technology businesses connect into the US insurance ecosystem.
Meet the Hartford, Connecticut-based InsurTech Corridor team, and the team from the British Consulate in Boston to discuss how they can help scaling technology businesses access the huge US insurance market at no cost.
InsurTech Corridor has already assisted more than 20 UK-based insurtech, fintech, climatetech and regtech ventures to gain traction in the vast US insurance sector that is based in Hartford.
Discover a diverse group of early-stage ventures shaped through the Manchester Venture Builder programme.
The showcase will give you the opportunity to:
- See what is being built
- Understand the problems being tackled
- Meet the founders behind the ventures
- Explore ways to support, connect or collaborate
📍 Venue: SISTER – Renold Building, 32a Altrincham Street, Manchester, M1 7JR
Meet Manchester's next generation of founders.
Venture Café Manchester and the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre are joining forces for Manchester Venture Builder Demo Day - hosted as part of a special Thursday Gathering at Sister during the University of Manchester Innovation Festival.
Selected founders will take the stage to pitch their ventures, share their progress and connect with the investors, businesses, mentors and innovators who can help them take the next step.
One Demo Day. One Thursday Gathering. A room full of people who can help ideas move forward.
In partnership with The University of Manchester and InsurTech Corridor
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Step into a space where every conversation could spark something new. Enjoy music, refreshments, and a lively atmosphere designed to bring people together, whether you’re exchanging ideas, discovering collaborators, or simply sharing a laugh. This is the perfect moment to unwind, connect, and let serendipity guide your evening.
Venture Café is a global movement built on a simple but powerful belief: isolation is the enemy of innovation.
Through our weekly Thursday Gatherings, founders, researchers, investors and innovators come together to share ideas, explore new technologies and build meaningful connections. As ecosystem activators, Venture Café Manchester is creating a central hub for the city’s innovation ecosystem, driving visibility, collaboration and community.
And if you’d like to get more involved with Venture Café, there are plenty of ways to join our network:
🤝 Become a partner
🎤 Speak at an upcoming Thursday Gathering
🙌 Join our ambassador team
💬 Connect with us on LinkedIn
📩 Sign up for our weekly newsletter
Meet our Block 1 pitchers as they take the stage to showcase what they’re building:
🍌 ChewChew (Thomas James Minnock & Suebsakul [Aaron] Tonjang): Naturally healthy solar-dried banana snacks combining sustainable agriculture innovation and great taste.
💻 ScaLearn AI (Abdul-Basit Melik): Personalised support for every student, visibility into group work, faster marking for every lecturer
🎵 Mixhaus (Agmada Allen Asa): The client review and revision workspace for music professionals.
🧴 Built For Skin (Yoana Kirilova): Skincare that doesn't irritate.
🔍 Deft AI (Uma Maheswari MS & Jayanth Reddy): Helping brands get found in AI search.
Stretch your legs, grab a drink, take a quick restroom break - then it's back to the pitches!
Meet our Block 2 pitchers as they take the stage to showcase what they’re building:
Oltricx (Ruth Ogbevire): AI-designed enzymes enabling oil mills to recover oil. 'More Oil. Less Harm. Same Land.'
🏢 Atlasly (Shatakshi Patil): is the workspace behind every Architectural project.
🖥️ AirfoilLearner (Baramee Thanawarothon): Al models that let engineering teams test hundreds of designs in the time one simulation takes.
👓 SenseVale (Advik Iyer): Smart glasses for safer, more independent navigation with sight loss.
Khap (Jacob Katz):
🐴 foldES (Lukas Weber): Real-time equine movement intelligence for injury prevention and rehabilitation.
Launched in 2022, the InsurTech Corridor (www.InsuTechCorridor.com) is a collaboration between the UK and Connecticut, which aims to assist scaling UK technology businesses connect into the US insurance ecosystem.
Meet the Hartford, Connecticut-based InsurTech Corridor team, and the team from the British Consulate in Boston to discuss how they can help scaling technology businesses access the huge US insurance market at no cost.
InsurTech Corridor has already assisted more than 20 UK-based insurtech, fintech, climatetech and regtech ventures to gain traction in the vast US insurance sector that is based in Hartford.
Discover a diverse group of early-stage ventures shaped through the Manchester Venture Builder programme.
The showcase will give you the opportunity to:
- See what is being built
- Understand the problems being tackled
- Meet the founders behind the ventures
- Explore ways to support, connect or collaborate