For Founders

Built for founders in a new era.

Two days of learning, connecting and building alongside the investors backing you and the peers facing exactly what you're facing. A room capped at 200 founders — so every conversation counts.

Dates22–23 Sept 2026
LocationEdinburgh
FoundersCapped at 200
Why founders come

The people in the room matter.

Most conferences put thousands of people in a building and hope useful conversations happen. We take the opposite approach. Every founder here is building a venture-scale company — no tourists, no spectators, no noise.

Meet the investors backing you

Curated introductions to seed-stage through Series A investors — matched by stage, sector and intent.

1:1 matched meetings

Real conversations, not speed dating. Meetings are matched and double opt-in, so both sides show up for a reason.

Founder-only sessions

Roundtables and workshops with peers facing the same challenges — fundraising, hiring, product, growth and scale.

Honest feedback

Access to industry experts and candid peer feedback from people who actually understand the pressure you're under.

An authentic community

Networking with people who are genuinely building — relationships that continue long after the summit ends.

The party & after-hours

The Summit Party and curated founder dinners — where the best off-programme moments happen.

No tourists. No spectators.

A room capped at 200 founders.

Every founder here is building a venture-scale company. That's what makes the conversations, the introductions and the feedback better — everyone in the room is there for a reason.

How it works

First, the tribes gather.

Founders spend Day 1 with founders — no investors in the room, no theatre. Just honest conversations. On Day 2, everyone comes together.

Day 1 · 22 September

Founder Day

The Biscuit Factory

Founders, operators and partners together — built around the real jobs of a founder rather than polished narratives.

The format
  • Roundtables, workshops and speaker circles
  • Facilitated discussions that surface real insight
  • Peers facing the same challenges you are
The topics
  • Fundraising, hiring and finding product-market fit
  • Product, growth, leadership and scale
  • Building AI-native vs bolting AI on
Day 2 · 23 September

The Summit

The Biscuit Factory

One room — founders, investors and operators together for keynotes, firesides and the Deal Room.

What to expect
  • Keynotes and debates on where the market is going
  • Curated 1:1 meetings with investors
  • The introductions that become investments and hires
Day 1 · Evening
Founder dinners, then the Summit Party
Founders join curated dinners hosted by leading investors, operators and partners across the city — then everyone comes together at the opening party.
Who you'll meet

The investors in the room.

Meetings with seed-stage to Series A investors — matched to you, one-to-one. A sample of the funds that join us:

Octopus Ventures
Molten Ventures
Nauta Capital
Antler
Beringea
Revaia
BlackFin Capital Partners
Techstart Ventures
Bethnal Green Ventures
Mercuri
Pale Blue Dot
Shift90

…alongside Accel, Balderton, LocalGlobe, Seedcamp, Ada Ventures, Stride and dozens more active early-stage funds from across the UK and Europe.

What founders say

Honest feedback from people who understand.

We made direct hires from connections at the conference and met one of our key US investors there, which also opened up lots of sales opportunities.

Chris McCann
Current Health

An excellent event with plenty of opportunity to connect with inspiring startups. We hosted a couple of side sessions and the engagement was amazing!

Burcu Demir
Twilio

It's very rare to have the quality of attendees that you find at Turing — that's what makes this the best tech event in Europe.

John Peebles
Administrate
22–23 September 2026 · Edinburgh

Your seat in the room is waiting.

⚡ Limited to 200 founders — prices rise every month!