{"id":3074,"date":"2025-11-20T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:04:29","slug":"reverse-pitch-event-the-vcs-pitch-to-the-tech-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/reverse-pitch-event-the-vcs-pitch-to-the-tech-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Pitch event &#8211; the VCs pitch to the tech founders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following Reading Tech Cluster\u2019s Investment Summit in July, our Reverse Pitch event in October flipped the format: investors took to the stage to pitch themselves to tech founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event gave 40 local tech founders a rare opportunity to hear directly from VCs, angels, PE firms, and corporate finance experts about what they look for in a winning pitch, how they differ in stage, sector, and strategy, and get actionable tips to sharpen investment plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was hosted at EY Reading and led by Dr Keith Arundale, co-founder of the RTC and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He was joined by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yfmep.com\/\">YFM Equity Partners<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavencp.com\/\">Maven Capital Partners<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgf.co.uk\/\">BGF<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldc.co.uk\/\">LDC<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefsegroup.com\/\">The FSE Group<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/henleybusinessangels.com\/\">Henley Business Angels<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barclays.co.uk\/business-banking\/sectors\/innovation\/\">Barclays<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of what they said and the common themes they shared:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/readingtechcluster.com\/latest\/the-reverse-pitch-hear-what-the-investors-said\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/readingtechcluster.com\/latest\/the-reverse-pitch-hear-what-the-investors-said\/\">https:\/\/readingtechcluster.com\/latest\/the-reverse-pitch-hear-what-the-investors-said\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/readingtechcluster.com\/join-us\/\">join<\/a>\u00a0the RTC today to come next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was featured in the November \/ December issue of the Insider Business Magazine: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidermedia.com\/news\/south-east\/investors-reverse-into-pole-position-at-unique-reading-tech-pitch-event\">https:\/\/www.insidermedia.com\/news\/south-east\/investors-reverse-into-pole-position-at-unique-reading-tech-pitch-event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Reading Tech Cluster\u2019s Investment Summit in July, our Reverse Pitch event in October flipped the format: investors took to the stage to pitch themselves to tech founders. The event gave 40 local tech founders a rare opportunity to hear directly from VCs, angels, PE firms, and corporate finance experts about what they look for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keitharundale.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}