Where our ventures pitch their ideas
Pitch & Judge is an opportunity for Accelerate Cambridge entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to an audience made up of their peers, coaches, mentors, and the wider business community.
- Each venture is given 5 minutes to pitch their idea, outlining their concept, value proposition, market potential, and other essential elements, supported by a 10-slide presentation.
- After each pitch, Coaches and Mentors will provide feedback, offering valuable insights, suggestions, and relevant comments.
- Once all ventures have presented, the audience will vote for their favourite pitch, with prizes awarded to the top 3.
It’s a great forum for entrepreneurs to practice their pitches, receive invaluable feedback and for the audience to learn more about the ventures on the Accelerate Cambridge programme.
There is limited availability for guests to pitch their own venture ideas. If you would like to take part, please let us know on the registration form and we will be in touch to confirm.
If you're going to be looking for funding you need to practice your pitch several times in front of an audience. The friendly pitch sessions and constructive feedback are probably the most valuable bit of the Accelerate programme and it would be foolish not to take advantage of them. When you do it for real, you're going to be up against people who have pitched dozens or even hundreds of times before. If you go into that without practice you are extremely unlikely to be successful. It's also never too early to start practicing. Even if you're still working on your idea and proposition there's nothing like having to condense it down to a short presentation to force you to do the hard thinking about your business.
Upcoming Pitch & Judge events
Ventures pitching: LYEONS, CareBotics, Clarum, Timenix and Uni-bridge
Ventures pitching: SilkWork, AdmitStudio Ai, LipoActive, ZappFi and Genosys bio
Ventures pitching: Africa Bio-Innovation Hub, QuantaBridge, Blue Beagle Bio, ZenVolt and SmileShot
Ventures pitching to be confirmed
Our Autumn 2024 Pitch & Judge winners
Thursday 21 November
Congratulations to Yasa Watanabe & Ana Rossi from Gastrobody Therapeutics, Austin Reed from IntercepTx, and Lucy Jung from LYEONS!
Thursday 24 October
Congratulations to Jon Fisher from Peter, Abellona U from NeuroPrint, and Yuan Gao & Luna Han from RishRight!
Thursday 10 October
Congratulations to Robin Daiber, Ann-Kristin Balve & Adrien Jathe from Omnisent, Lluna Gallego from Vector Bioscience, and Nicholas McKay from BloodWorking!
Thursday 26 September
Congratulations to Neelima Alluri, Chain of Thought, Enrico Miraglia del Giudice & Kyle Nisbet, EmberEye, and Jeremy Sosabowski, AlgoDynamix!
Our Summer 2024 Pitch & Judge winners
Well done to all the ventures who pitched and congratulations to this term’s winning pitches.
Our Spring 2024 Pitch & Judge winners
Well done to all the ventures who pitched and congratulations to this term’s winning pitches.
Thursday 8 February 2024
Congratulations to Wander out Wild, Olea Education, and Ai DiZital!
Thursday 7 March 2024
Congratulations to Ratio AI, Manta Cyber Systems, and English Where You Are !
Thursday 21 March 2024
Congratulations to ACT Medical, Conker of Cambridge, and AI DiZital Solutions!
Our Autumn 2023 Pitch & Judge winners
Well done to all the ventures who pitched and congratulations to this term’s winning pitches.
Thursday 28 September 2023
Well done to Outfield Technologies, Summatic, Asothia, and xSwarm who have won this week’s group punting experience with thanks to Cambridge Punt Company.
Thursday 12 October 2023
Well done to ProSpectral, MyoCaid, Equadata, and CrunchMate who have won this week’s group wine tasting experience with thanks to Cambridge Wine Merchants
Thursday 26 October 2023
Well done to Letera, eScent, and Innex.ai who have won this week’s group prize, a team building rowing session with thanks to Cambridge Rowing Experience.
Thursday 9 November 2023
Well done to HapticCap, Water Sensitive Cambridge, and Filtir who have won this week’s prize, a group yoga session with thanks to Satyam Yoga Centre.
Thursday 9 November 2023
Well done to Ocean Connection UK, CytogeNiks, and SyncSupply who have won this week’s prize, a group cocktail evening with thanks to The Lab Cocktail Bar.
Our Summer 2023 Pitch & Judge winners
Well done to all the ventures who pitched and congratulations to this term’s winning pitches.
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- Day 2: 09:30-16:30, Friday 2 May 2025
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