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 has 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 venture pitches, coaches and mentors provide feedback on the business case and presentation, offering valuable insights, suggestions, and relevant comments. Also, the audience scores the ventures pitch.
- Once all ventures have pitched, the scores are counted, and prizes are awarded to the top 3.
- Prizes will be presented at the Networking Drinks following the pitches at 17:30.
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.
The audience scores the ventures pitch on:
- Pitch delivery: Is the Pitch engaging, clear, and confident? Is the story cohesive and easy to follow?
- Clarity of the problem statement: Is the problem well defined? Is there a clear demonstration of the issue aiming to be solved?
- Viability of the solution: Does the solution clearly address the problem? Is the proposed solution innovative, practical, and well thought-out?
- Market opportunity: Is there a clear target market or audience? Is there a clear competitive advantage? Are market size, trends, and customer needs effectively presented?
- Team and traction: Are there any early indicators of success? Does the team have the skills and experience to execute the idea?
- Call to action: Did the pitcher clearly articulate what they need (e.g. funding, mentoring, partnerships) and why?
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 and Judge events
Our Summer 2025 Pitch & Judge winners
Thursday 19 June
Congratulations to Katrin Hulme & Helen Davis from boostme, Iwona Kerr from TechNovator, and Stan van Baarsen & Magan Chin from Fig!
Thursday 5 June
Congratulations to Lewis Campbell from Loop52, Jamie Potter from BRDG the Gap, and Alex Bartlam from REVAX!
Thursday 8 May
Congratulations to Nuray Salina from SilkWork, Dequn Teng from LLM+, and Pouya Baniasadi from Cambridge Brain!
Our Spring 2025 Pitch & Judge winners
Well done to all the ventures who pitched and congratulations to this term’s winning pitches.
Thursday 6 February
Congratulations to Danny Chen from NeuroPrint, Yuan Gao from RishRight, and Ali Ahmed Diaz from Blue Beagle Bio!
Thursday 6 February
Congratulations to Justine Wigley from Carebotics, Rita Giordano from Clarum, Parisa Ahmadpour from Timenix, and Andy Whyte! from Adaptive Machine Patterns!
Thursday 20 February
Congratulations to Keiron Edwards & Farid Ahmed from LipoActive, Lucy Jung from LYEONS, and Yaniv Proselkov & Nuray Salina form Silkwork!
Thursday 6 March
Congratulations to Ernest Tan from GenosysBio, Liliia Pochkun from Borsch to Go, and Bingcan Li from QuantBridge!
Thursday 20 March
Congratulations to Jon Fisher from Peter, Alice Wu from Peace & Pure, and Rich Luddington & Fiona McMaster from Tortoise!
Our Autumn 2024 Pitch & Judge winners
Well done to all the ventures who pitched and congratulations to this term’s winning pitches.
Thursday 26 September 2024
Congratulations to Neelima Alluri, Chain of Thought, Enrico Miraglia del Giudice & Kyle Nisbet, EmberEye, and Jeremy Sosabowski, AlgoDynamix!
Thursday 10 October 2024
Congratulations to Robin Daiber, Ann-Kristin Balve & Adrien Jathe from Omnisent, Lluna Gallego from Vector Bioscience, and Nicholas McKay from BloodWorking!
Thursday 24 October 2024
Congratulations to Jon Fisher from Peter, Abellona U from NeuroPrint, and Yuan Gao & Luna Han from RishRight!
Thursday 21 November 2024
Congratulations to Yasa Watanabe & Ana Rossi from Gastrobody Therapeutics, Austin Reed from IntercepTx, and Lucy Jung from LYEONS!
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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Summer programme: Thursday 8 May – Thursday 17 July 2025
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