David Denny

Partner and Founder, Longwall Venture Partners

David Denny is a partner at and founder of early stage VCs Longwall Venture Partners LLP who invest in early stage science/engineering companies. David has been involved in early stage companies since 1999 and started as a venture investor in 2004. David has an engineering degree from Newcastle University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Programme sessions

09:30 – 10:45

Pitching for Success

Pitching for Success will be to an audience that includes investors, support organisations and individuals.

The Investor Panel will include professional funding organisations; including speakers from crowd investment (Peer2Peer, equity, loans), venture capital and public sector funding. Each panelist will give an overview of what they look for when investing or funding a company followed by Q&A with the audience.

After all the presentations are completed, the excitement continues as the audience votes to select a winning company. The two session winners will be announced at 15:45 and will be able to pitch again to the audience, who will decide the overall winner on the day for the £1,000 cash prize.

As well as the live pitches and investor panels, the companies from both sessions will be available in the John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre Foyer for networking.

Location: John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre
Panelists: David Denny, John Holden, Kat Perez and Matthew Wood
Pitching companies: Buzz Technology, Glyconics, Learning with Experts, Meteor Power,
Minfinity, ORO People Solutions, Oxford Dynamic Consent, Schoenfeld Films,
Space Platform Technologies and Vitrue Health