🥊 Companies collided at Plexal Stratford this week as a selection of members from our Product Growth Programme with Barclays Eagle Labs went head-to-head during our Pitch Battle! 🤼 This was our second event of its kind but this time, having had a slight overlap between our second and third cohorts running, we embraced the competitive spirit of the Pitch Battle concept and put peers from each Product Growth Programme cohort against one another. 💬 Stephen Brown, Head of Barclays Eagle Labs said: “Our mission is to supercharge the innovation economy in the UK, which we do across areas including access to capital, skills and ecosystem. We know that money, skills and time are the top three challenges experienced by growing businesses, so we’re super grateful to all of you for being here for the Product Growth Programme.” 💬 Monika Radclyffe, Senior Director of Programmes at Plexal, followed up by welcoming the audience: “We’re delighted to have you at Plexal’s workspace on the HERE EAST campus, the beating heart of innovation and home to hundreds of entrepreneurs. This event is a celebration of you, the founders who have joined the Product Growth Programme, as we hear everything from success stories to ambitions.” 💡 With success in mind, Monika chaired a discussion between SoSquared CEO Sam Thomas Alexander Royle and Another Earth CEO Maya Pindeus, who shared their experiences of growing businesses to where they are today. 🔔 Having well and truly warmed the audience up by the panel’s conclusion, we began our Pitch Battle, which made for an energetic display of innovative ideas from founders ready to shake up the business landscape, with Plexal’s Emma Marshall and Mina Begum acting as referees. 👏 Emma Marshall, Innovation Lead at Plexal, concluded: “What a knockout pair of cohorts we’ve had the pleasure of supporting with Barclays Eagle Labs on our Product Growth Programme. Getting onto the stage in front of an expectant audience isn’t easy, so I applaud all our participants for getting involved – one who gallantly did so spontaneously – and especially this year’s champion, Nicholas Murphy, Founder and CEO at Kutana Technologies!” Harry Baker | Ria Khan | Emily Porter | Alliah Rust | Naia P. | Cameron Readman | Joe Howard | #ProductGrowthProgramme | #ProductGrowth | #BusinessGrowth | #Business | #Startups | #Innovation |
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