ABOUT US
Hotbed is the place where ambitious startups go to grow. We run programmes, ad hoc events, and a platform for fundraising founders, providing the perfect conditions for startups to grow against the odds.
Hotbed was founded by Margaret Anne Coyle and Perdie Alder, who met at their previous place of work. They’d both had enough of the inequalities that existed in the startup ecosystem, and decided they were going to be the ones to change it. In 2022, we started with Hotbed’s first programme, whilst developing our new platform to be the place where ambitious startups go to grow.
Since launching Hotbed in May 2022, we’ve accelerated over 500 startups, have made over 150 investor/founder introductions, have hosted two all day summit’s and numerous events with partners including SeedLegals, G-P, Stripe, HSBC Innovation Bank, Debite, Seedrs, AWS, Zendesk and more.