COHORT 6 COMING SOON

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COHORT 6 COMING SOON ☆

HOTBED EXPAND

6 week virtual programme

Designed for fundraising startups who want direct feedback from angel investors, and support on nailing your product, GTM strategy & growth

COHORT #6 COMING FALL 2024

COHORT #6 COMING FALL 2024

ARE YOU RAISING MONEY FOR YOUR NEXT ROUND?

This programme is for founders who have raised at least £75k* and have begun preparing for their next round.

*The average founder in our last cohort had raised £225k.

We expect founders to be obsessed with creating the best version of their product, and are focused on growing fast. They love making their customers' experience the best it can possibly be.

ARE YOU CUSTOMER OR USER OBSESSED?

DO YOU WANT TO LEARN FROM THE BEST?

We have a killer lineup of speakers who are here to help! Our sessions are interactive, and designed to be quick and tactical. We want founders who are eager to learn.

Hotbed provides a comprehensive program of essential webinars, peer support, and valuable resources to assist any entrepreneur in growing their startup. The program is designed to enable you to prioritise your business when necessary and work on it when time permits. The speakers' quality is unrivalled, and M & Perdie's format provides me with the most valuable insight from each speaker. This program and founder network is the best out there.

Lucy Hall, Co-founder @ LOANHOOD

The quality and range of speakers was excellent, particularly the balance between investors and founders. From the start, the programme felt like a safe space, which allowed frank and genuine discussions and advice, which is invaluable. The level of time commitment expected from us a founders was bang on - not too much that we felt dragged away from running the business, but not too little to feel the course was lightweight. An unexpected bonus was the power of the cohort of fellow founders - not just a great network, but also reassuring to feel we are not alone in the challenges we face and with the highs and lows of start-up world.

Henry Fyson, Co-founder @ humanpeople

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SPEND 6 WEEKS LEARNING FROM THE BRIGHTEST FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS

All content is delivered only by scaled and exited founders, active angels and early stage VCs and domain experts.

What you’ll learn

  • ✓ Week 1

    We’ll spend this week understanding what investors will expect to see from you when you raise your seed round, and what you should be focusing on to get there.

  • ✓ WEEK 2

    In Week 2, we’ll do a deep dive on tracking and optimising product growth, and understanding best practices for financial models.

  • ✓ WEEK 3

    We’ll focus on the power of storytelling, and how you can craft a compelling narrative to both investors and PR. This will also cover articulating founder-market fit.

  • ✓ WEEK 4

    We’ll focus on creating your customer ops plan that will turn your initial users/customers into your biggest fans, and help you get and retain new ones.

  • ✓ WEEK 5

    In Week 5, we’ll cover building investor relationships, what to expect in your seed round, common pitfalls and much more.

  • ✓ WEEK 6

    We’ll cover how to open and close your round, from start to finish in our final week of the programme.

BY FOUNDERS. FOR FOUNDERS.

The programme is hosted and facilitated by Hotbed’s co-founders, M & Perdie.

Meet past teachers

Founder, Killing Kittens

Emma Sayle

Founder, Debite & Angel Investor

Tayga Baltacioglu

Angel Investor & Founder, Nodes Ventures, Product & GTM, Stripe

Matt Roberts

Founder, SeedLegals

Anthony Rose

Director of Growth, Flexa & Angel Investor

Beth Carter

TOM FOSTER-CARTER, EX-COO @ MONZO, FOUNDER @ CHERRYPICK

TOM FOSTER-CARTER, EX-COO @ MONZO, FOUNDER @ CHERRYPICK

TUGCE BULUT, FOUNDER @ STREETBEES

TUGCE BULUT, FOUNDER @ STREETBEES

SAM MARCHANT, INVESTOR @ HAMBRO PERKS

SAM MARCHANT, INVESTOR @ HAMBRO PERKS

Testimonials

  • I have been part of two Hotbed programmes already. And it keeps getting better. I have derived great value out of these. The line-up of speakers/industry experts is excellent! The cohort group is very good with some excellent work being done.

    Michael John Magdongon, Founder @ Strabo

  • "Hotbed programmes are totally unlike any other accelerator out there. They understand founders and have built a programme that give founders the support we really need. Access to networks of the best founders/investors. Talks and events that provide actionable insights - no waffle. 100% founder centric. Plus they'll push you out of your comfort zone. You are guaranteed to 10x your network, skills and confidence. Highly recommended"

    Jacqui Meskel, Founder @ Huggnote

  • "Great experience! Being a part of Hotbed has added a lot of value to us here at UJJI on two fronts specifically: 1) Meeting up with other top knotch founders and participating in talks with inspiring industry leaders, founders and investors. 2) Looking up close to weekly growth based on our most fundamental KPIs, placing efforts and resources behind them to see constant week on week improvement."

    Rafael Guper, Co-founder @ CEO @ UJJI AI

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OUR TERMS

Our programme structure is different.

We are making arrangements to support founders financially, so we secure the rights to invest in the startups who go through our programmes via a Warrant. Founders are required to offer us an equity warrant to give Hotbed the right (but not the obligation) to subscribe in cash for shares at the same time you obtain investment in any future round, on the terms set out below. Our terms are simple, and you'll receive the full Warrant and terms are available here. You'll receive a full copy (via our brilliant partners at SeedLegals) which needs to be signed prior to the start of the programme.For non-discounted rounds (like a traditional priced-round), we take a 10% discount, and we can invest up to £100k.

***This is a discount to the subscription price paid by your investors in a particular investment round.

**No investment is guaranteed. (The equity warrant shall apply for a period of 24 months)

There is also a £50 + VAT admin fee to be paid upon acceptance.

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