Interested in founding your own tech startup? Join us on 25 January for Industry Deep Dives where we’ll be learning from two experts on what it takes to build a successful tech startup.
We’ll be joined by Sarah Drinkwater, who has supported hundreds of tech founders across the world to build and grow their businesses, as an advisor, angel investor and as the head of Google Campus London, and David Fisayo the Founder of fintech platform Wealth8, and director at Foundervine, a community that helps diverse founders scale their businesses.
Learning outcomes:
- Introduce students to inspirational stories and case studies of tech founders
- Understand the steps needed to prepare for starting a tech business
- Understand the support available to first-time founders
- Understand which skills, values and attributes are important when founding a tech startup
- Understand the common challenges faced by tech founders
About the speakers:
Sarah Drinkwater is an angel investor and non-executive director. She formally headed up Google Campus London, Google’s physical space for supporting tech startups. She is passionate about supporting founders from underrepresented backgrounds, tech for good and innovation with social impact.
David Fisayo is the founder of Wealth8, a fintech platform that provides simple, affordable access to global investment funds and offers tailored financial education to develop the tools to build generational wealth for Africans. He is also a director at Foundervine, a social enterprise on a mission to change the global face of entrepreneurship. They partner with mission-driven organisations to deliver acceleration programs designed to help diverse founders scale their businesses.
