Rich Walker
Director, Shadow Robot Company
work with us.
Our members are the engineers, founders and students building robots, chips and deep tech. Most aren't on anyone's radar yet. Get to know them early.
Kickstart Global
who's in the room.
Every member applied with what they've built. Some run companies. Some are on their first project. More than half live outside London.
- 50+cities
- 65+universities
- 1,000+attendees across 7+ events
- £1m+raised by members
“Now serving over 13 million users and counting.”
Built a Discord bot that runs in 48,000+ servers. It has since passed 14 million users.
Third year, Liverpool “We have amassed over 280k+ users. We are approaching Series A.”
Works on growth and marketing at a fast growing startup, and founded its ambassador programme.
Second year, Imperial “It was benchmarked against GPT-4 and GPT-5 and it was on par with GPT-5 in accuracy… Also outperformed GPT-5 in engagement for kids.”
Student, Birmingham Co-founded an agentic AI startup for clinics in the medical field. A £112,000 revenue pipeline in 4 months, and now live with paying clinics at £26k ARR.
Student, UCL “Created one of the most accurate black hole visualisations ever at the time… it still took 3 months straight of computing for the final simulation.”
First year, King's College London “[During my PhD,] I developed an idea into a commercially viable product that is 100 times better than existing incumbents. This research led to 2 patents and a potential spinout in near future.”
Also trained as a patent attorney during the PhD.
PhD, Oxford
the rooms fill.
- 500+ signed up for our robotics panel at King's College London.
- A Claude AI hackathon in Cambridge with Anthropic: 100+ builders, 8 hours, idea to product.
- 200+ signed up for 100 places at the OCF mixer at Barclays Eagle Labs.
event partners.
speakers at our events.
James BrownManaging Director, NextGenRI (Unitree UK)
Radhika GudipatiInnovation Lead, ARIA
Jafar UruçRobotics engineer, Stealth startup · ex Humanoid and Dyson
Edwin RedheadHead, UCL AI Nexus Labs
Hassan ShahzadCEO, Elo
Joe ClintonCTO, Elo
Haider AliCEO, ClearZone
Raihaan UsmanCo-founder and CTO, Bench
Osman ZuhayrFounder and CEO, Invictus Robotics
how to work with us.
Be a mentor
One 1 to 2 hour session with our members. Share your journey and what you've learned in hardware, deep tech or startups.
Speak or judge
Take the stage or judge the builds. The questions usually outlast the slot.
Run an event with us
Co-host a panel, hackathon or workshop. We shape the theme together and bring the builders.
Become a community partner
Run a community, society or event? Share audiences, co-host and promote each other. Your people, meet ours.
Sponsor Labs
Back Labs across the year and help us take it to more builders across the country. Your name goes with it.
Give space, kit or credits
Lend a workshop, hardware or tool credits. It's often what turns an idea into a prototype.
contact us.
Tell us who you are and what you have in mind. We'll get back to you in good time.