30 NOVEMBER 2026 · SOPWELL HOUSE, ST ALBANS
97 SEATS LEFT FOR THE EMERGING MANAGER SUMMIT
BY BRITISH BUSINESS BANK AND EUVC
HALF THE SEATS ARE GONE
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97 of 200 seats left · 20 days to go
WHEN
Monday 30 November 2026
10:00 to dinner
WHERE
Sopwell House, St Albans
just outside London
ACCESS
Free
Application-only
WHO
Emerging managers
One seat per firm, second on request
THE FIRST 100 ARE IN
Hey {{first_name|there}},
The first 100 applications for the Emerging Manager Summit are in, five days after we opened! That leaves 97 of 200 seats for Monday 30 November at Sopwell House. If you're raising or running fund I or fund II and haven't applied yet, I'd get yours in this week.
We said we'd name speakers as the day got closer, so here's who you'll be learning from.
100+
APPLICATIONS IN
97
SEATS LEFT
20+
MASTERCLASSES
THE SPEAKERS
The first names.
MAIN STAGE
The day opens with war stories, the stuff that never makes it into an LP update:
Reece Chowdhry built Concept Ventures from nothing into a $200m+ pre-seed fund, and Mark Sims from British Business Bank is in the host chair to get the stories behind it out of him
Daniel Keiper-Knorr co-founded Speedinvest and still runs its fundraising, so he's had every kind of LP conversation from fund I onwards
Fred Destin was a GP at Accel and Atlas Venture before he went out on his own with Stride.VC, now investing from its second fund
Stephen Lowery spent nearly six years as a partner at Frog Capital before he started leading HSBC Innovation Banking's work with VC firms
THE ROOMS
Then you pick your room for the rest of the day, across fundraising, investing and firm building:
Joe Schorge of Isomer Capital, one of Europe's most active backers of emerging managers, brings fresh data on the numbers LPs hold a fund I and fund II to
Marc Penkala of āltitude builds a fund model live on screen. Then 15 of you take your own models into peer circles and work them through until they're nailed down
Sam Ettelaie of Thema opens up real (anonymised) fund decks and data rooms, so you see what LPs expect to find before they ask
Mads Jensen of SuperSeed on running proper diligence and IC when you're a small team, or on your own
Tom McGinn of Northzone on the silent legal killers: the risks sitting in your portfolio, your fund and your firm that nobody warns you about until it's late
Rebekah Kasumu of Plug Capital on getting fund I through an institutional LP's operational checks, from regulation to VAT
Sasha Batica of Mara on where to domicile your fund and how to structure it before the docs are signed
Lars Lynne Hansen of Atomico on getting AI used across the whole team and keeping it improving
Marisa Nzekwe and Mirza Mulic of HSBC Innovation Banking on what credit a first fund can get, and when to start talking to a bank
And British Business Bank itself on how it backs first-time managers
More names are coming!
BETWEEN THE SESSIONS
Peer Circles
Small-group discussions on the challenges of building a VC firm
LP pitch feedback
Three minutes to pitch, three minutes of honest LP feedback.
Expert corners
1:1 help on legal, banking, fund admin and fund software, all day.
The day closes with a reception and dinner at the house.
APPLY
Places are limited and allocated by application, with one seat per firm and a second on request.
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