Pitch your chemistry-led innovation to the Investment Community
The Royal Society of Chemistry aims to help connect chemistry-led businesses with funding and support from the investment community.
Our next event will be held on 19 May 2022, giving selected EnterprisePlus companies the chance to pitch to an exclusive invited audience of investors, syndicates, angel groups and VCs who have a proven interest in investing in chemical science related technologies
Since 2017, the Investment Catalyst has presented 70 EnterprisePlus companies using chemistry to revolutionise health, energy and the environment, food and drink and enabling technologies.
If you are an investor interested in attending one of our pitching events or would like to find out more about pitching your technology at our next event, please:
After a competitive application process, we will select up to eight companies to pitch at a hybrid event
The Royal Society of Chemistry will work closely with the chosen companies to help them prepare for their pitch
The selected companies will attend a hybrid event to present their pitch for investment to an invited audience of investors, angel syndicates and groups and VC funds. There will be plenty of opportunity to connect with the investors post event.
To be considered for this event, you must be:
- A UK based company, utilising chemistry based IP as a core part of your business
- Able to demonstrate some commercial traction either through trials, proof of concept, partnerships or sales
- Able to justify the effective deployment of investment typically ranging between £100k and £10m
- A scalable business capable of significant commercial growth.
Available for an in person event or to pre-record your pitch to be played on 19 May 2022 (5pm - 9pm) held at Royal Society of Chemistry's Burlington House - Able to commit time to pitch training and refinement, during April 2022
The final companies will be chosen based on one or all of the following factors:
- Stage of readiness to present to investors​
- Ability to convey the commercial impact their IP has on their respective market
- The attractiveness of the overall proposition to investors
Over the last 5 years, the Investment Catalysts has seen 70 companies present to an audience of over 500 investors. Our cohort of businesses have gone on to raise a total of £4.5m in funding from attending investors, and we’re thrilled to have seen an incredible exit from one of our finalists at a phenomenal £623m!