Accelerate: The UK Venture Conference

Overview

Accelerate is the BVCA’s dedicated event for venture capital investors. Innovation, creativity, and expertise will be brought together under one umbrella event for venture capital, looking at everything from start-ups to scale-ups and from pre seed to growth equity, providing a chance to network and connect with a like-minded crowd in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

Join senior business leaders, innovative entrepreneurs, and experienced investors in central London on 8 May to understand the latest developments in VC. 

 

Agenda

Key themes for the event:
  • Artificial Intelligence: How AI is impacting the economy and the VC asset class
  • Early-Stage Investing: Seeding the Future
  • Emerging Trends: Signals of Future Disruption
  • Navigating Exits: Unicorns, IPOs, and Beyond
  • Diversity & Inclusion: Building an Equitable Ecosystem
  • Access to Capital: The next steps in unlocking pension investment

View the full conference agenda using the button below.

 

Companies Attending

GPs & LPs

1991 Ventures | 7Percent Ventures | Albion Capital | Anthemis | Antler | Apiary Capital | Atlantic Bridge Capital | Backed VC | Balderton Capital | Barclays Bank | Beringea | BGF | Blackfinch | Boxfund VC | BP Investment Management | BP Technology Ventures | Bridges Fund Management | British Business Bank | British Business Investments | British Patient Capital | Brookstreet Equity Partners | BTomorrow Ventures | Cambridge Innovation Capital | Channel 4 Ventures | Cibus Capital | Clarendon Fund Managers | Claret Capital Partners | Clean Growth Investment Management | Common Magic | Concept Ventures | Dawn | Deeptech Labs | EKA Ventures | Elbow Beach Investments | EMV Capital | ETF Partners | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Finstock Capital | First Imagine! Ventures | FPE Capital | Frog Capital | Funding London | Future Planet Capital | Hermes GPE | HSBC Strategic Innovation Investments | Inflexion | Isomer Capital | Isometric Ventures | Jenson Funding Partners | Jolt Capital | Just Climate | Lakestar VC | Love Ventures | Magenta Partners | Mercia Asset Management | MMC | Nauta Capital | Northern Gristone | Northstar Ventures | Notion | NSSIF | Oxford Science Enterprises | Oxford University Innovation | Palatine | Pantheon | Par Equity | Parkwalk Advisors | Pembroke VCT | Pension Protection Fund | PI Labs | Quadri Ventures | Railpen | Rosetta Capital | Ryse Asset Management | Salica Investments | Schroders Capital | Scottish Enterprise | Scottish National Investment Bank | Souter Investments | Sure Valley Ventures | TDR Capital | TempoCap | Thena Capital | Times 3 Capital | True. | Turquoise International | Two Magnolias | Ufi VocTech Trust | Universities Superannuation Scheme | Urban Jungle | VenCap International | Verb Ventures | Volution | White Star Capital | YFM Equity Partners | 

Professional Services

Addleshaw Goddard | Ashurst | Burges Salmon | Carey Olsen | Core Fund Services | Farrer & Co | Fox Williams | Gowling WLG | HLF | Imperium | Kin Fund Services | KPMG | London Stock Exchange | Macfarlanes | Osborne Clarke | RW Blears | Shoosmiths | Simmons & Simmons | Stephenson Harwood | Winston & Strawn

 

Date and Timings

Thursday, 8 May 2025

Conference: 08:30 - 17:00
Drinks Reception: 17:00 - 18:30

 

Location

Andaz, London Liverpool Street
40 Liverpool St,
City of London,
London EC2M 7QN

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Dress Code

Business attire

 

Sponsors and Supporters

Associate Sponsor

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Drinks Reception Sponsor 

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Wi-Fi Sponsor

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Supported by

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Learn more about BVCA Accelerate 2025

BVCA Accelerate is the UK's dedicated event for venture capital. Join over 300 of the UK's leading VC fund managers, entrepreneurs, and investors to understand the latest opportunities and developments in VC at this one-day conference and evening networking reception.

Price

GPs

Members:

Up to two free tickets per GP firm available – enquire today*

Any additional tickets are available at the following rate per ticket:  

  • Standard: £199 + VAT

Non-members: 

Please contact BVCA Events to discuss availability and pricing.

*At least one free ticket must be used by a firm representative at Partner level or above. Free ticket availability is subject to BVCA confirmation.

Get in touch with Abbie Jaggers to request your two free tickets and any additional paid tickets today.

Professional Services

Members:

  • Standard Rate: £849 + VAT

Non-members: 

Please contact BVCA Events to discuss availability and pricing. 

LPs

Members:

  • Free to attend

Non-members: 

Please contact BVCA Events to discuss availability. 

 

CPD Certification

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BVCA Accelerate is certified in principle by The CPD Certification Service. For further information please contact the BVCA Events Team

 

Privacy Information

Following the introduction of GDPR the BVCA will continue to share attendance lists with sponsors and other attendees (names, job titles and company names only) with the exception of events of a sensitive nature.

Please contact [email protected] if you would NOT be happy for us to share this personal information with other attendees. Our full Private Policy & Accessibility Statement can be viewed here.

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Code of Conduct - Attendance at Events

The BVCA is committed to bringing members together in a professional environment to collaborate and network. We have established this code of conduct to provide guidelines to participants, and to ensure that all participants understand what behaviour is expected of them at our events.

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