The conferences, panels and sessions where you can meet the SVV team, and where we've been this year.
A 45-minute session using the Agentic Investing Maturity Model (AIMM) to place your firm on the five levels and leave with a practical roadmap to the next one. For venture capital, angels, private equity, family offices and limited partners.
A founder dinner co-hosted by SVV and Antler, 18:30 to 21:00
Attending as an invited investor, 10:00 to 13:00
How AI is transforming the way we work, create content and engage across comms
Agentic investing, at the members' meeting of the European Venture Fund Investors Network
Hosted by Arāya, Sie and Morgan Stanley
Guest speaker on AI and what VCs want, at the fifth national event where university researchers meet industry partners
A live investor Q&A, 11:20 to 12:00, where founders ask about fundraising, investor expectations and scaling AI businesses. Part of Digital Catapult's Applied AI Growth Programme
Two days in London for the accelerator's tenth cohort, including an investor breakfast, with SVV among the mentors, speakers and investors
The Sourcing session, using the AgenticInvestor sourcing model
An invitation-only breakfast for founders, investors and operators, with a fireside chat on European venture and company building
Safe experimentation with AI across private capital
Closing panel: What Will Separate Tomorrow's Winners from the Rest
A demo alongside seven other builders: the genesis of AgenticInvestor
A week of events across Cambridge, from sovereign AI and quantum to AGI, healthcare and the future of defence technology
How early-stage AI founders can reach product-market fit before their pre-seed money runs out, with Amy Neale (Delta Partners VC), Robert Pisarczyk (Oblivious), Brian Hanly (Brightbeam) and Rena Maycock (Chirp)
The launch of the Agentic Investing Maturity Model: five maturity levels and twelve practice areas for the real work of private-market investing.
One of six VCs speaking to more than 100 founders, alongside Octopus Ventures, Twin Path, Oxford Capital and Fuel Ventures
Founders and investors build AI agents head to head, with Antler, Alludium and Syrena
The London Venture Capital Network's second annual two-day bootcamp for aspiring and angel investors
Barry on what breaks when companies adopt agents; DC chairs “Do Investors Back Teams or Technology?”
Quickfire founder questions with Lorraine Curham, Michelle Fogarty and Ian Browne
Barry on seed terms with Propelor BIC; DC on three panels, including fintech funding with Audrey AI and Enterprise Ireland
Turning Research into Returns: Turbocharging Spinouts and the UK Research Base
Investors pitch to a room of 70 founders
How AI agents change the work of investing, and how SVV uses them. The forerunner of agenticinvestor.org.
The investment view up close: how SVV assesses AI companies and their deals.
The big trends across the AI market, and how to tell real AI companies from wrappers.
What VCs really look for, for founders on Imperial's CODE Tech Founders programme
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