The Startup Roundtable

The Startup Roundtable
Building together. Learning together. Growing together.

About this event
Building a startup is isolating. You're making decisions with incomplete information, usually alone, and the people around you mostly don't get it.
This is a room full of people who do.

The Startup Roundtable is a relaxed, high-value get-together for people actively building a company or seriously developing an idea. It started as a small group of founders, some currently raising, some who've raised before, meeting over coffee to share what's actually working. It's grown into something worth opening up to the wider Manchester community.
Open, honest conversations about what it really takes to build: shaping ideas, finding co-founders, navigating accelerators and funding routes, and surviving the early growth problems nobody warns you about.

No pitches. No panels. No sales agendas. Just founders helping founders move forward.

What we cover
Each session is guided but informal, so conversation flows where the room needs it:

Developing and validating startup ideas
Raising funding: bootstrapping, angels, VCs, grants
Accelerators and incubators, and which are actually worth it
Finding co-founders and early team members
Lessons learned, mistakes made, and wins worth sharing
Tools and resources founders actually use

Everyone contributes. This is a table, not a stage.

Who it's for

Founders currently building
Solo founders developing an idea
Early-stage teams, pre-seed and seed
Builders looking for co-founders or collaborators
Anyone serious about turning an idea into a real company

Community and solidarity
Startups grow stronger together. Every startup that joins gets added to our Founders Banner, showcasing the companies being built inside the network. Visibility, solidarity, and proof that no founder here is building alone.

Your hosts
Jamal, 4x start up founder, currently building Linkar
Nom (Noumair), 3x technical founder across MarTech, quant trading and dev tools

What to expect
A friendly room, real conversations in a small group, and connections that carry on long after the session ends.
Come as you are, whether you're refining an idea or deep in the build.