Hotbed Demo Day
Join our Hotbed Expand Cohort IV Showcase to meet the startups that have recently graduated our fourth Expand programme, and hear from top performers who'll be showcasing their products.
🚀 Finalist Lineup
Wellence - How teams are managed is stuck in the stone age. Wellence gives managers AI-powered superpowers to smash goals, boost engagement, and build top-performing teams - with powerful 1:1s, meaningful feedback, and real-time coaching, all while saving hours of admin and stress.
Nexus - Nexus is the lifelong AI health companion for every woman's unique journey.
Pet Trust UK - Pet Trust UK is the UK’s first interoperable microchip database and the first independent pet product accredited by Secured by Design for official police use. Our platform links a pet’s profile to their microchip, with the option to add an NFC-enabled tag. Through our API, insurers receive unlimited real-time data—reducing fraud, improving risk assessment, and enabling lower premiums for responsible pet owners. We’re doing for pet insurance what Vitality did for health insurance.
AI Kat - AI KAT is pioneering the era of Agentic Branding — from world-class brand strategy to incredible video content, your brand moving at the speed of culture
GI Healthcare - Building the first interstellar kitchen robots to prepare healthy food for astronauts and extreme‑environment missions.
Kuradocs - Kuradocs develops digital products that reduce the clinical burden on the NHS and healthcare environments. Its hospital discharge App, Myra (My Resources App), empowers people to manage their health and care, and bring about timely hospital discharge, by equipping the older adult and the family care network with the help and information they need all in one single location.
Hotbed Expand is a 6 week programme for fundraising founders who've previously raised at least £100k in funding, or earned the equivalent in revenue, and are fundraising again. Cohort IV featured 30 startups across a variety of industries and business models. On average, founders joining had already raised £280k prior to joining us, and are raising between £750k-£1m seed rounds.
Thanks to our Hotbed Expand partners: Vestd, Impressit, Novabook & OVHcloud and venue partner Lewis Silkin.
About Lewis Silkin: We are lawyers with a passion for creative, tech and innovative businesses: this passion runs through everything we do. Whatever the size of your idea or your business, from entrepreneurial start-ups to global household names, we leverage the market leading expertise across our Brands, Corporate, Commercial, Data, Privacy & Cyber, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Immigration, Intellectual Property and Real Estate practices to ensure we have you covered.
This event is open to self-certified investors, founders and ecosystem contributors.
Disclaimer: This event is intended to showcase the products and services of the startups involved and does not constitute an offer of securities or investment advice. Participation in the event does not imply any recommendation or endorsement by Hotbed or its partners.