From Seed to Series A: What Actually Scales

An evening on the operational side of getting from seed to Series A: building a repeatable growth engine, picking a go-to-market motion, and the hiring calls that either compound or cost you a year. Cooper Parry works with more than 500 scaling businesses and hosts this with Exchange Accelerator. Speakers are Mark Lyons of Puma Growth Partners, Laura Wiggins of YFM Equity Partners and Tom Watts of Cooper Parry, with a founder speaker still to be confirmed. It runs from 16:30 at Campfield Studios on Liverpool Road, finishing with drinks and networking. Registration is free but approval-gated on Luma. Why go: two active Northern growth-stage investors in the room explaining what they fund, alongside advisers who see the same mistakes repeatedly. Best for founders who have raised a seed round and are eighteen months from the next one.