Tech Events by Edinburgh Royal Bank Accelerator

A three-hour pitching workshop at the Royal Bank Accelerator on Princes Street, the sixth session in its 12-week Funding Accelerator programme. You can come to this one alone without signing up for the full series. The agenda covers storytelling principles for a memorable pitch, the ingredients every pitch needs, practical exercises on message and structure, and real founder stories. It ends with a Pitch Club slot where you practise delivery and get feedback. It runs 9:30 to 12:30 and the speaker is still to be confirmed. The listing doesn't show a price. Why go: it's hands-on, not a talk. If you've got a pitch to give in the next few months, you leave having said it out loud to a room and heard what lands. Best for early-stage founders pitching for funding.

A peer group-coaching session for accelerator entrepreneurs, built around shared challenges, accountability and structured peer support.

She Scales is the Royal Bank Accelerator's monthly morning for women founders, and this edition is a Global Entrepreneurship Week #IAmRemarkable workshop on self-promotion, at the Accelerator, 142-144 Princes Street, Edinburgh. Networking runs from 9:30, the Accelerator welcomes everyone at 10:30, and the workshop runs 10:45 to 12:15. Facilitator Eugenia Pascual Gil (Gold Tier #IAmRemarkable facilitator, ex-Google and PepsiCo HR and recruitment) covers why visibility matters for your business, the limiting beliefs that keep people quiet about their wins, and leaves you with your own statements to reuse. Open to female founders, non-binary founders who feel at home in women's spaces, and allies. Why go: a practical workshop with a clear takeaway, plus an hour of networking with Edinburgh's early-stage founders. Best for founders who undersell themselves in pitches and on LinkedIn.

Sixth and last workshop in the Royal Bank Accelerator's 12-week Sales Accelerator, 10:00 to 13:00 at 142-144 Princes Street. You build your own sales playbook from the earlier sessions: the DEAL Framework, then exercises that tie customer insight, funnel, metrics and pitch into one repeatable system. Colin Horsburgh leads it. He spent 17 years in commercial roles at Starwood, Fairmont, IHG and Cameron House, and founded the Edinburgh consultancy En Pointe Solutions in 2017. Founders share how a playbook made their own sales more consistent, and a closing Growth Lab covers mindset. You can book single workshops without doing the full programme. Why go: three hands-on hours that end with a written playbook in your hands. Best for founders who sell their own product and have no written process yet.

The Edinburgh Royal Bank Accelerator's last social of the year, open to founders and innovators in the accelerator community and to people considering joining a new-year cohort. Informal networking with peers and mentors over light refreshments, with the year's wins and sticking points as the conversation. No programme, no speakers. Free, at the accelerator's Princes Street floors.

Royal Bank Accelerator's Grow Your Sales series: getting something useful out of your sales data.

A walking networking session for entrepreneurs, starting from the Royal Bank Accelerator on Princes Street.

A 90-minute Pitch Perfect workshop at the Royal Bank Accelerator's Princes Street hub on building a business pitch and delivering it clearly. Part of the accelerator's standing programme of founder sessions.

A morning of networking and co-working for women founders at the Royal Bank Accelerator on Princes Street.

The Royal Bank Accelerator on the numbers funders ask for: what a fundable financial model contains and what makes investors walk.

An evening social at the Royal Bank Accelerator for the Edinburgh startup community.

Royal Bank Accelerator's Grow Your Sales series: telling your business story so it sells.

An open morning at the Royal Bank Accelerator's new West End space on Princes Street, aimed at founders considering the programme or wanting a desk for the day. Free.

Tech Tuesday at the Royal Bank Accelerator — the accelerator's regular open morning for Edinburgh's tech community.

A drop-in morning at the Royal Bank Accelerator's new West End space on Princes Street, open to founders while the hub onboards customers and builds its community. Co-working available on the day.

A three-hour workshop on equity investment: the routes (angels, venture capital, equity crowdfunding), what makes a business investable, how investors assess value, and how to tell when equity is the right option at all. The fourth session of the Royal Bank Accelerator's six-workshop, 12-week Funding Accelerator, though you can attend it on its own. Expect practical exercises on valuation, real founder stories and an Action Lab to leave with next steps. Guest speaker to be confirmed. 09:30 to 12:30 at the Royal Bank Accelerator, 142-144 Princes Street. Free. Why go: a structured morning for founders who want to understand equity before they are in a room with an investor. Best for early-stage founders weighing their first raise.

Group coaching for founders at the Royal Bank Accelerator.

Royal Bank Accelerator's Grow Your Sales series: building and using a repeatable sales process.

She Scales at the Royal Bank Accelerator: a session for women founders past the idea stage who are trying to grow, with practical growth and funding content.

The Royal Bank Accelerator's Fund Your Business Your Way series starts with debt: what lenders actually look at, and when borrowing beats giving away equity.

Part of the Royal Bank Accelerator's Grow Your Sales series: customer-obsessed selling for early-stage companies.

An open morning at the Royal Bank Accelerator's new West End space on Princes Street, as it onboards its next cohort. A look round, a desk for the morning and a chance to meet the team and the founders already in the building. Free.

A charity bake-off mixer at the Royal Bank Accelerator — light social networking among the Edinburgh startup community.

Pitch Club at the Royal Bank Accelerator: a working session on how to talk about your business so people actually care, with practice and feedback rather than theory.

The Royal Bank Accelerator opens its West End space for a doors-open and co-working day. A straightforward way for Edinburgh founders to see the accelerator, work alongside other startups and meet the team behind the programme.