Tech Events by Manchester Tech Collective

**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

A Sunday afternoon roundtable at Mala on Dale Street for people actively building a company or seriously working on an idea. It began as a handful of founders meeting over coffee, some mid-raise and some who had raised before, and has opened up to the wider Manchester community. The format is guided but informal and the organisers are explicit about what it is not: no pitches, no panels, no sales agendas. Conversation covers validating ideas, routes to funding from bootstrapping through angels, VCs and grants, which accelerators are actually worth the time, finding co-founders and early hires, and the early growth problems nobody warns you about. Two hours, Sunday afternoon. Why go: honest founder talk is hard to find in a city with a crowded networking calendar, and the no-pitch rule is enforced. Best for pre-seed and seed founders who want peers rather than an audience.

A Friday-evening mixer for Manchester's broad tech community — founders, engineers, designers, product people, investors — hosted in the CUPRA City Garage showroom space. Relaxed format, drinks, introductions, and the kind of casual conversations that tend to turn into something the week after.