Supercharged StartUp Show is back and better than ever!

The UK’s biggest start-up show of the new year is back and better than ever. In a brand-new venue, join a supercharged StartUp Show on 25 January to make 2025 your year. 

Whether you want to be your own boss, have a brilliant business idea or simply want to sharpen your entrepreneurial skills, StartUp Show is for you. 

This is your chance to discover everything you need to know about starting and growing a business – from five focused stages and three interactive zones.

StartUp Show stages

Visionary Voices 

Inspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders will share their journeys of innovation, resilience and success. Hear how they've transformed their ideas, overcome challenges and disrupted industries. 

This keynote stage is powered by Constant Contact.

Digital Evolution 

Explore the future of digital marketing with industry experts. From AI to social media, learn how to create and market high-impact content on a budget and use cutting-edge tools to accelerate your start-up's success. 

This stage is powered by Vodafone Business.

Show Me The Money!

Master the art of raising capital, managing finances and making the most of grant funding. 

A panel of experts and entrepreneurs – including Dragons' Den contestants – will tell you how to secure business finance from a range of sources and share advice on building connections with investors. 

Build A Brand 

Your brand is key to your success – whether you're launching or growing. 

Join creative entrepreneurs and industry experts for hands-on talks about branding strategies, going viral, pitching to small business journalists and building your personal brand.

Start Me Up

This stage is your go-to resource for mastering the business essentials. 

Talks will cover everything you need to know to grow your business – from product development and cash flow to e-commerce strategies and pitching to buyers.

StartUp Show zones 

You'll also have the chance to explore the following zones: 

• Connect with business support organisations in the exhibition zone 

• Book a 1-2-1 session with experts and mentors in the adviser zone 

• Meet the team in the Enterprise Nation zone 

StartUp Show's Visionary Voices 

When it comes to starting and growing your very own business, it's crucial to hear from the best and brightest minds in UK business first.

Luckily, many of them will be holding court with gusto on the Visionary Voices stage. Here are some of our confirmed speakers:

Emma Barnett and Jeremy Weil 

Emma and Jeremy co-founded their family business Colour Your Streets in 2024, not long after the birth of their daughter.

Inspired by the pram walks around their local neighbourhood with their older son, they were surprised to learn local colouring books of people's areas didn't exist.

So they created one: Colour In Brixton, swiftly followed by Colour In Herne Hill. Now the Colour Your Streets family numbers over 100 books, with more added each week.

The duo are now mapping the UK and the world with their colouring books and love their many bespoke commissions too. Described by the Guardian as "a family business grounded in community and curiosity", Colour Your Streets is also diversifying into colouring-in biscuits and posters.  

Emma works as a journalist for the BBC, where she presents The Today programme and writes a column for the i newspaper. Jeremy works at the Economist's Editorial Intelligence Unit as the head of product.  

Follow on Instagram: @colouryourstreets

Deepak Ravindran 

Deepak is the co-founder of Oddbox, the UK’s first sustainable fruit and veg box delivery service. He's been instrumental in rescuing over 40,000 tonnes of fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste, supporting farmers and promoting sustainability.

Hear from Deepak about his innovative approach to combating environmental challenges and how he's positioned Oddbox as a leading force in the fight against food waste, with revenues climbing to over £32 million.  

Follow on Instagram: @oddboxldn

Will Pearson 

Will is interested in combining entrepreneurship with social and environmental impact. He's appeared on the Forbes 30 under 30 list and was named one of Norway's Top 10 Leaders under 30 for his work towards the sustainable development goals.

After his engineering degree, Will spent a year working at sea in the Indian Ocean, where he experienced first-hand the effects of pollution on the ocean. From there, he decided to pursue a career in environmental impact and business.

He believes that everyone should have access to the beauty of nature and it's the job of business to connect people to the natural world through experiences or design so that they can best protect it.

Will met his co-founder Nick at London Business School, where they had the idea for Ocean Bottle.

With a background in product development and engineering – including developing an atomically thin solar cell for his engineering thesis – Will has nurtured an obsession to create products that give more to the world and environment than they take from it and hopes to inspire some of the world’s largest companies to do the same. 

Follow on Instagram: @oceanbottle

Chris Baker 

Chris is an award-winning advertising and social change strategist, founder and author. He's the founder and CEO of Serious Tissues, a toilet roll brand combating climate change by planting over 1.2 million trees in three years.

He also co-founded Change Please, a coffee brand that has helped hundreds of homeless people by training them as baristas, earning recognition as the World's Leading Social Enterprise in 2018.

With 20 years of experience working with major brands like Unilever and Nivea, Chris has won over 100 awards and is known for applying psychology and behavioural economics to drive positive social change across a wide range of societal issues. 

Follow on Instagram: @changeplease and @serioustissues

Mark Rushmore and Gyve Safavi

Mark and Gyve are two former advertising professionals who founded SURI, a brand focused on sustainability. With the aim of disrupting a waste-heavy industry, they created a recyclable electric toothbrush.

Despite encountering initial challenges with manufacturers, the pair's product gained traction, earning £3 million in its first year and getting stocked by major retailers. With a subscription service and plans for expansion, SURI is now a growing symbol of conscious consumerism.

Join this session for inspiration from two ambitious co-founders who were determined never to give up, despite hearing from many people that what they were trying to achieve was impossible.

Follow on Instagram: @discoversuri

Susan Allen

Susan is co-founder and chief brand officer of Here We Flo, a rapidly growing B Corp with big ambitions and an impressive roster of advisers and investors from Graze, Charlotte Tilbury, Unilever, L'Oreal and more.

With fellow founder Tara Chandra, Susan launched the brand with a Kickstarter campaign in 2017, and it's been shaking up the personal care industry ever since. Its purpose-driven, sustainable period care and sexual wellness range offers "shamelessly natural care for life's messiest moments".

Here We Flo is on a mission to challenge shame and disrupt the period, bladder and sexual wellness markets with organic and vegan products, including tampons, pads, reusable period underwear, condoms and more!

Follow on Instagram: @hereweflo

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