
What is EIE?
The EIE Investor Readiness Programme is an intensive preparation for founders and business leaders, providing training which is designed to enable and enhance our cohort’s business, as they seek to understand and explore the options for current and future investment.
EIE culminates at the EIE Conference, where the EIE22 cohort will pitch for investment from Seed to Series A and beyond, to an international gathering of investors.
EIE works with a select group of sponsors, who are offered a fantastic range of benefits as part of the sponsorship package. If you’d like to learn more, then please visit our sponsorship page or contact us to discuss the options available.
Alumni Companies

540
Total Alumni Investment

$1500000000
Earthshot Prize Nominators
We are Official Nominators for The Earthshot Prize, the most prestigious global environment prize in history, designed to incentivise change and help repair our planet over the next ten years.
Earthshot Winners will each win £1 million in prize money and the only way to be a part of The Earthshot Prize is to be nominated!

Meet Our Alumni
We were delighted to partner with Scottish Enterprise for ‘Scotland’s Green Innovation and Investment Showcase’, during COP26. The company showcase featured EIE alumni Celtic Renewables, Sunamp, Spire Global and Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd, who have all gone on to obtain significant investment and are looking towards worldwide growth in the future.
Click below to watch the presentations and discover more about our incredible alumni.
“EIE is one of the highlights of the UK technology scene. It was a great opportunity for us to raise our profile, meet potential future investors and meet and learn from other fantastic startups.
“To this day, I still meet new people who remember seeing us pitch at EIE. Attending the day directly led to us raising a small round of investment but also allowed us to build connections with investors who can support us at our next stage.”
Chris McCann (CEO)
Current Health (formerly snap40)
EIE ALUMNI
“We’ve met some of our most active investors here (EIE), so it has opened a lot of doors for us and had a very big impact on the business.”
Leah Hutcheon
Appointedd
EIE ALUMNI
“I think there was a great engagement opportunity to go downstairs to the exhibition hall and catch up with the companies I wanted to make a personal connection with.”
Marc Shirman
Investment Director, Beringea
EIE INVESTOR ATTENDEE
“The main thing that attracted me to EIE is that you can get to actually meet people face-to-face, it’s a personal connection with everybody.”
Siobhan Clarke
Partner & Investor Episode 1
EIE INVESTOR ATTENDEE