Our next Pitch Event for Angel Investors is on January 26th at the Bournemouth Carlton Hotel.
DBA members, High Net Worth (HNW), and Sophisticated Investors (SI) from our wider community who comply with our requirement to deliver serious investor interest for our presenting entrepreneurs will attend. Access to pitch decks, business plans, financial information and one-page summaries is available via our Pitch Portal.
If you are HNW or SI but not a member, please contact us to request access to the Pitch Portal.
Investors, please register now to attend the event
The pitches are as follows:
Market sector: Water Testing.
Laboratory-grade water bacteria detection delivered on site in under 15 minutes, removing lab delays and strengthening regulatory compliance.
This Company is transforming how bacteria in water is detected and managed. Its platform delivers laboratory-grade bacteria detection in the field in under 15 minutes, replacing the current slow, costly lab processing that can take several days.
A strong patent portfolio – 13 granted, 4 pending – protects the technology that has already been validated by universities, water utilities and regulators both in the UK and North America.
Their customers comprise water companies, environmental agencies, and industrial users who now all face increasing regulatory scrutiny.
The Company is in revenue, with repeat institutional customers and committed forward orders.
Management now seek £500K to support their manufacturing scale-up, regulatory progression, and international expansion.
Market sector:- Production-line efficiency.
Rapid deployment factory intelligence that exposes hidden inefficiencies and delivers measurable ROI.
Manufacturers lose billions annually through unplanned downtime, waste, and poor utilisation. This Company addresses these problems with a rapid-deployment, hardware-agnostic solution that delivers measurable ROI in weeks, not months.
Its platform helps manufacturers uncover and eliminate hidden inefficiencies on the factory floor. It is designed to connect to any industrial asset, and blends real-time machine data with operational context - i.e. shifts, schedules, stock codes, and energy - to create a single trusted ‘source of truth’.
It now has more than a dozen paying customers, a high retention rate, a growing ARR base, and a healthy expansion pipeline. Customers include well-known UK manufacturers who report double-digit improvements in productivity and utilisation shortly after deployment.
Management is now raising £225K to accelerate sales and expand the customer base.
Market sector: - Voice First AI Admin for Service Businesses
Voice-first AI assistance removing administrative burden from overstretched small service businesses while work is being done.
This Company’s voice-first AI assistant is designed to remove the administrative burden faced by tradespeople and small service businesses - one of the most underserved and overstretched segments of the economy.
Built natively on WhatsApp, the platform enables users to manage quotes, invoices, scheduling, payments, and tax records entirely by voice, making it especially powerful for those who struggle with traditional software. With ‘Making Tax Digital’ approaching fast, and admin time already costing tradespeople thousands per year, the need for this service is urgent, and the market is vast.
The platform has generated strong interest across many trades and now has early users. The founding team are experienced entrepreneurs who have previously built and exited businesses and are now seek £550K to scale up this business.
Market sector: – AI data handling for lawyers.
AI-driven automation of legal rankings and submissions, improving win rates and reducing cost across every pitch.
This Company has developed a legal-tech SaaS platform that automates one of the most critical - and painful - processes in professional services viz: rankings, submissions, capability statements, and fee proposals.
For the major law firms, these services are mission-critical in winning premium work. Yet submissions remain manual, repetitive, and fragmented across Word and Excel. This platform replaces all this fragmentation with a single AI-powered system that reuses structured data across multiple workflows, saving time while improving quality and consistency.
The company has experienced strong early traction with dozens of law firms already onboarded, paying customers across multiple jurisdictions, and a strategic partnership with Chambers & Partners.
Pricing is transparent and scalable, with clear ‘land-and-expand’ dynamics as firms add users, submissions, and additional modules. The founding team combines sound legal backgrounds with product and technology expertise, which has gained them sound credibility with buyers.
Market sector: - Big data.
Enterprise-grade knowledge integrity ensuring AI systems, copilots, and agents operate on accurate, auditable data.
This Company addresses a very real and well-defined enterprise problem, viz:- AI systems, copilots and agents that are currently being deployed on poor-quality, fragmented databases, leading to incorrect answers, compliance risk and operational inefficiency.
The technology originated in live enterprise environments and has been spun out as a standalone platform comprising three modules, thereby enabling organisations to audit their knowledge, correct inaccuracies, and continuously maintain a single primary reference for both AI and human use.
It has been designed to target highly irregulated and complex sectors where accuracy matters most, including aviation, utilities, telecoms, and infrastructure. The company is already engaged in paid pilots and advanced commercial discussions, with a growing enterprise pipeline.
The business model follows a proven path from paid pilots to recurring SaaS subscriptions, with a strong expansion potential once embedded. The management team is experienced in enterprise delivery, data, and commercial execution.
They now seek £500K to build out the platform and extend the customer base.
Sponsor Update
Tom Rich from our event sponsors, Rathbones, will provide a review of 2025, reflecting on the past year’s developments and offering Rathbones’ perspective on what may lie ahead in 2026.
