Expert Hours session Dharmesh is a co-founder of OctaveWealth, an online retirement plan provider based in San Francisco, though he's recently moved back to London. OctaveWealth has millions in managed assets and grew over 10x last year. His first company, AdifyIt, was one of the first to be at Innovation Warehouse in 2011, before attending Y-Combinator in Summer 2012 as BigCalc, which again pivoted to OctaveWealth in 2015. His main expertise is early stage growth (ie getting your first customers,…

LB Group are sponsoring a pizza lunch and free workshop for the IW community, hosted by director Richard Lane, with regards to Tax efficient financing. A 15-20 minute presentation with time for Q&A after. Discussion points include: Seed enterprise investment scheme Enterprise Investment Scheme Venture capital trusts Research and development tax credits Patent Box Capital allowances This event is open and free to all Innovation Warehouse members.

Aging2.0's Grand Challenges is a new global initiative to drive collaboration around the biggest challenges and opportunities in aging. Our eight topics are the result of five years of bottom-up and top-down dialogue with stakeholders from across Aging2.0’s interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international community of older adults, senior care providers, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs. They are the innovation priorities for the Aging2.0 community. Over the coming months, Aging2.0 international be providing context for each topic and then work with our network to…

The Innovation Warehouse is establishing London’s primary AgeTech hub, providing our mentoring and investment raising services and experience to companies. We source companies every week to pitch to our investors and mentors who have the relevant industry experience and knowledge. We bring in early stage digital tech companies with technologies and processes that addressing needs to the growing older demographic. companies are B2B/B2C agnostic.

Innovation Warehouse sources 3-4 early stage tech companies to pitch to a boardroom of investors and mentors every Wednesday. We look for companies that are raising between £150k - £500k seed and we are sector agnostic. These companies are pitching either for investment, or mentorship through our WISE Programme to help them get investment ready.