Next Meeting
We will be holding our next meeting on 19th October 2026 at Browne Jacobson
Registration is through trybooking - admission £5.00
(Registration through trybooking)
We're passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship. Through our successful startup legal support programme, Grow, we will guide you through investment rounds so your startup secures funding to grow its operations. We advise on all areas of employment law to assist with hiring and managing your first employees. We implement tax efficient share option schemes to incentivise and retain your staff. We support on the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts and arrangements with customers and consumers and minimise risk and exposure to your business. We help you navigate the increasingly complex regulatory landscape relating to financial services and data and help shape your brand and intellectual property protection strategy.
Our aim is simple: to partner with you on your startup journey through the full growth cycle of your business, all the way through to exit.
We work with exciting, growing businesses and their stakeholders on venture capital and angel-led funding rounds across a range of sectors, including FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, AgriTech, automotive, retail and consumer and CleanTech.
Guest Speaker
Ken Valledy
Ken is a seasoned entrepreneur and speaker, a former Brand Director for global brewer AB InBev, and co-author of The Startup Lexicon, a must-read guide for navigating the language of startups , now out in its third edition.
After a successful career in senior marketing roles, Ken founded his own business, Progressive Acceleration, specialising in forging meaningful, world-wide partnerships between cutting-edge start-ups and large corporations, including Mercedes, P&G, Kimberly-Clark and Haleon. That company was acquired by the Anthesis Group in October 2023.
Ken then created The Great Escape programme in 2025, with its key focus to help senior leaders take those first few steps towards "Entrepreneurial Freedom." To date, he has helped senior leaders across many different organisations, including British Airways, Publicis Media, NHS, Bloomberg, UBS, BBC, Sky and Alliance Healthcare.
Beyond his corporate-startup expertise, Ken is a dedicated mentor, providing guidance across multiple accelerator programs such as Techstars, UEL Backed, and EASI. A sought-after speaker and panellist, he frequently shares his insights at leading business and start-up conferences.
Business Pitches
Lizzie Melhuish
Avanc Biosensing
Avanc is digitising microbiology. The company's platform pairs a target-agnostic optical sensor with machine learning, turning a process that has depended on culturing bacteria in a lab for a century and a half into a software problem solved on site in under ten minutes.
Microbial risk, from waterborne pathogens to antimicrobial resistance, is accelerating but stays invisible until the damage is done. England's rivers are a case in point: Environment Agency data published in August put just 14.3% of surface waters in good ecological health, and utilities still detect contamination too late to act on it. Avanc's sensor uses light to fingerprint bacteria directly in environmental water, built on Stanford science and validated at 96.5% accuracy. Because it identifies organisms without the need for species specific labels, one platform serves water quality, public health safety, wastewater-based surveillance.
Walkabout is a movement founded in London in 2023 by Ben Brabyn that has since spread to around 42 towns and cities. The formula is simple: a short monthly walk - one hour, roughly 2.5km - followed by a drink in a café or pub. It's free, and everyone is welcome. Simplicity is the point. Walking side by side removes the awkwardness of conventional networking, and the results speak for themselves: Walkabout has attracted a remarkable community of founders, investors, veterans, medics, academics and public servants, and has already spawned several startup businesses - including one now valued at £20m. Beyond fresh air and companionship, members take on practical, multi-disciplinary challenges. A current example, organised with jHubMed, is exploring ways to mitigate the effects of non-compressible haemorrhage injuries.
Each local Walkabout depends on a volunteer host who shows up once a month, welcomes everyone who attends, and shares a short write-up afterwards. On 19 October Ben will share how the movement grew, what it reveals about trust and serendipity, and how 3Cs members can join - or host - a Walkabout near them.
And it would be super if you can join us for a Walkabout in the meantime. Please join us at walkabouts.mn.co
Vipe Analytics
The problem isn't the market. It's the data you use to read it. Equity investors globally rely on accounting data that was never designed for them. As part of the FinTech ecosystem, Vipe Analytics® provides equity investors with cutting-edge precision tools that go well beyond traditional metrics and multiples. Rather than analyses based on common accounting data, VIPE® specialises in transforming raw financials into insightful corporate economic data and analytics. This approach gives a clearer picture of a company's true valuation, cash returns, and wealth creation, helping equity investors make smarter and quicker contextualized investment decisions. This matters because accounting standards are inconsistent across regions, industries, and even companies, often muddying the waters for investors. Vipe Analytics cuts through this noise by applying a series of proprietary adjustments that convert standard accounting figures into actionable economic insights.
This results in a more accurate understanding of a company's true financial health and potential, leading to better stock selection and customized investment strategies tailored just for you. With VIPE, you're not just making decisions based on the numbers you're given - you're making decisions based on the real numbers that actually matter.
Registration is through trybooking - admission £5.00
(Registration through trybooking)
Next Meetings:
19 October 2026 - Browne Jacobson
25 February 2027 - Peabody
22 June 2027 - Marks & Clerk