Demo Night London — April Edition: The Founders Raising, Building and Winning Together

Wednesday, the Canopy Founder community packed into Bayes Business School for another electric edition of Demo Night — our monthly gathering where startup founders step up, share their product, and get honest feedback from a room of critical friends, investors, and customers.

This isn’t about pitching for pitching’s sake. At Canopy, Demo Night is about momentum. It’s about surfacing the hidden brilliance inside early-stage companies — and helping Founders see what they can't yet see themselves.

Fireside Chat: Wisdom from the Fundraising Trenches

We kicked off the evening with a rapid-fire fireside chat featuring Jeremy and Robyn, co-founders of Pravi.ai — fresh from successfully closing their seed round.

Their advice for Founders raising investment? It was raw, practical, and straight from the frontlines:

• "Your first pitch deck is bad — send it to people you can afford to get it wrong with. We went through 57 versions before getting it right."

• "Investors are customers too — figure out what makes you uniquely attractive to them and target those who care about your strengths."

This was the kind of founder-to-founder wisdom Demo Night is built for.

The Startups Who Took the Stage

Five brilliant early-stage teams demoed this month:

1. Iuvantium

A biotech platform tackling antimicrobial resistance by developing immune therapies that protect everyone, everywhere.
Founder: Bjorn Koerber

2. Dscvr

An app helping people find the places they’ve seen on Instagram or TikTok by mapping influencer recommendations straight into Google Maps and their own platform.
Founders: Gabriel & Adam

3. Steelo

A web3-enabled social platform helping musicians earn stable income by turning fans into active supporters through tokenised access and community engagement.
Founders: Edmund & Robby

4. TerraShore

A SaaS platform for SMEs to quickly generate climate compliance reports — unlocking access to government contracts and meeting emerging regulatory requirements.
Founder: Eoin

5. Linkable

A creator-brand marketplace making influencer partnerships radically easier for ecommerce brands, powered by their Shopify integration.
Founder: Federico

And the Winner Is...

A huge congratulations to Federico from Linkable — the winner of the People’s Choice Award for this month's Demo Night! Voted for by the community on the night, Federico impressed with a clear problem, a compelling product, and the kind of scrappy, revenue-generating traction every investor wants to see.

Why This Matters

This is why Canopy Membership exists. It’s not just about access to events — it’s about building alongside other Founders who understand the hard, messy, and powerful reality of trying to bring new products into the world.

If you’re a Founder building in London, Lisbon, Boston, Bangalore or Singapore — join us.

This is where momentum happens.

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