Join Venture Café Edinburgh for a high-impact Thursday Gathering held in collaboration with Fintech Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, ScotlandIS, and key industry stakeholders. Serving as an official fringe event to the Fintech Festival, this session will bring together sector leaders and innovators to explore what it really takes to start a fintech business in Scotland and scale internationally.
From alternative funding models and growth strategies to robust security frameworks, we will dive deep into the people and ideas powering the next generation of fintech companies.
Meaningful ideas and changes are sparked when serendipitous connection collides with intention. The Thursday Gathering is our free, weekly meet-up that connects people from across Edinburgh’s innovation community to make things happen. Every Thursday, we bring together innovators of all backgrounds, from founders and investors to students and researchers, to discuss big ideas and connect human to human.
Community Partners:
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Grab a drink, and join the conversation! Whether you're looking to meet potential collaborators, exchange ideas, grow your network, or simply continue the conversation, this is a great opportunity to connect with fellow innovators, entrepreneurs, and members of the community. You never know where a conversation might lead!
Email inboxes are filling up with AI sales slop because people don’t know the rules of what makes a good, clear and effective sales message in 2026.
Come to this session and learn those rules, including the difference between what salespeople think personalisation is and what it actually takes to send a genuinely personalised, relevant sales message in 2026.
Take a seat and hear from Venture Café Edinburgh Director, Claudia Cavalluzzo who will go through how to make the most of a Thursday Gathering and give you a quick preview of what's in line for this week's event.
Venture Café is a global movement built on a simple but powerful belief: isolation is the enemy of innovation.
At our weekly Thursday Gatherings, we connect creators, entrepreneurs, investors, coworkers, students and visionaries to build strong, inclusive and equitable innovation ecosystem. As ecosystem activators, Venture Café Edinburgh is creating a central hub for the city's innovation ecosystem, driving visibility, collaboration and community.
And if you’d like to get more involved with Venture Café, there are plenty of ways to join our network:
🤝 Become a partner
🎤 Speak at an upcoming Thursday Gathering
🙌 Join our ambassador team
Join us for this fireside chat between Louise Beattie, COO & Director at i-confidential, and Beverly Bowles, Head of Cyber at ScotlandIS, as they explore the story behind the business. Louise will share her journey from early funding and growth to scaling with structure and purpose, touching on employee ownership, cyber resilience, and what it really takes to build a resilient, internationally scalable company from Scotland.
Full line up coming soon!
Join Venture Café Edinburgh for a high-impact Thursday Gathering held in collaboration with Fintech Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, ScotlandIS, and key industry stakeholders. Serving as an official fringe event to the Fintech Festival, this session will bring together sector leaders and innovators to explore what it really takes to start a fintech business in Scotland and scale internationally.
From alternative funding models and growth strategies to robust security frameworks, we will dive deep into the people and ideas powering the next generation of fintech companies.
Meaningful ideas and changes are sparked when serendipitous connection collides with intention. The Thursday Gathering is our free, weekly meet-up that connects people from across Edinburgh’s innovation community to make things happen. Every Thursday, we bring together innovators of all backgrounds, from founders and investors to students and researchers, to discuss big ideas and connect human to human.
Community Partners:
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Grab a drink, and join the conversation! Whether you're looking to meet potential collaborators, exchange ideas, grow your network, or simply continue the conversation, this is a great opportunity to connect with fellow innovators, entrepreneurs, and members of the community. You never know where a conversation might lead!
Email inboxes are filling up with AI sales slop because people don’t know the rules of what makes a good, clear and effective sales message in 2026.
Come to this session and learn those rules, including the difference between what salespeople think personalisation is and what it actually takes to send a genuinely personalised, relevant sales message in 2026.
Take a seat and hear from Venture Café Edinburgh Director, Claudia Cavalluzzo who will go through how to make the most of a Thursday Gathering and give you a quick preview of what's in line for this week's event.
Venture Café is a global movement built on a simple but powerful belief: isolation is the enemy of innovation.
At our weekly Thursday Gatherings, we connect creators, entrepreneurs, investors, coworkers, students and visionaries to build strong, inclusive and equitable innovation ecosystem. As ecosystem activators, Venture Café Edinburgh is creating a central hub for the city's innovation ecosystem, driving visibility, collaboration and community.
And if you’d like to get more involved with Venture Café, there are plenty of ways to join our network:
🤝 Become a partner
🎤 Speak at an upcoming Thursday Gathering
🙌 Join our ambassador team
Join us for this fireside chat between Louise Beattie, COO & Director at i-confidential, and Beverly Bowles, Head of Cyber at ScotlandIS, as they explore the story behind the business. Louise will share her journey from early funding and growth to scaling with structure and purpose, touching on employee ownership, cyber resilience, and what it really takes to build a resilient, internationally scalable company from Scotland.
Full line up coming soon!