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Onstage’s semi-annual Demo Day is powered by 300+ leading VC funds including Balderton Capital, Sequoia, LocalGlobe and Cherry Ventures.

Open to any pre-seed to Series A founder, it takes 10 minutes to apply and is the fastest way to get warm intros to investors.

‍Our next Demo Day is 23rd October 2025. Applications open September 2025. Founders can sign up for early access below.

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Open to any pre-seed to Series A founder, from any industry,  raising in the next six months.

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VCs review applications and send out over 1,500 intro requests to founders per Demo Day.

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The top 100 founders based on VC interest are featured on our Onstage Top 100 list.

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The top 1% of founders pitch at our virtual Demo Day, watched by ~2k investors

...without accelerator faff.

Minimal time sink

One 10-minute application, distributed to hundreds of VCs.

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We don’t offer mentorship you didn’t ask for. Just a sharp fundraising push when you need it.

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We’ll never take fees or equity.

Over 1,500 intros per Demo Day.

Alumni

Our applicants go on to achieve greatness

Founders don’t look back after applying.

Onstage is a vital platform for European entrepreneurs, providing exposure to leading investors and a supportive community. It’s also been a great source of high-quality deal flow, making it easier for investors to discover Europe’s next cohort of promising startups.

Georgia Forbes
Atomico

The team at Onstage are great sourcing partners for our firm, providing consistently high quality and proprietary deal flow.

Antoine Nussenbaum
Felix Capital

Onstage is an incredible platform for early stage founders and investors. Beyond opening up access to the fundraising market, they’re building a great support network that’ll benefit the European early stage landscape.

Mas Senghore
ex-MMC

It made discovering and investing in top tier companies so easy.

Isabelle O’Keefe
Sure Valley Ventures

The quality that Onstage surfaces is amazing. I found as many interesting companies in the recent batch as I did in the last 4 conferences combined.

András Fehér
Day One Capital

A great initiative to level the playing field, offering founders the opportunity to get their vision and pitch in front of VCs and angels, and supercharge their fundraising efforts.

Daphne Dovermann
ex-Atomico

Onstage is a remarkable initiative that levels the playing field, granting founders the golden opportunity to showcase their vision and pitch to VCs and angels, igniting their fundraising efforts to unprecedented heights.

Audrey Handem
Speedinvest

Onstage offers much needed access and efficiency to founders allowing them to focus on what ultimately matters most at this stage - building product and speaking to users.

Akshat Goenka
Moonfire

Concept has loved being part of the Onstage network, and we’re proud to have backed a few of the brilliant startups involved. A great way to democratise fundraising.

Oliver Kicks
Concept

It’s great to see Onstage building on their success for startups, to help drive forward venture investing in the UK and Europe.

Andrew J Scott
7Percent

Our second fund III investment, YASO, came through Onstage. They’ve done a remarkable job of attracting a first-rate group of smart entrepreneurs.

Chris Smith
Playfair

Onstage has created a new opportunity for fundraising for founders and helped VCs to develop a highly needed collaborative approach - both great for the ecosystem.

Pietro Bezza
Connect Ventures

Someone in the startup world recommended I apply to Onstage. It was very well run and we ended up raising a £1.3m seed round coming out of it. They also pooled together a load of smaller investors into an SPV which was cool. Definitely worth applying.

Charlotte Bex
Captur

Usually, you’d need to spend weeks to reach so many investors and have cold ears, but Onstage helped us cut through the noise in one fell swoop.

Hamish Blythe
Trilo

Candidly, I was a little sceptical at first. We were totally blown away. It resulted in loads of VC/angel inbounds and even a couple of potential customers.

Dillon Harindiran
Slipstream

I can’t recommend Onstage to founders enough. They’ve been amazing at supporting our mission.

Peony Li
Jude

We felt supported every step of the way. Most importantly the event resulted in fruitful conversations with many investors and interested parties and placed us on firmly on the ecosystem map.

Madi A
BOLDR

Before we entered Onstage, we had a few thousand pounds committed to our SAFE. A couple of weeks later, we had hundreds of thousands in the SAFE and had found a lead investor for our upcoming Seed round too.

Andy Aitken
Honest Mobile

The program was well-run and organised, and we obtained some amazing angels through the process. We would highly recommend Onstage to any founder looking to raise capital in an efficient manner.

Charlie Bullock
Scan.com

With nothing but an elevator pitch, we were contacted by 10 of the UK’s top VC firms, before we even started fundraising.

Kabalan Gaspard
Datapostie
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