Tech For Disability Group

Announcing our virtual London Tech Week 2025 Fringe Event Speakers!

Marc Goblot
Different looking figures of women and a wheelchair user with a line chart on a yellow background with a black background above for the title of the event on 9th June

šŸ“¢Announcing our virtual London Tech Week 2025 Fringe Event Speakers! šŸ“¢

When it comes to financing disability tech, are funding options fit for purpose?'

Join us online on Mon 9 June to hear an expert panel discuss what it would take to achieve a more inclusive startup funding landscape where social impact is a key priority and disability tech is no longer evaluated as a ā€˜niche’ market.

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We’re delighted to reveal our speakers:

⭐Coté Auil, Researcher at UCL/Global Disability Innovation Hub = Moderator

⭐Matt Pierri, CEO & Founder of Sociability

⭐Sophie Mason, Founder & CEO of ThinkEDI

⭐Orr Vinegold, Founder of Unrest

⭐ Yijuan Li, Co-Founder, Sounteract

⭐Kathy Marcham, Portfolio Manager at Social Tech Trust

Details: Mon 9 June, 13:00 BST, Online via Zoom

Don’t miss an amazing panel of experienced entrepreneurs and stakeholders sharing their insights on how funding can support marginalised markets.

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Is the current landscape of growth-fuelled and profit-led approaches of innovation funding and support working against the needs of disability and neurodivergent startups to expand this to more diverse markets?

Designing more inclusive tech for disabled and neurodivergent people is considered by many in the industry as an unknown or niche market, without the potential mainstream revenue, growth, and profit compared with other tech startups.

Therefore, disability tech startups are looking at alternative and inclusive forms of funding as traditional VCs are still less diverse and primarily interested in growth and profit, not in social impact.

In this London Tech Week 2025 Fringe Event, Tech For Disability will explore inclusive and alternative approaches to finance which are driven by impact over profit. and business models of designing for relatively ā€˜marginal markets.’

Join Tech For Disability of the Tech London Advocates/Global Tech Advocates network of tech businesses and individuals for a practical panel discussion bringing together the core perspectives to build an understanding of each other and solutions in common.

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