The Hustle Before Revenue | Breakfast for Research-Led Founders

A small, informal breakfast for founders, operators, investors and ecosystem partners working with research-led companies before full commercialisation.

Pre-revenue is one of the hardest parts of the company-building journey. Teams are often developing the key IP that will underpin the rest of the business, while also working out how to fund that development, shape the commercial strategy and move from research into market. This breakfast is for people working in R&D-heavy environments, developing technical, scientific or complex products where the path from research to market is still being shaped.

There will be no panel, no pitching and no formal presentation. The aim is simply to bring together a focused group of people connected to research-led companies to meet each other, share notes and have useful conversations around R&D strategy, commercialisation, funding, partnerships, product direction and the path to market.

We’re keeping the group small so everyone has the chance to properly introduce themselves and speak to others in the room.

We’ll start from 8:30am with breakfast and coffee, followed by quick introductions and an informal group conversation. We’ll wrap by 10:00am.

About Lightbringer At Lightbringer, we believe that protecting world-changing innovations should be clear, accessible, and fast. We are a fast-growing company reshaping a €90 billion global industry by building the patent service of the future. Our platform leverages agentic and generative AI to automate complex legal tech workflows, from invention disclosure and ideation to priority drafting and international filing, while keeping expert patent attorneys in the loop for quality assurance. Series A backed by top-tier European VCs including 6DC, NEWION, Luminar Ventures and Alliance VC.