🌟 MBC update 🌟

Happy Monday from MBC! we hope you had a good weekend (despite the awful weather)

Firstly, we just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who attended our very first event, it was a huge success and we’ve had amazing feedback from members, so thank you for making it so special, you can check out the event video HERE

Don’t worry if you missed out, we have some great events lined up for you in 2025 that we will be telling you more about soon, but before that……are you coming on Wednesday????

🌟Parents building companies Christmas party 🌟

For the first time ever we’re combining Dads & Mums Building Companies to form Parents Building Companies!

Two special communities collide for a joint Christmas party this Wednesday at The Dally in London. It’s lunchtime so we hope we’ve catered for childcare issues!

Tickets are just £5 and include lunch, a welcome drink at the bar and great company

To book your ticket for just £5 please click here - Wednesday 11th - 12pm - 2pm

👥 Event sponsors

We are delighted to announce our event sponsors for the parents building companies Christmas party! who are providing you with lunch and drinks at the bar 🙂 a big thank you to these business for making this event happen

Tim Barber, The Startup Folk

The Start Up Folk are dedicated to helping companies thrive through their people. They partner with early-stage, founder-led businesses to build high-performing teams. By providing coaching, processes, and expertise, they empower founders to organise and engage their people, enabling them to achieve extraordinary things.

Caroline Marshall, UpSource

Upsource is a community of VAs who provide Business, Executive and Virtual Assistance. Including Outsourced PA / EA, operations, financial admin, HR and content services to Entrepreneurs, HNWs, Startups, Scale ups and SME’s.

Having a background in Personal Assistance, Business Support and Events, Caroline transitioned to the Virtual Assistant industry in 2016, firstly as an employed VA, and then ultimately launched her own agency in July 2020.

Upsource has seen significant growth since 2020 and Caroline and her tips have been featured in the Metro, Daily Mail, Grazia, Stylist, Waitrose Magazine and The Guardian.
Her personal experience of motherhood, the workplace, redundancy, the pandemic, furlough and finding freedom with starting her own business has led her on the path of creating a podcast ‘Bump to Business owner’ to share the stories of other Founders who are also Mothers and ‘how on earth we do it’.

Himat Gami, Flo Talent

At www.flotalent.co we provide world class technology talent services to financial services, hedge funds and commodity traders as our primary clients. We focus on AI/ML talent as well as engineers across the traditional stack.

We work with clients in offshoring business processes to India inc: Company set up, legal, HR, Talent sourcing, real estate etc.

Founded by hedge fund investors and founders of global tech consultancies.

Guy Littlejohn, Function

Function has two business models; The Mind, Body and Pipeline Events and The Consultancy. Our 3-Day and UK based founder only events combine health and wellness with partnerships and referrals to create a unique experience that allows business owners to leave feeling refreshed, reenergised, and ready to take on the new business to follow from their new aligned partnerships. The consultancy offers end to end commercial growth through analysis and implementation of multi-channeled fractional sales and marketing.

Ryan Grallia, LuciusOS

LuciusOS is a modern back-office automation platform for startup founders so they can focus on delivering fantastic products for their customers instead of wasting time on low-value, mundane and repetitive tasks.

We are similar to Xero and Sage, but we provide the bookkeeping services plus software specifically designed for your technology businesses all in one easy-to-use interface which includes data visualisation and the ability to pay your employees and suppliers.

As part of our launch plan, we have two final spots left in our beta program exclusively reserved for founders in the Parents Building Companies Group.

🗓 Dates for your diary

We know funding is such a big topic for female founders so we have plans to run both in person and online events covering all areas of funding, from Angel, VC and crowdfunding. First up please save the date if you are thinking about angel investing.

Wednesday, January 17th, 2024

Time: 10:00 AM

Where: Playfair Capital Offices, London

Join us for an interactive panel discussion featuring seasoned investors and founder who has successfully raised an exclusive angel round. We’ll cover how to prep your round, secure warm intros, pitch effectively, understand what returns angels expect, close successfully, even without a lead investor and more! Spaces are limited to 40 attendees, with a hybrid option available for remote participants.

More details and sign-up coming soon!

💌 Connect with Us

Don’t forget if you are not already part of it, be sure to join our WhatsApp group and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news and discussions. We’d love to hear from you!

Plus don't forget to share the love, if you know any founders who would benefit from being in this group please do share with them.

Thanks again for being part of this community and we hope to see you at one of our events very soon

Jenn, Danielle, & James