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Venture Café Manchester: Ambitious Science, New Models - Focused Research Organisations & the UK Funding Landscape
Thursday 5 November 2026·5:00pm·Sister - Renold Building
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Date & Time
Thursday 5 November 2026
5:00pm – 8:00pm
Price
Free
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Venture Café Manchester
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About this event
The weekly Venture Café Thursday Gathering, this edition on Focused Research Organisations and where they sit in the UK funding landscape - the model built for science that is too large for a single lab and too early for a company, and the question of what funds that work here.
Venture Café evenings run as a set of sessions plus open networking across three hours rather than one talk, at SISTER on the Renold Building site. Free, with registration through the Venture Café community platform. The full session list is published closer to the date.
Why go: focused research organisations and the money around them get discussed far more in London than in Manchester, and this is the city's standing room for research-heavy founders. Best for deep tech founders, university spinouts, and anyone raising against a science roadmap rather than a revenue one.
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