Dorset Business Angels pitch presentation event – January 2026

Dorset Business Angels Network Limited provide quality, private equity investment opportunities to local self-certified High Net Worth and Sophisticated Investors.

We help early-stage businesses, especially in southern England our local area, to find equity capital. We do this by bringing our investors and entrepreneurs together to accelerate the growth of early-stage businesses.

Join us for networking from 17.00 in The Orangery at The Carlton Hotel, enjoy refreshments whilst meeting and catching up with fellow investors, DBA sponsors and the DBA team.

Meet the Founders- Investors will be able to meet the entrepreneurs and view their products or services before the pitch presentations at the networking session.

Presentations will follow in The Causerie Suite at 18.00 with an introduction from our Chairman, Don McQueen and MD Peter Eales. There will also be a sponsor presentation.

Five carefully selected companies seeking investment will then make a 10-minute pitch each, after which there is time for Q&A. Then, expressions of interest from Angel Investors are registered for further action.

Once the pitch presentations are finished, those staying for dinner will enjoy a hot buffet-style meal with wine and a chance to start new conversations and continue those started earlier in the evening. There will be no table seating plan.

All dietary requirements can be catered for, please let us know what we need to be aware of in the booking form.

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The companies chosen to pitch are:

Sector: Water Testing

Laboratory-grade water bacteria detection delivered on site in under 15 minutes, removing lab delays and strengthening regulatory compliance.

This Company is transforming how bacteria in water is detected and managed. Its platform delivers laboratory-grade bacteria detection in the field in under 15 minutes, replacing the current slow, costly lab processing that can take several days.

A strong patent portfolio – 13 granted, 4 pending – protects the technology that has already been validated by universities, water utilities and regulators both in the UK and North America.

Their customers comprise water companies, environmental agencies, and industrial users who now all face increasing regulatory scrutiny.

The Company is in revenue, with repeat institutional customers and committed forward orders.

Management now seek £500K to support their manufacturing scale-up, regulatory progression, and international expansion.

Sector: Production Line Efficiency

Rapid deployment factory intelligence that exposes hidden inefficiencies and delivers measurable ROI.

Manufacturers lose billions annually through unplanned downtime, waste, and poor utilisation. This Company addresses these problems with a rapid deployment, hardware-agnostic solution that delivers measurable ROI in weeks, not months.

Its platform helps manufacturers uncover and eliminate hidden inefficiencies on the factory floor. It is designed to connect to any industrial asset, and blends real-time machine data with operational context – i.e. shifts, schedules, stock codes, and energy – to create a single trusted ‘source of truth’.

It now has more than a dozen paying customers, a high retention rate, a growing ARR base, and a healthy expansion pipeline. Customers include well-known UK manufacturers who report double-digit improvements in productivity and utilisation shortly after deployment.

Management is now raising £225K to accelerate sales and expand the customer base.

Sector: Voice First AI Admin for Service Businesses

Voice-first AI assistance removing administrative burden from overstretched small service businesses while the work is being done.

This Company’s voice-first AI assistant is designed to remove the administrative burden faced by tradespeople and small service businesses – one of the most underserved and overstretched segments of the economy.

Built natively on WhatsApp, the platform enables users to manage quotes, invoices, scheduling, payments, and tax records entirely by voice, making it especially powerful for those who struggle with traditional software. With ‘Making Tax Digital’ approaching fast, and admin time already costing tradespeople thousands per year, the need for this service is urgent and the market is vast.

The platform has generated strong interest across many trades and now has early users. The founding team are experienced entrepreneurs who have previously built and exited businesses and are now seek £550K to scale up this business.

Sector: AI data handling for Lawyers

AI-driven automation of legal rankings and submissions, improving win rates and reducing cost across every pitch.

This Company has developed a legal-tech SaaS platform that automates one of the most critical – and painful – processes in professional services, viz: rankings, submissions, capability statements, and fee proposals.

For the major law firms, these services are mission-critical in winning premium work. Yet submissions remain manual, repetitive, and fragmented across Word and Excel. This platform replaces all this fragmentation with a single AI-powered system that reuses structured data across multiple workflows, saving time while improving quality and consistency.

The company has experienced strong early traction with dozens of law firms already onboarded, paying customers across multiple jurisdictions, and a strategic partnership with Chambers & Partners.

Pricing is transparent and scalable, with clear ‘land-and-expand’ dynamics as firms add users, submissions, and additional modules. The founding team combines sound legal backgrounds with product and technology expertise, which has gained them sound credibility with buyers.

Sector: Big Data

Enterprise-grade knowledge integrity ensuring AI systems, copilots, and agents operate on accurate, auditable data.

This Company addresses a very real and well-defined enterprise problem, viz: AI systems, copilots and agents that are currently being deployed on poor-quality, fragmented databases, leading to incorrect answers, compliance risk and operational inefficiency.

The technology originated in live enterprise environments and has been spun out as a standalone platform comprising three modules, thereby enabling organisations to audit their knowledge, correct inaccuracies, and continuously maintain a single primary reference for both AI and human use.

It has been designed to target highly irregulated and complex sectors where accuracy matters most, including aviation, utilities, telecoms, and infrastructure. The company is already engaged in paid pilots and advanced commercial discussions, with a growing enterprise pipeline.

The business model follows a proven path from paid pilots to recurring SaaS subscriptions, with a strong expansion potential once embedded. The management team is experienced in enterprise delivery, data, and commercial execution.

They now seek £500K to build out the platform and extend the customer base.

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This event is suitable for:

• Angel Investors
• Those considering becoming an Angel Investor
• Support services involved in or interested in becoming involved with Angel investment

This event is not suitable for:

• New business networking
• Finding new clients
• Entrepreneurs considering a future pitch to investors*

*This event is for Investors, it is only fair to presenting companies to ensure all attendees are genuine or potential investors.

Professionals who want to personally invest or, who have a portfolio of clients to whom Angel investing may be of interest are very welcome to attend. If you have a specific requirement to attend or if you are unsure whether this event is right for you, please email contact@dorsetbusinessangels.co.uk and we will be pleased to assist.

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Non-Member Investor Self-Certification is Required for the Event

Under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended 2005) investors must “self-certify” by meeting simple criteria as “High Net Worth” or “Sophisticated” Investors.

Therefore, any investor should read and sign the documentation via our About page on our website, either a High Net Worth Investor Certificate or a Sophisticated Investor Certificate, as is appropriate.

Members of Dorset Business Angels will have already submitted this information and need not do it again.

Visitors, who are neither members nor investors are welcome to attend for information-only purposes and must understand that they can only invest in a non-regulated investment on becoming a paid-up member of Dorset Business Angels.

Pitchers – We also wish to point out that companies or individuals seeking investment through the Dorset Business Angels must ensure that the information presented to potential investors is neither inaccurate nor misleading. They are, accordingly, similarly advised to seek guidance from someone authorised under the Act.

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DISCLAIMER

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How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

If you have any issues booking your ticket. Email our Events Manager: Paul Smart, paul.smart@dorsetbusinessangels.co.uk