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History was made at the Canopy Community Remote & Global Demo Night in June 2026. Hosted virtually from Lisbon, the night closed with a result that has never happened in our ecosystem before: Aykut of...
There is a particular kind of energy in a Lisbon evening when founders, investors and operators crowd into a small room with great coffee and a clear purpose. On Wednesday 24 June 2026, Canopy Communi...
Oscar Heaney had barely handed in his dissertation when he decided not to look for a job. Instead, he went all in on a startup he’d built with a team he met at a hackathon during his final term at uni...
On Wednesday 10 June 2026, Canopy Community hosted the Signature Edition Demo Night during London Tech Week, in partnership with City Ventures. The room was full of first-time founders, early-stage in...
On a recent Canopy Community remote demo night, the votes were counted, recounted, and confirmed — it was close, but Nathan Lord walked away with the People's Choice award. The room, scattered across ...
At Canopy Community's London demo night, one founder stopped the room. Jean-Paul Efang, founder of GaimControl, walked away with the People's Choice award — voted for by a diverse audience of founders...
At Canopy Community's Cornwall demo night, the audience cast their votes — and two founders walked away with the People's Choice award. Tom Ring and Max Mednikov, the team behind UnaGo, earned that re...
At Canopy Community’s first ever in-person demo night, held at Bath Spa University, the audience cast their votes — and one founder walked away with the People’s Choice award. That founder was Duncan ...
The applause was real, even if the room was virtual. At Canopy Community's latest global remote demo night, one founder stood out so clearly that the audience and international judges reached the same...
 There’s something special about bringing a startup founder community into a university setting. Yesterday’s Canopy Demo Night at Bath Spa University did exactly that—blending curiosity, energy, and r...
Building a startup for the first time can feel messy, exciting, and a little overwhelming—all at once.
That’s exactly why spaces like Demo Night matter.
This special edition, part of the UniDays Stu...
What if the best way to understand money was to actually trade it? That's the question at the heart of SLVR, the zero-commission rare coin marketplace founded by Mark Edwards — and the idea that earne...
