Target Global’s Growth Forum & Investor Day

The brief

Target Global, a leading European Venture Capitalist, firm wanted to elevate their annual Investor Day, and turn it into a two-day tech event bringing together founders, investors and industry influencers. This was an opportunity to create attention for Target Global, expand their network and unite their communities once more as we returned to live events in a post-Covid world.

The solution

We created a hybrid event, which was part tech conference, part pitch day and part celebration. We live-streamed the content so that guests from all over the world could join in.

Hosted at BAFTA, day one featured deep-dive sessions on topics including quick commerce, EdTech, SPACs and FinTech, with speakers including The RT Hon Philip Hammond, Mikko Salovaara, CFO of Revolut, and Arik Shtilman, CEO of Rapyd. We heard from Target Global’s portfolio in pitch style ‘Meet the Founders’ sessions. Brains were whirring with new ideas by the end of the day, which ended at Somerset House for ice skating, cocktails and canapés.

Day two started with a VIP breakfast at HIDE, followed by the Investor Day back at BAFTA. We closed on a high with plenty of tequila and 360 degree views of London, at the Treehouse Hotel.

Our role

Forgather built the event website and managed the live stream solution, developed the agenda, recruited top tier speakers, managed the design and branding, produced five epic CEO spotlight videos and found the perfect London venues.

We managed six different venues across the two-day event, and brought in three production companies to help us deliver the best experience for all, whether in person or via livestream. With a truly global audience, this meant including live translations for some of our remote participants. We also sweated over the data to provide personalised itineraries for registered attendees - with two events with different access criteria this was an important challenge to overcome.

Proud moments

Collaborating as true partners with Target Global. We put skin in the game and allocated part of our fee to a ‘success bonus’ based on delivery of certain key results.
Achieving a Net Promoter Score of 87 - with almost all 5* reviews from attendees.
Sourcing, embroidering, and packaging up 200 beautiful cashmere scarves - with only a week until the event.
Encouraging reluctant attendees onto the rink at Somerset House which we’d hired exclusively. The nerves disappeared quickly and the smiling faces in the photos said it all.

Praise

“Forgather was instrumental in delivering our annual investor meeting. They took care of all the details of the event logistics, from helping us with content, comms and speaker management to taking care of the venue; pushing us at the right times in the run up and managing the event days seamlessly so we could focus on our core business. Thank you so much for helping us to turn our vision into a successful event, and taking all of our stress away. We couldn’t wish for better partners to work with.”
- Pedro Barros, Head of Investor Relations, Target Global

“Thank you for not only an excellent event today but also for your unfailing support and expertise at every turn. Julian, John, and I thoroughly enjoyed the day. It was frankly faultless and your talent and knowledge was striking.”
- Sallyanne Heywood, Communications Consultant, wefox

“Really fantastic event. Amazing speakers, great line-up and length, food was excellent, venue was excellent, even swag was excellent. Really well done everyone!”
- Eyal Malinger, Investment Director, Beringea