News by Mathilde Bacholle
écrit le 14 March 2025, MÀJ le 14 March 2025
14 March 2025
Temps de lecture : 3 minutes
3 min

How to own the room (Even when you’re about to faceplant)

Let’s be real: pitching is brutal. You pour your soul into a startup. It becomes your 4 AM wake-up call, your all-consuming obsession, the thing you love so much that when the time comes to sell it—really sell it—you choke. Not because you don’t believe in it, but because you believe too much.
Temps de lecture : 3 minutes

Finding the right words suddenly feels impossible. Your brain freezes, your mouth goes dry, and before you know it, you’re speed-talking your way into oblivion while a guy who was never going to invest anyway interrupts you with a question designed purely to watch you squirm.
Welcome to the gauntlet.

But here’s the thing: you don’t have to go down like that.

Because while practicing your pitch is the base, the art of delivering it is another science entirely. Some say it’s not what you say, but how you say it. I say it’s both—because when your startup is your entire life, the stakes are high, and you need to own the room.

And when things don’t go to plan? You better know how to respond quickly.

That’s why we’ve built something different. Something for the women founders who have been there, who have felt the panic, the frustration, the rage of knowing they have a game-changing idea but struggling to cut through the noise.

Introducing: The Power Breakfast

On April 2nd in London, we’re bringing together a powerhouse of women entrepreneurs for a morning designed to help you:

✔ Own the room – with top lawyers (yes, BIG SHOT lawyers) namely our friends from Hogan Lovells showing you exactly how to command authority in investor meetings.

✔ Improvise on your feet – with West End stars, used to handling a live audience, teaching you how to think fast when your pitch goes sideways.

✔ Get the funding you deserve – with actionable tips from Innovate UK teams on securing that grant you’ve been chasing.

✔ Sit down 1:1 with investors – they’re coming with a declared intention just to help. No chequebooks in hand, no promises, just a willingness to pause their day and give you insights, feedback, and guidance. And who knows? A conversation today could turn into a cap table entry tomorrow.

We’re here to give you every chance to make that dream come true. Because we, too, are dreamers. Dreamers with a plan.
And the best part? It’s 100% free - Register now.

But let’s be real—founders are dreamers. We get it. You will bring your visions to the table, because that’s who you are. That’s the beauty of it. You’re unstoppable, unreasonable, and that’s why we’re building something NEW, something refreshingly effective.
We’re here to give you every chance to make that dream come true.

You don’t need to be French.
The best part? It’s 100% free.
And that Matters.

Mathilde Bacholle is a Board Member of La French Tech London.

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