Investment Readiness with Ash Rust

📅 Date: Thursday 30th April 2026
🕐 Time: 13:30–15:00 (BST)
🌐 Location: Thatcher Business Education Centre, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP

Join Ash Rust for this session, exploring what investors look for in startups, your "must-haves" list and how founders can get there.

Ash is an entrepreneur turned investor. He is the Managing Partner of Sterling Road, a venture fund focused on B2B companies at the earliest stages. He was an advisor to Bullpen Capital and previously worked at Trinity Ventures. Ash has mentored hundreds of startups through accelerator programs including Y-Combinator, Techstars, Oxford, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Alchemist. Before investing, Ash was co-founder and CEO of SendHub (acquired: Cameo Global, Y-Combinator W12), Director of Ranking at Klout (acquired: Lithium) and an Engineer at OneRiot (acquired: Walmart). Ash earned a Masters in Computer Science from Oxford, served as an Officer in the British Army, and currently resides in San Francisco.

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