Dear all, 

We are delighted to invite you to a special entrepreneurial evening in partnership with CAMentrepreneurs and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at HEC Paris: 

Entrepreneurial Showcase HEC x CAMentrepreneurs

Pitch night and Networking Reception

Thursday 19th November at 6:30 pm

HEC UK House 43 Parker Street London WC2B 5PS

Join us to celebrate our entrepreneurs and participate in an unforgettable pitch night with startups from HEC and CAMEntrepreneurs, the Cambridge Alumni Entrepreneurs Community. You will have the chance to witness the future of entrepreneurship and meeting with inspiring entrepreneurs from the HEC and Cambridge community. We welcome everyone, from BAs, early stage VCs, tech leaders and curious Alumni!

About HEC Paris Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute:  ranked 4th out of 150 centers in Europe's Leading Start-Up Hubs 2025 by the Financial Times, the Institute supports innovators and entrepreneurs from all walks of life! Learn more here. 

About CAMentrepreneurs: Created in 2016, the Cambridge Alumni Entrepreneurs Community aims to facilitate and encourage the transfer of knowledge and capital to establish successful businesspeople among the alumni of Cambridge University. Learn more here.

Discover our startups: 

Ayolab - Christophe Le Houedec

Description: Ayolab is a B2B SaaS that helps leading brands such as L’Oréal, Coty, Lacoste and Pierre Fabre take control of their e-commerce marketplace challenges. We reveal a brand’s true sell-out on Amazon, Walmart, Mercado Libre, Rakuten and other marketplaces, broken down by seller (authorised or not) and by item (approved or not). With that visibility, our clients convert unauthorised sellers into healthy P&L growth and a better customer experience.

Tok Portal -  Alexis Klein

Organic reach on TikTok and Instagram used to mean one account, one operator, one market at a time. TokPortal lets companies launch native accounts in any country, run by verified locals on real devices, and operate them all from one dashboard, API, or AI agent. Thousands of consumer and media brands scale their distribution networks on TokPortal.

Nodera -  Carla Martin

Building a data centre takes 2 years. Connecting it to the grid takes 7 to 10. Nodera sizes flexible grid connection contracts, based on the data center's future usage and the local grid constraints. Once the data center is operational, Nodera's technology forecasts grid stress hours and schedules preemptible loads around them, for the data center to respect its grid connection contract. Founded in Paris in 2025 by Carla Martin (CEO), a senior data scientist specialised in graph theory, and Guillaume Fauconnier (CSO), a former electricity trader turned electricity contract consultant for large consumers.

Luma Energy - Tony Charalambides (Founder CEO) and Miles Waller (Founder CTO)

Luma is the AI-native energy supplier. We proactively help customers cut their energy costs, carbon and complexity through keeping them on the cheapest Luma tariff and getting their solar, batteries and heat pumps installed, continuously optimised by applied AI. 

Sentai - Peter Otto (CEO/CPO), Julian Griffith (Commercial Director)

Sentai is an AI companion for older people living at home. It helps with daily routines, monitors wellbeing, offers company, and keeps users connected to family and carers, all through natural conversation. No screens to learn, no buttons to find, no cameras, nothing to wear or charge: you just talk. After two and a half years of R&D building its hardware and platform, and soft-launching both B2B and B2C products, Sentai is now looking for advisors, partners and investors to help it scale.

Matoha Instrumentation Ltd - Martin Holicky

Matoha creates material identification devices that enable people and robots to quickly and accurately identify the material composition of textiles, plastics and flooring. This enables the creating of recycling feedstocks, but also underpins quality control in manufacturing. More than a thousand Matoha devices are now in use in 60+ countries around world.

EVENT SUMMARY: 

• Date: Thursday 19th November 2026
• Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
• Venue: HEC UK House 43 Parker Street London, WC2B 5PS. The HEC UK House has step-free access. 
• Format: Pitch and networking reception. Food and drinks included. 
• Tickets: £20 

Pictures and videos will be taken during the evening and might be used on social media. 

If you need help to register for the event or any information, please contact Marie Normant, our Alumni Relations Manager.