• iGB Startup Summit is due to take place on July 1, 2025
• The event will introduce entrepreneurs and start-ups to investors and VCs
• Clarion Gaming calls the summit the next big thing in iGaming

Clarion Gaming is back with a new and exciting piece of news as the company will host the iGB Startup Summit, offering the opportunity to connect iGaming entrepreneurs with top-tier investors and give a further push to the ecosystem.

Held just ahead of July’s iGB L!VE on July 1, 2025, at ExCelLondon, the iGB Startup Summit is the must-attended event for start-up businesses in the industry.

The idea is to offer promising upcoming companies the opportunity to speak with institutional investors, venture capitalists, and private equity holders, introducing innovators to seasoned investors.

The iGB Startup Summit has been curated in partnership with Defy the Odds, a new start-up accelerator founded by former Pinnacle CEO Paris Smith, Kelly Kehn, and Sue Schneider.

The event has all the trappings of a well-planned forum where forward-thinking, cutting-edge companies will have the opportunity to participate in private networking, roundtablediscussions, fireside chats, and panels giving the inside scoop of their business to people and organizations that have the funds to make their bold new designs come to fruition.

Commenting on this important addition to the iGB L!VE format, Clarion Gaming’s Global Portfolio Director Naomi Barton had this to add:

"We know from working with the start-up community that new businesses struggle with securing funding, meeting mentors and entering the industry. Equally, investors lack a centralised, professional and sympathetic environment where they can connect with talented entrepreneurs and in the process gain early access to iGaming’s cutting-edge start-ups."

She noted that bringing the communities of investors and investors together was made even simpler with the use of an exclusive Chatham House-style high-value networking environment, offering the opportunity for start-up enterprises to meet iGaming founders, forge new partnership and raise long-term investments.

Naomi has hailed the iGB Startup Summit as the next big thing in iGaming, particularly focusing on venture capitalists and investors, while looking to give entrepreneurs and start-ups the funding and insight needed to bring their projects to the finishing line and beyond.

Although investment has been shaky due to market forces and the broader economic landscape, Clarion Gaming and its established events join others in nurturing innovation at a time when competitiveness depends not solely on the first-mover advantage but also sustained cycles of technological improvement.

In the meantime, iGB L!VE will kick off on July 2-3, 2025, at ExCel London and is expected to reunite as many as 15,000 iGaming and affiliate pioneers, helping businesses grow their online ecosystems, and more.

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