The Road to Growth | Lessons from Giant Ventures, Atomico & OMERS

What does it take to turn early-stage promise into a company built for serious scale? Join Will Dufton, Partner at Giant Ventures, for a fireside chat exploring the road from early-stage startup to growth, and what investors expect to see along the way. With investing experience spanning Atomico, OMERS Ventures and now Giant Ventures, Will has backed companies from early stage through to Series B+ and growth. In this session, we’ll unpack the milestones that matter as companies scale, how investor expectations change at each stage, and what separates promising startups from those that successfully break through to growth. Key takeaways The leap to growth: what needs to change as a startup moves beyond the early stage What growth investors actually look for: the signals that turn interest into conviction Where promising companies get stuck: the common gaps that become harder to ignore at Series B+ Raising at growth stage: how the investor conversation changes as rounds get bigger…