Table for Ten

Built for investors. (We host monthly dinners for investors and some founders, DM for more)

Founded in 2024, Table for Ten is built around the theme of connections, relationships and people-first.

For years, the ecosystem has been riddled with backroom dealings, exclusive clubs and non-inclusive investments.

We're not changing that.
We're just different.

Co-founder - Operating Partner

Twinn Health

With Twinn’s advanced AI and MRI technology, you gain early insights into potential health risks like cancer, long before symptoms appear. Get ahead of the curve—because having the facts today means a healthier tomorrow.

Chief Revenue Officer

Squared

Squared - We make ​founders better ​fundraisers.


I also help with:

- Fractional COO/CCO (Paid)
- Startup Advisory (Paid/Equity)
- Idea to Revenue (Paid)

Clients include:
- TOSHI
- Bodo
- Evermile
- Klymb
- Deliverwize
- XeroE
- Voyage
- Cobi
- UProspr
- PediVan
- Hatch

Founder

UProspr

Connecting employers with talented people, without bias.

UProspr Language Bias Decoder helps you instantly decode hidden stereotypes in your text, catapulting your recruitment process towards true diversity.

The tool is perfect for recruiters, talent managers, and business professionals who want to make a difference.

Strategic Advisor

Cobi

Cobi, is your personal money guru, one that is a tap away living on your smartphone to help you understand your money and spend it wisely. Achieving financial independence is challenging and not understanding money makes that 10x harder, Cobi is here to make financial journeys simple and help you enjoy the things that matter most to you along the way.

Hatch Enterprise UK

Hatch Enterprise supports underrepresented entrepreneurs to develop the knowledge, confidence, and skills needed to launch and grow a business. They do this through delivering workshops, events, and 1-2-1 volunteering support, connecting entrepreneurs in a vibrant supportive community, and building networks and partnerships with other organisations who share our vision.

Operations Consultant

Jumpstart

Mentor

City, University of London

Professional Mentor

Curve Club

Curve Club is the only private members club exclusive to founders. Backed by prominent angel investors and launched in 2023, Curve is an exclusive community of high calibre founders and investors looking to stay ahead of the curve.

Founding Member

Operations Nation

Operations Nation (ON) is a community-powered digital ecosystem designed to showcase the people, systems and processes that power our businesses and make the world go round. The Community Advisory Board assists ON with bringing the ON Community to the next level and making sure that the community leaders always serve in the best interest of the group. 

As members of the Board, we 
- Give feedback on the day-to-day running of the community, along with ideas for the future and how to implement them
- Share our thoughts and perspectives on making the community work even better for everyone
- Advocate for the community and connect them to the ON Team
- Assist in sharing information with the community
- Provide our support and knowledge on specific projects

Community Advisory Board Member

Hey! You listened!

I'm Rayan 👋🏼

This is how I spend my weeks:

- I have breakfast with founders and investors
- I advise early stage startups at a board-level (for equity)
- I advise early stage startups on a practical level (for £250/month)
- I am building the future of angel investing (see Table for Ten)
- I help founders understand how to become better fundraisers (see Squared)
- I host 1:1 founder retreats just outside London (They're £1.5k - ask me about them)

And solve bunch of other things. Just message me, I'm usually responsive.
Please don't DM decks, use https://www.tableforten.ventures/apply-now to submit.

ps. You can also probably get my attention if you talk about CrossFit 🏋🏻‍♂️ or Yoga 🧘🏻‍♂️

I lay there in a pool of sweat.

Another hot vinyasa class. Brutal instructor. 
All I could think of was what would £1k do for one founder today..?

I hosted 10 founders today (3 that no-showed..) for a practical fundraising breakfast.

When they signed up, they didn't know this.

But yesterday, I made the decision to up the stakes.

One will walk away with £1k.

A nano-sized angel ticket.
but an intent, none-the-less.

The 90min breakfast saw us breaking down:

- to co-founder or not. Why investors use it to de-risk, but also why there should be. 
- fund dynamics and metrics. Why funds behave the way they do and how you can use this understanding to your advantage. Metrics are good, they can also kill your chances.
- advisors and shares. When the timing is right or wrong, how much equity is too much and the mistakes of moving too fast on advisors. 
- thinking of your investors as a map, not a list. I've gone on about this for ever, always happy to explain to those interested.
- be human.

A massive thank you to all everyone who made it this morning:

Nimi Singh - The Table App
Tarek Moursi - Better Sundays
Ojasvi J. - Cauldron
Billy Holmes - Sigh
Anoop Antony - NeuroX
Anh Duong Nguyen - Nimi

No decision like this is easy. No matter how small or big.
I'm giving today's investment to Tarek from Better Sundays. 

I'll break down some of the dynamics that went through my head as a separate post. 

(here's hoping Tarek doesn't tell me his valuation is £20m.)

Breakfast with Founders


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Thank you as ever to Vestd for supporting my series!


If you're a founder keen to meet, I'd love to have breakfast with you in London. Link to waitlists are in my featured section. Naturally, I can't meet with everyone, but I'll always try to make time to speak!

Rayan 🎈

Are you about to fundraise? 
I usually host breakfasts for founders to sit back and share stories.

This time I'm focusing in on early fundraising.

I've got 10 spots at my signature Table for Ten - Breakfast with Founders in King's Cross on the 11th December.

Stuck at the first part of your journey?
Don't know what valuation or how much you should raise?
Struggling to reach your investors?
Don't know if you should cold reach or look for intros?

This is for you.

Sign up in the comments!

ps. This is not for service providers or consultants.

A marketer might think they know how to retain customers... but a neuroscientist might prove how.


And here's the thing.

Loyalty programmes have been dying a death... but FANKS to Alex Revill, they might have a place going into 2026.

Alex is one of those rare founders who is obsessively curious.
He'll ask questions. And he'll follow up with 'why though'.
Almost borderline uncomfortable. Because I had to think.

It's probably what took him from his journey studying the brain, to pharmaceuticals - a little stint at urban fertility at Zinc to eventually come round to ProblemKit and now, FANKS.

An IRL-first loyalty platform that makes generosity easy. 

We spoke about:

- IRL events and communities. Is this something hosts are doing to be authentic or as their full time gig? Does the essence of create mechanisms and funnels for IRL change its purpose in the first place? The question really looked at challenging the balance of rewards vs experience. 

- Demand generation as a means to market. It's very easy to go out and build the perfect product. Alex's focus? Proving demand. No calendly links, no sales cycles. And how does he do it? He turns up to a pilates class, he asks the hottest brands how they do it, he becomes a user of his own product. I'll let Alex release the good tip on call to actions.

- Product market fit. Especially in an IRL-first world, where the signal is simple. People show up. People stay. People return. If this doesn't happen, there is no fit. There is no market. There is no product.


Thank you as ever to Vestd for supporting our series!


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If you're a founder keen to meet, I'd love to have breakfast with you in London. Link to waitlists are in my featured section. Naturally, I can't meet with everyone, but I'll always try to make time to speak!


Breakfast with Founders 🥐

I've just upped the stakes on tomorrows breakfast.

One founder will walk away with £1000 towards their raise.
I've never met any of them before.
I have little to no context about their startups.

It's a nano-ticket, but it's an intent towards a founder. 

Angel investment is about taking risks in the people you have a good feeling in. 
I've realised sometimes being too measured has been my downfall.

Being measured in an asset class which in effect can't really be measured.

I'm sure there won't be much movement on the waitlist at this stage, but I'll drop the link again in any case someone does jump in.

So tomorrow, I'm putting my money and breakfast where my mouth is.

Founders, remember. 


It's not the quantity of your interactions, it's the quality.

You can send 1000 sh*t emails or you can send 50 really good ones.
You can go to 100 pitch events or you can network really well at two.
You can download lots investor lists, or you can curate a really good one.

When I think of the founders I remember, I remember their interactions.

Clear, thoughtful, intentional.

The ones that made every time count.

They are the winners.

British people don't brag, but there's one thing some do brag about.


How much they drank.

It's like some competition. 
How much they spent on booze.
How wasted they got as a result.
How they felt the next morning.
The fact they kept drinking the next day.
How craaaaazy it all was.

This is such a powerful trait, that could be directed to other use.

Now imagine we replaced alcohol with our startup during a fundraise.

Brag about it.

I wrote about this recently and the impact it can have on startup progress and fundraising, particularly when a lot of it is down to narrative, momentum and how confidently you tell your story.

If you can brag about a hangover, you can brag about your traction.

And here's the thing.
If we applied the same energy we do after a night out, founders would move twice as fast.

'How much I drank' becomes how many customers you spoke to this week.
'How wasted I got' becomes the hardest problem you solved.
'How I felt the next morning' becomes what you learned and what you fixed.
'We kept drinking the next day' becomes consistent progress and visible momentum.
'How craaaaazy it all was' becomes the story of how you're building something worth backing.

Use the same comfidence.
That same storytelling energy.
That same enthusiasm you somehow have after bottomless brunch.

If you want investors to believe in you, you need to give them something to remember. 

Brag responsibly.
Brag strategically.
But brag.


ps. Drink responsibly.
pps. I'm hosting an intimate breakfast on Thursday for founders that are raising. Link in comments or DM me.

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