Is this platform the next marketing must-have?

Imagine a world where you can source all of your marketing images from talented Instagram users — for a fraction of stock image fees. Billion-dollar business or pipedream?

Enter Lobster – a marketplace to find and license photos on social media. The startup is one of three pitching at Building a Billion Dollar Startup event, the latest in StrategyEye’s series of knowledge and networking events at The Escalator in east London.

The event, taking place on Wednesday 30^th September, will bring together some of the brightest minds in the startup scene. Pitching alongside Lobster is TeamFirst, a fundraising platform for university societies and sports teams, and Localistico, which helps small businesses with online discovery for their physical locations. Each startup will deliver a five minute, rapid-fire pitch to the investors and potential customers in the room.

Preceding the pitches will be keynote presentations from three startups that have already reached a billion dollar valuation: cloud communications startup Twilio and long distance ridesharing service BlaBlaCar, which attained unicorn status following a $160m funding round earlier this month. The final speaker will be announced closer to the event.

The presentations will be followed by networking pizza and drinks with 130 tech investors, entrepreneurs, consultants and advisors. The evening promises to be insightful and engaging, with real opportunities to learn from and network with top tech players.

This is the third instalment of StrategyEye’s Building a Billion Dollar Startup. Previous keynote speakers include Spotify, Uber, AirBnB, Sailthru and YPlan.

Early bird tickets end on Monday 21^st September, so visit the Building a Billion Dollar Startup event site to get a 40 per cent discount.