About Us

We back the next generation of Asian-Heritage high-growth start up founders in the UK.

Our programmes support entrepreneurs through the early stages through our powerful community. Our events bring together the community to work together. Our resources help you to build your dreams!

This page is the no-fluff full breakdown of:

Everything we do‍

Our story

Our team

We have three primary active programmes which are free for the community:

Bae Accelerator is a three month programme to help ambitious founders scale rapidly leveraging the power of our community. The goal is to give you the insight and network to build the momentum to raise your first venture capital round within 6 months of the programme end.

IncuBaetor is our programme for first-time founders new to the startup world. The goal is to help you to test your idea with structure & feedback. Starting a startup can be scary and you'll gain confidence in your path through the IncuBaetor.

Youth Startups is a series of one-week programmes across summer to teach state school Year 12 students how to build and pitch a startup idea. Bae HQ's goal through this impact programme is to empower the next generation to believe they can build anything.

We host many free events throughout the year which are a variety of panels, fireside chats, workshops and more.

Over 10,000 people have attended our events and talks so far.

We've hosted and spoken in events at the likes of HSBC Innovation Banking, Google, Amazon, Barclays, Natwest, Ocado, Stripe, Sky, Tide and many more.

We're happy to talk, teach or judge at events, universities and schools where it makes sense for us to do so.

We've led many entrepreneurship workshops.

We collaborate on events only when the alignment is right and there is mutual benefit to working together. We only want to work with those who bring significant value to the relationship.

We've got a huge bank of resources for founders and aspiring founders. These are split between the those publicly available and the Members Area.

Public:

• Startups Inside Out podcast
• Startups for Outsiders book
• State of Asian Fundraising UK report
• Bae Watch
• News
• Wiki

Members Area:

• Weekly updates
• ‍Online sessions
• ‍Member directory
• ‍WhatsApp group
• Investor lists
• Job Board

We primarily serve the community through the methods above which scale rather than one-to-one support.

We do offer paid FCA regulated support for Seed + founders looking to raise and consulting/coaching.

This is on a case-by-case basis dependent on revenue potential and our capacity.

We ranted the first time we met each other. And the second. And the third.

All about how Asians weren't supporting each other enough in the startup ecosystem.

We saw so many examples of great communities for other groups but nothing for people who look like us in the UK.

Then we decided to do something about it.

We dreamt up a brand. The British Asian Enterpreneur HQ. Clunky. Bae HQ. Much better and allows puns.

We launched in October 2022 with a podcast and social media.

2023 was a year full of experiments.

Our launch event was 6 months later in April 2023 at Balderton Capital. We then had two fireside chats at Soho House before our first mega event at HSBC Innovation Banking. We held our anniversary event at Octopus Ventures.

We secured our own office at the end of the year and several partners!

2024 was the year we went to the next level.

Both Amardeep & Gurvir were now full time and 3000+ people attended our events.

We launched our first mentorship programme and our first university work experience programme.

We made our first full-time hire in October.

We hit 200 episodes of the podcast too.

2025 made 2024 look weak.

6000+ attended our events. We hosted 88 events and guest spoke at 47 more.

We completed three mentorship cohorts and ran the first two cohorts of our IncuBaetor.

We ran our Youth Startups Beta with 80 students from 5 schools.

We released the first State of Asian Funding UK report in parliament.

We released our first book, Startups for Outsiders.

80 more episodes of the newly rebranded podcast, Startups Inside Out, were released.

We featured in TEDx, BBC, Sifted, Business Insider, and more.

We've completed three more mentorship cohorts. Worked with 5 pilot state schools to place 100 students into start ups. Spoken in front of 1000 university students.

I grew around Ilford in East London in a 90% Asian school.

I had a culture shock when studying Economics at University of Bath including a year placement in the External MPC Unit at the Bank of England.

Fast forward.

In January 2020, I was an expert tech consultant who had worked with big brands across the world. Yet it was rare for a project to make my eyes light up.

My life changed when I started writing online as part of a New Year's resolution.

I became the second fastest writer to gain 50,000 followers on Medium.com behind only Barack (freaking) Obama! I became the co-editor of the Entrepreneur's Handbook publication with over a million views per month. It became too much to handle as a side hustle so I took it full-time in June 2021.

I wrote hundreds of pieces for startups and founders around the world and coached founders to become 10/10 writers rather than merely 7/10. I interviewed over 100 people across the Mindful & Driven and Entrepreneur's Handbook podcasts. This includes Ev Williams (Co-Founder of Twitter) and Marc Randolph (Co-Founder of Netflix!).

Then my dad passed away in August 2022.

Everything I had been doing felt hollow. Yet he had helped so many small businesses to not only survive but grow through his work. I want to make the kind of impact he made on people throughout my life.

And so Bae HQ was born.

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P.S. I'm a black belt in karate, former pro bhangra dancer and have been to ~50 countries.

My story starts in Southall where people like me had no idea what VC was.

I studied Economics and got lucky when a friend I made at a bar helped me get a job at Pantheon Ventures.

I worked in the fund of funds team before moving to Kindred Capital and Hermes GPE.

I wanted to give back to get more people like us into the start up ecosystem and give them a leg up.