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We're on a mission to power founders to go further, faster.

We believe that by providing exceptional founders with capital, expert operational
support and access to world-class corporates, we can create technology
companies that solve our world's biggest challenges.

We're a diverse team of 100+ founders, operators, industry experts and investors

Having worked with nearly 200 startups across all stages, we know what it takes for you to succeed.

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We're backed by the world's most influential companies

We've received investment from leading corporates to build and invest in transformational new companies, solving global problems.

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Our Investments

We're an award-winning pre-seed to Series A venture studio and accelerator. To date, we've backed over 200 tech companies globally, 45+ of which we've built from scratch in our studio.

We're currently investing across multiple sectors including FinTech, Retail, Home, Healthcare, Media, Beauty, Travel & Ai & Big Data.

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Our Commitment

Entrepreneurs come from everywhere. Any background, geography, ethnicity, upbringing, or belief system. They are challenging the status quo to solve our world’s biggest problems.

We have formalised a set of Diversity Commitments to hold us accountable to this view.

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Our founders have built and invested in some of Europe’s biggest startups

Brent Hoberman

Brent is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Factory, Founders Forum and firstminute capital, a $210m seed fund with global remit backed by over 80 unicorn founders. Previously, Brent co-founded lastminute.com in 1998, was CEO from its inception, and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn.

Henry Lane Fox

Henry is Co-Founder & CEO of Founders Factory. Previously, Henry was CEO of Founders Forum Group where he co-founded Founders Intelligence, Smartup.io, and Grip. Henry remains a partner at Founders Forum, serves as Executive Chairman at Founders Intelligence and is a partner at firstminute capital.

George Northcott

George is Co-Founder of Founders Factory and leading our expansion in the US, after four years of building Founders Factory in London, Johannesburg and Paris.

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founder stories

— 23 days ago

Scaling & exiting my second business by 27, and what I’ve learned along the way: Fanbytes co-founder & CEO Timothy Armoo

Timothy Armoo, on the back of his second exit, shares some of the most important lessons he's learned along the way

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Lessons for founders & CEOs on climate tech & disrupting the energy industry, with Juliet Davenport OBE, Good Energy founder

We asked the Good Energy founder for her main lessons learned about changing consumer behaviour and launching a truly disruptive supplier

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COVID, CAT Scans, and Cover: Our view on insurtech and preventative healthcare

FF investor Edward Kandel dives into our latest investments around the healthcare and insurtech space

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