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Founders Factory leadership and operational support.

Emma-Jane Willan

Chief Financial Officer

Brent Hoberman

Executive Chairman, Founder

Claire Morris

Chief Studio Officer

Daisy Hutchison

Studio Program Manager

Damian Routley

Chief Commercial Officer

Farah Kanji

Global Talent Director

George Northcott

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Henry Lane Fox

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Isabela Chick

Chief Strategy Officer

Jeffrey Ng

Chief Scientific Officer

Kate Nussrainer

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Levi Young

Sector Director, Home & Hygiene

Louis Warner

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Paul Egan

Chief Incubation Officer

Sarah Strickland

Accelerator Programme Coordinator

Corporate Development & Fundraising

Legal and commercial support on a wide variety of subjects as well as helping shape your strategy and fundraising story and getting you to tell it to the right people so you can get funded.

Alex James

Corporate Development Manager

Darren Mulvihill

Venture Portfolio Manager

David Hickson

Chief Strategic Development Officer

Frank Webster

Head of Corporate Development

Kelvin Au

Head of Venture

Maria Paola Emanuelli

Corporate Development Manager

Michelle Wilk

Investor

Saloni Bhojwani

Investor

Talent

Making sure you can recruit and retain a brilliant team that can deliver on your mission.

Becky Liu

Talent and People Lead

Farah Kanji

Global Talent Director

Growth Marketing & PR

Strategic and hands-on support growing revenue and building your brand.

Emily Yoon

Growth Lead

Emma Wolfin

Growth Lead

Lee Bernasconi

Director of Growth

Liam Nolan

Growth Lead

Olivia Martyn

Head of Brand Marketing

Timothy Masek

Growth Lead

Brand, PR & Events

Providing the best resources for our founders and helping our portfolio and team to get to the right people in our network.

Ellie Slaght

Head of Community & Events

Olivia Martyn

Head of Brand Marketing

Rae Gray

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Simon Lovick

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Product

We help you and your team to build the right product the right way.

Jacob George

Product Coach

Design

We also help you and your team to build the right product the right way.

Bhav Mistry

Head of Design

Flora Pearson

Product Designer

Liam Lewis

Product Designer

Max Karacun

Product Designer

Rae Gray

Integrated Graphic Designer

Engineering

Support on high-level R&D strategy, tech stacks all the way to low-level data schemas and hiring.

Andreea Chelaru

Engineer

Andrei Gheorghe

Engineering Manager

Bogdan Ionescu

Engineer

Catalin Mustata

Engineer

Cosmin Manolescu

Engineer

Roland Batovski

Engineer

Data Science

We help you design and implement systems that extract knowledge out of data.

Jeffrey Ng

Chief Scientific Officer

Steve Vuong

Studio Data Scientist

Strategic Partnerships

We are here to help startups get traction with our investors and other businesses in our network. We can help across the sales pipeline, helping you run pilots and ultimately close contracts and partnerships.

Alice Sandelson

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Nick le Fevre

Director of Partnerships

Olivia Silcock

Strategic Partnerships Lead

Venture Design

We design the businesses we build in the studio. Identifying opportunities and potential advantages with our investors.

Alex Daish

Venture Design Lead

Rita Sokorai

Venture Design Lead

Sahil Sachdev

Head of Venture Design

Shona Chalmers

Venture Design Lead

We're hiring and so are our startups

We're always on the lookout for exceptional people to join our team, or one of our portfolio companies.

Current Opportunities

Words from our team

practical advice

Should Your Startup Consider Crowdfunding?

What is crowdfunding, and how does crowdfunding work? Darren Mulvihill, senior venture portfolio manager at Founders Factory, reveals his top advice

trends

The future of Fintech: How founders need to build in the next five years

Thanks to the rise of embedded finance, even non-financial companies are reaping the rewards of fintech innovation. Here's what the next five years looks like.

founder stories

My first company failed. Here’s what I learned.

The list of what I should have done differently could fill a book, but for brevity, here are some important takeaways.

practical advice

How to Build Startup-Corporate Partnerships

Here are our top tips on how to nail corporate partnerships - from the first intro to a pilot and beyond.

practical advice

A Fundraising Manual For Startup Founders

To help Founders with their fundraising process, we've shared our considerations for fundraising successfully. Useful for those raising pre-seed to pre-Series A.

factory news

Founders Factory Diversity Commitments

These commitments impact how and who we hire, what investments we make, and how we strive to positively impact the technology and investment community at large.

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