🚀 We’re delighted to share the news that the Financial Times has named Founders Factory as the number one startup hub in the UK, according to their just-published European Startup Hubs Report. We’ve also ranked in Europe’s top five for the second year running. The FT European Startup Hubs report, published jointly with Statista and Sifted, ranks the top venture studios, incubators, and accelerator programmes across Europe. The rankings—featuring 150 organisations across Europe—take into account alumni assessments, recommendations from startups and entrepreneurs, and overall portfolio performance, among other criteria. On the announcement, Minister for Investment Poppy Gustafsson said: “The UK is one of the best destinations in the world to invest, so I’m delighted that Founders Factory has been recognised as the UK’s top startup hub. We want the UK to create the next generation of world class businesses who can benefit from our strong science and technology base." 👀 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dx7K2739 henry lane fox | Brent Hoberman | George Northcott | Damian Routley | Emma-Jane Willan | David Hickson | Farah Kanji | Claire Morris | Lee Bernasconi | Frank Webster | Simon Lovick | Laura Moross | Ellie Slaght | HM Treasury | Peter Kyle | Department for Science, Innovation and Technology #startuphubs #accelerators #incubators #venturestudios
Founders Factory
Technology, Information and Internet
We’re co-founders and early stage investors. We build and fund startups globally.
About us
Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and unrivalled access to industry leaders like Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Nesta and Mediobanca. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. We operate sector-focused Accelerator programmes and Venture Funds for Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups, investing in talented and diverse founding teams across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Climate, Fintech, Health, Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 300+ portfolio companies have raised $1bn+ follow-on funding from leading technology investors.
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- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
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- London
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2015
- Specialties
- Incubator, Accelerator, and Fund
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2 Arundel Street
London, WC2R 3DA, GB
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Nicolae Iorga 5 2nd floor 010431
Bucharest, Romania 010431, RO
Employees at Founders Factory
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Ben Luckett
Managing Director - Venture and Strategic Capital
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Damian Routley
Building startups at Founders Factory
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Louis Warner
G-Force | Founders Factory - Investor in the transition to a Net Zero future.
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Rebecca E. Gwilt
Attorney & Strategist ⚖️ Healthcare Innovation/Artificial Intelligence/Virtual Care/Digital Health. Entrepreneur, Kindness Enthusiast, Investor in…
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🛍️ Since 2021, Shop Circle has established itself as a critical player in the e-commerce ecosystem. Acquiring and aggregating the best software, they’ve built an essential suite of tools for everyone from major brands to Shopify merchants. They’ve now built a suite of 50+ tools, growing their revenue by 110% each year, and are now increasingly focused on bringing cutting edge AI into the hands of e-commerce brands and merchants. Today, they announce $60M in Series B funding, bringing their total funding to $245M. This round includes new investment from Nextalia SGR & Endeavor, with funding from existing investors NFX and QED Investors, among others. Congratulations to Luca Cartechini, Gian Maria Gramondi, and the whole Shop Circle team 🚀 Read about their raise here: https://lnkd.in/ehrU6tFm henry lane fox | George Northcott | Brent Hoberman | David Hickson | Edoardo Gentili | Olivia Brooks | Jack Kennedy | Elena Vittone | Claire Mongeau | Andrea Guzzoni | Nick le Fevre | Simon Lovick | Laura Moross #ecommerce #AI #fundraising #seriesB
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🔬 🚀 Transforming industry, accelerating medical discoveries, finding cleaner sources of energy—these all require breakthroughs in technology. But developing these deep technologies is only the first step. Commercialising, getting them to market, and scaling them is a whole challenge of its own. In our new series, #CommercialisingDeepTech, we break down key strategies for launching deep tech out of the lab and into market. First up, we explore key differences between deep tech and digital tech (SaaS, marketplaces, etc)—and where opportunities lie in these nuances—as well as debunking some misconceptions about deep tech. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ekUQ6Dfk Have we missed anything? Let us know in the comments below 👇 Simon Lovick | Lee Bernasconi | George Northcott | David Hickson | Jack Kennedy | Tamryn Barker | Liam Nolan | Aleezay Malik | Liz Dennett, PhD | Endolith | Richard Ahlfeld, Ph.D. | Monolith #deeptech #science #commercialisation #breakthroughs
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💡 "There’s recognition that climate change presents real material risks and opportunities for investors, even as momentum has slowed for some major target-setting and decarbonisation organisations.” Read Unwritten founder Amos Wittenberg's comments in Tech Funding News about the exciting uptick in climate fintech funding 👇
Climate fintech continued to attract VC dollars last year in a difficult funding landscape. As I told Tech Funding News we're seeing growing demand for solutions that address the financial implications of climate — risk, carbon markets, energy management, regulation — even as momentum slows on high profile target target setting initiatives. Full article: https://lnkd.in/edPJs3i3
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⭐️ Fantastic to see Perlego - the e-subscription platform for academic textbooks - and founder Gauthier Van Malderen featured in The Times, talking about their breakthrough into the US market by partnering with Westcliff University. By the end of the year, they expect 80% of revenues to come from the US. Read the full article (by Richard Tyler) here: https://lnkd.in/eJZ6TM-i #edtech #elearning
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Founders—you have one week left to apply for the TV Star Competition ⭐️ TV Star, by All Response Media, is offering high-growth UK startups the opportunity to pitch for and design their own fully-funded TV campaign worth £50K - including a professionally produced 30 second TV advert across Sky channels. We're delighted to be on the judging panel (represented by our COO Damian Routley), alongside representatives from All Response, Transmission, Sky Media UK, UKTN, and Astus Group. 🚨 Applications close February 26th 🚨 Find out more and enter here: https://lnkd.in/eZmJt5XN #startups #advertising #media #tvcampaign
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Many enterprises’ ambition to leverage AI across their organisation doesn’t match up to their reliance on messy, unstructured data—sitting across Excel spreadsheets, feedback logs, and multiple other sources. Claro AI—our latest Fastweb Accelerator investment—is looking to transform this ⭐️ Building AI knowledge infrastructure for enterprises ⭐️ Leveraging the power of small language models (SLMs) that are trained and released to perform well on hyper-specific tasks ⭐️ Founded by Matteo Fava & Tameesh Biswas Claro has just announced €650K in pre-seed funding, led by Atlas Sgr with funding from Antler, Founders Factory, Fastweb, Plug and Play Tech Center and D11Z.Ventures GmbH & Co. KG . Read all about our investment in Claro here: https://lnkd.in/eBaUMT9V Edoardo Gentili | Andrea Guzzoni | Serena Rizzo | Aleezay Malik | Lee Bernasconi | Simon Lovick | Luigi S. Bianchi | Andrea Cerritelli #AI #SLMs #LLMs #startups #founders
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🚨 Last chance to apply for our next WA Nature Tech Accelerator. See below for more details. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eXb6jW-8
🌳 Nature Tech founders—you have one month to apply (deadline February 14th) for our next Western Australia Nature Tech Accelerator. For those interested in applying, here’s a brief FAQ of the program 👇 What does the Nature Tech Accelerator involve? ➡️ The Nature Tech Accelerator backs early stage startups with capital combined with a four-month hybrid program designed to support the development and validation of new environmental technologies. The program includes a number tracks designed at helping startups achieve operational excellence, commercialisation, and customer and investor readiness, delivered across a hybrid program of masterclasses, workshops, and 1-2-1 mentoring. When & where does the program take place? ➡️ The four month-program is delivered largely online. It ends with a residential fortnight in Perth, bringing together founders from our other WA programs for two weeks of in-person programming and networking, culminating in a Showcase where founders are invited to pitch to a room of investors and industry leaders. The next Nature Tech Accelerator kicks off in mid-March, culminating in July. What type of startups are you looking for? ➡️ We invest in six companies per cohort, aimed at supporting business across the breadth of nature and biodiversity. Key investment themes include water & oceans, land & forest, nature positive industry, and social & community impact. Our first cohort included SeaStock, Call to Country, AGRA Farming Technologies, X-Centric, Ocean Hex, and Nitronic. Why is the program based in Western Australia? ➡️ The Nature Tech Accelerator is backed by the Government of Western Australia, who are highly engaged in protecting the State’s unique ecosystem and natural capital. Founders on the program will get access to a rich network of government and industry partners, in Western Australia and beyond, to help them validate and potentially scale their technologies. You can find out more & apply here: https://lnkd.in/eXb6jW-8 Recommend a startup here: https://lnkd.in/e_CYcBhx Charlotta Kemp | Tamryn Barker | Claire Mongeau | Olivia Brooks | George Northcott | Stephen Dawson | Rebecca Davidson GAICD | Linda Dawson | James Yuen | Sandra Draper | Ivana Deng | Simon Lovick #naturetech #biotech #climatetech #startups
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One of the biggest obstacles to maritime decarbonisation? The lack of access to reliable clean power. Waves offer exactly this—but existing wave energy systems fail to capture this. Until now—meet Dolphin Labs Ocean 🌊 ➡️ Persistent wave-powered energy at sea ➡️ Their xNode wave energy converter generates uninterrupted electricity, enabling long-duration, self-sustaining ocean operations for ocean monitoring systems, underwater vehicles, maritime communications, and remote sensing networks, to name a few applications ➡️ Founded by Rolle Hogan 🌊⚡️, Michael Kelly, and Chris Rauch Read about our latest Blue Action Accelerator investment here: https://lnkd.in/eCQwNURh Olivia Brooks | George Northcott | Jack Kennedy | Rupert Hayward | Melissa Halpern | Jeff Stoike | Katie Morgan-Jones | Marie-Louise Hayward | Simon Lovick | David Hickson #oceantech #climatetech #deeptech #energy
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As organisations continue to roll out AI, the amount of (potentially sensitive) consumer data being gathered is ballooning. Attacks and breaches on this type of data are growing in number and value. TouchBrick has developed an innovative solution to this challenge 👇 ⭐️ AI that substitutes sensitive data & substitutes it with synthetic data (via digital twin technology) to make it safer and still useful ⭐️ Secured by blockchain technology to ensure only the right people can access ⭐️ Founded by Jason Melo (exited of Paxos & Exactera) and Shayra Antia Read more about TouchBrick, our latest Fastweb investment, here: https://lnkd.in/eq3XTim3 Edoardo Gentili | Andrea Guzzoni | Aleezay Malik | Simon Lovick | Laura Moross | Luigi S. Bianchi | Andrea Cerritelli | Ellie Slaght #AI #cybersecurity #compliance #data
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