Mohit Rawat is the Boston-based CEO of Myricx Bio, a UK-US biotech building a first-in-class antibody-drug conjugate platform based on NMT inhibition to treat cancer. He arrived in September 2025 fresh off Fusion Pharmaceuticals' $2.4 billion sale to AstraZeneca, where he was President and Chief Business Officer. With a Harvard MBA, an MIT chemical engineering master's, and stints at Novartis, AbbVie and McKinsey, he is steering Myricx toward its first human clinical trials in 2026.
Iman Gadzhi is a British entrepreneur who turned a teenage hustle selling Instagram accounts into a portfolio of companies spanning marketing, education, software, eyewear, and electrolyte drinks. Born in Dagestan, raised in London by a single mother, he built IAG Media at 17 and went on to found GrowYourAgency, Educate.io, Flozy, Gadzhi Eyewear, and Big Day - all while becoming one of the most recognized creators in the agency-owner space on YouTube.
James Hoffmann is an English barista, YouTuber, author, and co-founder of Square Mile Coffee Roasters. He won the 2007 World Barista Championship in Tokyo and went on to become the most-watched coffee voice on the internet, with a YouTube channel exceeding 2.5 million subscribers. Known for tortoiseshell glasses, knit sweaters and a dry sense of humour, he turned brewing minutiae into mainstream curiosity.
Harmonic Security helps enterprises adopt generative AI without leaking sensitive data. Using small, purpose-built language models, its AI Governance and Control platform spots risky prompts, enforces policy across browsers and desktops, and gives security teams visibility into the thousands of AI tools employees quietly use every day.
talent.io was a European recruitment marketplace that flipped traditional headhunting: pre-screened software engineers and tech freelancers were surfaced to companies, who then applied to candidates. Founded in Paris in 2015 by Amit Aharoni, Jonathan Azoulay and Nicolas Meunier, it scaled to ten European cities and 2,000+ employer clients before being acquired by Davidson Consulting out of judicial reorganization in March 2025.
Hannah Chelkowski is Co-Founder and General Partner at Blank Ventures, a $65M specialist fund investing at the intersection of fintech and commerce. A native Londoner now based in San Francisco, she brings an unusual backstory to venture - energy risk modeling at Total S.A. led to startup investing at Initialized Capital and Inovia Capital before she launched her own firm in 2022. Named to Business Insider's 71 Rising-Star VCs in 2022, she runs a deliberately concentrated portfolio with an LP base architected as a go-to-market asset: C-suite executives from major financial institutions, billion-dollar startups, and global family offices who become direct distribution channels for her portfolio companies.
Freddie Heygate is CEO, North America at Just After Midnight, a London-founded managed cloud services and 24/7 digital support company now part of the Ultima group. After spending five years building JAM's Asia-Pacific operations from Singapore, he relocated to Austin, Texas in January 2024 to lead the company's US expansion. With a background spanning digital consultancy, marketing, and business development at agencies including Reading Room and The Drum, Freddie brings over a decade of cross-continental experience helping global brands like Ford, Abbott, and Vodafone keep their digital infrastructure running around the clock.
Harpreet Mangat is a British-trained neurosurgeon turned Stanford MBA and McKinsey consultant who now serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hippocratic AI, a $3.5 billion healthcare AI company building clinically safe generative AI agents for patient engagement. His rare career arc - from brain surgery and ICU care during COVID-19, through venture capital and management consulting, to the frontier of healthcare AI - makes him one of the most credentialed operator-clinicians in the industry.
Anas Biad is a Partner at Sequoia Capital based in London, where he invests in early-to-growth-stage companies across enterprise software, AI, SaaS, gaming, and fintech. A mathematics graduate of Ecole Polytechnique who grew up in Casablanca, he spent time at Bain & Company and Silver Lake before joining Sequoia in 2021 as one of its first European partners. He backs founders building enduring companies across Europe and is known for his passion for gaming, quantum computing, and his admiration for Richard Feynman.
Cornelius Menke is a former Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he spent roughly three years building the firm's European investment portfolio from London. A German national educated at the Stockholm School of Economics, Menke moved from management consulting at Boston Consulting Group to venture capital after an earlier stint inside Klarna's CFO office - one of Sequoia's landmark European bets. At Sequoia, he backed companies across industrial automation, AI infrastructure, and enterprise fintech, co-investing in Robco, Tacto, LangChain, Flow, Pennylane, and Rillet while also running the firm's Arc accelerator cohorts for European pre-seed and seed founders. He departed Sequoia in 2025/2026 and his next move remains to be announced.
Julien Bek is a Partner at Sequoia Capital's London office, one of the most storied venture capital firms in the world. A Geneva native who studied at Warwick Business School and the University of Cambridge, he started his career as an entrepreneur — founding one of Europe's first e-cigarette companies at age 18 — before transitioning into venture capital at Global Founders Capital and then Accel Partners. At Accel he backed breakout companies like Revolut, Melio, Miro, and BeReal. He joined Sequoia in September 2023 as a London-based partner focused on early-stage European and global tech companies. In March 2026, he published the widely-read thesis 'Services: The New Software,' arguing that the next trillion-dollar company will sell outcomes rather than software tools, using AI to automate service delivery at scale.
Sonali De Rycker is a General Partner at Accel's London office, one of the most influential venture capitalists in Europe. Originally from Mumbai, India, she joined Accel in 2008 after stints at Goldman Sachs and Atlas Venture, and has since backed some of the continent's most defining tech companies — Spotify, Monzo, BeReal, Synthesia, and Speak among them. Ranked No. 2 on Forbes Midas List Europe in 2019 and consistently in the top 15, she is known for her founder-first investment philosophy, her global deal-sourcing across 45+ cities, and a sharp conviction that Europe's next chapter will be written in AI.
Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FRS is a British AI researcher, neuroscientist, chess prodigy, and game designer who co-founded DeepMind in 2011 and serves as CEO of Google DeepMind. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's protein structure prediction, was knighted for services to AI, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the development of artificial general intelligence.
Kristo Käärmann is the co-founder and CEO of Wise, the global fintech company making cross-border money transfers radically cheaper and faster. A former Deloitte and PwC consultant, he turned a personal frustration with hidden bank fees into one of Europe's most valuable tech companies—and became Estonia's first billionaire in the process.
Matt Lerner is the founder and CEO of SYSTM, a growth coaching and accelerator program for seed-stage startups. A former PayPal GM who helped grow the SMB business from $800M to $10B+, and ex-500 Startups partner who ran the Distro Dojo growth program in London, he now works personally with up to 80 founders per year helping them find their growth levers. He is the author of 'Growth Levers and How to Find Them,' an international bestseller advocating that 10% of what startups try drives 90% of their growth.
Myke Hurley is a British podcaster, network co-founder, and product creator based in London. He co-founded Relay FM in 2014 with Stephen Hackett, growing it into one of the most respected independent podcast networks covering Apple and technology. He hosts Cortex (with CGP Grey), Upgrade (with Jason Snell), Connected, and more. In 2019 he co-founded Cortex Brand with CGP Grey, producing the Theme System Journal. He launched his independent newsletter The Enthusiast in 2025. Business Insider dubbed him the 'Podcasting Don' of UK tech.
Kibo is a London-born grime MC and rap experimentalist from Harrow who has built a fiercely individual underground reputation over a decade of cross-genre collaborations, absurdist lyricism, and his own conceptual universe called 'Kwengletaria'. After years as the scene's best-kept secret — co-signed by Dave, Skepta, and JME — he launched his long-awaited comeback in 2026 with the single 'Headside In Da Skiez (Babycham Supernova)', a RAGAMYFF documentary co-directed with Marco Grey, and a sold-out UK headline tour, finally stepping into the spotlight he's been quietly building toward.
Lola Young is a Grammy-winning British singer-songwriter from South London whose raw, confessional dark soul-pop has taken her from South London open mic nights to Coachella and a Grammy podium. Her 2024 single 'Messy' - a candid anthem about being imperfect and unapologetic - exploded globally after going viral on TikTok in November 2024, racking up a UK #1 and US Billboard Hot 100 #14. Her second album 'This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway' cemented her as one of the most arresting voices of her generation, blending confessional lyricism with muscular soul-pop production. She has collaborated with Tyler, the Creator, performed at Coachella, won the Ivor Novello Rising Star Award, and taken home a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance in February 2026.
Natanya Popoola is a British-Caribbean-Nigerian singer, songwriter, and producer from North-West London whose music fuses R&B, alt-pop, neo-soul, jazz, and Caribbean influences into what she calls an 'unboxable' sound. Born September 5, 2002 to an Indo-Trinidadian mother and Nigerian father, she trained at the Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, earned a degree in English Literature at UCL, and released her debut EP 'Sorrow At Sunrise' in 2023. Her 2025 EP 'Feline's Return' (via Human Re-Sources, co-produced with Oscar Scheller) earned co-signs from SZA, Doechii, Tyler, The Creator, and Janet Jackson, a BBC Radio 1 premiere, and features on Billboard's '15 Hip-Hop, Caribbean and R&B Artists to Watch in 2026.' Her alter ego 'Feline' - a catlike seductress with a signature cat-eye - anchors a fiercely self-directed creative vision that has drawn comparisons to early-era SZA while carving out entirely new territory.
Nxdia (born Nadia Ahmed) is an Egyptian-British alt-pop and pop-punk artist based in Manchester and London whose bilingual English-Arabic songwriting, queer identity, and confessional lyricism about obsession, desire, and self-discovery have made them one of the most exciting emerging voices in UK indie music. Known for hooky, pulsating tracks like 'She Likes a Boy' and 'Jennifer's Body', Nxdia's debut mixtape 'I Promise No One's Watching' surpassed 100 million Spotify streams by August 2025, and their 2026 single 'Cool' cements a more confident, genre-blurring new era.
Olivia Dean is a British soul-pop and jazz-influenced singer-songwriter from North-East London who won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2026. Her second album 'The Art of Loving' (September 2025) debuted at UK #1 and spawned the monster hit 'Man I Need' - a song that spent 19 consecutive weeks at UK #1, peaked at US Billboard Hot 100 #2, and surpassed one billion Spotify streams. Rooted in the soul traditions of Lauryn Hill, Sade, and Amy Winehouse, Dean writes with disarming emotional clarity about love, identity, and self-worth. She is currently on 'The Art of Loving Live' world tour, which kicked off in Glasgow in April 2026.
Rose Gray is a British dance-pop and electropop artist from East London whose debut album 'Louder, Please' (2025) turned a decade of grinding — losing 100 songs to a label deal, picking litter at Chelsea Flower Market, working the door at Fabric — into 79 shows, an NME cover, a BRIT Awards Critics' Choice shortlist, and collaborations with JADE, Shygirl, and Kesha. Built like a DJ set, her music pairs emotionally raw lyricism with rave-ready production, earning 4/5 reviews from the Guardian and NME alike.
Saam Sultan is a 20-year-old UK-based underground rapper, singer, and self-taught producer making waves in 2025-2026 with a sound that fuses cloud rap, UK indie-rap, and ambient nostalgia. Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, raised across Barbados and Brighton, and operating under the alias 'ydoifeel', he has built a cult following with misty, hazy self-produced tracks that evoke the Skins-era UK indie soundtrack while capturing the 2026 indie zeitgeist — earning features in NME, VMAN, and OnesToWatch Class of 2026.
Sienna Spiro is a 20-year-old British singer-songwriter from London who went from posting TikTok covers at 16 to amassing nearly 900 million Spotify streams and landing on Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2026. Signed to Capitol Records and produced largely by Omer Fedi, she writes confessional indie-pop infused with soul and jazz, channeling the raw emotional candor of artists like Etta James and Frank Sinatra into chart-breaking anthems about regret, self-sabotage, and longing. Her breakthrough single 'Die on This Hill' hit UK #9 and US Billboard Hot 100 #19, while 'MAYBE.' generated 600M+ TikTok views - all without a single renegade dance.
Rosie Hoggmascall is a London-based product and growth expert specialising in subscription apps, monetisation, and product-led growth. With a Cambridge education and a career spanning strategic communications to leading consumer tech startups, she is currently Chief Product & Growth Officer at Fyxer AI - an email productivity tool that grew from $1M to $30M ARR in 2025. She also runs 'Growth Dives', a weekly Substack newsletter delivering annotated product teardowns to 2,000+ subscribers with a remarkable 64% average open rate.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD is a French-Algerian neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author based in London. After leaving a marketing career at Google, she founded Ness Labs - a bootstrapped newsletter and community focused on science-backed mindful productivity - while simultaneously earning her MSc and PhD in Applied Neuroscience at King's College London. Her 2025 book 'Tiny Experiments' (Penguin Random House) proposes replacing linear goal-setting with a circular, experimental approach to growth. As a UKRI-funded postdoctoral research fellow at King's College London, she studies the evolutionary neuroscience of curiosity and has proposed the 'Hypercuriosity Theory of ADHD'. Ness Labs has grown to 120,000+ newsletter subscribers and a paid community of 2,000+ members.
Harry Stebbings is the British founder of 20VC, the world's largest venture capital media brand and a $800M+ AUM fund. Starting his podcast at 18 with $50 and zero industry contacts, he built The Twenty Minute VC into a 100M+ download juggernaut spanning 190 countries, then parlayed that audience into a real VC fund backed by MIT and unicorn founders. He dropped out of King's College London after four weeks, co-founded Stride.VC, then launched 20VC Fund - closing a $400M third fund in October 2024. Equal parts podcaster, investor, and ultramarathoner, Stebbings runs companies and 100-mile races with the same compulsive energy.
Matt Webb is a London-based designer, technologist, and product inventor who has spent 25+ years at the intersection of technology and ideas. Co-founder and former CEO of BERG (whose Little Printer became an IoT icon acquired by MoMA NY), former MD of R/GA's IoT accelerator, and author of the pop-neuroscience classic Mind Hacks, Webb now runs Acts Not Facts and co-founds Inanimate, making playful AI hardware like Poem/1 - a clock that writes a new rhyming poem every minute - while writing his blog Interconnected for over 25 years without stopping.