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Troubadour Goods
Troubadour Goods is a London-based, B Corp-certified maker of premium bags and accessories built for people who move between the office, the airport and the weekend. Founded in 2011 by two former City of London financiers, Samuel Bail and Abel Samet, the brand pairs functional, understated design with technical performance - waterproof fabrics, ergonomic straps and tech-protective compartments - and an unusually deep sustainability program that culminated in the Orbis Circular Collection, a line of fully recyclable, zero-waste bags made from recycled PET. Its bestselling Apex backpack has been named a best laptop backpack by Wirecutter, Esquire and The Telegraph.
Pomelo
Pomelo (Pomelo Group) is a London- and Singapore-based payments technology company that provides a unified, API-based Payment Platform-as-a-Service. It gives financial institutions, fintechs and enterprises ready-to-use payment rails, merchant onboarding and management, transaction monitoring, and a range of acceptance methods - from QR codes and tap-to-pay to payment links and card issuing - under a single white-label platform. Founded in 2017 as Pomelo Pay, the company has grown into a regulated e-money issuer serving 2,000+ businesses across the UK and Southeast Asia.
Conor Sheridan
Conor Sheridan is the founder and CEO of Nory, an AI-native operating system for the hospitality industry. A former quantitative trader and investment strategist, he left finance to build Mad Egg, one of Ireland's fastest-growing fried chicken chains, then created Nory to solve the operational problems he faced running restaurants. Nory now helps operators manage inventory, workforce, payroll, procurement and finance, and raised a $37m Series B in 2025 led by Kinnevik, bringing total funding to roughly $62.6m.
Cristina Vila Vives
Cristina Vila Vives is the founder and CEO of Cledara, a SaaS spend-management platform that gives companies visibility and control over their software subscriptions. After more than a decade running operations teams in the financial industry, she launched Cledara in 2018 to solve a problem she kept seeing firsthand: companies losing money and time to a sprawling, unmanaged stack of software. Cledara now serves over a thousand customers across Europe and the United States, and Forbes has named her among the business leaders changing the world.
Just After Midnight
Just After Midnight (JAM) is a London-founded, globally distributed managed services company that keeps mission-critical, customer-facing digital platforms running around the clock. It provides 24/7/365 application, website and cloud support, managed cloud services across AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba Cloud, and DevOps consultancy - acting as the after-hours and full-stack support partner behind major brands and digital agencies. Founded in 2016 to solve the problem of out-of-hours support that agencies struggle to staff, JAM now operates across four continents and is part of the Ultima group.
Mo Moubayed
Mo Moubayed is the co-founder and co-CEO of Veridooh, a Sydney-born adtech company that built the first independent verification platform for out-of-home advertising. A lawyer turned entrepreneur, he pivoted from launching a screen network to solving the industry's trust gap after agencies kept asking him a single question: how do I know if my ad actually played? He splits his time between London and New York, leading Veridooh's international expansion.
Olga Dogadkina
Olga Dogadkina is the co-founder and CEO of Emperia, a London-based immersive commerce platform that builds virtual stores and 3D brand experiences for the world's biggest luxury and retail names, including Dior, Burberry, Bloomingdale's, Tommy Hilfiger, Harrods, Lacoste, Christie's and Dom Pérignon. Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Retail & Ecommerce list in 2025, she started Emperia in 2018 after trying VR for the first time on a Microsoft fashion project and deciding it would change the way people shop.
Paul Archer
Paul Archer is the founder and CEO of Duel, a London-based brand advocacy SaaS platform that helps global brands like Charlotte Tilbury, Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch turn customers, creators and fans into a measurable growth channel. Before software, Archer drove a 1992 London black cab around the world, breaking two Guinness World Records and writing a best-selling book about it. He co-founded Duel in 2017 with viral games developer Naio Tsarouchis; the company raised a $16M Series A in September 2025 co-led by Molten Ventures and Bright Pixel.
Quentin Scrimshire
Quentin 'Q' Scrimshire is the co-founder and CEO of Modo Energy, a London-based B2B SaaS platform that benchmarks and forecasts the performance of grid-scale battery energy storage assets. A Manchester-trained electrical engineer who cut his teeth on offshore wind and gas-fired plants at Centrica before running Kiwi Power's European storage business, he now leads a roughly 80-person team building what he describes as the 'benchmarking and valuation operating system for global electrification.' In December 2025 Modo closed a $33M Series B led by Molten Ventures.
Shayan Khorassani
Shayan Khorassani is the Field CEO at Huma, the London-based AI health infrastructure company powering regulated digital health applications for pharma, providers, and governments across 70+ countries. A licensed architect turned health technology operator, he moved from designing physical structures at Tom Wiscombe Architecture and SCI-Arc to translating Huma's platform into deployments for global health systems.
Will Pearce
Will Pearce is the co-founder and CEO of Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness), a real estate legal AI platform that powers roughly 200,000 property transactions a year for the world's leading law firms and property companies. He and co-founder Ed Boulle started out in the space industry with a plan to monitor real estate from orbit, were told the idea was bad, and pivoted into automating the slow, manual legal work that underpins property deals. In January 2026 the company raised a $60m Series B led by Brighton Park Capital, and Pearce relocated to New York to lead its US expansion.
PTS
PTS is a global, independent, employee-owned technology consultancy that designs the digital nervous system of buildings - connecting people, technology and space across workplaces, data centres, campuses and smart infrastructure. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in London, PTS advises on everything from audio-visual and networks to cyber and physical security, helping organisations transform their real estate through technology while improving user experience, wellbeing and sustainability.
AutogenAI
AutogenAI builds custom AI language engines that help enterprises and government bodies write bids, tenders, proposals and grant applications faster and more persuasively. Founded in late 2021 by former bid writer Sean Williams, the company applies generative natural-language technology to a slow, manual process, claiming roughly 30% higher win rates and up to 85% lower writing costs for clients. Backed by Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Blossom Capital, it has raised $65.3M and serves Fortune 500 companies, consultancies, construction firms, government agencies and nonprofits from offices in New York, London and Brisbane.
Neha Banerjee
Neha Banerjee is a CEO Associate at Titanbay, the London-based private markets infrastructure platform, where she works alongside leadership at one of Europe's fastest-growing wealthtech companies. An Oxford mathematics and statistics graduate, she came up through operations consulting at Newton Europe, delivering data-driven change across retail, FMCG, aerospace and public services. As President of Raise Oxford she led a team of 65-plus students in a charity movement that has raised over £280k for the Against Malaria Foundation.
Mohit Rawat
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Demis Hassabis
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
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
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
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.