VENTURECEO: A UNIQUE COLLAB TO CONNECT THE TECH ECOSYSTEM
Created by Cooper Parry to help venture backed CEOs of early stage businesses unlock advice and connections from peers, investors, later stage CEOs, and domain experts from their specific vertical.






WHAT IS VENTURECEO
As early stage CEOs you’re laser focused on your product, your team, and growing your business. What better way to bolster that journey than through peer-to-peer support, access to best in class ecosystem providers, and later stage experts who have been there, done that, and walked the same path.
VentureCEO is not an accelerator, an incubator, or a big drain on your time.
VentureCEO is a tightly curated 10 week collaboration: minimal time commitment, no costs, but with maximum value and impact. We're simply bringing the power of our network to you, to supercharge your business and personal growth.


Whether through the delivery of office hours, in person fireside chats, all cohort workshops, and of course attendance at the opening and closing events, we tailor our partnership programmes so it provides maximum value to both our founder CEOs and to you.

Future of Retail




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THREE COHORTS COMPLETE.
one live. more incoming.
The Future of Health, Future of Money, and Future of Data cohorts have completed their 10-week collaborations. We’re now live with The Future of Media and in spring 2025 will launch The Future of Retail.

BEST ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS
Each vertical gets connected with the hottest ecosystem partners in the game.

DIRECT LINK TO VCS
The programme offers invaluable 121 time with our VC partners.

BRAND EXPOSURE
Alongside the insights comes exposure for your brand through social media and the press.


A highly successful operator, Fiona has delivered spectacular results across big media, technology and early-stage start-ups. Her entire career has been focused on defining the future. At Reed Elsevier and Time Warner, she spearheaded corporate digital initiatives, growing online audiences to tens of millions. She played a pivotal role as Board director for Time Inc UK ahead of its separation from Time Warner and listing on the NY Stock Exchange. Fiona then became CEO of Makerversity, an award-winning incubator, and supports founders as an investor in the deep tech, SaaS, and creative sectors.

Supernode Global provides Community + Capital to seed stage companies building the next generation of tools and platforms that will positively shape the future of how we work, play, learn and communicate within the digital content ecosystem.

Aitian joined Calculus Capital in 2021. She focuses on backing founders in the creative content, SaaS, and life sciences/biotech sectors. Before joining Calculus, she worked as a growth equity investor at BOCOM International in Asia.
Molly invests in late seed to Series B healthcare companies across health tech and digital pharma. Driven by innovative business models, disruptive technologies improving the efficiency of how we deliver care/complete research.

Jonno is a principal at IQ Capital. He focusses on companies in a broad range of sectors including AI/ML, robotics, energy and cybersecurity.

Asif is Partner and Head of early-stage in the Tech & High Growth team at Cooper Parry. He works closely with founders and entrepreneurs across all accounting, tax, and advisory disciplines and helps founding teams navitage their journey to scale.
Cat joined Albion in 2018 and focuses on backing founders across fintech, cyber & legacy industries. Prior to joining Albion she worked in New York and London as an Investment Banker with Goldman Sachs. She holds an economics degree from Harvard.

Alex is an internationally seasoned executive with over fifteen years of experience building teams, processes and workflows that unlock growth for complex, technical products and services.

Adviser to some of the world’s leading tech driven businesses, Kolvin was ranked by Legal 500 for data & technology as known for being ‘extremely responsive and client focused’. He has vast experience advising on legal issues related to the internalisation of technology: his work regularly involves complex, cross-border matters that raise multi-faceted IP, data privacy, consumer protection, and internet regulatory issues.
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For over a decade, Ben has been helping high growth VC backed companies build go-to-market teams and scale business operations around the globe, quickly and cost-effectively. Passionate about making it 'less scary' to grow your business in new countries whilst remaining compliant & hire your 'A-team' globally with the experience to help you scale revenue & be successful in new markets.

Solène joined Balderton’s investment team in 2022. Prior to Balderton, Solène was an Analyst at the fintech-focused venture capital fund, BlackFin Tech, where she supported the team on deals ranging from seed to growth stage.

Sam leads a team of ex-founders, investors, and industry experts to advise founders and venture capital funds covering Fintech, Healthcare & Life-sciences, Web3, artificial intelligence, and Cybersecurity.

Alex is LinkedIn’s #1 recommended board advisor. He advises 35 tech founders and companies from start-ups to award winning multi-nationals. An expert in accelerating company growth, revenue, profit, shareholder value and achieving above market valuations.

Passionate about making insurance better for VC backed businesses, Kit works closely with Capsule e-health clients ExSeed Health, Mindstep, Stitch Health and many more..

Logan is an accomplished entrepreneur, board executive, speaker and mentor; currently scaling Daleth - the premier strategy consulting firm propelling ambitious companies to new heights by elevating strategy and accelerating growth.
Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), Amanda is a communications professional with over 15 years’ experience developing, implementing and reviewing strategic PR plans across a variety of sectors.

As a Financial Planner Simon focuses on you as a founder: your lifestyle, your bigger picture, and what keeps you awake at night. He brings this together to take a holistic approach to helping you build your personal finance plan.

Our upcoming cohorts
Checkout our upcoming collaborations below and visit the Cohorts tab to view past collabs and read more about the early-stage CEOs and later stage experts involved.
Our fifth cohort launches in spring 2025. As with previous cohorts it will bridge the gap and open doors to bring a community of later stage CEOs, investors, and industry leaders, but this time with those who disrupting a legacy industry with innovative tech.


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WHAT EACH SESSION PROVIDEs
CEO Stories
The unique opportunity to hear from and grill later stage CEOs who have been there and done it (Series B and beyond).
CEO Strategy
Topic specific deep dive sessions with subject matter experts. From maintaining a resilient & adaptive culture to embedding a competitive strategy, these sessions will provide practical tools to adapt these concepts to early-stage company growth.
CEO Circles
Join a curated community of CEOs in the same sector and at the same stage to share challenges, experiences, and ambitions. You'll learn how to manage your mindset and energise the founder journey.
CEO Wellbeing
Founder wellbeing is vital in a scaling business so these sessions will focus on positive leadership strategies as well as guidance on how to maintain your vision and mental health.
VC 1:1s
Online sessions with some of the most prolific early stage investors in the UK (A copy of your pitch deck is required in advance to maximise session value.
CEO Boost
Direct time with a curated list of the best experts in functional business areas such as legal, finance, PR, and growth & fundraising strategy.
















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