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








WHAT IS VENTURECEO
Early-stage founders are laser focused on developing their product and growing their business. So we thought what better way to bolster that journey than by bringing the power of our network to provide critical support and unique access to experts who’ve either walked in their shoes or who have played in a role in scaling some of the UK’s most exciting tech businesses. All the while supported by bespoke insight from headline partners such as Amazon Web Services.
VentureCEO is a 10-week collaboration curated with one goal: to help founder CEOs of early stage businesses supercharge their growth. Join us for the ride.


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.

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.














The benefits you could unlock

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.
VENTURECEO: THE IMPACT SO FAR
With three cohorts already under our belt and one currently live, the impact has been phenomenal. The Future of Health, Future of Money, and Future of Data collaborations featured electric (and eclectic) line-ups at all stages of the growth spectrum. Future of Media will close in late March ’25 with other verticals being prepped for launch. But don't just take our word about all this…

A STELLAR CAST
Across three cohorts we brought together 45 Founder CEOs from across the UK to form lasting relationships with their peers and the VentureCEO investors and domain experts. They were:
1. The Future of Health cohort: 10 early-stage CEOs with a total fundraising average of £2.3m. Meet that cohort here.
2. The Future of Money cohort: 15 CEOs with a total fundraising average of £3.3m. Check them out here.
3. The Future of Data cohort: another group of 15 with a fundraising average of £2.5m. They’re detailed here.
IN PERSON CONNECTIONs
For maximum efficiency many of the delivery sessions are held online. However the power of bringing people together face to face is vital so the cohorts meet in person 3 times per collaboration: a London kick-off event, a mid-point workshop, pitch panel, and evening dinner, and then a programme closing party. We’ll flex your in-person presence depending on the level of your partnership.
MAKING A MARK
Through press and social outreach VentureCEO has a total audience of over 1 billion. We ensure public promotion of you as a VentureCEO Partner, with logo use on all marketing collateral.
OUTSTANDING FEEDBACK
Overall the average score out of ten from the cohort members has been 9. The different content elements of the collab, whether later-stage CEO Stories, deep insight in CEO Strategy, or a focus on founder personal growth in CEO Wellbeing, ensures we cover all bases to ensure maximum value & benefit.






