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.

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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.

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Meet some of the individual contributors from across the VentureCEO partnerships, past and present. Check out the specific cohort pages to find out more about the later stage speakers supporting those collaborations.

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Jonno Evans
Jonno Evans
Principal at IQ Capital

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

Solène Brébant
Solène Brébant
Investor at Balderton Capital

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.

Cat McDonald
Cat McDonald
Investment Director at AlbionVC

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.

Sam Edge
Sam Edge
Head of Industries and Emerging Technologies, Startups & Venture Capital at Amazon Web Services

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.

Molly Gilmartin
Molly Gilmartin
Healthtech Investor at Albion VC

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.

Kolvin Stone​
Kolvin Stone​
Partner & Head of Technology, Fox Williams​

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.

Asif Ahmed
Asif Ahmed
Head of Early Stage at Cooper Parry

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.

Alex Merwin
Alex Merwin
Head of Growth, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services

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.

Alex Arnot
Alex Arnot
Founder & CEO at MyNonExec

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.

Kit Lewin
Kit Lewin
Head of Partnerships at Capsule

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..

Kieron James
Kieron James
CEO at Wonderful

Kieron is an entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the ICT sector, currently serving as CEO and co-Founder of Wonderful. With a background in technology, BD, strategy, and intentional leadership, he has co-founded and exited nine businesses, including two to NASDAQ-listed companies.

Logan Estop-Hall
Logan Estop-Hall
Executive Director at Daleth

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.

Amanda Bunn
Amanda Bunn
Head of Brand & Partnerships at Luminous PR

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.

Simon Williams
Simon Williams
Relationship Manager at Cooper Parry Wealth

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.

Kira Mahal
Kira Mahal
Founder of MotivatePT

Kira founded MotivatePT to empower people to feel at their best, every day. Her company has over 50 wellness professionals and hundreds of B2B and B2C customers on board.

Yasmin Lord-Pottinger
Yasmin Lord-Pottinger
Senior People & Talent Partner at CharlieHR

As a People Expert with over 8 years of experience in fields such as operations, organisational design, and employment law. Yasmin is passionate about diversity & inclusion and I am committed to helping organisations reach their goals through their people.

Shameer Sachdev
Shameer Sachdev
Founder and CEO at Growth Gorilla

Growth Gorilla are the fintech-first growth agency making user acquisition a breeze. They help you attract the right users and reach your growth goals by seamlessly blending Paid Media, Influencer Marketing, and Creative & Content.

A FLAVOUR OF OUR EXISITING PARTNERSHIPS...


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.

FROM HEAVYWEIGHT PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT TO DOMAIN EXPERTISE...
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The benefits you could unlock

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EXPAND YOUR MARKET SHARE
Meet targets in a dynamic environment, ensuring you're connecting with new and influential players in the tech startup world and engaging them in your product offerings.
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INCREASE YOUR VISIBILITY
Position your team front and center in the minds of the CEOs and Founders from some of the most significant startup companies in their respective verticals.
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PROMOTE YOUR BRAND
Leverage extensive exposure through our multiple channels including social media, direct email shots, and a prominent presence on our website, helping you boost your brand recognition.

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.

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Jan 2025
Future of Media
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Our fourth cohort launches in the new year. 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 are making technological advances in the media ecosystem.

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VENTURECEO: THE IMPACT SO FAR

With two cohorts already under our belt the impact has been phenomenal. The ‘Future of Health’ and ‘The Future of Money collaborations featured a best in class line-up at all stages of the growth spectrum. But don't just take our word for it... 

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A STELLAR CAST

Across two cohorts we brought together 25 Founder CEOs from across the UK to form lasting relationships with their peers and the VentureCEO partners. The Future of Health cohort comprised of 10 early-stage CEOs with a total fundraising average of £2.3m. Meet the cohort here. The Future of Money cohort comprised of 15 early-stage CE0s with a total fundraising average of £3.3m. Meet that cohort here.

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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.

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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.

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"Incredible community, meeting the founders, partners and the amazing heroes behind this…it was such a good blend."
Henry Majit
MYMYND
"I love the sessions so keep going! The best thing for me about VentureCEO was the new contacts that I got and I definitely needed. You guys are doing a great job! "
Sarita Stefani
Amilis
Meeting peers on the same journey is very important for a CEO and helps navigate challenges and exchange ideas. That was the most powerful feature of VentureCEO.
Joy Abisaab
Mast
Great bunch of founders, good selection of CEOs, and the potential ability to forge strategic connections moving forward. The open & close events were great with a good group dynamic and ability to network. I found the CEO Stories sessions with Yonder and Griffin really valuable from a learning perspective.
Mohsin Rashid
ZipZero
The CEO Circles were really valuable and well orchestrated, I would definitely attend recurring post programme basis if available. Also thoroughly enjoyed thein person events and connecting with other founders: it was very worthwhile.
Johnny Ridd
RQ
What I enjoyed most about VentureCEO was meeting with the fellow founders and hearing from later stage founders. The CEO Stories were brilliant too. The VentureCEO team was great too!
Ren Hooi
Lightning Reach

GET A FEEL FOR VENTURECEO

Here's a taste of the our launch event for our first ever cohort, The Future of Health.

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