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 Fox Williams, Emerald Technology and some of the UK’s best VCs.

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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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.

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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Martina King
Martina King
CEO at Future Space

Martina King joined Feature Space in 2012. Under King’s leadership, Feature Space has become the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software, risk scoring events and preventing fraud and financial crime in more than 180 countries. The company has also raised more than £100 million in funding.

Husayn Kassai
Husayn Kassai
CEO at Quench.ai, exited Onfido

Husayn currently leads the team at Quench.ai that builds AI infrastructure to supercharge training & productivity. Prior to this he was CEO & co-founder of Onfido, an identity verification start-up. Founded with two friends from Oxford University, he successfully led a global team of over 500 people across seven regions and raised more than £143 million in funding. In February 2024 Onfido was acquired by Entrust, a US competitor. The deal was Oxford’s largest-ever return on investment for a student-led start-up.

Gabbi Cahane
Gabbi Cahane
Investor and Partner

Gabbi is a Partner at Stride.VC. He has led investments into companies including Knowunity, Screenloop, Chapter Two, Argo AI, and Seva among others. Prior to joining Stride.VC, he spent almost three decades as a founder - building, backing, branding (and occasionally breaking) startups, scale ups, and megacorps. He likes being tattooed. A lot ;)

Richard Davies
Richard Davies
CEO at Allica Bank

Richard is the CEO at Allica Bank. Before joining Allica, Richard was group COO at digital bank Revolut. Prior to that he was CEO of OakNorth and held leadership roles at TSB and HSBC. 

Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram
Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram
CEO of Proximie Partner at KHP Ventures

Ted Talk giver and receiver of the British Empire Medial for her contribution to surgery and medicine, Nadine drew on her surgical experiences to found Proximie, enabling physicians to virtually ‘scrub in’ to any operating room from anywhere in the world.

Kolvin Stone​
Kolvin Stone​
Partner & Head of Technology at 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.

George Graham
George Graham
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger

Wolf & Badger is a leading B Corp marketplace for independent ethical brands worldwide. George founded the company in 2010 with the goal of providing a platform for smaller brands to compete with larger, established players and offer a more exciting and responsible retail experience. With storefronts in London, New York and Los Angeles, W&B has generated over $400m of sales for independent brands in the last 5 years through its online marketplace. George also co-founded the health brand Raw Press, sat on the investment committee at London Fashion Fund and is now an active angel investor.

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.

Mandeep Singh
Mandeep Singh
Founder and Investor

Mandeep is the former CEO & founder of Trouva, the SaaS-enabled marketplace for Europe's best independent retailers, which was sold in 2022. Trouva raised ~$50m from investors including Index Ventures, Octopus & LocalGlobe, and was one of Europe's fastest growing technology companies. Mandeep was named one of the 100 most influential people in Retail by Retail Week for 3 years running. He is now an Angel investor in over 80 B2B technology startups and a Venture Partner at Hoxton Ventures.

Paul Humphrey
Paul Humphrey
CEO at BMLL

Paul is CEO at BMLL, an award-winning data and analytics company operating at the cutting edge of capital markets. He has over 30 years’ experience holding various global executive management positions in Investment Banking, Stock Exchange Management, Market Data Vendors and Brokerages. He formerly served as interim CEO of Euronext London and Global Head of FICC at Euronext NV, where he was responsible for the development and execution of strategy in Fixed-income, Rates, Foreign Exchange and Commodity markets.

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.

Tugce Bulut
Tugce Bulut
Co-Founder at alchemy.ai, former CEO of Streetbees

Tugce served as the CEO & founder of Streetbees, a groundbreaking global intelligence platform. Boasting a global user base of over 3.5 million in 189 countries, under her tenure the company closed a £30 million series B round and scaled new heights in success and innovation. She has now moved onto her next venture, alchemy.ai., building a proprietary frontier LLM to create meaningful human connections.

Ben Tang-Watts
Ben Tang-Watts
Head of Partnerships, Emerald Technology

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.

A TASTE OF OUR VENTURECEO INVESTOR PARTNERS
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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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Sep 2025
Future of AI: Incoming
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After a summer break, in early autumn '25 we'll launch our sixth cohort on the future of AI. AI is advancing at breakneck speed, and start-ups tapping into tools like image recognition, customer interaction tech, and automation are set to take the lead in shaping what’s next. Check back soon for more details but whether a cohort founder or domain expert, click the red button to register your interest.

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VENTURECEO: THE IMPACT SO FAR

With five cohorts already under our belt and another on the way, the impact has been phenomenal. The Future of Health, Future of Money, Future of Data, Future of Media, and Future of Retail collaborations featured electric (and eclectic) line-ups at all stages of the growth spectrum. The Future of AI is due to launch in autumn '25. But don't just take our word about all this...

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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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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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