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Building Startups // Chief Studio Officer @foundersfactory // 💯

London
Joined October 2008
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Had a lovely chat with Roy Sharples about creative leadership and my journey to Founders Factory. #leadership #creative #founders #venturebuilding
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What a team!
On #IWD2022, we’re championing all women+ across our Operations team and founder portfolio 👩 Working hard to #BreakTheBias against women in tech and entrepreneurship, we’re actively working on👇
📣We recently hosted our annual Founders Day, bringing together all of the founders across our portfolio for a day of learning, networking, and knowledge sharing Watch the video for highlights from the day👇
Read about our focus areas and how you can get involved here > bit.ly/3vdxcbE
Replying to @nesta_uk
Claire Morris, Chief Studio Officer at @foundersfactory outlines the importance of Mission Studio’s Diversity by Design Strategy, ensuring capital goes to diverse founding teams with ventures being designed to be inclusive as possible 👇 @clurmorris bit.ly/3n19XOh
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Our Mission Studio is now live! We’re partnering with @nesta_uk to create new ventures tackling UK’s biggest social and environmental challenges 🏃🥗🌍 We’ll create & invest in 3 innovative new ventures each year until 2024: bit.ly/3vdxcbE Read on for more details👇
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Today, we’re excited to announce @avivaplc has extended our exclusive fintech partnership for another five years 🤝 💷📲. It means we can continue to support founders innovating in fintech: bit.ly/3kR4qdm Read on for more details👇
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Raducanu having the time of her life and singing Sweet Caroline along with the crowd #USOpen
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❗The Founders Factory Startup Bulletin September edition is out today on Substack: bit.ly/3t4Ia22❗Here’s five things you’ll learn if you read it 👇
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Some big news🚀Portfolio company Freshman & its parent company Honest Health, have been acquired by @wearehims - Hims & Hers Health, Inc (NYSE:HIMS), the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalised health & wellness experiences to all consumers👇
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📣 I’m #hiring. 📣 We’re looking for an enthusiastic, self-starter to help us deliver our world class Studio program. This is a great opportunity to help shape our early stage ventures and support our amazing founders. Apply here >> bit.ly/3fhTtNP
Which of these trends do you predict will change the food & wellness industry in 2021?
22%Vertical farming
6%Circular refill solutions
11%Personalised nutrition
61%Food delivery enablers
18 votes • Final results
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Great news!
Congratulations to @barney_wragg and the @Karakuri_tech team for launching their first canteen robot, The DK-One, plus an $8.3m investment to continue building intelligent robotics that transform and improve ready to eat catering. Read more: tcrn.ch/39C498X 🤖👏
1/8 📢 Want to hear how - & why - @go_caper was born in our Venture Studio? 👇Read on to discover how we combined our Venture Studio process with insight from @LEGO_Ventures, alongside an all-star founding team, to build an app on a mission to get families off-screen & outdoors.
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We’re about to start our third virtual Investor Showcase on our platform. 14 of our startups will be presenting, raising their Seed to Series A funding. No problem if you can’t attend as we’ll be keeping you updated throughout the show 🎦 #FactoryShowcase
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We want to power startup founders to go further, faster. Today we can now share that we are backing @CreatorFund a new type of VC that sees students investing in their peers and offers an alternative route to growth for university-based startups. buff.ly/2wQTN3C
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C L A I R E retweeted
McNamara's fallacy basically says that if something is difficult to measure (like the value of design) it will get ignored in favour of something that’s easy to measure (like the effect of SEO).
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Founders Factory Scaling Behind The Scenes - what have we learned, what's next for the team and why is tech more important than ever? @Henrylf reflects in the final Factory Floor of 2019 mailchi.mp/foundersfactory/f…
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BREAKING: We have launched in New York with our 1st investor Johnson & Johnson. With the world’s largest healthcare company we will build and invest in startups that will increase access to healthcare. Welcome @mbaratz, CEO Founders Factory NY: buff.ly/2rvlufx @Siftedeu
C L A I R E retweeted
Cool job going for anyone interested in brand/product prototyping and intent testing at one of @foundersfactory incubator project which is taking off! 🚀 jobs.lever.co/foundersfactor…
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