Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman is a British entrepreneur and investor who has co-founded several successful tech companies and investment firms:

• Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Forum - a global community of founders, corporates and tech leaders56
• Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Factory - a global venture studio and accelerator36
• Co-Founder and Managing Partner of firstminute capital - a $350m seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders146
• Co-Founder of Founders Makers - a creative partner to leading challengers and corporates in Europe45

Some of Brent's other notable achievements include:

• Co-founding lastminute.com in 1998, serving as CEO, and selling it to Sabre for $1.1bn in 2005123
• Co-founding Made.com in 2010, leaving before it went public in 2021 at a $1.1bn valuation12
• Backing 9 unicorns at the seed stage16
• Businesses he has co-founded have cumulatively raised over $1bn123
• Awarded a CBE in 2015 for services to entrepreneurship13

Brent sits on the advisory boards of Google Cloud, the UK Government Digital Service, the WEF Digital Europe Group, and has advised four UK Prime Ministers on technology.1236 He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and the University of Oxford.23