University of Exeter

General Partner at Outsized Ventures

Molten Ventures is a leading venture capital firm investing in and developing high growth digital technology businesses. 

Overseeing the fund raising strategies for Molten’s third party funds.

Molten Ventures

Head Third Party Funds

Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation, a non-departmental public body funded by a grant-in-aid from the UK government. For more information, visit the UK Research and Innovation website.

We drive productivity and economic growth by supporting businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK’s world-class research base.

Innovate UK

Council Member

At Outsized Ventures we partner with founders pushing the boundaries of science and technology to solve the world’s greatest challenges. Some call it deep tech, others frontier tech, tough tech, hard tech or high tech - for us, it is simply the future.

Outsized Ventures

General Partner

A University of Surrey enterprise and a major centre of excellence in Science Tech & Engineering.

Surrey Research Park

Chair

Oxford Sciences Innovation is a leading science and technology business. We ensure Oxford’s world-leading science moves out of the laboratory and onto the global stage. In partnership with the University of Oxford, OSI creates fundamental technology companies, built on science. We match scientists with experienced entrepreneurs and patient capital to turn idea to impact, discovery to company. 

We invest in Life Sciences, Deep Tech, Healthtech, AI and Software to create companies taking on challenges like diagnosis and treatment of disease and cancer, hyper resolution microscopy, renewable energy, drones, nuclear fusion and quantum computing. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M of evergreen capital, building on Oxford’s renowned research legacy, to create a leading science and technology ecosystem and home for entrepreneurs.

We back companies from their inception and invest for the long-term, helping them to build their businesses by finding senior management talent, entrepreneurs, expert advisors and global investors to realise their vision.

Oxford Sciences Innovation

Senior Adviser

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science and technology-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.

Creative Destruction Lab

Mentor CDL-Oxford

Luminous Ventures is a London-based VC fund investing in Deep Tech with a focus on the application of innovative technologies to healthcare, life science, nutrition, food and agriculture. Investing at Seed and Series A, Luminous has backed companies in Europe and North America.

Luminous Ventures

General Partner and Co-Founder 

White Cloud Capital is a $400m growth capital fund. 

The venture arm invests in early stage companies that have the potential to be global world-class businesses across four core sectors: consumer, healthcare, education and industrials.  We provide entrepreneurs access to our high quality capital, experience and resources to drive growth. Focused on originating and executing investments in Europe and Asia.

White Cloud Capital

Head of Venture Capital

Co-founded Crane to provide the controls that ensure smooth and secure movement of DOCKER containers to their destination. We provide shipping lanes in the form of Continuous Delivery pipelines, metrics on where containers are running and data on what's inside the containers (applications, versions, etc.).

Crane has the ability to deploy docker images to many targets and inject environment differences, providing visualisation dashboards, audit reports, rollback and comparison of containers. It supports hybrid cloud implementations and has been built with enterprise class security, controls and compliance in mind.

CRANE: Securely build, deploy and manage your Docker Containers

Sold to Midvision in April 2015.

Crane Software

Co-Founder

Partner and Investment Committee for GGM Venture Capital's High Growth IT Fund investing in early stage technology companies.

Raised $40m in our first fund.

GGM Venture Capital

Partner and Member Investment Committee GGM High Growth IT Fund

Supported the Board and EQT on the turnaround of Automic Holding GmbH, a leader in business automation software, resulting in its acquisition by CA technologies for $600 million.

Responsible for re-brand, re-positioning, re-structuring the marketing function globally, internal communications, external communications, change management and cultural programme worldwide across Europe, Americas and Asia.

Automic Software

Turnaround 

One of the UK’s most exciting option for top graduates by building your own startup. Own it, run it and be responsible for making it a success. It’s hard work, but the upside is unlimited.

Article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/9509964/Meet-the-graduate-start-ups-rejecting-City-jobs.html

Entrepreneur First

Mentor

Founded IF Communications to become one of the leading communications agencies focused on the technology, mobile and venture space. With offices in San Francisco, New York and London, our senior team worked with leading companies, from start-ups to large corporations, on ensuring our clients' messages reached the right audiences for valuation creation. 

Clients included, Silicon Valley Bank, Wellington Partners, GP Bullhound, Octopus, Groupon, Inrix, Intel Capital, InMobi, Flirtomatic, Associated Northcliffe Digital, nToklo, Expertmaker, Certivox, NCIIA, Astia, Assistly (Desk.com), Seatwave,  Socialbakers, Fjord, Skimlinks and a host more great companies.

Sold to Hotwire, owned by Photon Group.

IF Communications

Founder

Astia is a community of experts committed to building women leader and accelerating the funding and growth of high potential, high-growth, women-led startups.

Astia

London Advisory Board

Together with Louise Ballard, we grew and built Ballard Associates, a dedicated corporate communications agency, focused on UK clients in the innovation and entrepreneurial space (Index Ventures, Draper, Benchmark, Advent Partners, Lovefilm, Yoox, Seatwave) and managed the investor relations for the five largest stocks in Austria (OMV, Telekom Austria, Erste Bank, Palfinger, Weinerberger) and the Vienna Stock Exchange. 

Sold to Grayling.

Ballard Associates

An international financial communications consultancy, with particular strengths in media relations, sell-side analyst communications and investor relations.

Isabel Fox