Ben Wright

Helping early stage founders accelerate GTM. Co-author of Founder Led Sales Explained. Co-author of Value Creation Explained. GTM Venture Partner at Crane.

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2026
The latest generation of AI models achieves breakthrough performance by spending vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. Demand is now compounding faster than the infrastructure beneath it can scale. The constraint sits in how tokens are made. Producing a token is not one operation but many, each placing different demands on hardware, yet every AI system in production runs them all on the same general purpose chip. Moving work between chips has always cost too much energy and time for anything else to be viable. That compromise is why the current approach cannot deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost, however large the single chip grows, and and why tokens remain scarce and expensive. Continuing AIs advance, and making it available to everyone, requires the datacentre to be rebuilt the way every great factory has been built: as a production line, with specialised machines and fast, cheap movement between them. OLIX is building that production line: the token factory for frontier AI. If you like working on the hardest and most consequential problems, we want you at OLIX. We are hiring across London, Bristol, Austin, Toronto and San Francisco. Check out our careers page at olix.com/careers.
Founding Coach, Growth Advisory and Investor
Feb 2020
Sales Impact Academy is the worlds leading go-to-market learning platform providing a continuous live learning solution for high-growth technology companies. 79% of sales organizations miss their forecasts by more than 10%. Sales Impact Academy (SIA) helps revenue teams build pipeline and expand customers–faster. The traditional education system has let B2B companies down, with a complete lack of formal, structured education in sales and go-to-market. It means 100 million + people across the world are learning on the job, and every commercial individual contributor and leader is at constant risk of missing their targets and often do. Sales Impact Academy is solving this skills crisis by bringing together the world’s best talent to teach structured, live online courses with high learning design principles, and now supports the skills development of over 12,000 learners across 280 customers including Paypal, HubSpot, Github, Gong, Klaviyo, Rubrik & Thoughtspot. Over 70 instructors on the platform include people like Mark Roberge who was CRO at Hubspot, Sarah Brazier from Gong, Chris Voss (FBIs lead international hostage negotiator), Sam Nelson from Outreach, Dan Steinman from Gainsight, Elissa Fink former CMO of Tableau, and many others. Sales Impact Academy is backed by VCs Stage 2 Capital, MIT, Hubspot Ventures, and Emerge Education.
Growth Advisor and Investor
Oct 2018
Calipsa, Inc. was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022 and is now part of its ecosystem of safety and security technologies. Calipsa is a technology leader in cloud-native advanced video analytics. Its scalable platform enables businesses to optimize security with AI-powered analytics that verify alarms, enable content-based searches, detect tampering and assess the health of cameras in real time. About Motorola Solutions | Solving for safer Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com.
Category Creation, Growth Advisor and Investor
Feb 2018
Bullhorn Analytics helps staffing firms to achieve highly scalable growth. Out analytics platform delivers simple to understand Actionable Insights that show every member of staff, from senior staffing executives to recruiters, how to improve client value and increase return on effort.
Investor (LP)
Nov 2017
Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, CloudNC, Raft, Robin AI, TouchSurgery, Zoopla, Omnipresent and Attest, is a VC firm investing in B2B software startups at Pre-Seed and Seed. Episode 1 invests £500k to £3m into extraordinary teams with real insight into markets that are emerging or evolving. As an early stage fund, we invest in the best opportunities, but are particularly interested in how emerging “deep tech” technologies are disrupting industry, and how technology is reinventing markets. We are the company builders focussed on helping you raise a successful Series A.
Growth Advisor and Investor
Oct 2017
Experiences shared. Decisions made. Build communities, confidence, and empower life-changing decisions. We connect university student ambassadors and future students digitally around the world to make more informed decisions about higher education. Prospective students get information, reassurance and a greater shot at success. Student ambassadors create connections, gain confidence and get to pay it forward. And universities attract, engage and retain a diverse student population. Because shared experience is the most powerful tool for choosing the right path.
Growth Advisor and Investor
Mar 2017
LoopNet has launched in the UK, and Realla has merged with LoopNet, creating the world’s first dedicated international commercial real estate marketplace. LoopNet delivers the highest traffic of any commercial real estate marketplace with 12 million monthly unique visitors, maximizing listing exposure with world-class media presentation that ensures listings stand out from the competition. With LoopNet, you can search for properties not only locally, but also internationally. Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/loopnetunitedkingdom https://twitter.com/LoopNet_UK https://www.instagram.com/loopnet_unitedkingdom/
Growth Advisor and Investor
Mar 2017
LoopNet is the most visited commercial real estate marketplace, covering For Sale and For Lease properties across all commercial property categories. With 13 million monthly unique visitors, listed properties receive unrivaled exposure to the largest CRE tenant and investor audience. As the #1 commercial real estate listing network with 95x the traffic of the average CRE marketplace, LoopNet unlocks exposure across the web. Search or list commercial real estate with LoopNet. LoopNet is a part of CoStar Group, Inc. and is headquartered in Washington, DC.
Investor
Apr 2016
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
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Experience · 12 entries
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2026
Investor
Jan 2026
The latest generation of AI models achieves breakthrough performance by spending vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. Demand is now compounding faster than the infrastructure beneath it can scale. The constraint sits in how tokens are made. Producing a token is not one operation but many, each placing different demands on hardware, yet every AI system in production runs them all on the same general purpose chip. Moving work between chips has always cost too much energy and time for anything else to be viable. That compromise is why the current approach cannot deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost, however large the single chip grows, and and why tokens remain scarce and expensive. Continuing AIs advance, and making it available to everyone, requires the datacentre to be rebuilt the way every great factory has been built: as a production line, with specialised machines and fast, cheap movement between them. OLIX is building that production line: the token factory for frontier AI. If you like working on the hardest and most consequential problems, we want you at OLIX. We are hiring across London, Bristol, Austin, Toronto and San Francisco. Check out our careers page at olix.com/careers.
2023
GTM Advisory Partner
Jan 2023
We back ambitious founders building the future of enterprise technology. From inception through every flavour of pre-seed and seed, we provide the right resources at the right time, supporting founders as they scale globally. We’re people helping people dream, deliver, and win. The definition of enterprise software is evolving, and driving our investment strategy. Deep tech, fintech, healthcare, and hardware startups are shaping the next frontier of enterprise solutions—addressing immediate business needs while redefining industries. The globalization of early-stage funding is unlocking new opportunities, making geographic boundaries less relevant. We’ve embraced a borderless investment mindset, actively supporting founders across the UK, EU, U.S., and Israel. By fostering a more interconnected startup ecosystem, we help bold entrepreneurs build category-defining companies with global impact.
2021
Limited Partner
Apr 2021
Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth and sales operations. Backed by top go-to-market professionals from leading tech companies, Stage 2 Capital leverages its deep sales expertise to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses in addition to providing capital.
2020
Founding Coach, Growth Advisory and Investor
Feb 2020
Sales Impact Academy is the worlds leading go-to-market learning platform providing a continuous live learning solution for high-growth technology companies. 79% of sales organizations miss their forecasts by more than 10%. Sales Impact Academy (SIA) helps revenue teams build pipeline and expand customers–faster. The traditional education system has let B2B companies down, with a complete lack of formal, structured education in sales and go-to-market. It means 100 million + people across the world are learning on the job, and every commercial individual contributor and leader is at constant risk of missing their targets and often do. Sales Impact Academy is solving this skills crisis by bringing together the world’s best talent to teach structured, live online courses with high learning design principles, and now supports the skills development of over 12,000 learners across 280 customers including Paypal, HubSpot, Github, Gong, Klaviyo, Rubrik & Thoughtspot. Over 70 instructors on the platform include people like Mark Roberge who was CRO at Hubspot, Sarah Brazier from Gong, Chris Voss (FBIs lead international hostage negotiator), Sam Nelson from Outreach, Dan Steinman from Gainsight, Elissa Fink former CMO of Tableau, and many others. Sales Impact Academy is backed by VCs Stage 2 Capital, MIT, Hubspot Ventures, and Emerge Education.
2018
Growth Advisor and Investor
Oct 2018
Calipsa, Inc. was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2022 and is now part of its ecosystem of safety and security technologies. Calipsa is a technology leader in cloud-native advanced video analytics. Its scalable platform enables businesses to optimize security with AI-powered analytics that verify alarms, enable content-based searches, detect tampering and assess the health of cameras in real time. About Motorola Solutions | Solving for safer Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com.
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