Christian Tooley

Advisor to Funds, Startups & Organisations | Impact Investor | Keynote Speaker | Entrepreneur-in-Residence, LSE | Ex-Bain Venture | WEF Global Shaper | Systems Change • London • Athens

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Investor in Residence
Jan 2026
The home of Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics.
Ada Ventures Angel & Venture Scout
Mar 2023
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm. We find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. We invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing.
Angel Investor & Startup Advisor
2020
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
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2026
Investor in Residence
Jan 2026
The home of Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics.
2025
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Apr 2025
Christian Tooley is a strategic advisor, impact investor, and keynote speaker working with radical founders, bold funders, and progressive organisations building for systems change. Through consulting, coaching, capital, and speaking, he helps clients reimagine systems in an increasingly contradictory, and chaotic world.
2023
Ada Ventures Angel & Venture Scout
Mar 2023
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm. We find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. We invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing.
2022
Newton Fellow
Sep 2022
Newton Venture Program provides venture capital training and development for aspiring investors, practising investors, and others in the venture space. Our mission is to level the playing field for people from typically overlooked and underestimated backgrounds, ensuring that the next generation of investors represent the world we live in. Newton Alumni span the globe with more than 500 people from all backgrounds going on to secure positions in VC firms, accelerate their careers in VC, and become disruptors of the status quo. As of the start of 2024, 46% identify as female or non-binary, and 49% identify as the global majority. Newton is a joint venture between Phoenix Court and London Business School with founding partner, HSBC Innovation Banking. With our unique blend of faculty and practitioner teaching, we are training the investors of tomorrow to back the ventures of the future.
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Venture Scout
Jun 2022
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