Gi Fernando Mbe

Experienced Chair, Entrepreneur and Engineer. Builder. Focus on Technology, Policy and Data.

📍 Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2015𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor
Jul 2015
CENTURY is an award-winning teaching and learning platform for primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. Using learning science, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, CENTURY creates constantly adapting pathways for students and powerful assessment data for teachers.
Angel Investor
May 2014
Driftrock is a marketing technology business based in London that helps brands grow their lead generation initiatives, at scale. Driftrock's technology helps brands capture, manage, track and convert leads to unlock their ability to build the ultimate lead generation machine. Businesses like BMW, The University of Birmingham and BT trust us to close the loop on their digital activity and prove the ROI of their online marketing strategies. We are proud to be badged marketing partners of Google, Meta and LinkedIn. We also work closely with Twitter, Snap, Pinterest & other marketing platforms. In addition to our software, we provide social media management, consultancy and migration services. Drop us a note to see how we can help your business unlock your true online potential: www.driftrock.com
Angel Investor
Dec 2012
MAKING CITIES USABLE Cities are complicated. We're using the power of mobile and data to help humans survive and master them. We're building the best app (http://citymapper.com/apps), with the best routing, and the best data in the cities where we can make a difference. We're a small dedicated team, with HQ in London, and some based around the cities (http://citymapper.com/cities) of the world, with backgrounds in transport, Google, startups, apps, design, investing and academia. We're motivated by solving hard fundamental everyday problems that improve the quality of people's lives. We like simplifying complexity, reinventing user experience, working with data, shipping fast, and humanising a serious space. We're venture capital backed (https://medium.com/@Citymapper/getting-from-a-to-series-b-883393164276#) by Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Balderton Capital, Connect Ventures, and various angel investors, including Yuri Milner, Xavier Niel and Michael Lynton. We are interested in the person more than the role so do not let the job descriptions hold you back, some of the best opportunities are not listed. We pay competitively and provide equity/ stock options to all employees. We get a lot of applications so our apologies if we are not able to get back to you. Finding quality referrals and recommendations is a better way to get our attention than just applying here. To all recruitment agencies: we don’t accept agency resumes, and will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. www.citymapper.com/jobs
Investor
Jul 2012
YPlan uncovers the best events every day so you can get out and Live Your City. Get the lowdown on cool dates, hidden culture and where to hang with friends. YPlan is currently available in London, New York, San Francisco, Dublin and Bristol through the App Store, on Google Play & Kindle Fire. Discover, book, go – it’s that simple. Flash your YPlan ticket and you’re in. We're always on the look out for talented people to join us (we've been voted one of Britain’s best tech startups by the Times, Wired and Forbes). If you're looking for a place to work with great people, cross-functional teams with real responsibility and a supportive culture, then YPlan may be right up your street. For the full list of job opportunities check out: boards.greenhouse.io/yplan Keep up to date with listings by following us on Twitter: @YPlanJobs ------ Get social with us: Twitter: @yplan or @yplanjobs Instagram: www.instagram.com/YPlan Facebook: www.facebook.com/YPlan
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Investor
Jun 2012
Sleepio is the digital sleep improvement program clinically proven to help overcome even long-term poor sleep. Created by world sleep expert, Professor Colin Espie and entrepreneur, Peter Hames, Sleepio features proven Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques. The six-week online programme is clinically proven to help those with long-term sleep problems fall asleep, stay asleep and feel better during the day without using any pills. Sleepio is part of Big Health, the behavioral medicine company.
Experience · 22 entries
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2020
Chair and Founder
Oct 2020
We help startups maximise their impact in the fight against climate change, through funding, learning and networking. Subak uniquely focuses on supporting not-for-profits to use data and technology to influence policy and mass-market behaviour. The Subak Data Cooperative is a growing body of climate-data used to help fight climate change. Sign up to our newsletter subak.org/newsletter
Founder / ex-Chair, Non Executive Director
Jun 2020
We’re an independent transport research organisation with a mission to accelerate and support the switch to electric vehicles in the UK. Our approach connects marketing, technology and policy to ensure consumer-focused change.
Director and Co-Founder
Jan 2020
ReGenerate exists to unleash the full power of purpose-driven business across the UK by showing how businesses can tackle the biggest challenges faced by people and planet. We want to make purpose-driven business the new normal and the most successful. We do this by using research, events and ecosystem mapping to identify the solutions needed to help businesses profitably do good and we work with our network to advocate for change and build government support for purpose driven business. Our 2025 ambition is for the UK to be ranked the best place to start, grow and lead purpose-driven businesses, and their contribution to tackling social and environmental issues is world leading. Click here to view our latest projects: https://www.re-generate.org/issues Follow us on LinkedIn to keep up to date with the purpose-driven ecosystem!
2015
Investor
Jul 2015
CENTURY is an award-winning teaching and learning platform for primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. Using learning science, artificial intelligence and neuroscience, CENTURY creates constantly adapting pathways for students and powerful assessment data for teachers.
DrumrollHQ
Investor
Jan 2015
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