Glenn St. John-Colgan FIoD MCIPS

At Korra Ventures, we partner with visionary founders to create transformative businesses. We combine capital, expertise, and a decade of experience to empower entrepreneurs—helping them overcome barriers and deliver innovative solutions with 10x+ growth potential. Our mission is clear: to find and nurture the next wave of £100M+ companies that shape industries and drive meaningful impact.

Holistic childcare for the modern world. MEplace represents a new dawn in childcare; creating a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace is a space where children and parents come to experience the very latest in child development. Offering a mixture of a Private Club, coupled with the ultimate in daycare, MEplace will offer a holistic approach to children’s preschool education and psychological development - a structured educational system bespoke to the childrens individual developmental needs and representing cutting-edge thinking in children’s education and care. MEplace will be based in a beautifully designed space, serving mostly organic plant-based meals and fostering a healthy lifestyle from the early years. At the heart of everything we do is a great love for children. Initially, MEplace will open in East London, with the ambition to quickly roll out across the city.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

At Korra Ventures, we partner with visionary founders to create transformative businesses. We combine capital, expertise, and a decade of experience to empower entrepreneurs—helping them overcome barriers and deliver innovative solutions with 10x+ growth potential. Our mission is clear: to find and nurture the next wave of £100M+ companies that shape industries and drive meaningful impact.

Holistic childcare for the modern world. MEplace represents a new dawn in childcare; creating a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace is a space where children and parents come to experience the very latest in child development. Offering a mixture of a Private Club, coupled with the ultimate in daycare, MEplace will offer a holistic approach to children’s preschool education and psychological development - a structured educational system bespoke to the childrens individual developmental needs and representing cutting-edge thinking in children’s education and care. MEplace will be based in a beautifully designed space, serving mostly organic plant-based meals and fostering a healthy lifestyle from the early years. At the heart of everything we do is a great love for children. Initially, MEplace will open in East London, with the ambition to quickly roll out across the city.

Fundamentally we do two things, we buy for the government, and we help others to sell to government. We have a strong blend of operational, commercial and sales experience within a team of experienced professionals, all of whom have proven success. We know what we are doing because we have done it many times before, having bought, sold and delivered £billions worth of services for and to government. We don’t stop there though. We work with our customer to develop their capabilities, whether it be to help them grow their commercial expertise, build a high performing bid team, or support contract delivery on “either side of the fence”. We like to keep things simple and help our clients to focus on what’s important to get things done. We are straight talking, candid and will tell you what you need to know, NOT what you’d like to hear. We don’t need a lot of customers and choose to work with those who genuinely seek to add value to society. We want to work with good people, who have an interest in doing more than solely making a profit. We want to work with people who align with our values, becoming trusted partners in delivering meaningful objectives that we can together buy into.