John Cooke

Entrepreneur, coach and mentor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
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Board Observer
Sep 2024
We provide structured courses catering for different learning styles, with real-time marking and feedback, educating industry-level software to secondary school children giving them valuable technical skills for their future. Students will work through the courses, and their work is checked throughout, whether it’s quiz answers or any design work they do within Fusion 360. Fabrio integrates directly into these programs to make sure students are on the right track and summarises this on a teacher dashboard. This frees up teachers to walk through the class, speaking to students in a more casual way and allowing teachers to decide where their time is best spent.
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Assemble You delivers a consumer-grade learning experience to corporate L&D – providing resources to empower professionals to become the best version of themselves. We champion a convenient learning experience that’s smooth, straightforward, and stress-free. AY is the home of podcast-style audio lessons. Our audio lessons are designed to be listened to on the go. They complement (rather than compete with) a busy life. Topics in our library range from Power Skills, productivity, and sales to well-being, leadership, and DEI. In 2024, we launched TikTok-style technical training. These resources (not courses) are all under ten minutes. They upskill employees in the flow of life and solve problems at the point of need.
Investor, Board Member
Mar 2018
4T2 Sensors revolutionises fluid sensing with our accurate and novel sensor, providing valuable insights. By combining these insights with our profound process knowledge, our customers gain a competitive edge. With actionable optimisation strategies derived from our sensor, they can drive sustainable innovation and elevate their operations.
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2024
Board Observer
Sep 2024
We provide structured courses catering for different learning styles, with real-time marking and feedback, educating industry-level software to secondary school children giving them valuable technical skills for their future. Students will work through the courses, and their work is checked throughout, whether it’s quiz answers or any design work they do within Fusion 360. Fabrio integrates directly into these programs to make sure students are on the right track and summarises this on a teacher dashboard. This frees up teachers to walk through the class, speaking to students in a more casual way and allowing teachers to decide where their time is best spent.
2023
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Assemble You delivers a consumer-grade learning experience to corporate L&D – providing resources to empower professionals to become the best version of themselves. We champion a convenient learning experience that’s smooth, straightforward, and stress-free. AY is the home of podcast-style audio lessons. Our audio lessons are designed to be listened to on the go. They complement (rather than compete with) a busy life. Topics in our library range from Power Skills, productivity, and sales to well-being, leadership, and DEI. In 2024, we launched TikTok-style technical training. These resources (not courses) are all under ten minutes. They upskill employees in the flow of life and solve problems at the point of need.
2022
Co-Founder
Jun 2022
We turn startups into market leaders! We help founders deliver sustainable growth by embedding our team of experts into their business, to give them the board they can’t afford in exchange for equity in their venture. We deliver initiatives to generate growth alongside the founders until they recruit a team to take over the disciplines.  Assisting founders with: 🤔 Strategy 💻 Commercial 📜 Legal 💸 Finance 📈 Sales 👥 Mentoring 🚩 HR & Recruitment 📲 Tech 👩‍❤️‍👨 then helping to secure finances & recruit the right team, so they can accelerate growth quickly to exit or IPO.  We deliver this in 3 stages. Foundation Fuel Flourish In our Foundation stage we build you a growth plan that covers Strategy, Tech, Mentoring, HR, Funding, Legal, Sales, Finance & Commercial, before we move into our Fuel stage where we help secure finances & recruit the right team. Finally we implement your growth plan initiatives in our Flourish stage, to accelerate growth quickly through investment rounds to set you up for exit or IPO. Turnkey’s solution provides a panel of advisors to sit on your board that can be swapped around as necessary, giving you access to an amazing team of experts on a flexible basis as you implement your growth plan. Turnkey works with a handful of high growth potential businesses a year, who are usually at an early stage in their lifecycle, although may join later if scaling up or pivoting the business. Our inputs deliver business growth, accelerate performance, and deliver a much more investible and valuable business. We do not charge a fee for our services. Instead, we agree on an amount of equity in your business that is exchanged for our package.  If you think your business could be the next big thing, get in touch to see how we can help support you on the journey. Turnkey - A Venture Studio for high potential startups.  info@weareturnkey.co.uk
2020
Venture Partner and Coach
Jan 2020
We champion the power of technology to improve skills for work and deliver better outcomes for all. We act as a funding partner and essential friend to innovators in skills development looking to help people progress in the workplace. We catalyse a fundamental shift in how individuals, employers and UK society view, embrace and benefit from vocational skills development through digital innovation. #VocTech #EdTech for adults
2018
Investor, Board Member
Mar 2018
4T2 Sensors revolutionises fluid sensing with our accurate and novel sensor, providing valuable insights. By combining these insights with our profound process knowledge, our customers gain a competitive edge. With actionable optimisation strategies derived from our sensor, they can drive sustainable innovation and elevate their operations.
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