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Founding Partner Westerly Winds

📍 Kensington and Chelsea, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Dec 2023
Smart tech for smart bodies™ We’re on a mission to take women’s tech out of the dark ages, by developing radical female-first technology that gives women’s bodies and lives the respect they deserve. As our founder Tania Boler says: "We need tech that finally puts women’s needs first. Afterall, why should we have to make do with shoddy design or pink spin-offs when there are self-driving cars in the world?” Our first two products Elvie Trainer and Elvie Pump have racked up more than 50 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. Although our core mission is to empower women, we believe that anybody who can use our products should feel empowered to use them, whether they identify as women or not. With headquarters in London and a state-of-the-art innovation hub in Bristol, we are a global business bringing cutting edge tech to the Americas, Europe and Asia. Wanna join a mission-led company determined to make a difference? Check out our current roles on the Jobs tab.
Board Member
Nov 2023
CoFi is a specialized construction lender with over 30+ years of experience in both lending and construction. Our financing is backed by a proprietary payment software platform to expedite cash flow to the job site, including utilizing digital certified inspections and lien waiver management, so you can control speed of payment.
Board Member
Jul 2023
Headquartered in San Francisco, California. Frameplay is an Intrinsic advertising platform for video games. Frameplay offers a transparent, self-serve, gamer first experience that encourages creativity whilst delivering sophisticated data and analytics to both advertisers and developers. Frameplay is truly the in-game advertising leader, enabling intrinsic advertising within video game environments.
Board Member
Jan 2021
LeaseLock is an insurtech platform that revolutionizes the rental market by replacing traditional security deposits with lease insurance. Our innovative solution removes the financial barriers renters face when leasing a new apartment and significantly enhances investment returns for property owners by preventing NOI loss.
mid stageInsurance
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2020
Fishbrain is a passionate and collaborative community with the tools you need to have the best possible fishing experience. With 200 million people sport fishing around the world, we’re connecting anglers to make fishing dreams come true, today and tomorrow. Here are some impressive stats: 15 million anglers use the platform, and have logged over 14 million catches. On any given day, Fishbrain lets you choose from over 1.7 million fishing locations worldwide. With all the new fishing information that keeps rolling in from our anglers, our engineers crunch the numbers to make the world’s best data-driven fishing recommendations. The Fishbrain experience happens in our mobile app, and we have some pretty cool features: - See where the big fish will be biting with our Fishing Forecast. - Share catches and moments with fellow anglers. - Explore catches and fishing spots on a local map. - Log your catches and track your personal angling progress. As a company, we value diversity. Some of us are anglers. Some of us are parents. All of us are human. We’re passionate about the outdoors and conservation. We have an open work culture. We have core values that we bring to life on a daily basis. Our Stockholm office is a cubicle-free, well-lit place, where teamwork is fluid and ongoing, and there’s always coffee brewing. Why dont you join us? See all open positions at http://fishbrain.com/jobs/ Download the app at www.fishbrain.com.
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2023
Board Member
Dec 2023
Smart tech for smart bodies™ We’re on a mission to take women’s tech out of the dark ages, by developing radical female-first technology that gives women’s bodies and lives the respect they deserve. As our founder Tania Boler says: "We need tech that finally puts women’s needs first. Afterall, why should we have to make do with shoddy design or pink spin-offs when there are self-driving cars in the world?” Our first two products Elvie Trainer and Elvie Pump have racked up more than 50 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. Although our core mission is to empower women, we believe that anybody who can use our products should feel empowered to use them, whether they identify as women or not. With headquarters in London and a state-of-the-art innovation hub in Bristol, we are a global business bringing cutting edge tech to the Americas, Europe and Asia. Wanna join a mission-led company determined to make a difference? Check out our current roles on the Jobs tab.
Board Member
Nov 2023
CoFi is a specialized construction lender with over 30+ years of experience in both lending and construction. Our financing is backed by a proprietary payment software platform to expedite cash flow to the job site, including utilizing digital certified inspections and lien waiver management, so you can control speed of payment.
Board Member
Jul 2023
Headquartered in San Francisco, California. Frameplay is an Intrinsic advertising platform for video games. Frameplay offers a transparent, self-serve, gamer first experience that encourages creativity whilst delivering sophisticated data and analytics to both advertisers and developers. Frameplay is truly the in-game advertising leader, enabling intrinsic advertising within video game environments.
2021
Board Member
Jan 2021
LeaseLock is an insurtech platform that revolutionizes the rental market by replacing traditional security deposits with lease insurance. Our innovative solution removes the financial barriers renters face when leasing a new apartment and significantly enhances investment returns for property owners by preventing NOI loss.
mid stageInsurance
2020
Investor and Advisor
Apr 2020
Carbon Clean is the point-source carbon capture expert, driving the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries for more than 15 years. The company is eliminating the barriers of cost and space through its breakthrough modular CycloneCC technology, which cuts the total installed cost and overall physical footprint by up to 50% compared with conventional solutions.
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