Michael Korn

BLUE GARAGE hardware innovation hub, co-working and makerspace

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023
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Founding Investor
Feb 2015
Better Data | Better Outcomes Index’s unique combination of experienced human data stewards and proprietary technology ensures your data stays continuously up-to-date, allowing you to maintain connections with your key clients, contacts and companies. #makedataworkbetter
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2024
Co-Founder
Nov 2024
BLUE GARAGE is a new social enterprise providing affordable, quality workspaces and resources for people who make things. We offer coworking for creative businesses with over 10,000 sq ft of well-equipped workshops and office spaces, an onsite production and prototyping facility, and a vibrant event space—all tailored to support London’s makers, designers, and practical skills specialists. Our mission is to build a collaborative community for London’s hands-on creatives—product designers, architects, makers, artists, and skilled professionals—who need more than just a desk. At BLUE GARAGE, members have access to the resources, equipment, and support they need to turn ideas into reality and grow sustainable, rewarding careers and businesses in SE London. Joining BLUE GARAGE means joining a community. Beyond the workspace, will be providing training, resources, and practical support through networking events, mentoring sessions, and skill-building workshops. Partnerships with local universities, Lewisham Council, and London’s Creative Enterprise Zones will connect our members with valuable opportunities across London, fostering collaboration, learning, and business growth. We’re at the beginning of this journey and invite you to help us build London’s newest hub for creative, hands-on businesses. Whether youre launching a business, refining your craft, or interested in mentoring others, BLUE GARAGE is where you’ll find the tools, community, and inspiration to succeed. Let’s create a space where makers can thrive together, building big ideas and hardware businesses in the heart of SE London.
2023
Co-Founder
Aug 2023
Developing a novel therapeutic modality for depression
Board Member
Jul 2023
Entrepreneurs shape the future, sparking innovation, creating jobs, empowering dreams. We believe in challenging the status quo and finding solutions, one business at a time. While that journey can bring influence, recognition, and personal reward, it can also be arduous and lonely. Mindful of the unique pressures and isolation experienced along many an entrepreneur’s path, in 1987, a group of young pioneers designed a solution: a membership community dedicated exclusively by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs who have a proven record of success. Soon, that collective grew from a few hundred to many thousands, evolving into the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Today, EO welcomes entrepreneurs everywhere, connecting 18,000 of the world’s leading entrepreneurs from every sector, generation, culture, and walk of life across 80+ countries worldwide. We create belonging, forge connections, exchange diverse perspectives, and share extraordinary experiences, all year long. What makes our community special? In a word: connection. With EO, we go beyond the business to the whole entrepreneur, gaining insights that we pass on to our families and work teams. We recognize the interconnectedness of our success and learn to balance individual achievements with collective impacts. By gathering locally and connecting globally – in chapters, in regions, as one borderless community – we experience a 360-degree entrepreneurial journey that unlocks more of our full potential. As members of EO’s local and global communities, we belong, so we can become even more. Join EO and engage in a diverse collective that is always learning, always growing, and thinking big while being bold. Together, we will move the world forward.
2021
Zinc Cohort 4 Founder
Nov 2021
Zinc exists to accelerate Science-for-Impact innovation, partnering with people and organisations to build a better future for people and planet. Through our venture building, talent initiatives and innovation partnerships, we work across the entire Science-for-Impact ecosystem to create the conditions, capabilities, and coalitions needed for transformative change. Pre-seed investment: We back exceptional entrepreneurial talent from the conception of a new Science-for-Impact venture through to seed, providing the funding, venture-building expertise, team building, and coaching required to set teams up for impact on people and planet at scale. Learn more on our website here: https://www.zinc.vc/ To apply for funding, please tell us a bit about yourself and what youre building via this short form: https://airtable.com/appTvgH4eAXwSD2Vs/pagxU4iWkcj9vJrWj/form
2015
Founding Investor
Feb 2015
Better Data | Better Outcomes Index’s unique combination of experienced human data stewards and proprietary technology ensures your data stays continuously up-to-date, allowing you to maintain connections with your key clients, contacts and companies. #makedataworkbetter
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