Michael Tefula

Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a prosthetics company developing affordable, assistive devices that enhance the human body. Weve started by introducing the Hero Arm, a stylish multi-grip bionic arm. Current upper limb prostheses exist as hooks, grippers, or expensive bionic hands. Were on a mission to make beautiful bionic limbs more accessible. Aged 17, Joel Gibbard began tinkering with robotic hands. There was something about the movement of a disembodied humanoid hand that captured his imagination. Hundreds of prototypes and many crates of failures later, in 2014, Joel co-founded Open Bionics with Samantha Payne. With the help of an awesome team and the support of the limb different community, they’re pioneering a new bionic age inspired by science fiction. www.openbionics.com The Hero Arm: The Hero Arm is Open Bionics​ first commercially available bionic limb. The Hero Arm is the most affordable multi-grip bionic arm ever, less than half the price of its nearest competitor. Each Hero Arm is custom-built, and for the first time ever is available for upper limb amputees as young as nine.

Hubble is a flexible workspace platform. We help businesses give their teams great places to work – whether thats a longer-term office, or on-demand access to a network of thousands of spaces to work and meet. Our solutions flex with your workspace needs, helping you reduce wasted office spend while keeping your employees happy and productive.

Hubble is a flexible workspace platform. We help businesses give their teams great places to work – whether thats a longer-term office, or on-demand access to a network of thousands of spaces to work and meet. Our solutions flex with your workspace needs, helping you reduce wasted office spend while keeping your employees happy and productive.

Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identify early problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs.

Masters of Pie is a UK scale-up software company that delivers real-time extended reality (XR) collaboration solutions for the Defence and Enterprise market. Our modular software development framework (SDK) called Radical integrates at the data source with existing enterprise software applications enabling seamless and secure sharing of complex 2D and 3D data across augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), desktop and mobile devices. The unique approach of Masters of Pie to deliver customised XR collaboration solutions by taking the solution to the data is perfect for data-sensitive industries like Defence, Healthcare, and Engineering as it allows teams to share data and collaborate securely leveraging existing processes and workflows. The Masters of Pie software is used to create novel ways of bringing people and data together in spatial context delivering innovative use cases including immersive design reviews, remote expert assistance, robotic simulation and common operational pictures.

Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence SaaS platform using the latest deep learning and computer vision techniques along with proprietary algorithms to provide actionable intelligence to farmers and agri-businesses at key decision-making times in the growing season. The company analyses remote sensing data to help farmers identify early problems in their crops such as crop health, disease risk & detection, weed mapping and yield prediction as well as valuable information such as canopy coverage, plant counting, size and biomass estimation, with the objective of optimising inputs and maximising efficiency. Hummingbird began operating in 2016 and since then has covered in excess of >500,000 hectares of arable crops for farmers and agri-businesses. Their platform is utilised at key decision-making points in the growing season to allow intelligent and specific information to inform chemical or operational input decisions that decrease costs and improve outputs.

The Oxford Seed Fund is a founder-friendly team comprising students and alumni from the University of Oxford. We invest up to £100,000 in early-stage startups where the founding team has at least one current student, alumni or academic staff member from the university, and provide additional support to scale. Supported by the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Atomico is the founder-built European venture capital firm. We partner with the most ambitious entrepreneurs using technology to rewire the world, better. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström launched Atomico in 2006 with the belief that entrepreneurs are the ultimate gamechangers for positive transformation across the most critical aspects of our society and economy. Starting in Europe, the firm’s mission is to further their global progress, with a platform offering unmatched support from the early stage to scale. 130 of Europe’s most ambitious founders have partnered with Atomico, including Aiven, Bird, DeepL, Hinge Health, Jobandtalent, Klarna, Lilium, Pipedrive, Stripe, Supercell and Wellhub. Atomicos team of investors and operational leaders are drawn from some of the most successful technology companies in the world, including Skype, Google, Twitter and Wise.

Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm. We find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. We invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing.

At Downing Ventures, we invest in the dreams and futures of founders to help them build their companies with expertise as well as funding. We are a venture capitalist team investing in innovative technology companies and pioneering founders across the globe with early to growth stage funding. Investing in a variety of sectors such as Deep Tech, Enterprise and Healthcare, our team work alongside a number of investment partners and accelerator programmes and incubators, including the London Co-Investment Fund.

Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a prosthetics company developing affordable, assistive devices that enhance the human body. Weve started by introducing the Hero Arm, a stylish multi-grip bionic arm. Current upper limb prostheses exist as hooks, grippers, or expensive bionic hands. Were on a mission to make beautiful bionic limbs more accessible. Aged 17, Joel Gibbard began tinkering with robotic hands. There was something about the movement of a disembodied humanoid hand that captured his imagination. Hundreds of prototypes and many crates of failures later, in 2014, Joel co-founded Open Bionics with Samantha Payne. With the help of an awesome team and the support of the limb different community, they’re pioneering a new bionic age inspired by science fiction. www.openbionics.com The Hero Arm: The Hero Arm is Open Bionics​ first commercially available bionic limb. The Hero Arm is the most affordable multi-grip bionic arm ever, less than half the price of its nearest competitor. Each Hero Arm is custom-built, and for the first time ever is available for upper limb amputees as young as nine.

Hubble is a flexible workspace platform. We help businesses give their teams great places to work – whether thats a longer-term office, or on-demand access to a network of thousands of spaces to work and meet. Our solutions flex with your workspace needs, helping you reduce wasted office spend while keeping your employees happy and productive.