Michelle Wilk

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of experts, and unrivalled access to leading organisations, including: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, The Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore and MSWA. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. Our Accelerator backs early stage startups across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Industrials & Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of experts, and unrivalled access to leading organisations, including: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, The Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore and MSWA. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. Our Accelerator backs early stage startups across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Industrials & Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.

BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/

The VC backing the innovators who are transforming our relationship with the built world and its impact on people, business, and the environment. Founded in 2015, Pi Labs is actively investing globally at the early stages of the startup journey – from pre-seed to series A.

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of experts, and unrivalled access to leading organisations, including: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, The Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore and MSWA. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. Our Accelerator backs early stage startups across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Industrials & Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman CBE and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of experts, and unrivalled access to leading organisations, including: Aviva, Rio Tinto, Vonovia, Fastweb, Mediobanca, HSBC, Pico Global, Hitachi, The Government of Western Australia, Enterprise Singapore and MSWA. Founders Factory’s Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. Our Accelerator backs early stage startups across industries and geographies - with a current focus on Fintech, Health, Industrials & Deep Tech. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.

Pureprint is an award-winning provider of print and marketing solutions. Based in Sussex (with regional offices across the UK) but operating globally, the company prides itself on its innovative approach, sustainable ethos and family-owned heritage. Pureprint’s work optimises the tactility and sensory properties of print alongside cross-media communication techniques, and encompasses multi-scale print projects for creative, corporate, retail and fine art clients worldwide. The group employs 400 people, and has invested more than £20million in the resources and technology to provide industry-leading digital, litho and large-format printing facilities, together with data, mailing, fulfilment, creative packaging, point of sale and marketing-collateral management services. Pureprint Group is CarbonNeutral®, ISO 14001 and EMAS accredited. The company developed the highly acclaimed pureprint™ environmental printing system, and its longstanding dedication to sustainability has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development three times to date.

Giggling Squid is all about food with personality, cooked with expertise and shared with generosity. At our heart is the spirit of Thai mealtimes - plentiful dishes, bold flavours and exotic ingredients - to be shared and enjoyed together. We started from a determination to do things differently. To be one of a kind and bring some Thai generosity to the UK. Back then, what was missing from the food scene was that true Thai feel – energetic, informal, adventurous, and truly welcoming. We believe food is to be celebrated and you don’t have to dress up to enjoy it. Relaxed, no standing on ceremony – it’s about having a good time, over something tasty. It’s important to us that everyone who walks through our doors feels as if they’re coming into our home. It’s our incredible people, from our skilled chefs to our welcoming front of house staff, and their shared generosity of spirit that lies behind every great guest experience. We now have a few more restaurants under our belt (40+ to date) but the important stuff hasn’t changed since we started. We’re still as hungry as ever to give our guests a truly memorable experience, leaving full and happy!