Greg Miller

Black.ai helps large format retailers to prevent theft and increase revenue by empowering real-time decision making and staff response in store

Emerge - The first check for founders defining the future of work and learning Emerge is a global pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best future of work and learning operators. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity – by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders, providing first-cheque financial support, ongoing expertise and access to a community who have ‘been there and built it’ with unrivalled market-specific know-how. Founded in 2014 as Europe’s only edtech specialist fund, Emerge now invests in B2B and B2C startups across all categories enabling people to grow and fulfil their potential, from early childhood, K12 and higher education through to lifelong learning, workforce development, career navigation and the future of work. Emerge has invested in over 80 companies, now valued at over $2b and impacting more than 31M people worldwide, including Yoto, Causaly, Colossyan, Edurino, Mattilda, Unibuddy, MyEdSpace and Solvely. Emerge invests anywhere between $250k and $2.5M at pre-seed and seed. The team welcomes direct applications - apply through our website. Read more about Emerge’s investment thesis and the startup ideas we’re excited by in our Fund II manifesto linked below.

At Jelix, we lead investments in visionary young technology companies to accelerate growth. We focus on globally scalable businesses poised to disrupt traditional markets with innovative technology, led by tenacious entrepreneurs.

Black.ai helps large format retailers to prevent theft and increase revenue by empowering real-time decision making and staff response in store

Facing national challenges across Australia, US, UK and Europe - needing to build better innovation ecosystems, foster entrepreneurship, and upskill populations - Arena Mars believes it is time for action, so we’re putting our time, energy and funds into solving these challenges. We champion those at the intersection of education, enterprise and entrepreneurship. We invest in founders and teams with global aspirations, whose products help people. By combining our knowledge, experience, network and passion for AI, automation and education, we help those founders to scale internationally and create maximum value for all. We have done this before: we have four exits between us, we’ve founded and scaled start-ups worldwide and we’ve held executive roles in major global businesses. We’re now showing others the path to do it themselves.

Faethm AI is the world’s data source to understand the impact of automation on economies, industries, companies, jobs, tasks, skills and people. Faethms SaaS AI platform was launched in 2017 and has grown rapidly to serve governments and companies in over 21 industries and 26 countries from offices in Australia, the UK and North America. A sophisticated knowledge graph and multiple AIs underpin platform modules that deliver data and insights about automation, reskilling and redeploying workers for new jobs, economic and investment scenario modelling and COVID-19 resilience and remote working. In 2018, Faethm was one of the first companies globally to be invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Awards include the Tech Rocketship award for AI from the UK Government’s Department for International Trade, an EU HR Excellence award for the Government of Luxembourg Skills Bridge program and Best New Tech Platform from the Australian Computer Society.