Niki Richards

Founder, Investor (and NED), Educator & Doctoral Student

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Angel Investor and NED
Jan 2022
Angel Investor
Experience · 5 entries
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2022
Angel Investor and NED
Jan 2022
Angel Investor
2017
Exited Founder
Mar 2017
CONSCIOUS, CONFIDENT & CURIOUS. Organa Beauty & Wellbeing is your destination for sustainable beauty and wellbeing products. We carefully curate from around the world and provide the knowledge you need to make an informed and confident choice. Our products all abide by strict ethical and sustainable codes of conduct. Organa Beauty & Wellbeing does not believe in bombarding our bodies with harmful chemicals or negatively impacting the environment. We think beauty should be kind to people and the planet. Were all about beauty thats balanced and soul deep.
early stageRetail
2008
Associate Lecturer
Sep 2008
London College of Fashion, UAL is a world leader in fashion design, media and business education. We have been nurturing creative talent for over a century, offering courses in all things fashion. With over 70 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and 165 short courses across every subject, we encourage our students to examine the past and challenge the present. To have inventive, assertive ideas that challenge social and political agendas. We give them the skills, opportunities – and above all, the freedom – to put those ideas into practice. Fashion means business Through inspirational teaching we nurture the next generation of creative leaders and thinkers who work in responsible, analytical and ingenious ways. Our strategic commercial partnerships support local and global enterprise. Students benefit from our connections with industry and so does industry. Fashion makes style In design, we teach a combination of heritage and radical thinking. Craftsmanship and new technology. Engineering – and in-depth design research. We teach innovative ideas first – and then innovative practice to bring them to life. Fashion tells stories We nurture every student’s distinctive voice, teaching them how to challenge and define the future of fashion through cutting-edge media approaches across all channels: broadcast, print, digital, interactive, experiential – and experimental. Fashion shapes lives Fashion can change lives. Through teaching, specialist research, and collaborative work, we empower our students to think differently, using fashion to examine the past, build a sustainable future, and improve the way we live.
2006
Associate Lecturer
Sep 2006
Istituto Marangoni was founded in 1935 in Milano as ‘Istituto Artistico dell’Abbigliamento Marangoni’ and in 2015 it reached a special milestone, 80 years of history and success in training the top professionals of Fashion and Design. Istituto Marangoni can praise itself for the education of four generations of students from 5 continents and for having launched over 45,000 professionals in fashion and luxury fields, such as Domenico Dolce (Dolce & Gabbana), Franco Moschino, Alessandro Sartori, Rahul Mishra, Andrea Pompilio, Umit Benan, Daizy Shely and Lucio Vanotti. It currently educates 4,000 students per year from 107 countries at its schools, located in Milano (the School of Fashion and the School of Design), Firenze (The School of Fashion & Art), Paris, London, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Miami, the international capitals of fashion, design and luxury.