Owen Riddall

Founder @ Private markets tech company | Previously Co-founder & CTO, Novata

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2023
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Angel Investor
Feb 2023
Were on a mission to power 10 million people in green jobs in 10 years. To reach net-zero, the world needs to decarbonise homes, roads and energy systems - dramatically transforming the physical infrastructure of the world. This creates both a bottleneck and opportunity around the skilled workforce needed to deliver the infrastructure - with millions of good, green jobs being created globally in areas like retrofit, solar installation and EVs. We help people discover, get trained and get into employment for these jobs - launching careers that are good for peoples wallets and good for the planet.
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2024
Co-Founder
Sep 2024
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
2023
Advisor (Mentor)
Oct 2023
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
Angel Investor
Feb 2023
Were on a mission to power 10 million people in green jobs in 10 years. To reach net-zero, the world needs to decarbonise homes, roads and energy systems - dramatically transforming the physical infrastructure of the world. This creates both a bottleneck and opportunity around the skilled workforce needed to deliver the infrastructure - with millions of good, green jobs being created globally in areas like retrofit, solar installation and EVs. We help people discover, get trained and get into employment for these jobs - launching careers that are good for peoples wallets and good for the planet.
2020
Co-founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer
Nov 2020
Novata is a certified B Corporation that empowers the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism. Novata’s technology platform makes navigating the ESG landscape simple for private markets by identifying a clear starting point for selecting the metrics that matter, streamlining data collection, and contextualizing data to drive reporting and action. Novata is backed by the Ford Foundation, Hamilton Lane, Microsoft, Northern Trust, Omidyar Network, and S&P Global. Our mission is to empower the private markets to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive form of capitalism. We’re building a platform to address the private markets critical and immediate need for simple, yet powerful tools to reduce the burden of collecting, managing, and benchmarking ESG data.
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