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Sarah McKenna

Managing Partner Machine & Folk

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated November 2026💼 3 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Jan 2021
Boxygen is a new Sports Management Agency. We support up and coming Boxers and combat athletes by finding business partners who will invest in their future success. What makes us stand out in this sector? We look for conenctions between athletes and brands that goes beyond brand and advertising, we like our athletes to make products, generate revenue and support the businesses that support them.
Investor
Jan 2017
Freemarket works with businesses to accelerate their growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimised for their needs. Freemarkets platform gives you access to a global bank network and innovative technology in one place, allowing you to streamline your processes, remove complexity and increase efficiency. Freemarket is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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2023
Managing Director
Sep 2023
We solve product and innovation challenges for the worlds best brands. And we train them how to do what we do. We are the same folks who have been delivering Strategy Sprints, Design Sprints and Training Bootcamps at for some of the worlds most renowned brands over the past five years. Were bringing all that expertise under this fresh, new Wayv Hello banner, and our sole focus is enterprise product, innovation and collaboration consulting and training. Were not experts in everything. But we are for leaders and teams who want to think about product and innovation the right way and use methods they can trust to do great work in complex environments.
2022
Investor
Jan 2022
HUMANOID is a typical International Dutch brand. It is grounded, self-assured and confidant in its history, niche market and aspirations. There is a sense of freedom and optimism in the way that is worked and how the company looks to the future. What started with a new wave gut feeling and fun punk attitude out of a small studio in the Arnhem ‘Weverstraat’ has steadily become an international fashion brand with hundreds of stockists worldwide and its own brand store in Arnhem and online shop www.shophumanoid.com.
2021
Investor
Jan 2021
Boxygen is a new Sports Management Agency. We support up and coming Boxers and combat athletes by finding business partners who will invest in their future success. What makes us stand out in this sector? We look for conenctions between athletes and brands that goes beyond brand and advertising, we like our athletes to make products, generate revenue and support the businesses that support them.
2019
Managing Director
Jan 2019
AJ&Smart is an award-winning product design, strategy, and innovation studio with particular expertise in using Design Sprints to help our partners with product design, product strategy, and rapid innovation. We have worked with companies including Adidas, eBay, Slack, Lufthansa, Bain & Company, Daimler, the World Food Programme, Zalando, and N26, helping them to innovate faster and more efficiently. AJ&Smart offers unique access to the latest best practices in product design through their deep immersion in the product design ecosystem. AJ&Smart works closely with Jake Knapp, the inventor of Design Sprints, to continuously evolve and improve the Design Sprint to provide the best possible value to our customers. For everything you ever wanted to know about Facilitation, Design Sprints, and helpful product design advice, check out our *super cool* Youtube Channel: http://bit.ly/2qVvfB0
late stage
2017
Investor
Jan 2017
Freemarket works with businesses to accelerate their growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimised for their needs. Freemarkets platform gives you access to a global bank network and innovative technology in one place, allowing you to streamline your processes, remove complexity and increase efficiency. Freemarket is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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