Sasha McMurray

Creator Fund is a venture capital firm investing in startups on the frontier of whats possible. We back founders building deep technology businesses out of university innovation. We focus on PhD and academic founders and have teams on-the-ground across 28 university campuses. Our portfolio includes founders creating mutation-proof vaccines, electronic skin for robots, and allowing the human mind to control machines. We invest pre-seed and seed and work closely with our companies to scale and raise follow on rounds. CF has been backed by many leading funds in Europe and the US.

HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.

Creator Fund is a venture capital firm investing in startups on the frontier of whats possible. We back founders building deep technology businesses out of university innovation. We focus on PhD and academic founders and have teams on-the-ground across 28 university campuses. Our portfolio includes founders creating mutation-proof vaccines, electronic skin for robots, and allowing the human mind to control machines. We invest pre-seed and seed and work closely with our companies to scale and raise follow on rounds. CF has been backed by many leading funds in Europe and the US.

IoT Tribe accelerates the growth and adoption of disruptive technologies globally. As a trusted partner to corporates, government agencies, investors, startups, SMEs and other ecosystem players across industry verticals worldwide, IoT Tribe brings together communities where tech talent and partnerships can thrive. We enable corporates and the public sector to disrupt the future through fast-track technology adoption and co-creation, data-driven insights, accelerators, strategic tech initiatives and programmes. We achieve this through a unique, highly collaborative and curated technology ecosystem that drives disruption. We offer our partners unparalleled access to technologies and partnerships that can fuel their businesses and startups access to an equity-free accelerator that will help them scale.

HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: - An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business - Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies - Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists - Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support - Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.

WATCH YOUR HEAD LTD is an interactive / immersive production company spanning live and digital experiences.