Sebastian Mckinlay

Founded in 2015, Victory Farms is the fastest growing white protein platform in East Africa. Victory Farms disrupts the century-old aquaculture industry through embedding data-driven thinking throughout its value chain. Today, Victory Farms operates a fully-integrated, end-to-end platform across production, processing, distribution and sales, directly serving tens of thousands of Kenyan mass market customers. It operates the most efficient cold chain system on the African continents, with proprietary access to mass market towns, where 90%+ of Africans shop. Victory Farms aims to build worlds most sustainable end-to-end protein platform that will nourish 2 billion Africans with affordable, fresh and healthy meals.

Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and created the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countries to prevent fraud and financial crime.  ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest Group, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank and Permanent TSB. To find out more visit: www.featurespace.com

SwiftKey's mission is to enhance interaction between people and technology. We're best known for our predictive keyboard apps that learn from you to make typing on touchscreens faster and easier. We also work directly with mobile manufacturers and worldwide, our technology features on more than 250 million devices. Headquartered in Southwark, central London, SwiftKey was founded in 2008. We also have offices in San Francisco, US, and Seoul, Korea.

Cambridge Capital Group (CCG) is a private network of 60+ investors, business angels and family offices who have been investing in hi-tech businesses for more than a decade. CCG was formed in the Autumn of 2000 and has been backing tech start-ups in the region ever since. Our members have invested tens of millions of pounds into more than 70 live portfolio companies in the Cambridge technology cluster and wider Golden Triangle​ of innovation centres. We are a growing organisation offering a platform for private investors around the world to invest in the top European technology centre. Successes include Bookham Technology and nCipher (listed on LSE), Phonetic Arts (sold to Google) and AIM listings of ITM Power, Bango and Ubisense. In 2016 our members enjoyed four exits with Swiftkey being sold to Microsoft, Cambridge CMOS Sensors being sold to Austrian Microsystems (AMS), Expedeons merger with Sygnis AG and Oval Medical Technologies being sold to SMC. Five further exits have been achieved in 2019-20, including Cavendish Kinetics, GT Energy, Spectral Edge and Viewranger. Membership normally follows introductions by existing members and our trusted network. As well as many business angels and private investors our membership base includes several corporate members and family offices, supported by excellent sponsors: Taylor Vinters, Barclays Eagle Labs, Potter Clarkson, Signia Wealth and Bailey Fisher who fund our programme of member events.

AHL Venture Partners believes in the power of entrepreneurs to drive African development forward. We have expertise in working with innovative entrepreneurs building scalable businesses to solve pressing social and environmental challenges across Africa. Since our founding in 2020, we have been the primary advisor to AHL Charitable Foundation (AHLCF). Since 2007 AHLCF has committed more than US $100M to 35 impact-focused businesses and funds that operate across 27 different African countries. Our team on the ground, works closely with leading entrepreneurs to provide fit-for-purpose capital and ongoing business support. We facilitate the deployment of innovative financing products that respond to founders needs, with tickets ranging from venture debt, working capital and equity investments. Our primary client AHLCF, being a permanent capital vehicle, is uniquely positioned to participate in subsequent funding rounds and have the ability to be patient to optimise for both return and impact.

Founded in 2015, Victory Farms is the fastest growing white protein platform in East Africa. Victory Farms disrupts the century-old aquaculture industry through embedding data-driven thinking throughout its value chain. Today, Victory Farms operates a fully-integrated, end-to-end platform across production, processing, distribution and sales, directly serving tens of thousands of Kenyan mass market customers. It operates the most efficient cold chain system on the African continents, with proprietary access to mass market towns, where 90%+ of Africans shop. Victory Farms aims to build worlds most sustainable end-to-end protein platform that will nourish 2 billion Africans with affordable, fresh and healthy meals.

Big Square is a casual dining, Kenyan restaurant founded in 2012.

Featurespace™ is the world leader in Enterprise Financial Crime prevention for fraud and Anti-Money Laundering. Featurespace invented Adaptive Behavioral Analytics and created the ARIC™ platform, a real-time machine learning software that risk scores events in more than 180 countries to prevent fraud and financial crime.  ARIC™ Risk Hub uses advanced, explainable anomaly detection to enable financial institutions to automatically identify risk, catch new fraud attacks and identify suspicious activity in real time. More than 30 major global financial institutions are using ARIC to protect their business and their customers. Publicly announced customers include HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest Group, Contis, Danske Bank, ClearBank and Permanent TSB. To find out more visit: www.featurespace.com