Shan Drummond

We are building the infrastructure where heterogeneous chips & intelligence co-evolve to solve the worlds hardest problems.

QuantumLight is an investment firm engineered as a technology company. Our team brings together tech unicorn founders, quant traders, AI scientists, and engineers to rethink how venture and growth equity should work. We rely on the judgment of Aleph. Our model is trained on 10B data points across 700k VC-backed companies and delivers 2x higher performance than the top-quartile VC benchmark. We give founders access to our universe of data and battle-tested Revolut playbooks, so they can build high-performance companies. QuantumLight offers a new model for venture. Machine intelligence, applied to private markets.

Axiom Therapeutics is a stealth, venture-backed techbio company founded with the vision to leverage cutting-edge computational models in covalent drug discovery for more precise and potent therapies.

Matnex is on a mission to discover new materials that significantly reduce the environmental, economical, and social cost of items critical to our society. Our ground-breaking AI software transforms the way new materials are discovered and designed. Using rapid automated processes and advanced quantum calculations, we work with partners to reduce global CO2e emissions and accelerate the discovery of next-gen materials from decades to months.

LightHearted is dedicated to preventing 10 million heart-related deaths by 2030. Our groundbreaking medical device revolutionizes the detection of heart conditions, offering a faster, more accurate, and more affordable solution compared to existing technologies. What sets our device apart is its ability to gather essential data through clothing and at a distance, uncovering unique biomarkers in less than a minute. Founded by Lucrezia Cester and Dilip Rajeswari

Our Mission is to be the definitive community-powered brand that builds decorating confidence by inspiring and supporting all decorators with their projects. Lick is a community-powered decorating movement. We are a force for change in the home decor space with a vision to transform the industry for our decorators and for the planet. Lick was founded in 2019 by Lucas London and Sam Bradley - both experienced startup entrepreneurs. The business has raised over $29m since inception. OMERS Ventures lead our Series A round in June 2021 with participation from existing investors Felix Capital and contributions from entrepreneurs and PE investors including Magnus Rausing, Alex Chesterman and Kathaka, the family office of Caroline Rupert of Richemont. We’re a business that believes in building confidence in our decorators. Seeing their bright ideas and making them happen. We do this by giving our do-er uppers access to inspiration, advice and how-to guidance from our experts and wider community. As well as making our range of (water-based, low VOC) paint, (FSC-certified) wallpaper, blinds and supplies with real people and real homes in mind. Its why we curate the colours in our product ranges, its why we have an expert team of colour consultants on-hand to help with any decorating question, big or small, its why were building a supportive community of decorators to inspire each other with their projects, and it’s why we are rethinking how technology can transform this category. Were on a mission to transform the $1trillon global home decor category, and our sights are set on scale, this means expanding our product offering, launching new sustainability initiatives, and growing our already thriving community of home decorators across the globe. Decorator success starts at home...our home. That is why our ambition is to be a definitive people-powered company. Building an environment where individuals thrive and collectively achieve significant results.

B Corp certified global platform for creativity. Everpress is a global marketplace built to make the power of independent creativity come to life in the easiest, most ethical way. Here you’ll find a curated emporium of original clothing designs with the tools to help people promote, sell, manufacture and distribute their own creations with no risk and no waste; a genuine alternative to the tyranny and wastefulness of conventional retail. We’re on a mission to empower creative independence in a commercial world. Working together: We are first and foremost a community of creators who support each other. We learn together, we grow together. Behind the scenes, our culture thrives on trust and independence driven by our mandate to: Remove risk; Simplify production; Eliminate waste; Promote independent creativity; Elevate community. If you believe there’s a better way to make things, we want to work with you. Challenge us. Push us. Help us learn. One of Ottas top UK companies for salary transparency in 2023.

Koru Kids is London’s fastest growing childcare brand. We’re making it easier and more affordable for families to access high quality childcare. Our after school service matches parents in London with the top 10% of student nannies in London and our nanny share service helps families to share nannies with other local families. We don’t just believe in providing outstanding childcare to families, we are all about using technology to make it seamless for parents. We’ve been blown away by the response from parents and are consistently beating our growth targets. We are backed by fantastic investors, including top venture capitalists and business angels such as Michael Pennington the founder of Gumtree. We won the South of England region in the ‘Best of Britain’ awards 2017, and are currently shortlisted for several awards: the UK Business Awards 2017 as ‘Disruptor of the Year’, and in the Best Women Awards 2017 as ‘Best New Business’, ‘Best Technology’ and ‘Best company working with children and families’. About the Team We have an informal, hard-working and kind team culture. We’re all passionate about our mission and are determined to create the world’s leading childcare brand. Every team member plays a vital role in achieving our goals and we work together so we can get there quicker. Our approach is fast paced – we are constantly challenging, testing and adapting the way we do things. Our founder is Rachel Carrell, the former CEO of DrThom.com, the world’s largest online doctor service, which she grew to over 1.3m paying users in 3 countries. She’s an Oxford alumn, ex-McKinsey, a Rhodes Scholar and a WEF Young Global Leader. Rachel’s joined by an amazing team with backgrounds including Cambridge, UCL, BCG, KPMG, and some of London’s top startups.

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Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers

Lantum is a workforce management platform that makes it easier for healthcare providers to mobilise their workforce, and for clinicians to work more flexibly. Our Connected Scheduling platform gives you a staff bank, rota tool and a clinician network all in one place to improve fill rates, cut admin time, and reduce costs. We started life as Network Locum in 2012. While working as part of the NHS London Transformation team, Lantum CEO Melissa Morris saw firsthand how inefficiencies in staffing were drastically affecting the quality of care available to patients in the Primary Care system. Melissa knew that by using technology to break down the barriers between practice managers who need to fill vacant sessions and GPs looking for a more flexible way of working, patients would see an increase in the quality of care they were receiving. We’re a small, but rapidly growing, team based in the heart of London’s start-up scene. With our innovative tech we’re working with healthcare professionals to lead the way in tackling staffing inefficiencies in our healthcare system.

Urban is the wellness app for busy people. It’s a way to book massages, beauty treatments, Osteopathy and more to your home or office. For busy professionals in the city, it’s a one-stop-shop for relaxation and self-care that fits easily into any schedule. And for the pros using Urban to connect with clients, it’s a new way to earn more working to their own hours and on their own terms. A win-win, if there ever was one.

Weengs is a smart logistics service that simplifies how sellers get their orders to their customers. We believe ecommerce should be driven by demand, not disrupted by fulfilment. To solve this for everyone, we provide large-scale logistics to small & medium businesses in one fully integrated fulfilment service. It's pay-as-you-ship and we take on any and every fulfilment challenge so shops can win at ecommerce: ∙ Professional packing by our trained and experienced packers ∙ Custom made boxes to fit your items ∙ Bespoke materials we have in stock ∙ Collections by specially assigned drivers from our own van fleet ∙ Business-level access to multiple shipping carriers in one account ∙ Carrier relationship management done on your behalf ∙ Better shipping rates from carriers due to our ability to aggregate volume

Our transformative property management software and solutions help support many of the world’s leading real estate companies, helping ensure their future success by providing innovative solutions that maximise ROI and inform good decision-making. Our PMS platform and solutions help organisations turn insights into opportunities enabling better decision-making and results via a highly evolved, powerful and compliant software platform that channels business intelligence to provide insights and resilience for organisations.

eporta is Europes leading B2B commerce platform for the furnishings industry, active in over 80 countries around the world.

We are building the infrastructure where heterogeneous chips & intelligence co-evolve to solve the worlds hardest problems.

QuantumLight is an investment firm engineered as a technology company. Our team brings together tech unicorn founders, quant traders, AI scientists, and engineers to rethink how venture and growth equity should work. We rely on the judgment of Aleph. Our model is trained on 10B data points across 700k VC-backed companies and delivers 2x higher performance than the top-quartile VC benchmark. We give founders access to our universe of data and battle-tested Revolut playbooks, so they can build high-performance companies. QuantumLight offers a new model for venture. Machine intelligence, applied to private markets.

Axiom Therapeutics is a stealth, venture-backed techbio company founded with the vision to leverage cutting-edge computational models in covalent drug discovery for more precise and potent therapies.

Matnex is on a mission to discover new materials that significantly reduce the environmental, economical, and social cost of items critical to our society. Our ground-breaking AI software transforms the way new materials are discovered and designed. Using rapid automated processes and advanced quantum calculations, we work with partners to reduce global CO2e emissions and accelerate the discovery of next-gen materials from decades to months.

LightHearted is dedicated to preventing 10 million heart-related deaths by 2030. Our groundbreaking medical device revolutionizes the detection of heart conditions, offering a faster, more accurate, and more affordable solution compared to existing technologies. What sets our device apart is its ability to gather essential data through clothing and at a distance, uncovering unique biomarkers in less than a minute. Founded by Lucrezia Cester and Dilip Rajeswari