Founded by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox and George Northcott, Founders Factory builds and funds startups across industries and geographies.
Our vision is to be the most impactful co-founder for early stage founders: backing entrepreneurs with capital, an expert operations team, a global community and network, and access to our growing constellation of industry-leading corporate partners.
Our venture studio partners with entrepreneurs to build, fund and launch new ventures from inception. We also operate sector-focused accelerator programmes and venture funds, investing in talented and diverse founding teams across four continents.
Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 300+ portfolio companies have raised $1bn follow-on capital.
Think big, act small, move fast
Value momentum over perfection
Embrace uncertainty & remain decisive
Suggest solutions not problems
Prioritise diversity to strengthen our collective intelligence
Be polite, generous and show empathy to others
Founders Factory partners with innovative organisations to build and invest in startups solving global problems with technology. Our partners offer portfolio companies unique advantages: from credibility and capital to distribution, market intelligence and commercial partnerships.
Our partners
Building technology first, rather than problem first, can mean you build without a buyer in mind. Here’s how founders should approach customer discovery in deep tech
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Learn more about our latest investment, Enzidia, and how they’re transforming enzyme engineering through synthetic biology, data collection, and machine learning
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In this new article series, we dive into the key differences between deep tech & traditional digital tech, and what that means for the founders
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Learn more about our latest Fastweb investment, and how they’re turning unstructured data into optimized insights for enterprises
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Learn more about our latest Blue Action Accelerator investment, and how they’re tackling one of the biggest challenges of maritime operations: reliable, persistent power at sea
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Learn more about our latest Fastweb investment and how they’re upgrading organizational infrastructure to protect against data breaches
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Learn more about our latest Blue Action Accelerator investment, and their novel approach for removing chemicals & capturing critical metals from wastewater
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Ocean data centres are a more reliable, cost-efficient solution to the growing demand for computing power and GPU. But what’s stopping them reaching scale?
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