building and investing in early stage tech. widely regarded as a bad influence.
London, England
Joined January 2009
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👀 What’s missing in the UK Web3 startup scene?
Capital is one thing but bridging early-stage ideas with investment-readiness is where the magic happens.
@viewfromhk shares why @animocabrands joined forces with @fabric_vc, @Coinbase, and @foundersfactory to launch Residency, an accelerator to shape the next wave of onchain innovation from London.
🎥 Catch Robby’s take at @Zebu_live: buff.ly/GmIsCQO
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Had a chance to share the stage at @Zebu_live today with @richardmuirhead, @damo17, @EleanorGraceHu1, and @kmgrose to talk about the R3sidency, our 🇬🇧 accelerator program. If you’re a local Web3 team building interesting stuff, we’d love to hear from you - applications are now open @ R3sidency.xyz.
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Coinbase emerged from YC, so we know the impact accelerators can have on going 0->1.
That’s why we’re partnering with R[3]sidency in the UK to support the next generation of crypto companies.
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🇮🇹💰We’re excited to announce our second partner for Founders Factory Italy—@mediobanca, Italy’s largest investment bank. Together, we’ll build, fund, and scale fintech startups in Italy.
Find out more about the partnership 👇
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👭 Community is at the very heart of web3
But existing mechanisms for community organisation aren't fit for purpose. Find communities online is hard; managing them is even harder.
Playground is solving this 👇
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Benefits of investing in children’s health
➡️ Short term = improving health outcomes
➡️ Long term = huge socio economic benefits for healthier future generations
And yet, just 1% of digital health investment goes towards children's health
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☕️ $5 cup of coffee—what are you actually getting?
Payment tech like Stripe/Paypal charge effectively 10% transaction fee, raising the cost for the retailers & the consumer. Over a year, you could spend $200+ on coffee transaction fees
💡How can you get round this?
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No/Low Code = platforms that allow you to build products without/very little programming
Some Code = may require some additional coding for certain products
More Code = building/coding something from scratch
🛠️ So which should you choose for your startup?
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🏥 We’ve backed many exciting HealthTech entrepreneurs over the years - from those improving pregnancy outcomes for black mothers to those building VR training software.
@Founders_Forum recognise six of these in their Healthtech Startups to Watch list.
These are 👇
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👀Think you understand the startup funding model? Think again - there are many myths and preconceived ideas that often are not true
Here are four things that may change your mind about startup financing👇
Really excited to work with @elijah_ajuwon as we build Prism. Timing couldn’t be better for this. 👇
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You may have noticed that over the last few months we’ve launched in Berlin and Italy…and now we’re growing our team.
We’re hiring a number of exciting roles, in the Founders Factory Operations team & leading our latest Venture Studio projects. Check out these roles below 👇
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As people come to terms with the weight of our new environment, they are slowly beginning to realize how radically things have changed. One area in particular that has changed - the required level of "corporate performance" needed to simply survive (let alone thrive). 🧵
What a year that was! As another thrilling chapter comes to an end, @henrylf‘s great retrospective summarises some of the achievements that our brilliant team and intrepid founders have created this year.
linkedin.com/pulse/founders-…
Huge thank you to the entire @foundersfactory team and every #founder that we worked with this year. And special thanks to the #investors, #advisors and of course #teams who helped along the way.
Can’t wait to see what we’ll all do together next year.