Founders Factory builds and funds startups, innovative entrepreneurs, and the world’s leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and access to industry leaders like Deutsche Telekom, L’Oreal, Aviva, Guardian Media Group, Netcare, Standard Bank, Nesta, Johnson & Johnson D.C. and Reckitt.
Founders Factory operates sector-focused Accelerator programmes and Venture Funds for Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups, investing in talented and diverse founding teams across industries and geographies - with a current focus on FinTech, Health, Climate, Media & Telecoms, Consumer, and Web3. Since 2015, Founders Factory’s 300 portfolio companies have raised $720mm follow-on funding from notable investors, including NFX, Coatue, Forerunner, Tencent and firstminute Capital.
Founders Factory was co-founded by Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox, and George Northcott: all serial entrepreneurs and business strategists. It was born out of a worldwide network of Founders family companies: Founders Forum (a private network of 170+ unicorn founders and 300+ leading VC funds), First Minute Capital ($315m seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders), Founders Pledge (Entrepreneurs pledging >£3B to social impact), Founders Keepers (Digital Executive Recruitment placing talent at the world's most innovative companies), Founders Academy, Founders of the Future, AccelerateHER, London Tech Week, and GRIP.
Founders Factory is backed by market-leading corporates across multiple sectors, offering investment and strategic support to Founders Factory portfolio companies. It also has a broader network of partners globally.
Founders Factory's corporate investors include Deutsche Telekom, Aviva, L’Oreal, Guardian Media Group, easyJet, Reckitt, Johnson & Johnson Innovation DC, Nesta and Standard Bank.
It connects its clients with senior executives in these organisations early in their journey, offering a direct route to valuable commercial and strategic partnerships - from IP, insights, and distribution to contracts and equity investment.
According to its website, the team is on a mission "to power founders to go further, faster."
They believe that by providing exceptional founders with capital, expert operational support, and access to a global network of corporates, investors, and entrepreneurs, founders can build and scale faster.
They have formalised a set of Diversity Commitments to hold accountability for entrepreneurs from every background, geography, ethnicity, upbringing, or belief system.
Founders Factory has proudly invested in over 200 category-defining technology companies, 80+ of which were built from scratch. Since 2015, its portfolio of 300 startups has raised $720mm follow-on capital, with 80 companies designed and launched in its own Studio.
It provides support across every startup function: from product and design, fundraising, growth, talent, data science, strategic partnerships, corporate development, publicity and communications, and engineering stages.
Founders Factory partners with entrepreneurs to develop new ideas, technologies, and business models into high-growth companies under its Venture Studio vertical.
It operates sector-focused Accelerator programmes and Venture Funds for Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups, investing in talented and diverse founding teams across industries and geographies - with a current focus on FinTech, Health, Climate, Media & Telecoms, Consumer, and Web3.
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