Founders Factory
Started by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory has received investment from L’Oreal, easyJet, Guardian Media Group, Aviva, Holtzbrinck, CSC and Marks + Spencer and is partnered with Wunderman and Vodafone. Combined with our full-time team of 60 specialists we offer founders the best platform to launch or scale their startup.
Our incubator creates 15 new startups every year. We validate ideas, build founding teams, find first customers and invest directly in each startup.
Our accelerator invests in 40 startups every year. We invest cash, six months of bespoke support from our team and provide commercial opportunities with our investors.
To date, we have backed and built over 90 companies and will reach 200 over the next five years.
And finally, we are born out of the Founders Forum; the top network of entrepreneurs and business leaders, giving us unparalleled access to corporate partners, audiences, and access to capital.
Articles about Founders Factory:
- March 22, 2024 Berlin-based World Fund closes milestone €300 million fund to institutionalise climate capital in Europe
- March 14, 2024 100+ investors you will meet at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Malta!
- March 7, 2024 TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space
- February 27, 2024 London-based KIT-AR bags €3.3 million to be the go-to platform for augmented workers
- February 6, 2024 London-based Unfabled gets €1.5 million to crack the women’s health and wellness market
- February 1, 2024 Munich-based Planet A Foods gets €14.2 million to spread the world with sustainable cocoa-free chocolate
- December 19, 2023 Warsaw-based Quesma gets €2.1 million to dramatically simplify data migration processes
- September 4, 2023 London-based healthtech Jude bags €3.9 million to improve people with bladder conditions’ lives
- August 11, 2023 Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (August 07-11)
- July 26, 2023 Cologne-base foodtech The Oater closes seven-figure pre-seed to launch its “Oat drink-as-a-Service”
- July 24, 2023 Italy’s Mediobanca and London-based Founders Factory partner to invest in 35 fintech over the next 5 years
- July 20, 2023 London-based Thingtrax secures €5 million to empower manufacturers to build the factories of the future
- July 12, 2023 Berlin-based Re-Fresh Global secures €1.1 million to turn textile waste into high value new materials
- June 29, 2023 Middlesbrough-based Material Evolution bags €17.3 million to scale production of low-carbon cement
- June 14, 2023 74 Top Biotechnology Startups and Companies in The Netherlands (2021)
- April 3, 2023 London-based Acre lands €7.3 million to make buying a home faster, easier and cheaper
- March 10, 2023 Cathy White, Founder and CEO of CEW Communications, will speak at this year’s EU-Startups Summit!
- March 8, 2023 TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space