Founders Factory is an accelerator and incubator based in London that was founded in 2015. It aims to build technology companies through two main programs - an accelerator that supports existing startups, and an incubator that develops new companies from scratch with Founders Factory and its corporate investors. It has a team of over 60 specialists and has worked with over 60 startups and created 12 startups through its incubator program. It is backed by six major corporate investors in sectors like media, travel, fintech, beauty, education technology and AI. The organization provides funding, services, expertise and access to corporate partnerships to help technology companies scale rapidly.

1. FOUNDERS FACTORY.

2. FOUNDERS
FACTORY WAS
BORN IN 2015
OUT OF THE
BEST
ECOSYSTEM IN
EURO-TECH.
Founders Forum Global Summit and Network since 2005.
Private network of 2000 of the worlds leading tech entrepreneurs
Founders Intelligence Corporate Validation since 2013.
Specialist digital consultancy that advices corporates on
digital innovation
Founders of the Future Talent Pipeline since 2016.
Invite only community of 300 young, talented and
entrepreneurial members
Founders Pledge Goodwill since 2015.
Philanthropic arm with over $100m of charitable pledges
Founders Keepers Digital Talent since 2014.
Executive Search firm specialising in building leadership
teams within digital and technology

3. —
BUILT BY WORLD CLASS LEADERS.
Brent is executive chairman of Founders
Factory and is one of the most recognised
names in European Tech. He is founder/co-
founder of:
• lastminute.com, sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.
Brent was CEO from its inception, guiding
the company to profit and gross bookings
of >$2bn, acquiring 14 businesses post-
IPO, with annual core brand growth of >
100% from ‘98-’04;
• PROfounders, a £26m London-based seed
fund; firstminute a $100m London-based
seed fund;
• MADE.com,a direct-from-factory consumer
crowd-sourced homewares retailer, with
$73m in funding to date;
• Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual
global events for leading entrepreneurs and
innovators;
• Founders Intelligence, a specialist digital
consultancy;
• Founders Keepers, a C-level executive
search firm for technology firms.
• SmartUp, corporate training tool, raised
$5m to date, including from Notion Capital
and top founders.
In addition, he sits on the Advisory board for
LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment
fund) and the UK Government Digital
Advisory Board.
He is a Non-Executive Board Director of
TalkTalk PLC and The Economist.
He is a Business Trade Ambassador to the
Prime Minister, Chairman of the Royal
Foundation's Cyber Bullying Taskforce and
was awarded a CBE for services to
entrepreneurship
BRENT HOBERMAN

4. —
BUILT BY WORLD CLASS LEADERS.
Henry is CEO of Founders Factory
Henry has deep experience of advising
global brands and institutional investors on
digital transformation, emerging
technologies and start-up partnerships,
working closely with companies including
Fannie Mae, Sky, Visa, Tesco,
Unilever, Silver Lake and L’Oreal
• was employee no 3 at lastminute.com
• Co-founder Founders Intelligence
• Co-founder Founders Keepers
• Partner Founders Forum
• Partner firstminute capital
• Founder of SmartUp
• Founder The Browser
• Founder maxipos
HENRY LANE FOX

5. —
WITH WORLD CLASS TEAM MEMBERS.
George is co-founder and Head of
Business Development
Nomura M&A Investment Banking Lepe
Partners where he advised growth-
stage companies including
OneFineStay and Zoopla, made
venture investments, advised media
corporates and developed new
business concepts, including with Bear
Grylls. George also worked within
Founders Intelligence, a strategic
consultancy, working with the likes of
Visa and L’Oreal.
Justus is Chief Product Officer
Before joining the Factory, Justus was
Head of Platform for HERE, formerly
Nokia Maps, in charge of this global
door-to-door routing platform used by
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo, and
Garmin. As a part of HERE’s precursor
startup, Gate5, Justus helped build
Nokia’s Maps and Transit applications,
putting mobile navigation in the hand
of hundreds of millions of users every
year.
Justus started life as a C++ front end
software engineer in the financial
services sector in the Silicon Valley
Jeffrey is Chief Scientist
Before joining the factory, Jeffrey
worked on reverse-engineering the
human visual cortex at Imperial
College and co-founded two startups
on internet-scale visual search and AI
reasoning on scientific articles, raising
on aggregate £MM of funding. Jeffrey
has deployed large-scale AI for Tier 1
Silicon Valley players and advised
startups and big corporates on sales
personalisation, recommendation
engines, medical imaging, AI that
design websites and social platforms
that mix fashion, image recognition
and recommender systems.
Author on 3 patents and over 45
scientific publications
Paul is Chief Technology Officer
Paul has been working in tech for over
20 years, and has been founders or
CTO at multiple startups including
xrnd, mydeco and Rockpack.
Prior to getting hooked on the startup
drug, Paul held senior engineering
positions in a number of global
corporations including Motorola and
Disney.

6. AND A TEAM OF 60
TECH SPECIALISTS.
in AI, Data Science, Tech, Product,
Concepting, Design, Growth, Marketing,
Partnerships, Investments and fundraising

7. —
In 2016, L'Oréal totalled
more than one billion
visits across all
its Internet sites and
300 million subscribers
on social media
BACKED BY SIX CORPORATE INVESTORS.
B E A U T Y
M E D I A
160 million monthly
unique browsers
400,000 regular paying
members and
subscribers to GMG’s
print and digital products
73.5 million people
flew with easyJet in
2016, 17 million of
them downloaded the
app. In the past 12
months, easyJet
recorded 350 million
visits to easyJet.com
T R AV E L
F I N T E C H
33 million customers
globally including
500 000 SMEs14
million customers
outside the UK
CSC has over RMB
70bn assets under
management, has
invested in around 400
companies and has
successfully exited 34
through IPO
A I
E D T E C H
With over16,055
employees and 300
brands, the Holtzbrinck
Publishing Group is
represented in over 80
countries

8. Media EdTech FinTech Beauty Travel Other
AND A HUGE NETWORK.

9. A NEW MODEL
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
S TA G E O N E
£50M
MILLION
INVESTED
6
investors
6
sectors
70
Full time
operations
team
60+
technology
companies to
date
220+
technology
companies in
5 years
Accelerator
5 companies
scaled per year,
per sector
Incubator
2 companies
launched per
year, per sector

10. MODEL.
Start, Grow
Incubate, Accelerate

11. —
THE ACCELERATOR.
SCOUT
Founders Factory team is constantly
hunting for promising startups
worldwide
REVIEW
Each year, we review 3, 000+ startups
and conduct technical and operational
due diligences for all of them
INVEST
Startups joining our program receive
£30,000 cash and benefit from services
worth £220,000 in exchange for equity
SUPPORT
60 people team in-house and full-time;
offering the most complete expertise
(business dev, corp. dev., growth,
marketing, design, engineering, data
science, HR, finance, legal)
SCALE
We deliver unfair advantages to our
startups from our forward-thinking
corporate investors

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THE ACCELERATOR.
55 startups accelerated to date
6 month bespoke program
3,000 startups sourced and reviewed
each year
30 startups accelerated each year, 5 in
each vertical
Specialise in facilitating pilots and direct
integrations between our corporate
partners and the startups

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THE INCUBATOR.
Startups we build from scratch
FF + Investors come up with new startup
concepts
We spend 6 months building out a
product and founding team
Invest £150k into each startup once we
decide to form a company
12 startups created each year
RESTAURANT.ROBOT

14. INCUBATOR
BUILDING TECH COMPANIES FROM SCRATCH
TapTrip is a new travel booking
app focused on reinventing the
mobile flights booking process for
frequent flyers and enterprises
with managed travel solutions
A hair salon booking platform
that is helping small businesses
go digital, eradicate paper and
move away from cash to seamless
mobile transactions
Karakuri is a service design for the
restaurant of the future using
robots to prepare and cook food.
OnCare is a platform for families
to find, and carers to provide,
amazing quality personalised
care
Chosen is an AI recruitment tool
that helps recruiters find great
talent quickly, unbiased, and
beyond their own networks
KARAKURI.

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ATTRACTING WORLD CLASS TALENT.
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This 30-year-old quit his job running
one of Google’s most fun divisions
and took a huge pay cut to launch a
Founders Factory Startup
David Ripert, former Head of
YouTube Spaces EMEA, now
Founder of Poplar

16. —
ATTRACTING WORLD CLASS TALENT.
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It’s incredibly challenging being a Founder, you are
always on and there is always a new problem to solve.
It’s fantastic having the Founders Factory support
network around me to call upon. When you are just
starting out it’s too expensive to access a top growth
marketer, a recruiter or product specialist so
combined with the commitment from L’Oreal I have a
great launch pad for the business that would have
taken a long time to replicate.”
Steph Madgett, former fund
manager for Schroders
now Founder of Slick

17. WITH CORPORATE INVESTORS
LEVERAGING UNFAIR ADVANTAGE.
In two years we have
seen 60 pilots
completed between
our startups and our
corporate partners
Over 30% of those
pilots have lead to
enterprise contracts. A
further 5 direct
investments have been
made by our
corporates into the
portfolio
Startups from
15 nationalities

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$200k revenue a month Technology used in 9,000
schools and 2.55m pupils
Raising £5m $120k monthly
revenue
WITH A CUMULATIVE PORTFOLIO VALUE ~£250M.
*in total all periods, inc grants
**excluding companies (i) not wanting to raise; (ii) yet to complete capital raise stream
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£1m revenue a month
0 to 22,000 in salon
bookings in first THREE
months from launch.
$300k revenue a month
Raising $5m at
$37m pre-money