VENTURECEO: A UNIQUE COLLAB TO CONNECT THE TECH ECOSYSTEM

Created by Cooper Parry to help venture backed CEOs of early stage businesses unlock advice and connections from peers, investors, later stage CEOs, and domain experts from their specific vertical.

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WHAT IS VENTURECEO

As early stage CEOs you’re laser focused on your product, your team, and growing your business. What better way to bolster that journey than through peer-to-peer support, access to best in class ecosystem providers, and later stage experts who have been there, done that, and walked the same path.

VentureCEO is not an accelerator, an incubator, or a big drain on your time.  

VentureCEO is a tightly curated 10 week collaboration: minimal time commitment, no costs, but with maximum value and impact. We're simply bringing the power of our network to you, to supercharge your business and personal growth.

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CO-HOSTED BY INDUSTRY HEAVYWEIGHTS


Whether through the delivery of office hours, in person fireside chats, all cohort workshops, and of course attendance at the opening and closing events, we tailor our partnership programmes so it provides maximum value to both our founder CEOs and to you.

Thu
16
Jan 2025

Future of Media

Our fourth cohort launches in the new year. As with previous cohorts it will bridge the gap and open doors to bring a community of later stage CEOs, investors, and industry leaders, but this time with those who are making technological advances in the media ecosystem.
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the benefits you could unlock

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CONNECT WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTS
Tailored networking and cohort only sessions with relevant investors and domain experts.
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BOLSTER YOUR JOURNEY THROUGH EXPERIENCE
Access to later stage CEOs who have been there and done it, and will share their credible stories and insight.
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UNITY IN YOUR SPACE
A curated peer group of likeminded CEOs at the same stage, in the same sub sector, with a focus on founder wellbeing. This is a special community for the long-run.
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"The CEO Circles, meeting up with other CEOs online, were excellent. The connections to professional service providers was also very valuable."
Michael Valstar
BlueSkeyeAI
"Loved the in person open and close events - so inspriring, well attended and fun! In the CEO Circles connecting with the rest of the cohort I loved the honesty, authenticity and realising that it is not easy for everyone, not just you. Finally - loved the love! Everyone was so supportive, well meaning and respected the hustle and the grit."
Amit Patel
Peachy
"The highlight, as the program for me was about bringing people together as much as anything else. It was brilliant getting to meet and hear stories from others on the same journey. and the CEO Stories hearing from later stage CEOs was a key motivator for joining the program."
Sam Milliken-Smith
Hibi
"Great bunch of founders, good selection of CEOs, and the potential ability to forge strategic connections moving forward. The open & close events were great with a good group dynamic and ability to network. I found the CEO Stories sessions with Yonder and Griffin really valuable from a learning perspective."
Moshin Rashid
ZipZero
"The CEO Circles were really valuable and well orchestrated, I would definitely attend recurring post programme basis if available. Also thoroughly enjoyed thein person events and connecting with other founders: it was very worthwhile."
Johnny Ridd
RQ

THREE COHORTS COMPLETED

The Future of Health, Future of Money and Future of Data cohorts have completed their 10 week collaborations.

BEST ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS

Each vertical gets connected with the hottest ecosystem partners in the game.

DIRECT LINK TO VCS

The programme offers invaluable 121 time with our VC partners.

BRAND EXPOSURE

Alongside the insights comes exposure for your brand through social media and the press.

Meet our contributors from across the VentureCEO partnerships, past and present.
Check out the specific cohort pages to find out more about the later stage speakers supporting those collaborations.

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Fiona Dent
Fiona Dent
General Partner at Edge VC

A highly successful operator, Fiona has delivered spectacular results across big media, technology and early-stage start-ups. Her entire career has been focused on defining the future. At Reed Elsevier and Time Warner, she spearheaded corporate digital initiatives, growing online audiences to tens of millions. She played a pivotal role as Board director for Time Inc UK ahead of its separation from Time Warner and listing on the NY Stock Exchange. Fiona then became CEO of Makerversity, an award-winning incubator, and supports founders as an investor in the deep tech, SaaS, and creative sectors.

Michael Sackler
Michael Sackler
Managing Partner at Supernode Global

Supernode Global provides Community + Capital to seed stage companies building the next generation of tools and platforms that will positively shape the future of how we work, play, learn and communicate within the digital content ecosystem.

Kolvin Stone​
Kolvin Stone​
Partner & Head of Technology, Fox Williams​

Adviser to some of the world’s leading tech driven businesses, Kolvin was ranked by Legal 500 for data & technology as known for being ‘extremely responsive and client focused’. He has vast experience advising on legal issues related to the internalisation of technology: his work regularly involves complex, cross-border matters that raise multi-faceted IP, data privacy, consumer protection, and internet regulatory issues.

Aitian Li
Aitian Li
Investor at Calculus Capital

Aitian joined Calculus Capital in 2021. She focuses on backing founders in the creative content, SaaS, and life sciences/biotech sectors. Before joining Calculus, she worked as a growth equity investor at BOCOM International in Asia.

Molly Gilmartin
Molly Gilmartin
Healthtech Investor at Albion VC

Molly invests in late seed to Series B healthcare companies across health tech and digital pharma. Driven by innovative business models, disruptive technologies improving the efficiency of how we deliver care/complete research.

Jonno Evans
Jonno Evans
Principal at IQ Capital

Jonno is a principal at IQ Capital. He focusses on companies in a broad range of sectors including AI/ML, robotics, energy and cybersecurity.

Asif Ahmed
Asif Ahmed
Head of Early Stage at Cooper Parry

Asif is Partner and Head of early-stage in the Tech & High Growth team at Cooper Parry. He works closely with founders and entrepreneurs across all accounting, tax, and advisory disciplines and helps founding teams navitage their journey to scale.

Cat McDonald
Cat McDonald
Investment Director at AlbionVC

Cat joined Albion in 2018 and focuses on backing founders across fintech, cyber & legacy industries. Prior to joining Albion she worked in New York and London as an Investment Banker with Goldman Sachs. She holds an economics degree from Harvard.

Alex Merwin
Alex Merwin
Head of Growth, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services

Alex is an internationally seasoned executive with over fifteen years of experience building teams, processes and workflows that unlock growth for complex, technical products and services.

Solène Brébant
Solène Brébant
Investor at Balderton Capital

Solène joined Balderton’s investment team in 2022. Prior to Balderton, Solène was an Analyst at the fintech-focused venture capital fund, BlackFin Tech, where she supported the team on deals ranging from seed to growth stage.

Sam Edge
Sam Edge
Head of Industries and Emerging Technologies, Startups & Venture Capital at Amazon Web Services

Sam leads a team of ex-founders, investors, and industry experts to advise founders and venture capital funds covering Fintech, Healthcare & Life-sciences, Web3, artificial intelligence, and Cybersecurity.

Alex Arnot
Alex Arnot
Founder & CEO at MyNonExec

Alex is LinkedIn’s #1 recommended board advisor. He advises 35 tech founders and companies from start-ups to award winning multi-nationals. An expert in accelerating company growth, revenue, profit, shareholder value and achieving above market valuations.

Kit Lewin
Kit Lewin
Head of Partnerships at Capsule

Passionate about making insurance better for VC backed businesses, Kit works closely with Capsule e-health clients ExSeed Health, Mindstep, Stitch Health and many more..

Kieron James
Kieron James
CEO at Wonderful

Kieron is an entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the ICT sector, currently serving as CEO and co-Founder of Wonderful. With a background in technology, BD, strategy, and intentional leadership, he has co-founded and exited nine businesses, including two to NASDAQ-listed companies.

Logan Estop-Hall
Logan Estop-Hall
Executive Director at Daleth

Logan is an accomplished entrepreneur, board executive, speaker and mentor; currently scaling Daleth - the premier strategy consulting firm propelling ambitious companies to new heights by elevating strategy and accelerating growth.

Amanda Bunn
Amanda Bunn
Head of Brand & Partnerships at Luminous PR

Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), Amanda is a communications professional with over 15 years’ experience developing, implementing and reviewing strategic PR plans across a variety of sectors.

Simon Williams
Simon Williams
Relationship Manager at Cooper Parry Wealth

As a Financial Planner Simon focuses on you as a founder: your lifestyle, your bigger picture, and what keeps you awake at night. He brings this together to take a holistic approach to helping you build your personal finance plan.

Kira Mahal
Kira Mahal
Founder of MotivatePT

Kira founded MotivatePT to empower people to feel at their best, every day. Her company has over 50 wellness professionals and hundreds of B2B and B2C customers on board.

Yasmin Lord-Pottinger
Yasmin Lord-Pottinger
Senior People & Talent Partner at CharlieHR

As a People Expert with over 8 years of experience in fields such as operations, organisational design, and employment law. Yasmin is passionate about diversity & inclusion and I am committed to helping organisations reach their goals through their people.

Shameer Sachdev
Shameer Sachdev
Founder and CEO at Growth Gorilla

Growth Gorilla are the fintech-first growth agency making user acquisition a breeze. They help you attract the right users and reach your growth goals by seamlessly blending Paid Media, Influencer Marketing, and Creative & Content.

Our upcoming cohorts

Checkout our upcoming collaborations below and visit the Cohorts tab to view past collabs and read more about the early-stage CEOs and later stage experts involved.

Thu
16
Jan 2025
Future of Media
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Our fourth cohort launches in the new year. As with previous cohorts it will bridge the gap and open doors to bring a community of later stage CEOs, investors, and industry leaders, but this time with those who are making technological advances in the media ecosystem.

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WHAT EACH SESSION PROVIDEs

CEO Stories

The unique opportunity to hear from and grill later stage CEOs who have been there and done it (Series B and beyond).

CEO Strategy

Topic specific deep dive sessions with subject matter experts. From maintaining a resilient & adaptive culture to embedding a competitive strategy, these sessions will provide practical tools to adapt these concepts to early-stage company growth.

CEO Circles

Join a curated community of CEOs in the same sector and at the same stage to share challenges, experiences, and ambitions. You'll learn how to manage your mindset and energise the founder journey.

CEO Wellbeing

A chance to focus on you as an individual: your leadership development and your personal wellness.

VC Office Hours

Led by one of our VC partners. A copy of your pitch deck is required in advance to maximise session value.

Tactical Office Hours

One-on-one sessions with the best experts in fields such as legal, finance, HR, PR, and growth & fundraising strategy.

A TASTE OF OUR VENTURECEO INVESTOR PARTNERS

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