Check Warner
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Partner, Ada Ventures. We find and fund extraordinary talent. Co-founder of Diversity VC. Views my own. Write: https://t.co/kqQtFhJFKa
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Joined September 2011
New year, new look for Ada Ventures 💫 Our new website and brand refresh launches today. Take a look here: https://t.co/z6cr8PPzV9 Since Ada Ventures was founded in 2018, we have: Raised £120m+ to invest in game-changing, world-improving startups 👉Backed over 40 companies
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Started the week VERY early on BBC News this morning… 💥 I joined the BBC’s Business Today programme to discuss London’s listings slowdown. From ElevenLabs to Synthesia and Wayve, there’s no shortage of innovation. The challenge now is making sure the UK isn’t just a great
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@AnneBoden @adaventures @checkwarner Every time @adaventures and @checkwarner release something, it feels less like research and more like a roadmap for founders. 🚀 This one is packed with insights worth bookmarking.
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*Bio-infrastructure* - a new term and market landscape we are launching today at Ada Ventures with Alasdair Thong our Venture Partner for Health, to capture the opportunity in investing in the enabling stack - the picks and shovels of the 100-year life. By the middle of the
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the rise of 'fixer-upper' founders ⚒️ No, not the kind with a side hustle in DIY. I mean the ones pitching slightly faster, slicker versions of existing tech. At @adaventures, we've seen a wave of these over recent years. Startups offering
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Faster. Better. Smarter. Smoother. Why VCs are turning away from "incremental improvers" in favour of paradigm-shifting experiences
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Founders - last chance to enter Ada's AI for Prosperity Hackathon - the winning team will receive a £100,000 investment from Ada as well as amazing prizes from our partners... List of fantastic judges and details ⬇️
🚀 Meet our AI hackathon judges 🌟 @MeryemArik9, CEO and Co-founder of @titanml_. Meryem has been recognised as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for her contributions to AI. @frainpan, Developer Community Lead at @MolliePayments. The winning team will receive premium onboarding
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Check spoke with @johnthornhillft from the @FinancialTimes on the three ideas to energise British tech. Follow the story: https://t.co/mYYEZitirO
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What was Europe’s most backed sector in 2024? Healthtech. Breakthrough after breakthrough saw founders in the space raise more than $11bn. These market conditions, coupled with intensifying societal needs, give founders a real chance to transform global health outcomes, says Ada
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Founders - Ada Ventures is running a hackathon on the 2nd May with the winning idea raising £100,000. If you are curious or starting to work on something - please register below!
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In April, @cartainc will be hosting its first European Summit. Join @checkwarner (@adaventures), Chris Elphick (@BVCAPartnership ) and many others as they unpack policy on what's next for the UK and AI. It will be an unmissable afternoon of data, deep dives, and discussions
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Great to feel some feminine energy at Meta last night at their women in AI event, talking about Ada Ventures, Inclusive Alpha and much more.
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Another day, another VC prediction for 2025 post (!) but this time sourced from the Ada team & Venture Partners @dorothychou Michael Tefula, Alasdair Thong and Shanika Amarasekara - let us know your thoughts.. Do you agree? Disagree? What have we missed?
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The end of each year brings its fair share of ‘wrapping up’, and not just when it comes to Christmas presents. As we barrel towards the…
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🌟Ada Ventures — 5 Years in 🌟 It's nearly the end of 2024 - so it's time for our annual reflection wrap! See below for (nearly) everything we have got up to this year! ⬇️
🌟Ada Ventures — 5 Years in 🌟 2024 has been a transformative year at Ada Ventures! Read our annual year in review: https://t.co/9wBCGoPcAh We reported on our Inclusive Alpha® commitments. Inclusive Alpha® is an investment approach where an inclusive lens is prioritised in
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Proud of my husband Paddy Stobbs and his fantastic cofounder Camin and team at @stackfix on launching their product and announcing their $3m seed round round 🤩
I'm thrilled to announce that @Stackfix - the software comparison platform - has raised a $3M Seed Round led by @chalfs, joined by @seedcamp and @helloworld, alongside some brilliant angel investors such as @paulforster, @matthewclifford and @Alicebentinck. When my co-founder
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Please check out Ada's first Impact Report below.
We believe VC should be open source. That's why we're releasing the first ever 💥Ada Ventures Impact Report today 💥 To read the report: https://t.co/CejQtud3fe Since we launched, we've tried to be as transparent as possible about how we're building Ada Ventures and how we make
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Ada Ventures have just launched AdaGPT - https://t.co/DPuoigFW6n. This is free tool trained on Ada's thesis that can assess whether a pitch deck aligns with Ada's investment thesis, flag information gaps, and suggest potential improvements. This is the first product shipped
📢 We are thrilled to share that we have appointed @michaeltefula as Principal & Head of Product and have launched ✨AdaGPT✨ Following an open recruitment process using the Applied de-biased hiring platform earlier this year, Michael has been appointed Principal and Head of
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Love the question "what if it works"? At @adaventures, we believe that talent is evenly distributed, but it's the opportunity that's not. To succeed, leaders must have the ambition to match their talent and seize the opportunities that come their way to truly build a breakthrough
Today, Molten launches 2054—a bold campaign exploring one question: What if you succeed? Set 30 years from now, this AI-generated film sets the stage for what the future could look like if innovations in Molten’s portfolio accomplish what they have set out to do. From
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Introducing the Ada Ventures Talent Network, which enhances our ability to support portfolio companies in attracting exceptional and diverse talent for key roles. This network connects them with top-tier talent at the touch of a button. 👉 https://t.co/xW7Olw32cX If you're
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The housing crisis disproportionately impacts those from low income backgrounds and we see Tract as a way to use generative AI to process the massive and complex data on planning and unlock the planning bottleneck for new homes. We are pleased to be invested in this important
🚀 Investment Announcement🚀 We are thrilled to announce that Ada Ventures has invested in @buildwithtract, a prop-tech startup using AI to revolutionise the process of obtaining planning permissions for real estate development. We co-led Tract’s pre-seed round alongside our
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“We don’t believe that automation should inevitably exacerbate inequality, but this could be the eventual outcome if we are not thoughtful about how new technologies are developed and deployed" Check out our thoughts on "The Social Good of Automation" and where we're investing
🚩 The Social Good of Automation 🚩 Even though every innovation comes with risks and challenges, we believe that the best founders want to build things that positively matter. Automation has served us for thousands of years. It comes with the good, the bad, and the
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