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Check started her career in marketing before pivoting to venture. She loves customer-centric companies that build communities and focus on the user. Her objective in life is about creating opportunities for people to realise their full potential. Check is a co-founder and CEO of non-profit Diversity VC.

Matt has been a VC in the US and UK for over 10 years. Matt loves early-stage investing for its power to bring ideas and dreams to life, to help start the journey. Matt is passionate about mission-driven founders, and his core belief is that anyone can be a someone.

Pre-seed investor for 6 years. Michael is an active angel, a self-taught developer, operator, writer and technologist.

Xun started her career as a funds lawyer before making the move into VC as Ada’s Head of Ops. She is inspired by how good ideas, acted on intentionally, can lead to big impact, no matter where the ideas come from. She loves to support small teams in building on these ideas and bringing them to life.

Diarra is an experienced operator having spent nearly 10 years executing best in class support services for founders and directors from UK growth companies. Previously he was a Venture Partner at Ada Ventures, Head of Ventures at a social venture builder and is a former scout at an early stage VC fund.

Emma has been working in accountancy since 2010. After school she took the apprenticeship route to complete her MAAT and study for her ACCA qualification. She has held senior financial managerial roles at Blick Rothenberg.

Arfah is the co-founder of Muslamic Makers, a community of Muslim changemakers working in and around the technology scene.

Interested in tech for good, community, edtech, fintech, healthtech, womentech and the muslim economy space.

Ash Phillips is the founder of Yena, a global community for startups, which provides accelerator-like business benefits by subscription.

Looking for innovative companies in the b2b SaaS and gaming spaces, powered by communities with brilliant brand & design experiences.

Anjel is the Founder of Iranian Women’s Association, the first and only UK-based association for Iranian women with a mission to inspire, educate and connect those women.

If you’d like to pitch to Anjel, please use this form

David is a Director at Foundervine, a social enterprise that specialises in digital start-up and scale-up acceleration programs for diverse founders.

Interested in fintech, community-powered tech, and start-ups positively impacting society led by diverse founding teams.

Nicole is CEO of Black Girl Fest, a platform dedicated to Black women, girls and non-binary people.

Interested in community powered businesses, consumer brands (beauty, tech, creative industries) and supporting black women founders.

Head of Community & Content at Diversity VC, and co-founder at Mangrove Earth, providing affordable and accessible ‘at point of need’ finance for ‘alternative utilities’.

amina.ahmad5@gmail.com

I am the Head of Growth at Flexa, an Ada Ventures portfolio company. Flexa is a company which provides much needed transparency in the job hunting process by verifying companies as truly flexible. Previously, I was Growth Lead at TILLIT, a Growth Coach on the Startup Core Strengths accelerator, and angel investor.

Over the last decade I have built an international education and media company, focused on helping high-impact business scale with purpose. FutureX has formed partnerships with some of the world's most innovative organisations, delivering executive education programmes and events across Europe, Silicon Valley, LA, Chicago, Abu Dhabi, India and China.

Policy designer, disability rights advocate, ambassador & disabled female founder putting accessibility at the heart of legislation. Co-Founding Director of The Disability Policy Centre think-tank.

Christian is an award-winning queer investor & innovator. In his day job, as an Expert at Bain & Company, he leads a team solving the world’s biggest problems with innovation & ventures, underpinned by sustainability. In his gay job, as CEO of i³ investing, he invests in “intersectional incredibles”, notably LGBTQ+ founders.

CoFounder & CCO of Delio. Wealth manager at UBS & Barclays. Scaling SaaS & Fintech.

Head of Global at Alloy & an Ada Ventures Angel. Looking to back diverse founders tackling gnarly problems within economic empowerment.

Product Leader and Community Builder based in Belfast. A former software engineer, I have volunteered as Director for Women Who Code Belfast since 2018 as well as driving the product vision at low-code startup, Budibase. I am passionate about community and the further empowerment of women through technology.

A startup and scaleup operator with a focus on healthtech. I am interested in impact-focused startups, particularly those founded by neurodivergent folks who I believe often have a unique angle from which to attack problems.

I am always happy to help with finding product-market fit, industry expertise and setting up to scale your venture.

Izzy Obeng is an entrepreneur and business coach. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Foundervine and sits as a Non-Executive Director for Capital Enterprise. At Foundervine, Izzy leads a consultancy for creating systemic change in entrepreneurship.

Former founder turned investor.

An investor in the intersection of climate change solutions and underrepresented groups. Co- founder of ESG innovation consultancy Startup Discovery School who design incubators, accelerators and open innovation programmes for public and private organisations in the U.K. and Africa, who are focused on building startups addressing environmental and social sustainability issues.

CFO at the investment platform CIRCA5000 & angel investor.

Oyinkansola runs Niyo, a group of multi-award-winning companies that specialise in using technology to economically empower black women. This organisation currently has three brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty, Niyo Dapp and Niyo Bootcamps.

Pia recently joined Currencies Direct, a growth equity FX and payments platform as their Chief of Staff. Previously, she was the UK Country Manager for Checkout.com and the COO/founding member of Cabin, a mobility and travel startup.

Co-founder and CTO of greenworkx: a climate edtech startup tackling the green skills emergency by building the skilled trade workforce to deliver net-zero homes and roads.

Founder of Open Bionics - an international award-winning robotics company building Iron Man bionic arms for children and adults with limb differences.

Huge fan of Ada's mission and as an underrepresented founder, I want to start investing in companies with overlooked founders!

My background is in renewable energy project finance and I am a founder of a climate data and analytics company in London.

I want to channel my investment experience in climate as well as women's health to support the next generation of companies from the ground up.

Co-Founder and CEO of Panintelligence a Secure Embedded Analytics for SaaS vendors.

Data scientist and former Director of Data at Too Good to Go.

CEO and Founder of HBCUvc, co-author of "Black Founders at Work" and former scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

CEO and Co-founder of Butter, superconnector and former Managing Director at Lion & Lion.

Ex-Google, Ex-Meta, co-founder of AI personalisation startup Write With LAIKA, and video game writer.

Former COO and CPO at UPCYCL.

Founder of Even Founders and a former investor at CVC fund.

Former Scientific Researcher and Corporate Director, NED Startup Advisor and Co-Founder of ProWoc Denmark.

COO and Chief Engagement Officer at TechBBQ and LGBTQ+ advocate.

Scaleup operator and coach with experience helping startups define a path for revenue growth and retention.

Scaling and GTM expert with experience across UK, Germany, Sweden, USA, and NL. Founding member of Atlas by DecisionMakers network.