by Leah Thompson | Jan 27, 2021 | Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, Finance, General, People & Organisations
Diana is a venture capital at Novo Holdings, a global life science investor. She has a DPhil in Cell Biology from the University of Oxford, and has worked with biotech companies at all stages of their development. What is your background? What made you decide to get...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 26, 2021 | Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised, Students
Maria is the current MD of the Oxford Seed Fund, a student-led VC (Venture Capital) body that invests in Oxford-affiliated startups every year. Maria leads a team of 11, and throughout the academic year, during the MBA, they scout and find, and invest into startups...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 26, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
Sarah Barratt Ball is the Director of Oxford’s Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a programme that runs in nine business school locations globally, founded in Toronto in 2012. CDL is a global program that mentors massively scalable, seed stage, science and deep-tech...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 22, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, Exploring Opportunities, General, People & Organisations, Personalised
Chibugo Okafor is the founder and CEO of Kendake Honey, a social enterprise focused on utilising the apiculture sector to provide job opportunities for women and youth turning them into sustainable income generators, enforcing food security and wealth creation for the...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 13, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, General, Health & Wellbeing, People & Organisations, Personalised, Social Enterprise
Zeenith Ebrahim is the founder of Jamii Life, a technology platform that connects health workers with people that can’t care for themselves in low-income South African and African communities (‘Jamii’ means community in Swahili). Jamii Life seeks to redesign home care...
by Leah Thompson | Jan 8, 2021 | Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, General, Growing my Company, IT & Digital, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised, Science & Technology
Natalia Efremova has a PHD in Computer Science from the University of Kyoto, and an MBA from the University of Oxford. She has also previously worked as an Associate Professor in computer science, in Russia. Her research focuses on using AI and machine learning to...
