Concept Ventures

🎉Thank You for an Amazing Summer Party! 🌞 We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for our summer party, marking another fantastic year! 🧑🤝🧑Surrounded by so many of our founders, co-investors, LPs, close Angels, and our industry friends, it was great to see the depth of community we have built so-far at pre-seed - and we’re excited to keep on growing🧑🤝🧑 💫 A huge shoutout and thank you to Jonette Jimenez, Mike A., and the team at Google for Startups for hosting us.  #SummerParty2024 #VC

Very humbled to win the Seed VC of the Year at the UK Business Angels Association awards. I remember attending my first UKBAA award 5 years ago and being inspired by what people in the room had achieved. It's been an incredible year for us, so it's amazing to be recognised for the hard work and dedication the team has put in over the years. It's such a joy to work with Jeff Chowdhry, Oliver Kicks, Ariel Rahamim, Seyon Indran, Anrea Munsamy, and Lauren Sauerland. These things are only made possible with incredible partners - first, our founders, who make the impossible become possible every day and inspire us. Our LPs like Dominus and British Business Bank, who believed in our unique people-centric approach to investing at pre-seed when others did not. Lastly, our service providers, HSBC Innovation Banking , Crest Communications, Coutts, Harper James and Morgan Lewis who support us every day. Massive thanks to the UKBAA. Roderick Beer, who supported us from the very start, and HSBC Innovation Banking , who sponsored the award. Finally, a massive shout-out to our portfolio company Treefera and Caroline Grey, who were nominated last night and gained a special mention at the awards.

'AI' is everywhere; we've all experimented with many tools and APIs. It's becoming increasingly apparent that the next wave of products, tools and software will be heavily AI-enabled. Still, few teams are applying this new technology to real customer problems. George Proud and Will J. of Gendo AI are among these few, and we are incredibly excited to see them building next-gen tooling for architects and designers globally today with the public launch of their visualisation product. We led their $1.1m pre-seed last year and are delighted to see how quickly they've moved and the scope of what they've built. cc. Carles Reina, Dima Shvets, Milo K., Ascension, Reece Chowdhry .

🌟 Thank You for Joining Our Product Breakfast!🌟 We recently had the pleasure of hosting a product breakfast at our office, led by Hugh Strange, the first product hire and former VP of Product at Nubank. 🍎Hugh shared his experience in navigating the initial release, finding PMF, and scaling product. 🤝Big shout out and thanks to Hugh Strange for leading this insightful discussion. And of course, thank you to everyone in the Portfolio who attended. We appreciate your support and look forward to future events! #ProductDevelopment #Networking #Innovation #StartUps #VC

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🚀 LIFE Lebanon pitch night! We are delighted to have been a part of the first in London event and initiative, supporting Lebanese founders. ✨ The event was a great reminder of the hustle, determination and strong mission that exists in most immigrant founders!  🤝 Great to be alongside members from No Label Ventures, Levant in Tech, Entrepreneur First, Al-Kindi Club and Zeina Mhanna. #LebaneseEntrepreneurs #PitchNight #Entrepreneurship #Networking #Startups #Techstartup #Lebanon Ariel Rahamim Meta

🌍In recognition of International Refugee Day, we proudly reaffirm our support to #ElevateRefugees. And send a special shoutout to our very own Portco Founder, Mursal Hedayat MBE from Chatterbox, who has faced these challenges first hand. 💫 We are glad to have backed Mursal back in 2018, supporting her vision in Chatterbox. Mursal has been breaking barriers and creating opportunities for refugees worldwide, and we couldn’t be prouder of her. ℹ ‘’1 in every 230 people around the world have been displaced from their homes due to ongoing conflicts, persecution, and climate change.’’ At Concept Ventures we have been privileged to support refugee programmes and founders, playing a part in empowering global refugee talent, often overlooked and underrepresented. 🤝Even though Refugee Week may come to an end, Let’s all be a part of the global movement for change. If you would like to join the #ElevateRefugees community of like-minded professionals aiming to make our communities and workplaces more welcoming of refugees, sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ekgTiPx5 #RefugeeWeek #FestivalOfStories #SupportRefugees #InclusiveWorkplaces #WorldRefugeeDay #HumanRights #CommunitySupport #FeamleFounder

🚀Glad to see our portfolio companies in Sifteds latest article as part of the "12 Startups from London to Watch" Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dmnp4shn

🌟We're excited to announce that Concept Ventures is a finalist for Seed VC of the Year at the UK Business Angels Association Investment Awards 2024! 👏 A big congratulations to Caroline Grey from Treefera for her nomination as an outstanding leader of a high-growth, female-founded business. She truly deserves this recognition. Check out the Awards and the other finalists here: https://lnkd.in/dSbp-Vzb #UKBAAAwards

📰 Great to be featured on the latest Sifted article by Amy Lewin Joe Schorge, Maria Rotilu and I share our thoughts on the topic of ''How many new #VC funds does Europe need?'' and the ''rise in solo GPs across Europe'' 💭 TLDR: In my opinion, Solo GPs are fantastic! They truly do care and are super useful with great networks, hunger and high-speed. However many solo GPs don’t lead deals at pre-seed, and the European ecosystem could do with a few more funds that do. But there are exceptions, such as Germany’s Gloria Baeuerlein, Finn Murphy, and Max Claussen, to name a few. Full article here: https://lnkd.in/dWXUFsWb