Valenice Balace

Founders Factory

Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Created by serial entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory backs entrepreneurs with capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and unrivalled access to industry leaders like Deutsche Telekom, L'Oreal, Aviva, Guardian Media Group, Netcare, Standard Bank, Nesta, Johnson & Johnson D.C. and Reckitt. Founders Factory's Venture Studio co-founds businesses from inception, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high growth companies. We operate sector-focused Accelerator programmes and Venture Funds for Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups, investing in talented and diverse founding teams across industries and geographies - with a current focus on FinTech, Health, Climate, Media & Telecoms, Consumer and Web3. Since 2015, Founders Factory's 300 portfolio companies have raised $720mm follow-on funding from notable investors, including NFX, Coatue, Forerunner, Tencent and firstminute Capital.