We are business partners with high expectations and huge respect for each other.
We enjoy the challenge of working together and have a lot of fun. The same goes for the founding teams we work with.
We listen hard to founders, to their customers in the market, and to the investors that back them. We push to challenge them, and we expect to be in this for the long haul.
ANNA-LISA WESLEY
Anna-Lisa is an experienced business advisor to the leadership team of a portfolio of IP-rich hard tech startups and scaleups in healthcare and clean energy.
In her first career in management consulting, Anna-Lisa advised top teams in the UK’s largest banks, energy companies and utilities, responsible for the delivery of £100m+ strategic initiatives under regulatory scrutiny. This deep experience is more relevant than ever as industry looks to reinvent through technology adoption.
Alongside personal investments, advisory and Board positions where she leads on growth strategy, governance and commercialisation, Anna-Lisa’s expertise is called upon by UK universities, TTOs, VCs and strategic incubators to drive novel technology to scale.
Anna-Lisa is a thought leader on topics including technology adoption, collaborative culture and scaleup governance and is in demand as a key note speaker, provocative panel host and chair.
PeteR Blake
Peter is an advisor and investor with a portfolio of startups and scaleups developing hardware, industrial processes and engineering solutions for the transition to clean energy systems, sustainable industries and circular economies. He is Non-Exec Director with green chemistry startup Sages and Chief Strategy and Investment Officer with the new national agtech hub Innovation Nursery.
Peter is a mentor with Techstars, The Greenhouse, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, and ConceptionX. He supports universities and investors, working to build more effective deeptech ecosystems in the UK, and delivers the Shott Scaleup Accelerator for deeptech leaders at The Royal Academy of Engineering.
Peter has built and sold two businesses, and co-founded two social enterprises, raising ten’s of millions along the way. He is also an advanced instructor in Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan.