Founders Comms

📢 Congratulations to our healthcare AI client Heidi Health who last week secured $16 million in a Series A follow-on round led by US-based Headline. 💥 This round brings the total funding raised to $26 million. Heidi’s mission is to double the world’s healthcare capacity by enabling clinicians to focus on patient care, not paperwork. Its AI-powered medical scribe streamlines time-intensive admin tasks to reduce the cognitive load on clinicians - it's already been used across 20 million+ patient interactions. Well done Heidi Health team! 👏 Our Founders Comms team has secured some strong coverage including Tech Funding News MobiHealthNews and Startups.

We had the amazing opportunity to support Tech Nation with the official launch of the London AI Hub this week. 💥 As the UK’s first physical hub for AI innovation, the Hub will bring together the brightest minds to shape a new era of AI innovation in the UK. 🤝 The collaboration between Tech Nation (part of Founders Forum Group), Merantix Group and Onfido’s Husayn Kassai - in partnership with Techspace and with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS) - kicked off with inspiring insights from industry leaders and a keynote from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology AI Minister Feryal Clark. Thanks to Ingrid Lunden from TechCrunch for moderating the panel! Located at Techspace’s Goswell Road location in Farringdon, the London AI Hub will drive AI investment, talent, and policy in the UK. To stay in the loop follow London AI Hub, or reach out to Rupert Elston for partnership and collaboration. Exciting times ahead! Carolyn Dawson Brent Hoberman Janette Wiget Philip Ellis Emily Miller

💡 We loved working with Tech Nation on the announcement of the London AI Hub this week, a world-class collaboration and co-working space for the UK's most ambitious AI companies, launched in partnership with Onfido's Husayn Kassai, Merantix and Techspace 👏 The Hub's mission - "provide the UK’s AI talent with the resources, network, and space they need to shape the future of AI". AI companies will begin moving in this February! 👇 Interested in knowing more? Want to become a tenant or interested in hosting an event? 📩 Contact Rupert Elston at rupert@londonaihub.co.uk for more information. #LondonAIHub #wearetechnation Emily Miller Carolyn Dawson Ellie Steel Imogen Granger

As we wind down for the holidays, there's no better time to catch up on the insights that shaped 2024. From AI's impact on UK tech to celebrating leading women founders and exploring neurodiversity in entrepreneurship, our reports offer a mix of reflection and forward-thinking. ⏩ 📚 Dive into: ▶️ "100 Women Founders to Watch" with Institut auf dem Rosenberg https://lnkd.in/eaN_D6Jb ▶️ "How Big Tech is Nurturing European Innovation" with Spotify https://lnkd.in/e4MgvtYm ▶️ "Southeast Asia's Emerging Opportunities" with Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) https://lnkd.in/g64RCsqy And in partnership with Tech Nation ⭐ ▶️ "Beyond Returns - Venture and Growth Investing Fuelling Sustainability and Societal Change" with European Women in VC https://lnkd.in/eP4U4ujT ▶️ "UK Tech in the Age of AI" with Tesco, Dealroom.co, HSBC Innovation Banking https://lnkd.in/dBEiVRYc ▶️ "Disability & Neurodiversity in Entrepreneurship" with Motability Operations Ltd https://lnkd.in/e8EDDanj 💡 Pro tip: Save these for that quiet week between Christmas and New Year's – The perfect time to get inspired for 2025! Marco De Novellis | Francesca Arese Lucini | Imogen Granger | Ella Ross Russell | Johnny M. | Carolyn Dawson | #FoundersForum #WhereTheFutureUnfolds #TechNation #HolidayReads #Innovation #Diversity #Entrepreneurship #WeAreTechNation

Finishing 2024 on a major high as Rachel Gurney and I welcome Eleanor G. and Jessica Heaney to the Founders Comms team! To work alongside Shenel Moore-Bick and Rahima Ahmed Fry who have been a phenomenal support this year as we launched and started delivering high impact comms and policy work to startups and scaleups. Seeing the team develop has been the biggest buzz and really excited about what’s to come in 2025. Big shout out to our clients too: Apian, Careology, Entrepreneur First, KHP Ventures, Patch, Tech Nation, TrueLayer, Volter to name a few! We’ve loved working with you and supporting on wide ranging briefs from big launches, messaging, strategy, content drumbeats, policy and public affairs, and internal comms. And of course thanks for believing in us Founders Forum Group. As you said Carolyn Dawson I’ve really been growing 2 babies this year! Taking a bit of time now to deliver the human one so see you all in the spring! Have a great Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes!

⭐ Very pleased for our client KHP Ventures today and their launch of Europe's first NHS-partnered fund dedicated to innovative mental health startups. 📢 The new £20m fund aims to identify and fund early-stage technology-based mental health ventures. And they're partnering with some of the most respected names in mental health - Wellcome Trust and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. 👏 This is a much-needed and urgent boost for mental health and we were delighted to get a write up in TechCrunch! 💯 Well done to Daniel Dickens Pooja Sikka Candice Hampson - what a fantastic team, we love working with you. Most importantly - do you know any mental health tech startups? Get them to apply. https://lnkd.in/dbvbRxtE #mentalhealth #healthtech #nhs #vcsinhealth

I’m very happy to say I’ve joined the team at Founders Comms! We provide strategic communications and policy advice to founders, startups and scale ups through every stage of growth. I’ll be working across comms, policy and public affairs, supporting the brilliant Rachel Gurney and Natasha Jones to write the next chapter of the Founders Comms story. Check out our website and please get in touch if you’d like to know more, I'd love to chat: https://lnkd.in/eE_cfkVd (I’ll also be back in London more often so... who’s free for a coffee?! 👀 ) Shenel Moore-Bick Jessica Heaney

My next adventure begins! Working with Founders Comms, the epic comms and policy agency who elevates founders and scale-ups through every phase of growth. Supporting the incredibly inspiring Natasha Jones and Rachel Gurney with this next stage. Bring it on! (P.s we're part of the Founders Forum Group - one of the most powerful communities and group of businesses supporting innovative entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey). More updates to follow... #founders #scaleups #growth #pr https://lnkd.in/eF77e58Y

🗞️☀️ 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 ☀️ 🗞️ Excited to share 📣 that our recent $3.2 million funding round, led by Transition, with participation from Seedcamp, has received fantastic coverage 📰 across tech, startup, VC, property and climate 🌎 media! We've been highlighted ⭐ in publications including 𝐒𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡.𝐞𝐮, 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐮𝐳𝐳. The positive feedback has been incredible 🙌 🙇♂️   A huge thank you 🙏 to our dedicated team, investors, and customers! We’re only just getting started 🚀 Special thanks to Lucy Adams Samantha McClary Freya Pratty David Cendón Garcia https://lnkd.in/eV6X3EC4 https://lnkd.in/eR7xJJ9W https://lnkd.in/gsUdv5cA https://lnkd.in/dHJTwaAR https://lnkd.in/eJDidsaF https://lnkd.in/e38PhUVz Maddyness Sifted Tech.eu EG PropTechBuzz Silicon Canals EU-Startups #Climatetech #Renewables #CleanTech #RealEstate #Sustainability #PropTech #SolarEnergy #Startups

👏We have loved working with Volter on today's announcement of their impressive $3.2m funding round, led by Transition and Seedcamp. ☀️ Volter are connecting C&I real estate with solar energy installers - solar assets made seamless! Well done Luke Buhl-Nielsen and Alex J.