Fuel Ventures is created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs
Our team is composed of passionate and driven entrepreneurs and operators who understand the challenges and rewards of building a successful business, having experienced this world firsthand ourselves. We pride ourselves on our unwavering commitment to partnering with fellow entrepreneurs, providing not only the necessary capital but also invaluable guidance, resources, and mentorship.
Our diverse backgrounds, industry expertise, and hands-on approach enable us to offer unique insights and tailored support to help propel our portfolio companies towards exceptional growth. As a team that thrives on innovation and collaboration, we are dedicated to fueling the success of the next generation of game-changing businesses.
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Mark is an award winning digital entrepreneur having achieved multiple successful exits over the last decade. Mark takes an active role in mentoring the Fund's portfolio of companies.
Mark
Pearson
Michael has a background in early stage technology investing, along with managing international investor relationships. He heads up the Business Development team and sources new investment opportunities, also supporting portfolio companies with growth plans including follow on investment. He also sits on the investment committee and helps make investment decisions.
Michael
Burnett
Jing has extensive experience working with international investors and key Asian markets. Jing manages relationships with Chinese investors and Tier 1 Entrepreneur visa clients.
Jing Jing
Xu
Stan has +9yrs experience investing in early-stage technology companies and helping them scale to exit. He helps to find new investment opportunities for the fund and manages key relationships with investors.
Stan
Williams
Shiv leads investments from our Scale Up and Follow-On Funds. He works closely with our portfolio companies and sits on a number of boards. Previously, Shiv worked with a recruitment tech start-up in India before working in Wealth Management.
Shiv
Patel
Oli has spent several years working for startup companies and as an Analyst with an early stage venture fund and Angel investors. His focus is on sourcing new opportunities for Fuel and working with the existing portfolio.
Oliver
Hammond
James has been raising capital for +20yrs. His client base has focussed on larger institutional investors including VCs and Family Offices. His focus is on helping our portfolio companies with follow-on investments from VCs and strategic investors.
James
Du Boulay
Christina has +13 years' experience working in C-Level offices across Australia and Europe. She supports with new and existing companies in the portfolio, heads the Operations such as Marketing and Talent, as well as various general matters across all functions of Fuel Ventures.
Christina
Levada
James has gained a wealth of experience across diverse sectors of financial services over the past 15 years; including banking, pensions & venture capital. At Fuel, James leads the IFA/Strategic Partners distribution team.
James
D’Mello
Having completed the EIS Diploma in 2017, Katie’s recent focus has been in Tax Efficient Investments both at Platforms and Funds. Katie’s role within the IFA distribution team involves managing relationships with IFAs, wealth managers and financial institutions.
Katie
Hopkin
Alex has experience in digital marketing, gamification & innovation, and was an integral part of the team that launched a COVID symptom tracking app. He helped set up the Pre-Seed fund, closely manages its deployment and manages Fuel's LinkedIn.
Alex
Breeden
Mike, a qualified Chartered Accountant, has several years’ experience in various commercial roles including as Head of Investment & Commercial Services at a tech venture builder. He now sources new investment opportunities, executing deals, managing fund deployment and portfolio company support.
Mike
Stevenson
James’ focus at Fuel Ventures is on fundraising and investor relations, supporting the portfolio companies with growth capital from the likes of VCs and Family Offices, and earlier-stage funding from UHNW and Angels.
James
Steel
Jonny began his career recruiting in the Financial Services sector before moving in-house to scale early stage start-ups. His role at Fuel is to work with the portfolio to source & hire the best talent whilst also helping to establish a successful people function & strategy.
Jonny
Thoroughgood
Leon has an established technical recruitment background with a wide variety of experiences gained from later stage startups, the public sector and global enterprise businesses.
Leon
Halfyard
Katie holds a degree in International Politics and Italian from Georgetown University. Previously, Katie worked with startups in the venture debt space. Her focus at Fuel is on sourcing new investment opportunities and on deal execution.
Katie
Mathias
Hector’s primary focus is to raise capital for our core funds as well as managing relationships with existing fund investors. Hector is also involved in supporting Fuel’s portfolio companies with raising future funding rounds.
Hector
Hunt
Sophie studied Criminology and Sociology at Cardiff University. Her focus will be on fundraising for new investment opportunities for the fund.
Sophie
Derham
Nikita joined Fuel after having worked at J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Renaissance Capital, covering EMEA clients. Nikita’s focus at Fuel is on investor relations and supporting the portfolio companies with growth capital.
Nikita
Baranov
Prior to Fuel, Joanna worked at PwC, before transitioning to PM & SWE roles at startups. Joanna holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. She focuses on sourcing and executing deals in the pre-seed investment team.
Joanna
Graiver
Robyn holds a degree in Business Information Technology. She began her career working in a VC managing a grant fund for early stage businesses, later working as an innovation consultant. Robyn focuses on sourcing new opportunities for the Scale Up Fund.