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94th percentile
Serial founder of Virgin Group and prolific angel investor across 200+ ventures
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 94th percentile
- 51 angel/portfolio investments tracked by CB Insights.
- Active fund manager via Virgin Group's investment arm, backing funds like firstminute capital.
- Over 15 years of investing experience, with Virgin investing since the early 2000s.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder of Virgin Group since 1968.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)virgin.com ranks #4,197 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Publicly identified as an angel investor (Square, Ring, firstminute capital, and others).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Over 15 years of investing experience, with Virgin investing since the early 2000s.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)51 angel/portfolio investments tracked by CB Insights.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Active fund manager via Virgin Group's investment arm, backing funds like firstminute capital.
What you likely need
You're a globally recognized serial founder and prolific angel investor, so the most valuable Festival gatherings will be peer-level rooms with other category-defining founders and investors rather than typical pitch nights. Lean into curated dinners where you can swap notes on operating across 200+ companies, scout new bets at the seed stage, and mentor the next generation in sectors you love (space, mobility, consumer).
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA Virgin Group portfolio roundtable with other multi-company founders to compare playbooks for running 200+ operating businesses under one brand.
- introsAn angel investor dinner with other early backers of Square, Ring, and consumer hardware to source the next wave of disruptive consumer bets.
- positioningA spaceflight & deep-tech founders happy hour to swap lessons from Virgin Galactic with the next generation of orbital and hypersonic startups.
- fundraisingA firstminute capital LP and GP dinner to meet emerging European seed managers backing the next Slack-scale companies.
- positioningA B Team-style purposeful leadership salon focused on climate, governance, and humane capitalism for founder-CEOs.
- introsAn 'Ask Richard' mentorship evening where early founders pitch Virgin-adjacent ideas you and Simon Squibb can adopt or back.
- wellbeingA Necker-style founder wellbeing retreat for senior CEOs to recharge and trade longevity, family, and adventure stories.