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Exited video-tech founder now leading UK Government's VC and institutional investment strategy in North America
Credibility
Operator · 46th percentile
- Viddyad won the Web Summit Spark of Genius award, Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge Award, and L'Oréal Digital Innovator of the Year — multiple industry recognitions for the company she founded.
- Past founder and CEO of Viddyad, a video technology company she founded in 2013 and ran for nearly 12 years.
- Founding member of Startup Ireland, demonstrating co-founder and community-builder activity alongside Viddyad.
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Past founder and CEO of Viddyad, a video technology company she founded in 2013 and ran for nearly 12 years.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Named one of the Irish Independent's Forty Under 40 and won the AMBA MBA Entrepreneurial Venture Award 2014, recognizing her entrepreneurial achievements with Viddyad.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Viddyad won the Web Summit Spark of Genius award, Richard Branson's Extreme Tech Challenge Award, and L'Oréal Digital Innovator of the Year — multiple industry recognitions for the company she founded.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Featured in a Wall Street Journal profile and covered by Bloomberg TV and TechCrunch as a recognized expert in video advertising technology.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Viddyad raised $2.0M in total funding across 3 prior funding rounds.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Founding member of Startup Ireland, demonstrating co-founder and community-builder activity alongside Viddyad.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently serves as Head of Institutional and Venture Capital for the UK Government at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, leading VC and institutional investment strategy across North America.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Served as Strategic Advisor to the Venture Capital Board at Venture Partners at CU Boulder for 4 years, engaging with founders and investors on capital strategy.
What you likely need
As a past founder of a video-tech SaaS company and now the UK Government's lead for institutional and venture capital in North America, you sit at a rare intersection of operator experience and institutional finance. You'd benefit most from events that connect you with deep-tech and defence-tech founders seeking transatlantic capital, as well as senior VC and sovereign wealth fund relationships you can leverage in your current government mandate. Roundtables and dinners that bridge the UK and US startup ecosystems would be especially high-value for you right now.
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.
- introsA transatlantic VC dinner connecting UK deep-tech founders with US institutional investors and sovereign wealth fund representatives, directly aligned with your FCDO mandate.
- tacticalA defence-tech and quantum computing founder roundtable with investors active in dual-use and national-security sectors, given your focus on these verticals at FCDO.
- positioningA generative AI and video-tech founder dinner for operators building at the intersection of AI and content automation, drawing on your 12 years building Viddyad.
- introsAn Alchemist Accelerator alumni happy hour in San Francisco to reconnect with enterprise founders and investors from your cohort and expand your Bay Area network.
- tacticalAn office-hours session for CU Boulder and university spinout founders seeking UK government investment pathways and transatlantic commercialization advice.
- fundraisingA SaaS founder fundraising workshop focused on raising from institutional LPs and sovereign wealth funds, leveraging your unique vantage point on both sides of the capital table.
- introsA women-in-deep-tech networking dinner in San Francisco with founders and investors active in AI, quantum, and climate innovation — sectors central to your current government brief.