Francesca (Check) Warner

Today, we can finally share that Ada Ventures Fund II company Aerska (formally known as Helicon) has raised a $39M Series A led by EQT Group's Dementia Fund and age1 with participation from Iaso Ve...

Ada Portfolio company Jack & Jill leading the way on highlighting the bias of LLMs and showing the power of thoughtful, well-built AI which puts candidates on a level playing field. This is a chall...

We’ve been sitting on some exciting news. Today, we can finally share it. Ada Fund I investment Boundless has been acquired by Payoneer Inc, a Nasdaq-listed Global Payment company 🚀🚀🚀 This is a g...

After publicising our Bio-infrastructure landscape (link in comments) I went deep with the brilliant Salman Azhar into *The GLP-1 Economy*. Weight loss jabs have taken the world and our economy b...

Social Mobility Ventures (SMV) lauched their first report last night to a packed room at Atomico - introduced by Tom Wehmeier, the data on the school and socio-economic backgrounds of 4,000 founder...

Welcome to the Ada Ventures team Sophia Draper ✨

In case you didn't know (or missed it if you were at Slush) -- this week is Life Sciences and Jefferies week in London. As part of this, on Wednesday evening I cohosted an event with our friends ...

Delighted to see Carmen Alfonso Rico 🍫 announcing Cocoa 🍫 Fund II at $23m, backed by some of the leading US and European institutions and endowments. Great choice Elizabeth "Beezer" Clarkson Laura ...

Introducing… Deck Genius 💥 The new, AI-powered pitch deck review tool, designed to give founders fast, in-depth feedback on their decks. Built by Ada Ventures very own Michael Tefula, Deck Geniu...

🇯🇵 こんにちは! Pleased to be in Tokyo for Tokyo Innovation Week this week (alongside friends of Ada Ventures Megumi Ikeda, Chris Wade and Fiyin Olayisade). I am speaking at Global Corporate Venturing...

Every investor wants alpha returns. But somewhere along the line, VCs got stuck thinking alpha founders had a certain look, voice, or background. 'Pattern matching' was born: identifying and b...

We’re living longer than ever - but our health systems were built for a world where few people made it to 100. By 2054, almost 4 million people will. This shift demands a new type of infrastructur...

📣 Some very exciting news we’ve been keeping under our hats since earlier in the year: we’re proud investors in Jack & Jill, who today announce their $20m seed round.. Recruitment is a process fra...

Topped off by a live TV interview VERY early on BBC News this morning… it’s been quite the week for us at Ada Ventures 💥 I joined the BBC’s Business Today programme bright and early to discuss Lon...

It was fantastic to be at the Sifted Summit on a panel moderated by Steph Bailey yesterday sharing Ada Ventures first-of-a-kind research into the traits of unicorn founders and the ways that divers...

AdaCon is LIVE with Dr Regina Benjamin being interviewed by Michael Tefula - tune in on the link here: https://lnkd.in/eS8uf9pg

📣 Today is AdaCon! Our annual celebration of exceptional talent which is now in its 7th year 💎 And today we at Ada Ventures are publishing a groundbreaking piece of research into unicorn founder ...

🎬 COMING SOON: AdaCon 2025 📅 October 7th (tomorrow!), 16:30 Inclusive Alpha Founder Edition 🔔 Join the LinkedIn Broadcast: https://lnkd.in/eQeJdb9g 🍿RSVP to attend the premiere: htt...

Today our investee company Aerska’s announces itself to the world and also announces that they have raised a $21 million seed round. As a pre-seed investment fund, we pride ourselves on spotting t...

The COVID-19 pandemic taught us many things. There were the lighter lessons (how to bake banana bread, how to master a Zoom quiz). And the darker truths: medical supply chains are fragile and sover...