🏥 Founders Factory has launched a new cross-border healthcare accelerator with Chicago-based @NorthwesternMed, one of America’s leading healthcare systems. The partnership will bring Europe’s top AI and deeptech health startups into the world’s largest healthcare market 🇺🇸 AI is transforming healthcare, from earlier detection and chronic disease management to research acceleration and operational efficiency. Through this four-month programme, selected pre-Series A startups will gain direct access to: 🔹Northwestern Medicine’s 11 hospitals, 5,400 physicians and 200 outpatient sites 🔹A partner-track to accelerate customer discovery, deployment and commercialisation 🔹Use case development & pilot execution with Northwestern in Chicago and The London Clinic in the UK 🔹A Residency Week in Chicago for customer roundtables and commercial discussions with Northwestern Medicine, organisations in the US healthcare ecosystem and connections with US investors 🗓 Applications close March 31, 2026 👉 Apply here: foundersfactory.com/northwes… #HealthTech #AI #MedTech #Accelerator

Founders Factory team and portfolio were in action this week during London Tech Week. Founder Brent Hoberman opened the week in conversation with Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Baroness Martha Lane Fox, exploring London's position as a global hub for technology and AI. The discussion ranged from the city's $12 billion in tech investment and 12 new unicorn companies this year, to the importance of ensuring AI adoption reaches small businesses and underrepresented communities. A new £12 million programme to support SMEs in adopting AI was announced on the day. Brent was also on stage with Secretary of State for Business and Trade Peter Kyle MP for a conversation on speed, scale and sovereignty, covering: → The UK government's £500 million Sovereign AI Fund → A £4 billion scale-up fund via the British Business Bank → The establishment of 12 AI growth zones designed to accelerate data centre development. The conversation reflected a meaningful shift in thinking about the government’s role as an active partner to the innovation economy. At another event across town Farah Kanji, our Chief People Officer, joined the WEALTH: Women in Health panel on Generosity, Power and Boundaries in Leadership. The panel were in conversation on women's health, the patience required to build in underserved spaces and what it means to lead without zero-sum thinking. Farah was sharing the stage with Sarah Cowlishaw of Covington & Burling LLP, Dr Khadija Owusu and Morgan Fitzsimons of Perci Health. And back at LTW, Pyri also took to the Ignition Stage as part of the ClimateTech Pitch Block. CEO Richard Alexandre made the case for how Pyri is enabling critical infrastructure to become more resilient to wildfire – solving one of the most urgent and under-leveraged problems in climate adaptation. #LondonTechWeek #LTW

🔎 Concept in focus: Clinical Coding Every year €2.5–3 billion is lost by German hospitals to insurers through mislabelled, manual data entry. 75% of those hospitals ended the previous year in deficit. The automated technology to improve hospitals’ clinical coding and revenue intelligence has been proven in other markets but hasn't yet been built for the German market. In our latest piece from the Founders Factory Healthcare Venture Studio, we make the case for why Germany's clinical coding market is one of the most compelling untapped opportunities in European healthtech right now: → €50 billion digital transformation fund → 17 million inpatient cases per year running through a manual coding process → No dominant vendor in sight We're looking for the founder to build it. Read the full article and find out more about the open founder opportunity 👇 foundersfactory.com/articles… #hospitals #clinicalcoding #healthtech #medtech #venturebuilding

Applications are now open for Singapore's premier deep tech startup competition SLINGSHOT 2026, now in its landmark 10th edition. Taking place at the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) from 27th–29th October, SLINGSHOT brings together breakthrough founders with global investors: 🖥️ Advanced Computing and Intelligence ⚙️ Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Systems 🔒 Digital Technologies and Security 🌱 Environment, Energy and Sustainability 🧬 Health and Biomedical Top 50 Global Startups will connect with key decision-makers across the global startup ecosystem through a sponsored trip to Singapore to pitch live during SWITCH. Winners can receive over S$2M in grant prizes and showcase their breakthrough innovation to investors, corporates and industry leaders. If you are building in any of these spaces and ready to put your company in front of a global audience in Singapore, applications are open until the 30th of June. 👉 Apply here: go.gov.sg/slingshot2026-comm… #SLINGSHOT2026 #SLINGSHOT #deeptech #innovation #competition

Dr. Liviu Mantescu likes to stay ahead of the curve. In a macro sense, where Dr. Mantescu spent years inside the industries he wanted to serve, understanding their intrinsic needs at every granular level until he could build a company he was certain would solve their problems. But also in an immediate sense, like attending our Residency Week in Perth a whole week early in order to meet with prospective and current customers - accelerating growth that he says would have taken months, in just a few days. It’s not just in Dr. Mantescu’s personal career that he likes being ahead. His company, Watergenics enables industrial process optimisation in conditions where no previous technology has been able to operate reliably – improving decision making across mining operations. ➡️ We caught up with him in Perth to discuss Watergenics' work and how he’s making the most of the Rio Tinto Mining Tech Accelerator: foundersfactory.com/articles… #MiningTech hashtag#Accelerator hashtag#CriticalMinerals hashtag#EnergyTransition hashtag#Innovation hashtag#VentureCapital

🇮🇹 On Friday 26th June, Founders Factory is hosting a breakfast and demo day with our portfolio in Milan. The event is for corporate innovation leaders who want to see what is being built at the frontier of applied AI, fintech and enterprise tech. Over the past three years, Founders Factory has partnered with Mediobanca and Fastweb Vodafone to build and scale more than 30 early-stage ventures, from novel AI infrastructure to consumer fintech and enterprise SaaS. This is an opportunity to meet the founders behind those companies in-person, see their technology live and have direct conversations about the challenges and opportunities already on your roadmap. Whether you are looking for emerging solutions, pilot partners or early investment opportunities, the morning is designed to make those conversations happen. If you are a corporate innovation, strategy or technology leader based in or visiting Milan and would like to attend, register your interest via the link below and we’ll be in touch. 👇 luma.com/9hf0ypuc #Events #Milan #Fintech #EnterpriseSoftware #AppliedAI

🚀 Terra AI raises a $20M Series A. Led by Khosla Ventures, with strategic investment from BHP Ventures, and backed by early investor Rio Tinto, the investment goes towards the mining industry's first AI-native subsurface modelling platform – giving mining, geothermal and carbon storage teams a fundamentally better way to understand what lies underground. Terra AI maps uncertainty, producing continuous 3D resource models that tell teams where resources are, where confidence is high and where risk remains. Across multiple deployments, the platform has reduced required drilling by 50–60%, accelerated Tier-1 projects by four to five years, and improved resource model prediction by two to three times. Terra AI joined the Founders Factory and Rio Tinto Mining Tech accelerator at seed, and it‘s been exciting to watch the team grow from that early stage to a Series A of this quality. Read about the raise in Axios: lnkd.in/eBxsqgfN Congrats to John Mern, PhD the entire Terra AI team on the milestone. 🌍 #Mining #MiningTech #SeriesA #Fundraising

CODE Cohort 4 has arrived in London. A year ago Founders Factory launched the CODE Tech Founders Accelerator, bringing MENA's top early-stage entrepreneurs to London for six weeks of in-person programming, masterclasses and networking in partnership with Imperial College London and the Saudi Arabian Center of Digital Entrepreneurship. This week, we launch our fourth cohort. CODE is aimed at promoting digital entrepreneurship and innovation in Saudi Arabia and MENA, as well as building connections between their startup ecosystems and the UK & Europe Over the next six weeks, founders will gain direct access to Founders Factory’s operations team for a range of workshops, masterclasses, and 1-2-1 surgeries, designed at giving founders critical insights into commercialising and scaling their business. A warm welcome to each startup joining us: Qanoniah قانونية | moneymoon | SDM | Dal دال | Jozo | جزء | siolla | سيولا سيولا | TABsense | غرينتا هب | GrintaHub | Eventful Group | Talento HRMS | تالنتوالنتو | Limeless Studio | GigSA Event Staffing Solution | CASHIN | كاشـن | resilience | Entropy Minds | SportLOOP | Twinn Health | Mazoom Company | WePay | Trustworthy Partner | OjrahApp #VentureBuilder #fintech #hrtech #healthtech #MENA

We’re proud to announce the inaugural cohort of the MSWA Multiple Sclerosis & Neurological Care Accelerator. These five ventures are building the future of neurological care, each one tackling a different dimension of life with MS and related conditions. The programme, delivered by Founders Factory in partnership with MSWA, was announced in the Wall Street Journal today - highlighting the cohort’s role in connecting cutting-edge healthcare technologies directly to the people who need it most. Our partnership with Northwestern Medicine was also highlighted for accelerating European healthtech innovations entry into the US market. The five ventures joining the inaugural MS & Neurological Care cohort are: wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/… upLYFT – a Movement Intelligence platform that transforms textiles into an invisible layer of health and performance understanding. uplyftwearables.com NeuroSonic – preventing strokes through rapid, AI-powered vascular assessments. neuro-sonic.com Fluent – restoring communication through AI and low-risk neurotechnology. fluentbci.com Clarity – a wearable device delivering immersive gamma sensory stimulation therapy to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including fatigue for individuals with MS. clarity-technologies.com ReVimo – a portable robotic self-transfer device that enables individuals with mobility challenges to get out of bed and perform self-care tasks safely and independently. revimo.care As one of Australia's leading providers of MS and neurological care, MSWA brings something no conventional accelerator can — direct access to clients, clinicians, service delivery teams and the lived experience that turns a promising technology into one that actually works in the real world. These five teams spent time with MSWA's clients and care teams in Perth last week. Access shapes everything. We’re proud to be building a programme that truly accelerates the time between research and delivery alongside Melanie Kiely and the MSWA team - and to be partnering with founders who chose to build in one of the most complex and consequential areas of healthcare. 🔗 Read the Wall Street Journal feature: Neurological Care #healthtech #Multiple Sclerosis #Neurological Care #accelerator

The Founders Factory Venture Studio is building a new generation of healthcare companies in partnership with one of the world's leading industrial healthcare groups. We're looking for founders to build with us. Ageing populations, rising rates of chronic disease, workforce shortages and mounting cost pressures are all accelerating the shift towards care delivered beyond traditional clinical settings. Remote health monitoring sits at the centre of that transition. The clinical end of this market alone is expected to grow from ~$30bn today to more than $200bn by 2035. But collecting data is only part of the challenge. The companies that will define this space won't just generate insights; they'll be integrated into care pathways, helping clinicians and caregivers make better decisions and intervene earlier. We've spent months exploring where the largest value pools sit, what is technically possible versus what meaningfully influences clinical outcomes, and where the toughest problems remain unsolved. We're now building and backing founders working in: → Clinical remote patient monitoring → Hospital at home → Elder care tech → At-home diagnostics → Remote monitoring infrastructure If you're building in one of these areas, or thinking about it, we want to hear from you. Learn more and apply to build with us below.   foundersfactory.com/request-… #healthtech #medtech #venturebuilding

Startup Bulletin #62 is here. Featuring insights from our founders, operators and partners across the FF network. Inside this edition: - Defending ocean environments and national sovereignty with dual-use - Raluca Ciobancan on setting standards over values with your first hire - Looking back at Ecosperity Week - Wrapping up Perth Residency week - Job openings - HydraLink's Simon Taylor on building the world's first intelligent consumer water platform - Supra Elemental Recovery's Katie Ullmann Durham on next-generation critical minerals separation and refining Read it here: foundersfactory.substack.com… #VentureBuilding #Startups

To mark the second day of Perth Residency Week we caught up with HydraLink co-founder and CEO Simon Taylor. Part of our Nature Tech Cohort with Government of Western Australia, Simon tells us about HydraLink's world-first wireless valve technology and what it means to be building a globally scalable business from Western Australia. Read the full piece 👉 foundersfactory.com/articles… #LiveFromPerth #ResidencyWeek #NatureTech #FoundersFactory #HydraLink #WaterTech #WesternAustralia

🇦🇺 Our Perth Residency Week opened on Monday with a traditional Aboriginal smoking ceremony, performed to welcome our founders, partners and team to Country. A smoking ceremony is one of the oldest and most significant practices in Aboriginal culture. Aromatic plants and leaves are burned to produce smoke that carries healing and protective properties. The ceremony cleanses a space of negative energy, connecting those present to Country, and offering a blessing to those who have travelled from elsewhere. It was fitting that this week brings together three of our Western Australian programmes simultaneously for the first time: our Mining Tech and Nature Tech cohorts with Rio Tinto and the Government of Western Australia, and the inaugural cohort of the MS & Neurological Care Accelerator with MSWA. Founders working across critical minerals, nature restoration and neurological care, welcomed in a ceremony that speaks to the deep connection between people, place and healing. Across the next five days these founders, at the halfway point of their programmes will be going through an intensive week designed to accelerate the journey towards commercial reality. Startups will receive deep-dive business case sessions with partners, pitch days with Western Australian investors and ecosystem leaders, customer validation workshops and focused work on regulation, market entry and commercial partnerships. #WesternAustralia #ResidencyWeek #MiningTech #NatureTech #Perth

Today, Founders Factory joins HSBC, Third Derivative and the Venture Climate Alliance at the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore - as part of the Future Industries Partnership. This particular session, Startup to Scale Up: Accelerating the Deployment of Climate Solutions in Asia, goes into the practical questions that determine whether capital reaches the solutions that need it. The panel consists of practitioners working across the full capital stack, from early-stage venture to institutional deployment: 🔹 Natalie Blyth, Global Head of Sustainable Finance and Transition, HSBC 🔹 George Northcott, Co-Founder & President, Founders Factory 🔹 Roy Torbert, Head of Programmes, Third Derivative 🔹 Sara Simonds, Executive Director, Venture Climate Alliance Southeast Asia represents one of the most significant and complex climate deployment environments in the world with enormous emissions exposure and rapidly growing economies. The session is designed to close the financing gap between the capital available and the projects ready to receive it. The Future Industries Partnership brings together Founders Factory, HSBC, Third Derivative and RMI to connect early-stage climate and deep tech ventures with major industrial operators across the region. 📸 Photo from yesterday’s opening event #PhilanthropyAsiaSummit #Ecosperity #ClimateTech #SustainableFinance #FutureIndustriesPartnership #Singapore

Tonight in Singapore, Founders Factory and HSBC are hosting the Industrial Innovator Programme Gala The evening brings together founders, investors and industrial operators with the time and context to have genuinely useful conversations. The evening opens with remarks from Gilbert Ck Ng, HSBC Singapore Head of Banking, followed by a keynote from Natalie Blyth, HSBC's Global Head of Sustainable Finance and Transition - on the role of catalytic capital in unlocking first-of-a-kind technology at industrial scale. This will be followed by a panel discussion on Beyond the Blueprint: Catalytic Capital and First-of-a-Kind Technology Finance - moderated by Founders Factory CEO Henry Lane Fox, with perspectives from: 🔹 Matt Hessey, HSBC Sustainable Finance 🔹 Pekka Santasalo, Head of Growth & Ventures, Rio Tinto 🔹 Pavina Adunratanaseea, Founding Partner, ArkTerra Partners 🔹 Peter Majeranowski, CEO, Circ The discussion focuses on what it takes to finance and deploy emerging industrial technologies beyond the pilot or proof of concept into the infrastructure decisions that determine whether a technology reaches the market or stalls in development. The evening closes with an Innovator Showcase, with three ventures presenting to the room: 🔹 Nanoweave - Javier Berrocal, CEO 🔹 VyCarb - Garrett Boudinot, CEO 🔹 Nandina REM - Karina Cady, CEO We are proud to be hosting this alongside HSBC as part of Ecosperity Week - one of Asia's most significant gatherings at the intersection of capital, sustainability and industrial innovation. Tomorrow we will be at the Philanthropy Asia Summit with the Future Industries Partnership. Get in touch if you are in Singapore this week and want to connect with the team. #IndustrialInnovator #SustainableFinance #ClimateTech #Singapore #Ecosperity

Last week, eight founding teams - selected from 800 applications - took to the stage at R[3]sidency Demo Day, closing out 16 weeks of building to pitch to 100 international investors. The programme, created by @fabric_vc, @coinbase , @base, @animocabrands and Founders Factory, confirmed the central motivation of the accelerator; that the machine economy is here, and these are the startups building it: 🔹 @autodotfun_ : a non-custodial AI-powered wallet turning plain language into executed positions across spot, perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized equities and yield, all from one interface. 🔹 @kash_bot : the first prediction market protocol embedded natively in social media feeds, letting anyone predict on real-time headlines by simply quote-posting. 🔹 @robinmarketsxyz : institutional-grade financial services for prediction markets, enabling users to earn DeFi-native yield on long-dated positions without leverage or surrendering exposure. 🔹 @polldotfun : the betting layer for group chats. Create a bet, fund with Apple Pay, share with friends and automate settlement inside iMessage or Telegram. 🔹 Parabol Labs: building at the frontier of the Machine Economy. 🔹 @Unifiedmargin: collateral mobility infrastructure letting asset managers use crypto assets as collateral to access traditional financial markets in a cross-margin setup. 🔹 @betterasaweb : where founders and their communities build, fund and earn from shared projects. When anyone can build a product, Web is how you bootstrap distribution. 🔹 Lexifina: a platform built bottom-up for core law firm operations, giving partners full visibility of the AI drafting process - prompts, citations, tool calls - to assess model decision-making and track how juniors are using AI. 🔹 @rosetta_hl : the infrastructure layer for institutional on-chain yield, already routing $300M across HyperEVM and Base, generating 9.01% APY over a 72-day benchmark window on a $100M cohort without leverage. The programme received support from the Department for Business and Trade, reflecting the UK's growing position at the intersection of Web3 and AI and the depth of the ecosystem forming around it. Congratulations to the full cohort. #R3sidency #Web3 #AgenticEconomy #MachineEconomy #DemoDay

Will AI make insurance cheaper? Our fintech director Olly Betts put the question to two founders building at the intersection of AI and insurance. Tim Graham of Malcolm, part of our venture studio with Aviva, argues the operational costs of serving insurance should fall significantly as AI removes the distribution and administration overhead that currently sits between a policy and the person who needs it. Freddie Gjertsen of Prompted points out that your ability to find cheaper insurance will improve dramatically - and we already know from price comparison that when people can find cheaper, they buy cheaper. Watch the full video on how AI will change insurance by 2029 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=jH2WzH8n… #Insurtech #AI #Insurance #AIrails

The clinical consensus on stroke recovery holds that meaningful progress plateaus at six months. Kourosh Sam Kamali, neuroscientist and founder of Myonerv, believes that consensus is wrong and has spent the better part of a decade building the evidence to prove it. In our latest feature, Kourosh argues that the plateau is not a biological ceiling but a function of therapy withdrawal. That the brain remains plastic long after the system stops investing in it. And that the patients written off by conventional rehabilitation - severely paralysed, years post-stroke - represent not a lost cause but a massively underserved market that nobody has properly built for. Topical reading for founders building in regulated industries, for those navigating the gap between clinical research and commercial product, and for anyone thinking seriously about where durable opportunities in European health tech actually lie. 👉 foundersfactory.com/articles… #HealthTech #MedTech #Neurorehabilitation #Founders #DeepTech

With increasingly volatile European energy markets and households locked into standard contracts, the case for community-owned energy infrastructure has become ever more appealing. When households collectively finance a share of a solar park, they lock in the price of the majority of their consumption for up to fifteen years - insulated from the spot market movements that continue to drive energy bills higher. RemoteSolar Co-Founder Michael Schmitz makes the argument from first principles, why the structural weaknesses of the current energy model are creating a durable opportunity for community energy, and what it takes to build the infrastructure to deliver it. Read the full piece 👉 foundersfactory.com/articles… #ClimateTech #EnergyTransition #CommunityEnergy

A full and productive quarter across the Founders Factory ecosystem. Here's a look back at what happened in Q1 2026: foundersfactory.com/northwes… Updates from FF HQ 🏢 🔹 Launched a new cross-border healthcare accelerator with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine - find out more about the accelerator: 🔹 Ranked #3 in Sifted's 2026 UK & Ireland Investor Ranking, recognising investors backing the region's fastest-growing companies. 🔹 Announced the Hospital to Community Accelerator cohort, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, supporting ten startups shifting care closer to home, culminating with a demo day in London 🔹 Hosted an AI and critical mineral discovery session at Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2026 in Toronto in partnership with TD Bank Group and alongside Unearthed Solutions and the CleanAI Initiative 🔹 Launched the HSBC Industrial Innovator Programme, connecting early-stage climate tech companies with major industrial operators across South East Asia 🔹 Announced Rio Tinto Mining Tech Accelerator Cohort 4 – six new startups selected from 500 applications, with the global portfolio now having raised $120M in follow-on funding 🔹 Announced the winners of the LANDCROS Innovation Studios Mining Challenge with Hitachi Construction Machinery, with ten startups selected to pitch in Brisbane in April 🔹 Hosted an Aviva x Founders Factory Pitch Day, bringing together standout startups building across insurance, health and wealth 🔹 Launched Malcolm, a new studio venture building compliant AI agent infrastructure for the insurance industry Highlights from global portfolio 🌍 🌍 Hades Mining raised €15M Seed to build the world's first tech-enabled laser drilling extraction company 🌍 Tembo raised £16M to scale its digital savings and mortgage platform 🌍 WealthAi raised $1M pre-seed to build an AI-native operating system for wealth managers and family offices 🌍 Origin raised a Series B to scale musculoskeletal care for women across the US 🌍 Alomana raised €4M to accelerate its AI operating layer for enterprise execution 🌍 Acre was acquired by ClearScore Group – a major milestone for the mortgage adviser platform built in the Founders Factory studio 🌍 Armada Technologies signed an agreement with TUI Cruises to install its Passive Air Lubrication System, reducing hull drag and fuel consumption at sea 🌍 Nebuly joined the Fastweb Investment Programme, building the analytics layer for enterprise AI interactions 🌍 Venga secured investment to build the operating system for community gatherings and real-world experiences #Q1Highlights #VentureBuilding

🧬 AI-enabled technologies are already evolving healthcare from earlier detection and chronic disease management to faster research and system-wide efficiency. Nowhere is that shift more visible than cancer care, which is moving rapidly from hospital-led treatment to technology-enabled care pathways. As part of our Healthcare Accelerator partnership with Northwestern Medicine, we're exploring the market trends across key healthcare specialties, starting this week with oncology. Four themes we’re watching closely: 🔹 Computational pathology AI is extracting new diagnostic signal from digital slides, improving tumour classification, grading, and biomarker prediction while helping labs manage rising volumes. 🔹 Biomarker-first oncology Treatment decisions are becoming increasingly guided by molecular signatures, with genomic profiling and companion diagnostics shaping care from day one. 🔹 Early detection screening AI From mammography and lung CT to other population screening workflows, AI is boosting sensitivity, supporting triage, and reducing missed findings, especially where radiology backlogs are growing. 🔹 AI workflow decision support AI tools that can triage scans, support pathology interpretation and help clinicians prioritise cases, reducing backlogs and freeing teams to focus on patients. If you’re building in oncology across diagnostics, care delivery infrastructure, AI decision support or advanced therapies, apply to the Northwestern Medicine x Founders Factory Healthcare Accelerator before the deadline. 👉 Apply here: foundersfactory.com/northwes… #Oncology #HealthTech #AIinHealthcare #DigitalHealth #MedTech #PrecisionMedicine #Biotech #StartupAccelerator