Why am I writing this? I wrote in 2021 about the challenges of considering starting a family alongside being a founder of your own business. …

Ada Ventures launched on the 12th of December 2019 so today is our three year anniversary. The launch of Ada Ventures and announcement of our £38m Fund I at Techcrunch Disrupt in Berlin on a freezing day culminated four years of working together, two years of planning and 18 months…

Today we announce the launch of Ada Ventures Fund II and our first close of £36m. Ada Ventures II enables us to continue building an inclusive venture capital fund investing in breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are delighted to be backed by so many returning Fund…

We are thrilled to share that Diarra Smith started last month as Ada’s new Head of Portfolio and Brand. …

We’re thrilled to announce our investment in Flexa, a platform bringing transparency to the global hiring market that is changing how people search for jobs and how companies get discovered for their brilliant working environments. As the Great Resignation proliferates, employers struggle to retain their best staff and lack the…

Today we are delighted to share that Ada Ventures has led FINDS pre-seed round. FINDS is the sustainable live stream & video only marketplace app led by Jemma Stacey (CEO) and Carl Mustad. Part of our mission at Ada is to broaden access to and understanding of venture capital which…

Today we are pleased to announce our investment in Sproutl — the global destination for a new generation of gardeners. What was the process that led to investment? We first met Anni Noel-Johnson (CEO) and Andy Done (CTO), co-founders of Sproutl, through our Venture Partner and angel investor Mandeep Singh…

As we’ve hinted at before, we at Ada Ventures are looking to hire an analyst to support our work. This analyst will be our second full time hire and the fourth person in our team. As our operations scale and ambitions grow, we are looking for a technically-minded individual, passionate…

I have children on my mind. The subject of having children has come up several times in the last few months in both my companies, the Venture Capital fund I co-founded, Ada Ventures and the non-profit, Diversity VC. …