Cheila Gibbs

Founder

About

I focus on building and supporting pre seed ventures at the intersection of technology, health, robotics, women’s sports, and human potential. For more than fifteen years I have founded, scaled, and repositioned companies across hospitality, digital platforms, and wellness. That experience shaped a conviction that commercial success and meaningful impact are not opposing forces but powerful partners. Today my work is about finding bold ideas earlier than the market is comfortable with and helping shape them into businesses that can redefine how we live, perform, and care for ourselves and one another. I believe the current pre seed funding model is too often built around consensus, pattern matching, and risk avoidance. The most important companies rarely look investable at the start. My goal is to challenge that system by backing founders before the metrics exist, when there is only insight, technical depth, and the determination to build something that should exist. As an investor and board level strategic advisor, I work alongside founders from day one. I am drawn to teams solving real problems through applied AI, women’s health, robotics, secure technology, and the advancement of women’s sports as both a performance frontier and an underserved market. At this stage I look for clarity of thinking, resilience, and the discipline to turn vision into structure. Beyond capital, I bring operational experience, commercial strategy, and brand positioning to help translate early concepts into scalable, investable companies designed for endurance and meaningful exits. The next generation of defining businesses is being built now, long before validation. I partner with founders who are ready to build them anyway and help reshape how pre seed innovation is funded.

Country

City

United Kingdom

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Business Ownership, Start-up Leadership, Start-up Ventures, Data Analysis, Financial Analysis, Turning around distressed businesses, Investment funding, Working with investors, lenders, and stakeholders, Expertise in investment analysis, Optimizing P&L, Increasing EBITDA, Global Transformation, Strategic Planning, Negotiation, Luxury, Construction Management, Analytics, Finance, Training, General Management

Experience

Founder

H Fund

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

H Fund Building the next generation of venture. H Fund is a venture capital fund with proprietary, vertically integrated deal flow generated through its venture studio. We originate and build companies at pre seed, investing at formation rather than competing for access at inflated valuations. This model allows us to create our own pipeline, reduce early stage risk, and maintain deep alignment with founders from day one. Through our venture studio, we design and scale companies around major structural tailwinds across climate, inclusion, women led businesses, and applied technology. Our focus is not just capital deployment, but company creation. We combine capital with hands on execution across strategy, product, and go to market to build businesses that are structurally positioned for scale and exit within a five year horizon. H Fund is built to institutionalise a repeatable company creation engine for the next generation of venture. If you are building at pre seed, or are an investor aligned with this model, we are open to meaningful conversations.

Deal partner

Boardy

2025-12 - Present · 10 mos

Create Generate

Cheila Gibbs

2012-1 - Present · 14 yrs 9 mos

London, United Kingdom

Create Generate is a venture studio dedicated to building the next generation of companies at the intersection of wellbeing, sustainability, and inclusive technology. We partner with founders at the earliest stage, when ideas are still taking shape and vision leads the way. Our role is to bring strategic clarity, operational depth, and collaborative support to help transform ambitious thinking into enduring, scalable businesses. We focus on innovators who are reimagining systems, not just solving problems. Founders who are designing a more intelligent, humane, and sustainable future through technology and purposeful enterprise. Our studio model is hands on and partnership driven. We work alongside teams to shape product, strategy, capital pathways, and market entry, while fostering a global community grounded in trust, curiosity, and long term value creation. Current Portfolio YEO Messaging OceanSky BrandHat Supply Unchained African Revival

VP of F&B for UK and Europe

Millennium Hotels and Resorts

2022-1 - 2024 · 2 yrs

Regional Director of Operations

Bill's Restaurants

2019-1 - 2021-12 · 3 yrs

https://bills-website.co.uk

Global Director of Operations

AllBright

2017-1 - 2019-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

https://www.allbrightcollective.com

Managing Director

Tape London

2016-1 - 2017-12 · 2 yrs

17 Hanover Square London, W1S 1HU United Kingdom

https://tapelondon.com

Group Ops Director

The ONE Group

2015-1 - 2016-12 · 2 yrs

ME London/ The Strand

https://togrp.com

Project Manager / Hotel Manager

La Escondida Hotel & Restaurant

2013-1 - 2016-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Spain/ Alicante

http://www.hotelescondida.com Owned by former England football manager Terry Venables and his wife Yvette Venables, the property is set on a sprawling 500 acre estate only 30 minutes from the beach.