Michael Tefula
Principal & Head of Product @ Ada Ventures
About
I'm part of the investment team at Ada Ventures, the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We invest £250k to £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. I hold a dual role at Ada Ventures as an investor and product lead, building both internal and external technology products and proof-of-concepts across the founder and VC value chain. My investment area at Ada Ventures is economic empowerment. This is focussed on startups that inclusively transform: - money (systems that promote economic prosperity and resilience for all) - work (automation of the mundane to make work & life more delightful) - skills (platforms that help us level up for the new economy) If you're a founder building in these areas you can send us your pitch here https://www.adaventures.com/send-us-your-pitch
United Kingdom
London
Computer Software
Private Equity, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financial Analysis, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Social Media, Market Research, Accounting, Research, Management, Due Diligence, Financial Modeling, Business Valuation
Experience
Principal & Head of Product
Ada Ventures
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm. We find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. We invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. Find out more at www.adaventures.com
Investor-in-Residence
Ada Ventures
Ada Ventures Angel 2023
Ada Ventures
More about my angel investing activities at https://michaeltefula.gitbook.io/angel-investing/overview/j-curve-capital
Venture Partner
Ada Ventures
Advisory Board Member
Oxford Seed Fund
Oxford, United Kingdom
Advisory board member to the Oxford Seed Fund, a student-led venture capital fund at the University of Oxford.
Advisor
CIRCA5000
CFO
CIRCA5000
Head Of Finance
CIRCA5000
London, England, United Kingdom
Advisor
Hyper
Atomico Angel Programme 2022
Atomico
London, England, United Kingdom
Angel investor (Atomico Angel Programme 2022). My angel investment thesis is to back startups that advance 🧠human, 💸 financial, or 🌍 natural capital, at scale. You can read more about the thesis here https://michaeltefula.gitbook.io/angel-investing/overview/j-curve-capital
Principal (Downing Ventures)
Downing Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Early-stage venture capital investor focused on Seed to Series A investments (£500k to £5m cheques).
Associate (Downing Ventures)
Downing Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Analyst (Downing Ventures)
Downing Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Board Director
Masters of Pie
Board Observer
Hubble
Board Observer
Hummingbird Technologies Ltd
Investor
Oxford Seed Fund
Oxford, United Kingdom
The Oxford Seed Fund is a student-run fund that invests £15-25k in early-stage ventures founded by Oxford students and alumni. It provides funding and support to entrepreneurs, and it is part of the Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Education
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
University of Birmingham
Accounting and Finance
Bloc
Computer Programming
Online boot camp that involved building several web applications. Back-end tools used included Ruby on Rails, Redis, SQL, PostgreSQL, and several APIs (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Rotten Tomatoes). Also covered the major front-end languages, namely, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JQuery. Apps built: - Bitlist (simple to-do list app) - Sumpoints (quotes bookmarking app) - FB Recommender (a movie recommendation engine using Facebook and Rotten Tomatoes API) - Capstone project (an enterprise/consumer app)
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