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Brent Hoberman

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Markets InsightTech start-ups
    How Europe can make it easier for start-ups to scale

    Entrepreneurs and investors are rallying behind a call for a voluntary pan-European legal framework for fledgling companies

    Flags of member states of the European Union
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Technology sector
    The UK is at risk of losing Europe’s tech crown

    Companies need the next prime minister to act as their champion on the global stage

    A red London bus drives around Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch London
  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    Venture capital investment
    Sky backs £100mn climate investment fund

    Former head of Kingfisher will chair new fund focused on start-ups

    Mindful Chef dishes
  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    Business InsightIPOs
    Time for the UK to back entrepreneurs with listing reforms

    UK institutional shareholder resistance to proposed changes is myopic

  • Saturday, 28 March, 2020
    Coronavirus
    UK government must act to help start-ups

    We need a public-private fund to invest in promising but lossmaking businesses

    JGJ47Y Silicon Roundabout in Old Street, London, UK, a digital hub for technology
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    Entrepreneurship
    Founders Factory trains UK students as venture capitalists

    Brent Hoberman gives students at 13 universities money to invest in on-campus start-ups

    The Founders Factory team brainstorm new business concepts. To encourage focus and creative thinking mobile phones are discouraged in these sessions. PR Photo
  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    Business education
    Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman backs free alt-MBA

    Founders Academy course to be led by entrepreneurs and offer paid tech internships

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (8523797w) Brent Hoberman (Chairman, Founders Factory) The Guardian Leadership Breakfast: Learning from Disruption, Advertising Week Europe 2017, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, UK- 20 Mar 2017
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
    UK economy
    A road map for Brexit Britain to strengthen its tech appeal

    Let’s go out and scout international talent and pay relocation costs for overseas stars

    binary head artificial intelligence AI
  • Thursday, 4 October, 2018
    Personal & Household Goods
    Made.com furniture retailer accelerates expansion in Europe

    UK-based start-up lifts revenue 40% to £127m but losses continue

    Philippe Chainieux Made.com CEO
  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2017
    Business education
    Tim Cook of Apple to open Oxford university start-up hub

    High-profile backers for The Foundry endorse institution’s entrepreneurial credentials

    The Oxford Centre for Islamic studies FT Mag cover story. Photograph shows a generic view of Oxford taken from St Mary's Cuhrch on Oxford High Street.
  • Sunday, 11 June, 2017
    European companies
    Seed fund raises $60m to back European tech start-ups

    Firstminute to focus on robotics, artificial intelligence and the internet of things

  • Friday, 24 June, 2016
    Brexit
    Brexit leaves London tech community ‘shell shocked’

    Investors and founders in Europe’s leading start-up hub digest decision to quit EU

    General Views Of London's Old Street Silicon Roundabout...Light trails from traffic are seen as they pass around the Old Street roundabout, in the area known as London's Tech City, in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. The U.K government last year pledged 50 million pounds for a new London startup incubator, and hired ex-Facebook Inc. executive Joanna Shields to promote Tech City, with Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc. all having taken space in the area or planning to do so. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  • Sunday, 17 January, 2016
    European companies
    Skype co-founder’s Atomico teams up with entrepreneurs

    Venture capital fund to co-invest with Supercell, Lastminute.com and Jawbone founders

    Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype Technologies SA and chief executive officer of Atomico, poses for a photograph during the Dublin Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. Leaders of some of the world's leading technology companies gathered in Ireland for the Dublin Web Summit which runs Oct. 27-28. Photographer: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Niklas Zennstrom
  • Monday, 5 October, 2015
    Entrepreneurship
    UK’s once-in-a-century chance to be technology leader

    The UK wants to be a leading technology nation, but can it rise to the challenge?

    Light trails from traffic are seen as they pass around the Old Street roundabout, in the area known as London's Tech City, in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013
  • Sunday, 19 July, 2015
    UK small companies
    Made.com raises £40m to drive European growth

    Brent Hoberman’s online furniture group looks to generate more revenues from outside UK

    Made.com Vittorio.jpg
  • Sunday, 5 April, 2015
    US companies
    Billionaire Fridman targets US and Europe in $16bn telecoms spree

    Russian investor lines up heavyweight advisory team to challenge traditional operators

    Mikhail Fridman, head of British-Russian oil venture TNK-BP speaks at a press conference in Moscow on June 16, 2008. Fridman called for equality between the Russian and British shareholders in TNK-BP saying "this equality had been destroyed by Dudley," in reference to the compnay's current CEO Robert Dudley. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA (Photo credit should read NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2015
    Business education
    Business starts at school in this golden age for young founders

    Helping children to master the art of assessing risk is vital, writes Brent Hoberman

    Brent Hoberman
  • Sunday, 15 February, 2015
    Business education
    Do entrepreneurs need an MBA?

    Two founders of start-ups share their opposing views, register now for the live Q&A

  • Thursday, 8 January, 2015
    Work & Careers
    The lessons learnt by early high flyers

    What is it really like to achieve extraordinary success at a tender age?

  • Tuesday, 30 December, 2014
    Technology sector
    New year honours: Start-up investor Brent Hoberman awarded CBE

    Ex co-founder of Lastminute.com is one of UK’s most well known ‘disruptive’ internet entrepreneurs

  • Sunday, 14 December, 2014
    Feature of the Week
    On the path of digital disruption

    Technology venture SmartUp has plans to shake up the changing MBA market

    Henry Lane Fox (left) and Frank Meehan, co-founders of SmartUp. For Business Life.
  • Thursday, 20 November, 2014
    Automobiles
    Younger generation moves away from owning a vehicle

    Car sharing schemes are expected to expand rapidly

    Zipcar
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2014
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Made.com considers IPO and options
    British Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder of PROfounders Capital, Chairman of made.com and Founder and Chairman of mydeco.com listens while taking part in a jury for a Start-Up Competition during LeWeb conference in Saint-Denis, near Paris on December 6, 2012. Le Web is Europe's largest tech conference, bringing together the entrepreneurs, leaders and influencers who shape the future of the internet. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2014
    UK economy
    London’s patchwork of tech success
  • Wednesday, 30 January, 2013
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Made.com vows to stay street wise
    Made.com co-founders - Chloe Macintosh, Ning Li, Julien Callede
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