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Helping founders protect and defend their position

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Demystifying Venture Capital investment: The HSBC Venture Capital Term Sheet Guide 2024

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The unique investment appeal of life sciences

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How can VCs better support their portfolio company founders?

As an investor, supporting founder health and wellbeing forms a critical part of building and maintaining a strong founder-investor relationship. Looking beyond the financial investment enables the investor to establish a strong founder-friendly culture. 

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Promoting sustainable investment in partnership with Greenbackers Investment Capital

We have partnered with Greenbackers, a US and UK based specialist venture capital firm focused on climate & cleantech capital, to promote investment in low carbon innovators and tech-driven solutions to the climate crisis. FIND OUT MORE

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Withers creates bespoke AI solution for Diligent

When Withers was approached by software-as-a-service business Diligent, the Withers tech team knew that an AI solution could provide the answer to the firm’s problem, within the tight timeframe it had available. find out more

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We're getting behind some of the founders and innovators who are changing our world. FIND OUT MORE

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The trailblazing founders reshaping the industry.

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James Shaw

James Shaw

Partner | London

James Shaw

Partner | London

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Susanna Stanfield

Susanna Stanfield

Partner | Cambridge

Susanna Stanfield

Partner | Cambridge

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Joel Shen

Joel Shen

Partner | Singapore

Joel Shen

Partner | Singapore

Corporate

Doug Mandell

Doug Mandell

Global Head of the Founder Practice | San Francisco

Doug Mandell

Global Head of the Founder Practice | San Francisco

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