Viktoriia Moroz talked with Abhishek Kumar, founder and CEO of Evida, a UK-based clinician-led prevention and longevity platform with the vision of adding a billion healthy years to the lives of a hundred million people. V: Abhishek, thanks for taking the time to speak with us. Can you tell us about the vision behind Evida […]
When Joe Schorge (JEMBA2003) arrived at London Business School in 2001, he described himself as “studied electrical engineering, became a tech and operations kind of a guy.” Twenty-five years later, the LBS alumnus is the founder and managing partner of Isomer Capital, a venture capital firm that has backed more than 100 funds across Europe […]
The modern space economy is no longer defined primarily by governments, astronauts, or science fiction. Increasingly, it is being shaped by private capital, commercial infrastructure, and venture-backed companies operating at a scale that would have been difficult to imagine even a decade ago. In a recent keynote at the Private Capital Symposium, Professor Bill Megginson, […]
When Jacques Saab arrived at London Business School, he wasn’t keeping his options open. Plenty of MBA students treat launching a company as one path among several, a nice-to-have alongside the consulting and banking offers. Jacques had written his entrepreneurial ambition into every essay and every interview before he ever set foot on campus. “I […]
Digital fraud has become one of the most pervasive and fast-evolving threats facing emerging digital economies. In Indonesia alone, billions of dollars are estimated to be lost annually to scams delivered through calls, SMS, and cross-platform digital channels. Yet the deeper cost is less visible: a steady erosion of trust in everyday communication systems that […]
An injury, not an idea, sparked the creation of Movmenta, setting in motion a four-year journey from London Business School to the Paris Marathon. Confronted with the invisible failure of running shoes, its founder Ofir Dagan, identified a critical gap in how athletes measure performance and risk. What began as a simple question evolved into […]
Finland has a population of 5.5 million people. That is smaller than London. When Miki Kuusi founded Wolt in Helsinki, he wasn’t staring at a large addressable market. He was staring at a small one, with limited capital, no Silicon Valley network, and competitors who were raising $30 million rounds while he scraped together a […]
When I was at London Business School, I knew I wanted to move closer to the real mechanics of how companies grow. I had started my career in investment banking, which gave me a strong analytical toolkit, but I was increasingly more interested in what sat behind the model. What does it actually take to […]
We are excited to announce the London Business School Launchpad 2026 Cohort. Launchpad is London Business School’s startup pre-accelerator programme, organised by the LBS Entrepreneurship Club and supported by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital. The programme helps some of the most ambitious founders at LBS transform early ideas into viable, scalable businesses. The […]
Understanding entrepreneurial finance is not just about spreadsheets and valuation models. It involves judgement, incentives, and making difficult decisions under uncertainty. After transitioning into private equity, Anna Autti (MBA2026), discovered that the most valuable lessons came from analysing real-world dilemmas, the very challenges founders face every day. Drawing on her experience across M&A law, corporate […]