LBS StartHub Blog

Welcome to the LBS StartHub blog, hosted by the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC) at London Business School. This platform is open for the School's entrepreneurship community and the wider London ecosystem to share experiences, observations, perspectives and research. We invite you to read, comment, share, and enjoy! If you have content proposals, please do get in touch with us: iepc@london.edu.

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Founder Spotlight Series: An interview with Rogier Fischer MBA2022, Co-Founder and CEO of Hadrian

By Federico Brath MBA202316 December 2021Alumni news, Alumni voice, Entrepreneurial Journey, Invest, Scale, Student voiceLBS Entrepreneur Spotlight

For this first episode of the Entrepreneurship Club’s ‘Founder Spotlight’ series, we interviewed Rogier Fischer, MBA 2022. Rogier is co-founder and CEO of Hadrian, a hacker-first enterprise cybersecurity solution using AI to continuously analyze the clients’ IT infrastructure and flag potential vulnerabilities. Rogier Fischer and his three co-founders formed Hadrian last August. One month later, […]

From Poultry Farming to Venture Investing: Conversation with Daniel Obaseki, Partner at ZX Ventures

By Varun Rekhi MBA20236 December 2021Invest, Reflections, Student voiceVenture Capital

AB InBev is the world’s largest brewer. Although AB InBev has a centuries old history, very little is known about how this leading brew house is reimagining the possible through its venture & innovation arm, ZX Ventures. Recently, we sat down with Daniel Obaseki to learn more about ZX Ventures, his journey as an investor […]

In Conversation with Caroline, Co-Founder of Junee and Runner-Up of Launchpad’21

By Gautam Sreekumar MFA20221 December 2021Alumni news, Alumni voice, Incubator, Student voiceIncubator, Launchpad, LBS Entrepreneur Spotlight

Founded by LBS alumni Caroline Williams and Mary Liu, junee is starting the *reusa-bowl* revolution with a borrow-and-return system of takeaway packaging that employees can use for their workday lunch. As an early-stage tech-for-good startup, junee is supported by Innovate UK, WeWork, Huckletree Alpha, Mayor of London, and Sustainable Ventures. The founders took home in […]

Innovation culture and the role of leaders

By Chris Moseley1 December 2021Entrepreneurial Journey

Interest in London Business School’s highly successful case study, Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset, continues to grow. Sifted interviewed recently one of the case study’s authors, Herminia Ibarra to talk about the role of leaders in fostering an innovation culture in their organisation. The questions every corporate innovation leader asks about culture, […]

Gravitiq, a start-up co-founded by LBS student raises a $55m seed round

By Nick Mickshik29 November 2021Entrepreneurial Journey, Student voiceLBS Entrepreneur Spotlight

Sachin Srivastava, who helped launch healthcare brand aggregator Gravitiq, says the funding will be used to acquire more companies and scale the team across the US, Europe and Asia. Sachin Srivastava MBA2022 and London Business School Scholar co-founded Gravitiq with his brother Dr. Saurabh Srivastava and Dr. Adam Gunasekara. The start-up has just announced investment financing of […]

‘Private Capital: A view from the top’ with Don Gogel, Chairman of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R)

By Varun Rekhi MBA202325 November 2021Entrepreneurial Journey

On 17th November 2021, we were delighted to welcome Don Gogel, Chairman of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) for a fireside chat with Professor Florin Vasvari, Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC). Following the event, Varun Rekhi MBA2023 shared with us his key takeaways from the talk. […]

Calling all aspiring entrepreneurs! LBS Launchpad 2022 applications open soon.

By Courtney Sawatzke MBA202324 November 2021Build, Student voiceLaunchpad

What is Launchpad? LBS Launchpad is a pre-accelerator program that is open to aspiring entrepreneurs from all backgrounds. Successful applicants take part in a series of networking events, workshops, and pitches designed to prepare them to receive initial funding by the end of the program. Launchpad runs from December 2021 to May 2022 at the […]

Hadrian, a tech startup co-founded by LBS MBA students raises €2.5m pre-seed funding

By Nick Mickshik22 November 2021Build, Entrepreneurial Journey, Student voiceFundraising, LBS Entrepreneur Spotlight

Launched in August 2021, London and Amsterdam-based cybersecurity startup Hadrian has announced a €2.5 million (approximately £2 million) pre-seed round to build a fully autonomous offensive security solution. The round was led by San Francisco-based Village Global, an early-stage VC firm backed by some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, and Amsterdam-based Slimmer AI, a […]

LBS Alumnus founded Razor Group achieves unicorn status with the latest funding round

By Nick Mickshik17 November 2021Alumni news, Alumni voice, Build, Entrepreneurial JourneyLBS Entrepreneur Spotlight

Razor Group, a Berlin-based startup, acquires and scales Amazon Marketplace merchants into bigger, multichannel businesses using its proprietary platform. In October, it raised $125 million in equity which on top of a $400 million raise in May gave it a valuation exceeding $1 billion and made it a unicorn. CEO Tushar Ahluwalia MiM 2011 reflects […]

Akshat Garg, Nick Doman, and Will Pearson win the 2021 LBS Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards

By Nick Mickshik3 November 2021Alumni news, Entrepreneurial Journey, Incubator, Institute NewsIncubator, LBS Entrepreneur Spotlight

Established in 2010 to showcase the success of alumni in launching innovative businesses, this year’s award for early-stage entrepreneurs has gone to ocean Bottle co-founders Will Pearson and Nick Doman, while Akshat Garg scooped the award for later-stage companies for cofounding Delhi-headquartered DCDC Kidney Care. William Pearson MiM 2018 and Nick Doman MiM2018, from Ocean […]

Insights, reflections, and news from the entrepreneurship community at LBS