Raise & Grow

If you have an idea that is investable, we’d love to hear from you. Should your idea should fall into our investment criteria we can help with early stage pre-seed and seed capital (SEIS/EIS) in your startup idea. We provide founders with support before, during and after the investment process, as your success means our success.

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Design the Future
Design the Future

You can Design Change and help create solutions to our global issues and make impact.

Choose Yourself
Choose Yourself

Learn an alternative career path and enable other streams of income (yes! Your startup can pay you). Be in control of your time & fulfil your potential.

Designer Friendly
Designer Friendly

As investors we’re looking to help founders grow by design and promote designer innovation.

Venture Capital

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Diverse Founders

Designing Change

  • SEIS up to £250k
  • EIS up to £500k
  • Partnered with VCs & Angels
  • Simple deal terms
  • Based in Central London
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What’s our
Criteria?
Diverse Teams

Ideally you will have a mixed team of co-founders that make up your team.

Traction

The more you have achieved, the better your chances of success.

Strong Ideas

We like to see brave modern ideas that are helping to design change. We like ideas that you are passionate about. They can also be in Web 3.

Design Focued

You are a founder who values design or a practicing designer.
We also invite ideas from anybody who works in the design industry.

Let’s Design Change

Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Cities
Health & Wellbeing
Health & Wellbeing
Quality Education
Quality Education
Climate Action
Climate Action
Clean Energy
Clean Energy
Work & the Economy
Work & the Economy
Life in the Seas
Life in the Seas
Life on Land
Life on Land
Sustainable Food
Sustainable Food
People Equality
People Equality
Politics & Peace
Politics & Peace
Zero Hunger & Poverty
Zero Hunger & Poverty

Your Guide

Sonal Kadccha

Co-Founder

• Expert investment screening
• Successful founder
• Designer empathy with business background
• Experienced mentor and coach
• Director of Design Future
• Graduated with 1st from Cambridge

Next Intake

We’re looking for female & mixed team founders for September 2023

£250k

Up to £500k

  • SEIS up to £250k
  • EIS up to £500k
  • Leading VCs & Angels
  • Simple deal terms
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Membership
Raise

Get a pass to present to London's leading VCs & Angels. You will also get access to our 'Discover' Platform and Angle Investment Network partnership - which exposes you to thousands of Angel Investors.

Post Investment Growth

We can help drive your business growth through design and other partner offer and services.

Mentoring

We provide mentoring, with our specialised team, designed to help you post investment

Community Events

Get invites to IRL events at our Kings Cross Hub for pitching and alumini bringing founders & investors together.

Grow post
investment
Post Investment Mentoring

We offer a bespoke one to one coaching to help you get through your first 12 months, a critical period for any startup. We provide advice and support through monthly calls.

Design for Growth

Good brand design can increase value in a startup and put you
90% ahead of the competition. We can help you create a world class brand and online presence.

SEIS Compliance

We can help you to apply for and complete your SEIS/EIS compliance applications.

Other services

Other services we offer through our partners include, Web 3 consultancy, Accounting & 
industrial design.

Design your future
Design the future

Raise money and grow your startup through our design driven programme

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