George Northcott

George is Head of Business Development at Founders Factory. He scours the world for great startups for its accelerator and helps those companies find partners and investors to grow their businesses. He also sources and qualifies ideas for the incubator, liaising with its corporate partners and network to identify major opportunities that Founders Factory can build and scale. George’s career began at Nomura doing M&A Investment Banking specialising in ecommerce transactions. He then moved to Jonnie Goodwin’s Lepe Partners where he advised growth-stage companies including OneFineStay and Zoopla, made venture investments, advised media corporates and developed new businesses with the British Fashion Council and Bear Grylls. After meeting Henry Lane Fox, CEO of Founders Forum Group, George worked within Founders Intelligence, a strategic consultancy, working with the likes of Visa and L’Oreal to try and understand how corporates can innovate and solve problems with talented start-ups and entrepreneurs. It was clear that enterprise and entrepreneurs can greatly help each other and there was also a need to build ideas from scratch and so Founders Factory was born. During this time, George was also acting CEO of Intros.at, a matchmaking business to connect people at events and conferences. A father of one, George has a first class honours degree from University of Oxford.