An Evening @ Centre for Design and Innovation
You're invited to Capital Angel Network's (CAN) seventh event on 24 February at the Centre for Design and Innovation!
Join us at the Centre for Design and Innovation for an evening with fireside chats, panels, and networking.
Our next event will be on 24 February, when we will celebrate and discuss digital innovation at the intersection of the arts and sciences at the brand new Centre for Design and Innovation at St Paul's Girls' School. As digital's dominance in the world grows, the event is pitched to be of interest to all, whether they work in publishing, media, professional services or even property. The event will take the form of a fireside chat and Q&A followed by networking, with all welcome. Further CAN events with a return to including start-up pitches will be held in June and October 2025. To attend the event, please register with your details to be added to the guest list.
Our fireside chat is moderated by Tom Adeyoola (Old Pauline), co-founder, Extend Ventures, non-executive board member of Channel 4 and member of the government’s new Creative Industries Taskforce led by Baroness Shriti Vadera and Sir Peter Bazalgette. The taskforce will help deliver a plan to grow the creative industries and will set out new policies and government interventions that will help to boost the creative industries’ potential for spreading growth and opportunity. Tom will be talking to panel members:
Laura Connell (SPGS 2000 - 2006)
Partner at Atomico, where she leads on new investment opportunities at the growth stage across enterprise, consumer and fintech. Laura was previously an Investment Professional at Marcho Partners and before that served as Principal at Balderton Capital and spent several years working with startups in sectors ranging from online retail to healthcare and fintech. She started her career at Goldman Sachs first in the Investment Management Division and subsequently the Financial Institutions Group in M&A.
Tommy Stadlen
Old Pauline and a Founding Partner of Giant Ventures, the global venture capital firm backing purpose-driven technology founders. Tommy was previously Co-Founder & CEO of Swing, an imaging technology company chaired by Twitter founder Biz Stone. In 2017, Swing exited to Microsoft where Tommy held product leadership roles. Tommy was also Co-Founder and Chairman of the Tailwind group, three public companies with a combined market cap of over $1bn listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Tommy is the best-selling author of ‘Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically With Society’, written with former BP CEO Lord Browne. He is a frequent contributor to media outlets including the New York Times, Financial Times, BBC and CNBC. He is a former McKinsey consultant and previously worked for President Obama. Tommy has been recognised by the Financial Times as a top 50 Global Ally Executive and by Entrepreneur’s ‘Best Companies in America’ award.
Clare Kimeze (SPGS 2000 - 2002)
Founder and CEO of eyewear brand Kimeze, redefining the category for a billion overlooked consumers. Before founding Kimeze with her sister Christina (SPGS 2002-2004), Clare had a career in the city, working as a retail and consumer credit analyst for 12 years.
At the start of her career she was an economist on the civil service fast stream, before going to qualify as a chartered accountant at PwC and has experience of looking at a broad range of different companies, both as an investor and advisor.
About CAN
The Capital Angel Network (CAN) is an angel investor network made up of alumni from St Paul’s Girls’ School, St Paul’s Boys School, and Hammersmith Academy. As an established alumni community, we have an enviable opportunity to support entrepreneurs from all backgrounds, as well as to ‘give back’ through widening access and increasing bursaries.
CAN will offer founders, alumni or not, access to a network of engaged investors, who are open to providing seed, early-stage or growth capital. These angels will in turn, pledge to donate up to 20% of related proceeds to support the founding mission of the schools that educated them; namely creating bursaries and opportunities for children no matter their background.
Our overriding goal is to build a virtuous flow of new capital between alumni, businesses and schools to fuel growth and expand access. While we’re at it, however, we also want to create some fun and approachable networking settings for the alumni of all partner schools.
Purpose:
Build a virtuous flow of new capital between alumni, businesses and schools to fuel growth and expand access.
Mission:
Through creating a fun and accessible angel network of investment and networking opportunities for alumni of partner schools.
Vision:
Provide capital to fuel the growth of the brightest businesses and minds no matter their background.
To learn more about CAN, visit https://wecan.capital/