Founders For Good

Anya Roy is the Co-Founder of Syrona Health. Gynaecological health is an area of healthcare that has been overlooked and underinvested in for decades. Lack of proper funding and research has led to people suffering. Shockingly, it’s the norm for people with common gynaecological conditions to go years without the correct diagnosis and treatment.   Enter Syrona Health, an all-in-one healthcare plat...

Ally Fekaiki is the CEO and Founder of Juno. The employee benefits space has been broken for a long time, with Covid and remote working the disconnect between what companies offer and what employees want has become apparent.  Ally wanted to take a completely different approach to employee benefits. So rather than companies try and guess what their people want, employees have the power to decide wh...

Freddie Ward is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wild. After being one of the first hires at Hello Fresh and seeing the company scale to over £100 million in revenue, Freddy had caught the startup itch. Towards the end of his time there Freddie was starting to see the strong demand from consumers for more environmentally friendly products. Combining that with the lack of innovation in the personal hygien...

Alex Stephany is the Founder and CEO of Beam.   Alex and Beam need no introduction, both have received multiple awards and recognition for their social impact work: Best Social Entrepreneur in the UK, Best Tech Social Enterprise, Best Entrepreneur For Good (to name a few).  Beam use crowdfunding from individuals and businesses to support homeless people and refugees into jobs and accommodation. So...

For our last show of Season One, we have Youssef Darwich, the Co-Founder and CEO of Nosso. Now I’m pretty sceptical of fintech’s but Nosso are building something very different. Nosso focus on helping families to use their money in a smarter way to build both a better world and a better future for their children.  Using the Nosso app, families set a goal like buying a first house or paying for sch...

Sançar Sahin, is the Co-Founder and CMO of Oliva Health.  After working in high-growth tech startups both co-founders had struggled with their own mental health and had negative experiences when it came to finding suitable support. The private and public mental healthcare options have a number of associated challenges, so Sancar and his co-founder create Oliva Health to solve this problem.  With p...

Mary Liu is the Co-Founder and COO of Junee. Did you know in the UK each year, 11 billion pieces of single use plastic get thrown away from lunch on the go? Even “green” alternatives like compostable or recyclable packaging are not as environmentally friendly as consumers think, as Mary explains in the episode. So after spending time in the food industry and seeing the harmful impact of single use...

Beckie Taylor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tech Returners. From her own personal experience of taking time out to have her first child. Beckie realised the barriers that exist for people returning to work in the tech space.  Although there is a huge demand for tech talent, sadly, those that take career breaks are often overlooked or ignored.  So Beckie set up Tech Returners to combat this problem....

Ari Last is the CEO and Founder of Bubble. After becoming a parent, Ari was shocked by the lack of innovation in the childcare space and set out to change this.  In this episode, Ari explains the challenges in building a marketplace for users that are trusting you with the most valuable thing in their lives, their children.  Bubble achieves this in two ways:  1.      Using social proof as the key...

Lenny Leemann is the Co-Founder and CEO of Greenspark. Lenny’s personal mission is to make it as easy as possible for consumers and businesses to do good. His first tech for good venture MAMOQ, was a marketplace for sustainable consumer products and he’s now building Greenspark.  Greenspark was founded on the belief that the only way to embed “doing good” into businesses for the long term, is to s...

Emilia Molimpakis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Thymia.  Emilia has spent over a decade studying Neuroscience with a specific focus on using language as a marker to assess and monitor mental health. The current method for assessing mental health is very basic and subjective and hasn’t changed in over ten years. So when her best friend suffered depression and tried to take her own life, Emilia creat...

Daniel George is the Founder and CEO of StepEx.   From his own experiences, Daniel was shocked by the barriers to education for those from lower income backgrounds. Imagine wanting to do an MBA or software development course, but not being able to afford the course fee with your only other option being hit with 30-40% interest on a loan.  Daniel created StepEx to provide a better and fairer system...

Khyati Sundaram is the CEO of Applied. Traditional CV based hiring processes are flawed, with companies missing out on up to 60% of people. Typically, those 60% are from minority groups.  Khyati experienced this herself when looking for a job after her first startup, facing rejection from hundreds of applications until she interviewed with Applied, where they assessed based on her skills rather th...

Alex Price is CTO and Co-Founder of Ecologi. Alex saw a unique opportunity when he co-founded Ecologi, to combine his passion for climate activism with technology.  Ecologi makes positive climate action, simple and affordable for individuals and businesses all over the world. They calculate their carbon footprint and use their money to fund reforestation and carbon reduction projects around the pl...

Jack Scott, is the Co-Founder of Dash Water. Dash Water is tackling the problem of food waste within farming, where surplus or “wonky” produce is often overlooked. Dash only use “wonky” fruit and veg to create their premium brand of soft drinks. What I like about Dash Water, is that they are part of the modern consumer brand movement. Where they focus on being a responsible and sustainable busines...

Tessa Clarke is the Founder and CEO of OLIO.  OLIO is an app that connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses, so surplus food and household items can be shared, not thrown away.  Tessa shares her eureka moment for building OLIO, the shocking impact of food waste, scaling OLIO to 6 million users, the pains of raising investment as a female founder and how to build a business that...

Molly Johnson-Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flexa. Flexa certifies and scores companies based on how flexible they, then showcases why these companies are great to work for to talent all over the world. Molly’s first experience with flexible working, was the lack of. When she was diagnosed with auto-immune disease and told by her doctor she was disabled and needed to work from home once a wee...

Amelia Gammon is the inspirational CEO and Founder of bide , a responsible consumer brand producing eco-products that have social impact.  34% of the global workforce is made up of people that are unable to do conventional work. They may be single parents, carers, homeless, offenders or refugees. bide addresses rocketing unemployment by removing the barriers for these people to get work. Rather th...

Joel Tasche, is the CEO and Co-Founder of CleanHub. Seeing the impact of plastic waste first-hand whilst travelling Joel wanted to create a scalable solution that would stop non-recyclable plastic entering the environment.  After extensive research Joel co-founded CleanHub to tackle this issue. CleanHub work with plastic-using brands that want to be part of the solution. These brands finance the c...

Matt has dedicated his career to exploring the complex relationship between employer and employee, trying to understand how companies can best support and nurture the people who work for them.   Brought up by two entrepreneurial parents, it is no surprise that Matt went on to found, invest in and advise over 25 businesses.  In 2010, Matt founded Benefex with the belief that no one comes to work to...

Michal Nachmany has dedicated over 12 years of her life to the fighting the global Climate Crisis. She is an internationally recognised climate policy and governance expert.  In 2021, Michal set up Climate Policy Rader. A not-for-profit, open data startup, leveraging the latest in machine learning and NLP technology to build the world’s first global database of climate policy and legislation. The...

Tom Hooper has spent the last 12 years in Education, with the personal mission of making tutoring accessible and affordable to everyone.  He built and sold his first EdTech startup Brighstpark in under 3 years to TES Global. In his current venture Third Space Learning (TSL), Tom has pioneered a new tutoring model leveraging global talent to provide one-to-one tutoring to the children that need it...

From an early age Adnan had a flair for business, secretly building his first company whilst still at school until he needed his parents to sign the contract of sale as he was only 17. He went on to scale and successfully exit his second venture CarThrottle.  Now, he’s using his hard-earned startup knowledge to build MindLabs, a mobile and video first, consumer app focused on making the world a ha...

Sanjay Lobo MBE is the Founder and CEO of onHand , an all-in-one tool to engage employees in local volunteering and climate action. Sanjay’s been recognised for the national Entrepreneur For Good Award, plus onHand were named the No.1 Tech For Good Company in 2021. Sanjay chats about his journey into entrepreneurship, how helping his dad gave him the idea for onHand, growing the business, how hard...

The podcast host, Craig Turner, sharing a brief overview of why he started the podcast, what to expect on the episodes and most importantly, the purpose of the Founders For Good podcast.