Ash Phillips
Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundervine
Ash Phillips
Entrepreneur in Residence at Foundervine
Bristol, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Chair
2016 - Current
Rebellious Co creates initiatives that unlock opportunities for the Unreasonably Ambitious™. As well as doing this with corporate partners and organisations, we develop our own brands. These include Rebel Meetups – a global network of IRL events for entrepreneurial individuals and Dffrnt – a virtual community where aspiring business leaders develop their skills among peers.
Founder
2016
Dffrnt is a Rebellious Co initiative. Our membership community provides Unreasonably Ambitious™ aspiring leaders with a network of likeminded individuals, premium content curriculum, on-demand support, regular sessions & events, and deals on tools for their business ventures. It's what we had when we wish we started our journey – so we built it for you instead.
Founder
2013
Rebel Meetups is a Rebellious Co initiative. We run free-to-attend events in cities around the world for a growing community of the entrepreneurially curious. We often host fireside chats at events which are led by our amazing local hosts in every city. At our meetups you'll find the future leaders of industry, with whom you'll build business partnerships and life-long friendships (we've even had a wedding)! RSVP to your next event for free, or host one in your city with us.
Advisor, Speaker + Startup Commentator
2015
Award winning Mentor, Advisor and NED of over 1,000 entrepreneurial individuals over 10+ years with a track record for delivering timely, personalised, senior-level support, and contemporary insights to startups, scaleups and large organisations. Speaker at multiple events including TEDx and TechBBQ (7,500 people) - I deliver talks & host events events for businesses, organisations, schools, colleges and universities on the following subjects: - Entrepreneurship - The investment ecosystem - Startup methodologies - Personal Branding - Networking (online + offline) - Social Entrepreneurship - Impact - My Story I especially enjoy panel sessions and am best when reacting to questions, so I am always happy to be considered for any fireside chats or Q&As at conferences etc.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2024
Supporting founders across the whole of Foundervine's ecosystem & programmes, as their first Entrepreneur in Residence.
Principal
2022
With 10 years in startups & 7+ years building paid business model communities to scale, I founded Suuuper as a consultancy to advise on the specialisms below. If you're working on a project that involves community and/or making super-fans out of your customers, drop me a line about it at ash@suuuper.co. Specialisms include: Community Consulting | Corporate Startup Innovation | Membership Models | Brand Positioning | Investment & Accelerator Structures | B2B Go-to-Market Strategies | Strategic Partnerships
Investment Scout (£100k-£1m)
2019
Scouting venture dealflow for Ada Ventures. Ada Ventures is the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are investing out of our second fund and we invest £250,000 - £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing.
Consultant: Special Projects
2022 - 2023
Heading up & supporting numerous special projects including rollout of the second Angel Investor Programme, refresh of the Scout Programme and design of other flagship projects (in stealth).
Angel Investor (via Ada Ventures' inaugural Angel Investment Programme)
2020 - 2022
Humbled to be part of the inaugural Ada Angels programme which empowers 5x budding investors with £50,000 to invest in 5x early-stage companies with cheques of £10k. Fantastic support to help develop a thesis alongside Andy Ayim's AIS programme. I will mostly be looking for investment opportunities in the b2b SaaS x gaming x communities space. Anything early-stage that bridges these sectors - send them my way!
Board Advisor & Founding Investor
2019
Advisor to Offset Earth – the subscription company helping individuals and businesses to affordably offset their carbon footprint and show the result in a beautiful way.
Senior Consultant Contract
2022 - 2022
Spearheading the launch of Ecologi Zero – a carbon accounting tool enabling businesses to start their path to Net Zero by calculating the footprint of their supply chain and highlighting areas of possible reduction. The perfect partner in the business sustainability toolkit alongside offsetting activity and commiting to a Climate Positive Workforce. More info → https://ecologi.com/business/ecologi-zero
Non-Exec Advisor
2019 - 2022
Whalecake is a social-led creative agency, based in Bristol, working with brands across the UK and globally. An incredibly creative team, delivering fantastic projects and brilliant results - including leading the social campaign for Loneliness Week which achieved over 200m impressions organically (no ad spend) in its first week alone. Delighted to be able to advise on overall strategy, internal marketing, team development, client campaigns + more in an advisory role.
Advisor
2018 - 2019
Acting adviser for the company, working on brand strategy, new business development, structural changes, growth and internal marketing.