Gabriela Matic

Co-founder & Director

2019 - Current

Metta supports startups, industry & governments with sustainable technology-driven innovation. We’re your partner for doing things better and more efficiently.

Limited Partner

2024

Carbon13 selects, supports and invests in determined people through our venture building programmes, focused specifically on building scalable climate ventures that will reduce and remove emissions on a global scale.

Student Enterprise Advisor

2022

Venture Partner

2021

Aerospace Xelerated is a 3-month funded programme for exceptional autonomy and AI startups striving to advance the future of aerospace. The programme is hosted by Boeing and supported by partners like GKN Aerospace and DASA (MOD).

Programme Director

2019 - 2021

The ATI Boeing Accelerator is a 3 month programme for world-class startups creating industry 4.0 and sustainability enabling technologies, who have the potential to bolster the growth and competitiveness of the UK aerospace industry. The programme offers a £100k equity investment per startup from Boeing HorizonX Ventures, firsthand access to Boeing, GKN Aerospace and Rolls-Royce strategists/ technical experts and much more. Brought to you by Boeing, the ATI, GKN Aerospace and Rolls-Royce, delivered in partnership with Ignite.

Mentor

2020

The female factor is a curated global community advancing careers and creating business opportunities for a new era of female leaders by boosting confidence, competence, & connections.

Ada Ventures Scout

2019 - 2023

Ada is a $34m seed-stage fund that is focused on supporting overlooked founders and markets. Its aim is to “make venture capital truly accessible to the best talent in the UK & Europe, regardless of race, gender or background.”

Trustee

2019 - 2022

Chisenhale Dance Space is East London’s champion of experimentation in dance and performance. It's an artist Member-led organisation, based in Bow for more than 35 years. The programme is made by, with, and in response to our Members, and currently consists of: - subsidised-cost rehearsal space for making - classes for children and adults - artist development programmes - a boundary-pushing performance programme in our venue and beyond - outreach and education projects in Tower Hamlets “Chisenhale showcases edgy work” The Guardian “A home for artists experimenting with ideas outside the mainstream.” Time Out

Mentor - ViennaUp21

2021 - 2021

Sponsor, Mentor and Workshop Lead

2020 - 2021

Kickstart Global is a student-led CIC that is helping educate the next generation of student founders across universities in London and Singapore. The team builds a cross-campus community of student entrepreneurs every academic year, and runs a bootcamp to help students find cofounders, build and validate MVPs and takes the best concepts through the very early stages of building a company.

Programme Director

2017 - 2021

Our programme features 6 months’ mentoring and support, £25,000 investment and sees our cohort working alongside a range of startups from around the UK. Think of us as your remote Non-Executive Director; here to help as you scale your business! We work with startups remotely for three weeks of every month, delivering our Startup MBA course digitally alongside our programme mentors and partners. The fourth week of every month sees cohort startups join us, portfolio companies and interviewing businesses for in-person offsites, which are held in 10 different cities around the UK each year.

Marketing & Programme Manager

2016 - 2017

Our programme features 6 months’ mentoring and support, £25,000 investment and sees our cohort working alongside a range of startups from around the UK. Think of us as your remote Non-Executive Director; here to help as you scale your business! We work with startups remotely for three weeks of every month, delivering our Startup MBA course digitally alongside our programme mentors and partners. The fourth week of every month sees cohort startups join us, portfolio companies and interviewing businesses for in-person offsites, which are held in 10 different cities around the UK each year.

Programme Associate - London

2016 - 2016

Ignite is Europe’s angel-led acceleration network investing in early-stage technology startups across the UK, supporting founders for the lifetime of their business. Ignite is backed by one of the strongest angel networks in Europe, a unique group of entrepreneurs, VCs and founders that offer our startups unrivalled experience and support. We like to work with teams that have domain expertise. You don’t need to be a seasoned entrepreneur or a former Googler. You may have raised a seed round or you may only have a concept. We want to work with smart teams with interesting ideas, and we recognise they come in all shapes and sizes. https://ignite.io/