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George Radford

Principal at Frontline Ventures

London Area, United Kingdom

Overview 

George Radford is a Principal at Frontline Ventures, with expertise in entrepreneurship, business strategy, and venture financing. He has held leadership roles at Expa and Visa, with a background in tech investments, acquisitions, and growth strategy. Radford's career highlights include serving as Head of Europe at Expa and leading tech investments at Visa Ventures, showcasing his strategic leadership and expertise in venture capital.

Work Experience 

  • Principal

    2023 - Current

    Pre-seed / Seed across 🇪🇺 + 🇬🇧 B2B software only Lead investor

  • Principal / Head of Europe

    2020 - 2023

    $350M generalist operator-led fund investing across North America/UK/EU/LatAm Pre-seed, Seed, Seed+ Portfolio includes companies like: Fabric, Convoy, Beacon, Eco, Current, Metabase, Collective, Statespace, Prometheus Fuels, BondAval

Expa Labs is a program for early stage companies.

  • Manager - New Ventures, Growth Strategy, Tech Investments & Acquisitions

    2017 - 2020

    The strategy consultancy arm of Founders Forum Group, one of tech’s leading ecosystems uniting unicorn founders, VCs and thought-leaders. As part of the early team, grew the consultancy to ~40 people and led strategy, investment and venture build projects for CVCs, PE funds and corporate innovation teams. Acquired by Accenture in 2021.

  • Investor Secondment - VISA Ventures

    2018 - 2018

    Focused on fintech platforms and mobility marketplaces.

Visa Research conducts applied research on the most challenging problems in the payment industry.

  • Strategy & Operations Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Seed-stage wearable tech start-up with $3m in funding from Passion Capital, LocalGlobe, Playfair Capital

  • Summer Analyst - Investor Relations and Economist

    2014 - 2014

    Worked with the economists supporting investment projects.

  • Director Of User Experience

    2012 - 2013

    Adtech platform for marketing & sales teams to create mobile experiences, who has now raised a $12m Series B. Part of early team and led User Experience team during Jebbit’s rapid expansion.

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