Joe White

Venture Partner

2024 - Current

Co-founder and CEO

2024

Board Member

2021

Cambridge in America (CAm) advances the mission of the University of Cambridge and its thirty-one member Colleges by providing expertise in fundraising and alumni relations and by growing the base of support for Collegiate Cambridge among alumni and friends in the US.

Board Member, Co Chair

2019

GBx is a curated network for successful British entrepreneurs, investors and senior tech executives living in the Bay Area.

His Majesty's Tech Envoy to the United States

2020 - 2024

HM Tech Envoy to the United States Nov 2020 to Mar 2024. Leading on UK/US Tech Policy, R&D (AI, Quantum, Synbio, Semis, and Future Telecoms), Tech Trade (Company investment, export growth and venture capital), and Tech elements of National Security. (Dual role also as Consul General San Francisco Nov 2020 to Oct 2023).

General Partner

2015 - 2020

Entrepreneur First brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Paris, Berlin, Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangalore. We fund individuals and build cofounding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors. To date we have helped over 100 individuals build 150+ companies with a total valuation approaching $2 billion. Our major exits to date include Magic Pony, which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m only 18 months after the Founders met on the EF programme. For more information about Entrepreneur First, or to apply to join our next cohort, please visit www.joinef.com

Angel Investor

2015 - 2020

Investor and mentor to Magic Pony Technology (sold to Twitter), PassFort, Stackhut, Automata Technologies, CloudNC, Opencosmos, Lingumi, CleoAI, DevicePilot, Qbot, Accelerated Dynamics, RunwayEast, Context Scout, Kwiziq, Blinkpool, Typescore and Entrepreneur First.

Non Executive Director - Behavioural Insights Ventures

2017 - 2020

BIT is a social purpose company and world leading policy design organisation using behavioural economics, spun out of the Prime Minsters’ Cabinet Office in Downing Street. Joe advises the BIT board and CEO on internally developed technology and ventures spin-outs.

VP Digital

2012 - 2015

Hibu (formerly Yell Group) employs 10,000 people worldwide with sales in excess of $2bn. Hibu acquired Moonfruit in 2012. Worked directly with CDO to create a global digital product strategy for the US, UK, Spain and Latin America based around the Moonfruit website platform. Customised the Moonfruit platform to support Hibu ‘Build it for me’ website proposition, leading to a $150m+ run rate business in the 12 months from launch. Internationalised the Moonfruit platform to support Spain and Latam launches. Rapidly expanded the Moonfruit team to support additional product steams, and built a new central London office for Hibu’s digital staff.

Co-founder and COO

2011 - 2015

Moonfruit provides DIY website and e-commerce software to small businesses and individuals. Over 7 million sites and stores have been built since launch in 2000, making Moonfruit one largest global website players, and one of the world's first SAAS products. Joe was a co-founder of Moonfruit and responsible for product development, business and technology operations, overall P&L and capital raising. He held the COO position from 2011-2014, was CEO from 2004 - 2011, and was Product Director from 1999-2002. Together with Wendy Tan-White and Eirik Pettersen, they raised $2.4m Series A in 2010 from Stephens (US Investment bank), and Silicon Valley angel 500Startups. Moonfruit was sold to Hibu (formerly Yell Group) in 2012 in a deal worth $37m.

Co-Founder and CEO

2003 - 2011