Michael Tefula
Investor at Ada Ventures
Michael Tefula
Investor at Ada Ventures
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Investor-in-Residence
2023 - Current
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 - £1.5mn in UK technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. If you are raising seed capital for your startup you can apply directly below: Fundraising: https://adaventures.typeform.com/AdaSubmissions
Ada Ventures Angel 2023
2023 - 2024
More about my angel investing activities at https://michaeltefula.gitbook.io/angel-investing/overview/j-curve-capital
Venture Partner
2020 - 2023
Advisory Board Member
2019
Advisory board member to the Oxford Seed Fund, a student-led venture capital fund at the University of Oxford.
Advisor
2023 - 2024
CFO
2022 - 2023
Head Of Finance
2020 - 2022
Advisor
2023 - 2024
Atomico Angel Programme 2022
2022 - 2024
Angel investor (Atomico Angel Programme 2022). My angel investment thesis is to back startups that advance 🧠human, 💸 financial, or 🌍 natural capital, at scale. You can read more about the thesis here https://michaeltefula.gitbook.io/angel-investing/overview/j-curve-capital
Principal (Downing Ventures)
2020 - 2020
Early-stage venture capital investor focused on Seed to Series A investments (£500k to £5m cheques).
Associate (Downing Ventures)
2017 - 2019
Analyst (Downing Ventures)
2017 - 2017
Board Director
2020 - 2020
Board Observer
2018 - 2020
Board Observer
2018 - 2020
Investor
2016 - 2017
The Oxford Seed Fund is a student-run fund that invests £15-25k in early-stage ventures founded by Oxford students and alumni. It provides funding and support to entrepreneurs, and it is part of the Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.