On Deck Community Builder Fellowship, First Cohort

Founders Academy is a new type of business school for a changing world. Born out of Founders Forum, a global community of the world’s leading tech entrepreneurs, we develop the leaders who will harness new technologies to build a better world. Our 9-month "alternative-MBA" combines active and applied learning to empower ambitious professionals to reinvent their careers in London's most dynamic scaleups.

Backed is a community-driven VC fund, based in London. We invest at the seed stage across Europe. 

We back ambitious founders, building tech companies that give people greater freedom.

Proud to partner with stellar companies: Medal, Flexciton, LabGenius, The Engineering Company, Gumbug, OMG, Hutch, Verve, Meatable, Boiler Room, The Family, CloudNC, Armada, Jukedeck, nstack, Tech Will Save Us, Kalo, Unmade, Dispatchr, nStack

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Teaching Staff for UCL MSc Entrepreneurship. 
- Running workshops on customer development and idea validation
- Mentoring & office hours for students
- Grading & feedback

Contributor | Covering the people & companies solving the world's biggest problems. Tech for Good & Social Entrepreneurship

Zinc is building companies solving the developed world's biggest social problems. Backed by Localglobe, Atomico & LSE.

Impact Hustlers features entrepreneurs solving the world's biggest problems with a new episode released weekly. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and www.impacthustlers.com

Provenance uses blockchain technology to power transparent businesses and traceable products. The future of brand trust.

It doesn't matter if it’s a new bag of coffee beans or an old bottle of wine, everything has a story to tell - a journey of people, places and materials. Each provenanced product comes with a digital passport: information and stories about who made it, where and out of what materials.

Provenance is a platform for transparency. We believe revealing more about how something is made and changes hands can help us create and buy better things, for the environment, individuals and communities. We aren't claiming to be 'ethical'​ or 'sustainable'​. Instead, we are striving for both those things through a commitment to open knowledge.

realchangers connects mission-driven people to companies solving the world's biggest problems. We are listing hundreds of jobs in the tech for good space and help impact-driven startups recruit the best talent.

Wayra is a Telefonica backed, digital business accelerator. We offer seed-funding; coaching & mentoring; incredible work-space; global network of Wayra Academies; fast-track access to future funding; and the potential to unlock the power of c. 300million Telefónica customers globally

Project manager in key post merger integration projects (Simplification & Digitalisation):
Successfully implemented various projects as team member and project lead within the post merger integration process between Telefonica & E-Plus Group.
- Integrated Customer-facing Hardware Model
- Decreased lead time of core Finance process by more than 50%.
- Co-Implemented change program for digitalisation & simplification of company structures sponsored by CEO
- Co-led product development & successfully launched innovative corporate startup in the retail / cross-channel field

The Maastricht University Green Office (UMGO) was the first of a model that has now spread to 27 higher education institutions across six countries. When we began, a small but committed group of students wanted to see Maastricht University doing more in the realm of sustainability. They successfully lobbied to have a student-run sustainability unit embedded within the institution and many of the early projects they bootstrapped were met with tangible success.

The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic of Germany’s cultural institute, active worldwide. We promote the study of German abroad and encourage international cultural exchange.

Led fundraising teams of WWF & SOS Children's Villages & Malteser during their German campaigns.

Maiko Schaffrath

Founder of Impact Hustlers, a platform for impact-driven founders. Investor, Startup scout & community builder.