Ezechi Britton MBE
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Ezechi Britton MBE is a British software engineer turned fintech founder, investor and regulator-adjacent leader.
“But I feel what’s most valuable about that is bringing that entrepreneurial energy to the charitable sector, which I think — the great thing about the charity sector is you’ve got so many capable, passionate, enthusiastic people, but because of their structures it’s not easy to compensate people financially at market rates for these organ…”
“Macmillan, for example, they have a venture arm that is putting a lot of money into investing in cancer research solutions from a pure technology perspective. So I think certain charitable sectors lend themselves better to this particular approach, but I think it’s a really crucial and super fascinating approach to things.”
“That’s about 30 million adults. That is not huge, right, in terms of population size. But we’ve got some of the biggest businesses on the planet in our country. So the best place to target as a startup is B2B. But if you’re trying to sell to a bank, good luck. It’s going to take you two years to close that deal.”
“But until we do something about the scale-up capital problem in this country — and I know we hear about the Mansion House Accords, I was in the room when Jeremy Hunt signed the original ones over at Mansion House. Rachel Reeves has been very much pushing that agenda and I think it’s the right thing to do.”
UK scale-up capital — The Next Agenda
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