Sapphire & Steel

Sapphire & Steel work with over 100 startups a year as mentors, coaches, advisors, NEDs, Entrepreneurs In Residence and masterclass leaders, meeting them through investors, accelerators, research institutes, universities, academies and corporate intra-preneurship programmes. Our work has directly supported a combined equity raise of >$100 million over the last 5 years, along with 4 acquisitions. We connect founders deeper into their industry ecosystems to de-risk their technology development, drive commercial adoption, enable manufacturing scale and sustainable supply chains, attract venture finance, and build governance for growth. Sapphire & Steel work with universities and academics to build more effective entrepreneurial pathways and to design and deliver new accelerator programmes. We specialise in working with mission-minded engineering and science based businesses that are looking to translate their technologies to deliver to the UN SDGs. In the UK this is climate, clean and health tech businesses in particular and also FinTech for good, worker tech and Edtech. Anna-Lisa and Peter take on Chair, NED and ‘Founding Chair’ roles on boards and advisory boards, to support founder teams on their growth journey. The Sapphire & Steel network of founders, advisors and mentors comprises c-suite industry leaders in the UK’s financial services, energy, health and utilities industries, super angels, venture capital founding partners and executives in residence, lead partners in the UK, university pro-vice chancellors, global accelerator leaders and leaders of influential civic groups.