Ed is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at IQ Capital. 

Ed brings over 25 years of experience in deep tech venture capital and specialises in leveraging the subtle interactions between developing disruptive technology, discovering product-market fit, and optimising business strategy – in recognition that the most successful businesses are able to seamlessly integrate these activities from the start.

Ed works with Paragraf, Speechmatics, TurinTech, Imandra, Opteran and causaLens.  

Ed began his career in electronic engineering before gaining operational experience in manufacturing. In 1996, he founded his first venture capital firm, where he invested in the early wave of UK internet companies and has focused on early-stage technology investing ever since.

He is an occasional contributor to Forbes, commenting on the wider effects of disruptive technologies and on how society could and should respond, and he has a passion for identifying the key disruptive technologies of the future.