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To pair the creative vision, pace and insight of world-class entrepreneurs with the commercial rigour of a strategy consultancy to deliver economic impact at speed.
Powered by entrepreneurs, Founders Intelligence helps industry-leading businesses to pursue growth opportunities to keep them at the forefront of the rapidly emerging market. Started from within Founders Forum, it has access to an influential digital network of investors and entrepreneurs.
This offers Founders Intelligence an inside and insightful perspective into emerging technologies, business models, and consumer expectations in order to reshape the future of industries. It uses this to pursue its mission of combining strategy consultancy with the vision and creativity of entrepreneurship.
Founders Intelligence supports clients with growth strategy, delivery capability, strategic start-up engagement, new revenue line & venture building, and acceleration programmes, all to help corporate leaders deliver new growth opportunities.
Since its founding in 2013, Founders Intelligence has attracted employees who have invested in or built online businesses like Lastminute.com, Spotify, DeepMind, and Siri. This approach has helped many large companies - including BP, Facebook, Shazam, and Visa - to bringing entrepreneurial frameworks into their businesses.
In November 2021, Founders Intelligence was acquired by Accenture, a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Being part of Accenture will no doubt provide great opportunities for Founders Intelligence and its clients as it combines its entrepreneur-led growth approach with Accenture’s global innovation ecosystem and delivery capabilities.
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Rob Chapman
(CEO and Partner)After a degree at Cambridge, they worked for PwC, EE, and start-up Bime. They founded FI in July 2013, seeing the gap between the vision & pace of the start-up they worked at and traditional consultancies.
Brent Hoberman
(Executive Chairman)They are the Co-Founder of Founders Intelligence, Founders Forum, Founders Factory and firstminute capital. Previously, they co-founded lastminute.com in 1998, Made.com and Karakuri.
They joined the company as an Engagement Manager in June 2019. They were promoted to Head of Operations & people 1 year later. Subsequently, they were promoted to Chief of Staff in January 2022.
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Intelligent people (5)
Opportunities to learn (3)
People of all backgrounds are welcomed (3)
Team energy (3)
Challenging work (2)
Meaningful work (2)
Open and honest communication (2)
Nice people (1)
Thoughtful onboarding (1)
Flat hierarchy (1)
We are given a lot of ownership from the jump, allowing for great opportunities to learn and develop rapidly and the team around is always there to support you as you grow
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Feb 2022
Flat organisational structure at FI means that there is free-flowing and open communication between everyone, in all directions. Emphasising that your voice matters and is heard
Operations & Strategy
Open and honest communication
Feb 2022
The people at FI are its greatest asset and you can tell when you come in. Everyone is brilliant, hard working and driven, but also very down to earth and amazing human beings
Operations & Strategy
Nice people
Feb 2022
The work at Founders Intelligence is incredibly stimulating, with smart people working together on interesting projects. The team are all from a diverse range of career backgrounds which creates a great working environment.
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Feb 2022
The team at Founders Intelligence are fun, enthusiastic, and hard-working which helps to create positive energy when working together on projects. The atmosphere remains relaxed and friendly with a flat hierarchy - a fantastic environment in which to work!
Operations & Strategy
Team energy
Feb 2022
The onboarding process is really relevant and useful to the type of work you do at Founders Intelligence. From Day 1 you are made to feel incredibly welcome and are encouraged to have a coffee with everyone on the team in the first few weeks! The best onboarding I could have possibly wished for.
Operations & Strategy
Thoughtful onboarding
Feb 2022
FI gives exposure to impact-driven work with great capacity to achieve transformation within some of the world's largest companies and committed leadership.
Operations & Strategy
Meaningful work
Feb 2022
FI enriches itself from the breadth of experience and knowledge of its team members - only diversity can ensure that it is a breeding ground for innovative approachers and ideas.
Operations & Strategy
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Feb 2022
People finding their experience valued and supported by leadership as well as an adequate work-life balance results in a high energy team that achieves great output.
Operations & Strategy
Team energy
Feb 2022
The briefs and challenges that FI take on are the most ambitious I've ever worked on. And the team and people will naturally push them further while working on them too.
Operations & Strategy
Challenging work
Feb 2022
A genuinely diverse group of colleagues - much more so than other consultancies I have worked at. An amazing breadth of background and experiences and curiosity amongst the team to learn about them.
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Feb 2022
The knowledge and experience of the leadership is of a higher calibre than I've seen in other consultancies. The entrepreneurial experience of the team more widely is something that truly sets the company and working environment apart.
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Feb 2022
Working on amazing projects from various industries let me learn and challenge myself continuously. Another great point is that your team is always there for you and support you
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Feb 2022
Founders Intelligence is very diligent in their hiring and I can say my teammates are the smartest people that I have ever worked with across my 8 years of working experience. I also really like that I can see this across all level
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Feb 2022
As our main focus is on enabling growth opportunities for our clients, we are always at the forefront of innovations and disruptions. This makes all of our projects super interesting and challenging as we are solving the most complicated problems for our clients
Operations & Strategy
Challenging work
Feb 2022
Founders Intelligence is a place where you're surrounded by intelligent, caring, and fun people. I never feel like I'm the smartest person in the room, and I'm also very happy meeting my co-workers outside of working hours. Whenever I come up with new ideas, I'm always encouraged to pursue them - whether it's related to projects, internal initiatives, or otherwise
Operations & Strategy
Team energy
Feb 2022
Great work is recognised and the feedback culture is strong. I've been able to learn a lot by getting exposure to C-suite clients on a regular basis, and by being trusted to handle more responsibility than I would elsewhere
Operations & Strategy
Growing fast
Feb 2022
Inside and outside of projects, every person's opinion is valued. As a junior resource, I always have felt like my voice has been heard - and I can always go to the partners, directors, or anyone else in the team if I need help.
Operations & Strategy
Flat hierarchy
Feb 2022
Founders Intelligence has a really sharp, kind and ambitious team that truly commits to creating great work in a great environment. Everyone comes from very different backgrounds, bringing a richness in perspective and approaches.
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Feb 2022
Frequent and meaningful touch points within the teams and with the leadership ensure that no question goes unanswered and no opportunity for clarity and personal development is missed.
Operations & Strategy
Open and honest communication
Feb 2022
Unlocking massive growth for businesses requires both great discipline, creativity and diversity in ways of thinking and operating. FI recognises this, so looks for talent with a diverse set of backgrounds: industries, experiences and approaches.
Operations & Strategy
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Feb 2022
- Challenging & impactful work: we get to help the largest corporates transform & rethink their position in their industry - Interesting range of projects & clients, and get to be paid to keep up with tech trends, connect the dots, & predict the future - Great to work at the crossroad of Consulting, VC, Start-ups, Venture Building & Corporate Innovation
Operations & Strategy
Meaningful work
Feb 2022
- Real push to attract talents from all ethnicities, nationalities, socioeconomic background etc. - Have dramatically changed their sourcing practice to cast a wider recruitment net - Solid D&I agenda to promote inclusion
Operations & Strategy
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Feb 2022
Incredibly smart team members. The wide variety of professional backgrounds every employee is a clear advantage in that everyone can bring a different point of view. All share a passion for entrepreneurship & innovation
Operations & Strategy
Intelligent people
Feb 2022