Lord Rumi Verjee is a Ugandan Asian exile who became a House of Lords peer after building Domino's Pizza UK from scratch by personally approaching the founder in America at age 27 and scaling it nationwide. As a founding partner at Creator Fund, he combines his unusual background as both a major franchise operator and luxury retail chairman with his role as an anchor investor backing student and PhD founders in deeptech.
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Creator Fund is Europe's first institutional investor dedicated to PhD-led startups, using a network of 40-50 trained student scouts across 24 universities in 8 countries to source deeptech deals directly from academic research labs. Unlike other funds that invest after companies spin out, Creator Fund actively coaches PhD founders through the university spinout process itself, focusing on pre-seed investments in frontier areas like AI, quantum, and biotech where the initial insight is still largely locked inside a lab.
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