Co-Founders & Partners

Misha Jessel-Kenyon

Founding Partner

Regarded as one of EMEA's top tech sales talents, Misha helped build the Enterprise and Strategic business at Salesloft, where he closed nearly 20% of the company's EMEA revenue and was voted the UK's top Account Executive by Wiser. He served as Mistral AI's founding GTM hire in the UK, scaling the business from zero to eight figures. Misha is an angel investor focused on AI native B2B technology businesses.

Jonathon Ilett

Founding Partner

Jonathon Ilett is the CEO and co-founder of TrustedIQ, an AI-native Contract-to-Cash Intelligence platform helping RevOps, Finance, and Legal teams establish a single source of truth across complex contract data.Prior to TrustedIQ, Jonathon was one of the earliest sales hires at Cognism, where he progressed to Global VP of Sales and played a central role in scaling the business from early stage to over $80M ARR, building and leading high-performing GTM teams across the UK, Europe, and the US.Alongside building TrustedIQ, Jonathon is an active angel investor and co-runs Revenue Syndicate, backing early-stage go-to-market and B2B SaaS companies where his experience scaling revenue organisations adds material value.

Hector Forwood

Founding Partner

After contributing to Cognism's growth in both the UK and US, Hector founded his first SaaS company, Comtura, in 2021 and successfully exited in 2023. As a serial entrepreneur, he continues to build and develop new businesses, and is an active angel investor with a portfolio focused on tech-enabled organizations. Hector has since founded Floorencer, a B2B influencer marketplace, which he currently runs.

Nick Dashfield

Partner

Nick is Head of Strategic Projects at Globacap, a private markets technology company automating and digitizing private capital markets. He previously co-led the funds team at Seedrs, originating and executing VC fund investments for 25,000 high-net-worth investors. Nick also worked in a family office investment team focused on venture capital and real estate, and began his career as a funds lawyer.