Steven Bartlett
Founding Investor
Steven Bartlett is the founder of the social media marketing agency Social Chain. From a bedroom in Manchester, this university drop-out built what would become one of the world’s most influential social media companies when he was just 21 years old, before taking his company public at 27 years old with a current market valuation of over $600M.
Steven Bartlett is as a speaker, investor, author, content creator and the host of one of Europe’s biggest podcasts, ‘The Diary of a CEO’. In 2021 Steven released his debut book ‘Happy Sexy Millionaire’ which was a Sunday Times best seller.
Steven is particularly focused on inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs and creators from a BAME background.
Steven has invested in and joined the board of Huel, which is the UK’s fastest growing e-commerce company internationally. He’s also invested in, and taken a role as an advisor in atai life sciences - a biotech company working to cure mental health disorders. Other investments focus on blockchain technologies, biotech, space, Web 3 and social media.
Recently, Steven has launched two new businesses, Flight Story & thirdweb.
Flight Story is a company focused on building resilient retail investor communities around great public companies. thirdweb is a platform that makes it easy to build web3 applications.
At just 29 years old, he is widely considered one of Europe’s most talented and accomplished young entrepreneurs and philosophical thinkers.
Steven joined BBC Dragon’s Den Series 19 in January 2022, as the youngest ever Dragon in the TV Show’s history.