Martin Rigby has been a venture capital fund manager for over 30 years. He is founder and managing director of ET Capital Limited, an early-stage venture investment firm based in Cambridge. ET Capital has managed 10 funds since 1993, including the Cambridge Venture Index series of funds – which apply an index investment approach to backing early-stage, deep-science businesses emerging in Cambridge and other innovation clusters.

He is chairman of FSE Group, which manages a series of equity and debt funds across the UK with £200M+ AUM. He is also a non-executive director of VPC Specialty Lending PLC a quoted UK investment trust (LSE: VSL).

Prior to founding ET Capital, he was an investment manager at 3i plc and has also been chairman of MJog, the medtech messaging business, and a non-executive director of Bango plc (AIM: BGO) the mobile payments provider. He is an advisory board member of The Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship at Cranfield University. He read history for his first degree at New College, Oxford, has an MBA from Cranfield and a degree in IT and Computing from The Open University.

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