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Schmidt Futures

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Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative co-founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

Portfolio

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Portfolio companies

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inploi

inploi provides talent attraction technology for enterprise hiring.

Creator Fund

Creator Fund

Creator Fund invests in student-led startups across European universities.


Team

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt

Eric previously served as CEO and Chairman of Google, alongside executive roles at Alphabet and Schmidt Futures.

WS

Wendy Schmidt

JN

Joshua Nott


Recent investments

Seed
£1.4M

The financing round includes backing from industry angels Chris Nelson and Julia Ross alongside institutional investors.

"The inploi team exhibited amazing agility in pivoting their model to providing software as a service, and is now partnered with a growing number of major blue-chip brands. inploi’s solution is perfectly positioned to address one of the biggest challenges facing companies today – attracting the people they need to operate effectively in an historically tight labour market – bringing the latest technology to an outdated market ripe for innovation. I am excited to have invested again to support them on their scaling journey."
— Ziyaad Aboobaker, Partner
£1.5M

The university-focused venture capital fund secured backing from Founders Factory and Schmidt Futures.

"We are thrilled to see how quickly Creator Fund is gaining ground in universities. We are constantly looking at new ways to unlock and support entrepreneurial talent and promote the UK and Europe as a centre of tech excellence. As we bounce back from Covid, universities are the number one institution across Europe that have the potential to drive our recovery. This is where some of the greatest ideas emerge from and we want to find and support that undiscovered talent that can change the world."
— Jamie Macfarlane, Founder and CEO