Supporting

Impact Ventures

to Start, Scale & Secure Investment

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*Impact Venture = An entrepreneurial organisation with a social or environmental mission at its core.

Our Services

    • Supporting early-stage ventures with investment planning and fundraising execution.

    • I deploy angel investments of around £1K per venture with additional in-kind and/or paid support every year.

    • Connect founders with other angels, angel syndicates and VCs

    • Advisory, design and support on organisational-level and contract based Social Value strategies.

    • Advisory, design and operations planning for new or legacy Impact Funds including Equity, Debt, Grant and other.

    • Design, delivery & facilitation of Entrepreneurship programmes, accelerators & incubators

    • I collaborate with Universities, Corporates, Government and Third-sector organisations to design & deliver high-impact programmes.

    • Led on ImpactU (LSE, Oxford & Cambridge), The National Lottery Heritage Trade-Up Programme, DCMS Contract Readiness Programme, & more.

  • Online & in-person training, bootcamps, workshops and guest lectures on;

    • Supporting Social Ventures - a two day bootcamp for University professionals who support academic and student founders.

    • How to leverage Gen AI

    • Scaling a Mission-Led Business

    • Building prototypes with AI

    • Bootstrapped marketing for Start-Ups

    • Crowd funding your Start-Up

    Delivered for LSE, Uni of Reading, Uni of Bristol, TechSpark, WECA, Business West & more.

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    • Empowering purpose-led leaders & teams to work smarter with Generative AI.

    • Demystifying AI by providing pragmatic ways to integrate effective tools into your ways of working.

    • From securing funding to scaling impact, I help organisations understand and embed generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gamma and SciSpace into daily workflows.

    • Support organisations to automate and semi-automate workflows using tools such as Zapier.

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    • Mentoring & coaching for early-stage founders.

    • Application assessment and panellist for programmes, accelerators, grants, funding & investment.

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About me

Hi, I’m Blué O’Connor - consultant at Impact Co.Lab, Social Venture Manager at the London School of Economics, Director (Fractional) at Talk Club and Director at Zion Community Café and Events space.

I support impact and social ventures, charities, social enterprises and mission-led businesses to deliver more impact.

With a background spanning aerospace engineering, business support, impact entrepreneurship and higher education, I’ve started my own impact ventures and supported hundreds of others across the UK; from community cafés to university spinouts.

Along the way, I’ve had some successes (Talk Club), failures (KINGS), awards, scholarships and more,
but what continues to drive me is seeing and supporting organisations deliver impact in the world so that we can improve society and the lives of people across the globe.

I know first-hand how hard it can be to start, scale and finance a business, and that’s why I’m passionate and driven to design and deliver impactful support, entrepreneurship programmes, and help founders launch and fund their ideas,

Customers

  • I really appreciated the session, it was clear, relevant, and well-delivered; very approachable and supportive. I’d be glad to see more of this kind of delivery embedded into the curriculum

    Dr Anna de Amicis - Lecturer in Management & Media, University of Reading

  • I have learnt new things. Blown away really. Presenter was very welcoming. Information was clear, varied and interactive. I feel less nervous about AI because I feel more curious and now keen to apply it in my work. A very big thank you to the presenter. He was a natural.

    Attendee, Leveraging Generative AI Workshop

  • Absolutely perfect, the best two-hour Zoom call I’ve ever been on!”

    AI for Business Planning (Tech for Growth) Workshop Attendee

  • Great content and delivery. What an excellent introduction. Opened the door to wider use of AI.

    AI for Business Planning (Tech for Growth) Workshop Attendee

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If you want to discuss how Impact Works could support you and your organisation, then please arrange a free 30-minute exploration call.