# Francesca O'Brien

> Francesca O'Brien is a startup investor at SyndicateRoom (Cambridge). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SyndicateRoom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/syndicateroom)
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francescaobrien/

Francesca O'Brien is a startup investor at SyndicateRoom in Cambridge. Fran is responsible for managing the private deals listed on SyndicateRoom.She graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge, where she read Part I History; Part II Psychology, before completing a Graduate Diploma in Law in London.Fran previously worked with one of the legal teams responsible for preparing victim and witness statements for theLeveson Inquiry, and within the schools and education department of the London Borough of Ealing Council. She joined SyndicateRoom to immerse herself in the unique challenge that comes from working at an ambitious, rapidly growing company, within an exciting and disruptive industry.Fran is interested in all aspects of psychology, especially those related to business and behaviours.

## About SyndicateRoom

VC Fund · Cambridge, United Kingdom

SyndicateRoom is fintech company made up of data-scientists, investment professionals, software developers and marketers with one mission: to be an early investor in every British startup success story.To do this – and make fund investors money – we don’t try to spot the next Big Thing.Instead, we apply a data-driven model to portfolioconstruction; a repeatable process designed to maximise returns and minimise risk for fund investors. As such, we build startup portfolios that don’t attempt to predict the future; they work to stack the odds in investors’ favour.Our fund, Access EIS, aims to build investors a diversified portfolio of 50+ companies by co‑investing exclusively with some of the UK’s best-performing angel investors.

5 contacts available at SyndicateRoom.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Francesca O'Brien | Head of Clients & Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francesca-o-brien |
| Graham Schwikkard | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-schwikkard |
| Jonathan Milner | Non-Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-milner |
| Marcin Zaba | Head of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcin-zaba |
| Tom Britton | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-britton |

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