Rishi Khosla
Founder @ OakNorth
London, United Kingdom
Rishi Khosla is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and investor. He is the CEO and co-founder of leading financial technology company, OakNorth, which is focused on helping SMEs scale.Rishi is a champion of entrepreneurs - who he feels are the real drivers of innovation, social progress, and economic growth - and believes that everyone can prosperby adopting an entrepreneurial mindset.This vision led Rishi to build his first business, Copal Partners (which later became Copal Amba) in 2002 with his business partner, Joel Perlman. Together, they grew the business to 3,000 employees across 11 markets, before selling it to Moody’s Corporation in 2014.In 2015, they launched OakNorth with the aim of empowering high-growth businesses struggling to access fast, flexible finance; what OakNorth calls the ‘Missing Middle’. OakNorth developed ON Credit Intelligence to transform commercial banking, making it more granular, data-driven and forward-looking. The neobank, which began as an entrepreneurial vision, has supported the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs across the UK, and is helping tackle the UK’s housing crisis through supporting the development of tens of thousands of new social and affordable homes.Rishi Khosla is dedicated to promoting a culture of entrepreneurialism and empowering the entrepreneurial mindset in others. He does so personally through his involvement in initiatives such as the ‘Mentorpreneurship’ Programme in partnership with the London School of Economics https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/research-and-innovation/generate/mentorpreneurship Through his family foundation, he supports work to nurture agency, creativity, and curiosity in early childhood development that will enable people to unleash their potential later in life, as well as supporting medical research into rare diseases, and initiatives which support female empowerment.Rishi is an early-stage investor in Paypal, with other investments including About Energy (battery technology), Spiracheck (biotech), and Xometry (3D printing and manufacturing).
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Rishi Khosla invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Battery 1 (50%)
- Real Estate 1 (50%)
- Intelligent Systems 1 (50%)
- Information Technology 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Debt Financing 1 (50%)
Country
- Ireland 1 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (50%)
Investments
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About:Energy
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About:Energy is a battery intelligence platform that combines world-leading expertise in battery testing and software. | $1.9M / Seed / Jun 08, 2023 | |
Staycity
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Staycity is a serviced apartments provider. | $20.9M / Debt Financing / Jan 16, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About OakNorth
OakNorth had a fundamental purpose: to serve and empower established small-to-medium sized businesses (SMEs) that were seeking to scale but were routinely underserved or overlooked by traditional banks: what it calls the ‘Missing Middle’.Its founders, Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman, had experienced this first-hand while scaling their previouscompany - Copal. In 2015, three years after launching that business, they applied for a bank loan and the ‘computer said ‘no’’, despite their business being profitable. The products, services, and experience needed to make their lives as a scaling business easier, and enable them to reach their full potential, were ‘missing’ from banks’ offerings.As entrepreneurs, their response was to build what was missing: a neobank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.To date, its bespoke debt finance solutions have supported property developers, care homes, specialist schools and nurseries, hotels, bars and restaurants, pub operators, as well as fund and specialist finance providers. With a range of specialist secured and unsecured business loans, OakNorth caters to the growth plans of businesses, without asking them to give up equity.Despite experiencing not one, but two unprecedented events – Brexit and COVID-19 – since its launch, the bank has continued supporting growth businesses across the UK. It’s lent over £10 billion to date, directly helping with the creation of almost tens of thousands of new jobs and new homes (the significant majority of which are affordable and social housing).Its data-led approach allows it to look at the future, rather than just fixating on the past, meaning it avoids making decisions based on outdated financials. Using data and analytics, it builds up a granular view of every business in its portfolio, combining this with forward-looking scenario analysis, to enable it to be a trusted funding partner as the business scales, and continue confidently lending through economic cycles and unprecedented events.By behaving as reliable, long-term partners to its customers throughout the pandemic, rather than just bankers, it has been able to make them its best advocates. As a result, c.80% of its new lending comes via referrals, and 40% of its borrowers are repeat customers.
OakNorth Contacts
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Tiffany Teng
VP, Head Of Sales Operations
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Adam Agius
Director, Debt Finance
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Amit Shah
Managing Director
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Damien Hughes
Senior Director, Debt Finance (OakNorth Bank)
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Jessica Reiter
Chief Marketing Officer
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What does Rishi Khosla invest in?
Rishi Khosla invests primarily in Battery, Real Estate and Intelligent Systems startups, most often at Seed and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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