Zoë Reich

Zoë Reich has held a variety of roles in the tech industry since 2021. Zoë is currently a Fund Manager for Deep Tech at Octopus Ventures, where they help pioneers change the world. In 2021, they were a VC Mentor for the MBA VC Challenge at Cambridge Judge Business School and an Advisor for EIT Health and ICURe SETsquared. Zoë also set up and managed the first Imperial deep tech, Seed/ Series A Fund since Touchstone Innovations and the Medtech Superconnector Seed Fund. In 2022, they became an Investor Director at Phlux Technology, Living Optics, Papercup, and ORCA Computing. Zoë is also a Business Innovation Forum Member and Panellist for Research commercialisation - Science, Research and Innovation at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Zoë Reich has studied at the University of Cambridge, where they focused on Volcanology, and at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where they studied Entrepreneurial Finance. Zoë then obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Birmingham. Zoë also completed a Venture Capital Foundation program at the British Venture Capital Association and certification from CIMA.