Lauren Pilgreen

Lauren Pilgreen is currently a Senior Venture Associate at Sustainable Ventures, where Lauren leads the Ignite with Ebico consultancy programme and focuses on commercialisation, investment readiness, and business development activities for early-stage startups. Prior to this, Lauren was a Business Development Manager at Fox + Hare, where Lauren sourced and closed deals for various clients, bringing in £2.5m in new business. Lauren also founded Portrait Pals, a dissolved social enterprise, and has experience as a Venture Consultant and Operations Manager in the retail and jewellery industries. Lauren has a background in womenswear design and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at Bayes Business School.