Virgin StartUp
Careers at Virgin StartUp
We’re Virgin StartUp, a not-for-profit organisation that exists to help founders start up and thrive.
We know there’s a lot that goes into starting your business, so we’re here to help on all fronts - advice, access to funding, mentoring, training and sometimes just a friendly shoulder to lean on.
We provide straight talk and useful advice to make the entrepreneurial road less bumpy and access to a supportive and dynamic community to help you have some fun along the way.
Currently only one in five start-ups in the UK has a woman founder – we think that’s something that needs to change. In 2019 we became the first startup support organisation to pledge equal funding for men and women with our 50:50 pledge.
Virgin Startup supports founders and future founders as they get their startup ideas off the ground, all the way through to raising investment and scaling up. You can find out more about our support and programmes below:
Start Up Loans - https://www.virginstartup.org/start-up-loans
Virgin StartUp are one of the leading Delivery Partners of the Start Up Loans programme, a Government-backed scheme to help founders get their businesses funded. A Start Up Loan is a personal loan for founders looking to start or grow their businesses. You can borrow between £500 - £25,000 per co-founder and must be at idea stage or trading less than 3 years.
Founders who receive a Start Up Loan enter our Funded Club and get access to a range of support for 12 months, including mentoring, a free advice helpline and webinars. We’ve supported nearly 5,000 founders with Start Up Loans.
StepUp - https://www.virginstartup.org/step-up
StepUp is a free 3-day online programme, designed for London-based founders who want to take their businesses to the next level, typically trading for 6 months or more. The programme includes a series of workshops on topics like branding, marketing, fundraising and networking opportunities to develop founders' skills across branding, sales, funding and investment, to help take their businesses to the next level.
Collective Impact - https://www.virginstartup.org/virgin-startup-collective-impact
Collective Impact is an online accelerator designed for purpose-led startups looking to scale their impact by raising initial investment. The 12 founders from our July 2022 programme have raised more than £2.9 million investment.
Angel Investment Accelerator - https://www.virginstartup.org/virgin-startup-angel-investment-accelerator
Our exclusive new accelerator supercharges founders to investment readiness and allows them to practice their pitch with angel investors along the way.
Virgin StartUp run regular online events, including recent MeetUps featuring experts and leaders including Simon Sinek - https://www.virginstartup.org/news/simon-sinek-power-human-connection-should-be-heart-future-business. Check out the latest one at https://www.virginstartup.org/events.
Find out more about Virgin StartUp here https://www.virginstartup.org
Escape's take on Virgin StartUp
Virgin StartUp’s mission is to help the UK’s entrepreneurs get the backing they need to make their great ideas a reality. They’re a not-for-profit organisation and part of the Virgin family, founded by Sir Richard Branson in 2013. They’ve supported people to start and grow their own businesses with government-backed loans, mentoring programmes, and resources for founders. Not only are they doing great things for the UK’s startup community, but they’re also a dynamic, entrepreneurial and values-led organisation to work for. Why not check out their latest role?
Stats we are proud of
4800+
Number of Founders supported with start up funding
£60m+
Total funding provided to start ups based in the UK
50:50
We're committed to funding men and women founders equally
£20m+
Combined fundraising total from our accelerator alumni
Behind the scenes
Benefits & progressive ways of working
🌍 Flexible working
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Flex hours
Nomad friendly
UK - remote
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Enhanced holidays
Unlimited holidays
💷 Financial benefits
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Bonuses paid
🧘 Health & Wellbeing benefits
Private health care
Private healthcare cover
🧰 General benefits
Flexi budget
Flexible budget
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What the team says
Best for...
(as reviewed by current employees)
* Employees annoymously reviewed this organisation as part of our Escape 100: Top Organisations to escape to campaign.
Employee
Jan 2021
An authentically purposeful business everyone works together to create and deliver for founders. The Virgin group are so supportive too and give us support and freedom to make a difference. Great perks support and part of the wider Virgin group mean there are so many interesting areas to hear about and learn from Space to Climate Change Holidays to Health and everything in between!- PR
Paul Rayner
Jan 2021
As a place to work, I can't recommend Virgin StartUp highly enough. It's everything you'd expect from the Virgin stable and everything you'd want as a place to work - talented, helpful, hard working, approachable colleagues and an entrepreneurial approach to helping business Founders. The management team is top notch; passionate, approachable and committed. It's the first place I've ever worked where office politics are left at the front door. A breath of fresh air! - R
Rosie
Jan 2021
Really great flexible side-job for entrepreneurs. The paid mentoring work is rewarding and works well around my main job (running my own company).
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