Rachel Abernethy

Social Ventures Lead, Oxford University Innovation

Rachel Abernethy is Social Ventures Lead at Oxford University Innovation. She enables Oxford University research, staff and students to have broader impact by supporting the 21 social ventures in the OUI portfolio, and those in the pipeline, with business planning, customer acquisition, grant writing, fundraising, corporate governance, theory of change, impact measurement, and team development. She also leads ImpactU, which provides £1m of seed funding to social ventures from English universities. Her previous experience is in managing ClimateTech and HealthTech entrepreneurship education programmes at Africa-Oxford Initiative and Creative Destruction Lab.