Jess manages early-stage venture investments in technology, healthcare and impact sectors. She leads PXN’s PraeSeed course, the first cohort investment programme in the North supported by British Business Bank’s NPIF II initiative. Before joining PXN, she was the Head of Investments at GC Angels, where she led and structured numerous early-stage deals across the North West that saw 50% of its capital deployed into Female founded companies and around 20% to BME founders. Jess also sits on Lifted Ventures’ High Growth Female Founders board for the North West, a collective supporting female-led businesses in the region.