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Stefanie Mulder

Program Manager at Startup Discovery School

London Area, United Kingdom

Overview 

Stefanie Mulder is an Accelerator Manager at Startup Discovery School in London, specializing in entrepreneurship, online marketing strategy, and social media communications. With a background in founding Nusa Ventures and experience at Seedrs as an Investment Associate, Stefanie has a strong track record in strategic planning and leadership roles within the startup ecosystem. Stefanie has held key positions such as President of King's Entrepreneurs Society and Varsity Pitch Competition Lead at NACUE, showcasing her expertise in fundraising, brand ideation, and program management in the entrepreneurial space.

Work Experience 

  • Program Manager, The Greenhouse Accelerator

    2025 - Current

    The Greenhouse is Undaunted's flagship accelerator programme supporting early-stage cleantech startups. A partnership between Imperial College London & The Royal Institution.

  • Global Shaper

    2024

    The WEF Global Shapers Community is a global movement of young people influencing positive change through dialogue and action, with over 500 city-based hubs in 150 countries.

  • Venture Scout

    2024

    Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm that finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough businesses for a better human future. We invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. www.adaventures.com

  • Founder

    2019

    Startup consulting business. Advising early-stage entrepreneurs on ideation, validation, customer development, pitch decks, and more to gain initial traction and prepare for first investor conversations.

  • Program Manager

    2023 - 2025

    Startup acceleration programmes at the intersection of diversity and sustainability. Running the Just Transition Accelerator, Women in Impact Programme, and Building Greener. Launched SDS Africa, West Africa's First climate-focused, gender-lense venture studio, in partnership with Autodesk Foundation and Sahara Impact Ventures.

  • Investment Associate

    2022 - 2023

    Seedrs connects the best startups in Europe with ambitious investors. Helping startups plan, strategise and execute their pre-seed and seed rounds (£100k to £2m+) through raising investment from funds, high-net-worth individuals, their community and Seedrs investors.

  • Visiting Investment Associate

    2022 - 2022

    Antler is a global early-stage venture capital firm that enables and invests in the world's most exceptional people, by building complementary co-founder teams, supporting the teams with deep business model validation and providing a global platform for scaling. To date, Antler has invested in over 300 companies globally across 30 different industries.

  • Varsity Pitch Competition Lead

    2021 - 2022

    Led all communications for the Varsity Pitch Competition 2021 and 2022, NACUE's annual pitch competition for student entrepreneurs. Planned and executed social media content aligned with headline sponsor and for approval from category sponsors. Developed supporting marketing and communication efforts for recruitment and promotion of the competition. Provided operational support on daily execution of the competition where needed. Continue to support on social media

  • Accelerator Programme Associate

    2020 - 2021

    Supporting Head of Ventures with management of King's20 Accelerator Programme. Executional and operational support with planning and managing key events such as Demo Day 2020 and 2021, transitioning the programme online due to Covid-19 and preparing and selecting next accelerator cohorts. Managed stakeholder relations through researching, planning and executing communications to key groups including 20 current ventures, 80 alumni ventures, and a 500+ investor community.

  • Communications Assistant

    2019 - 2020

    Planned and executed social media and communications strategy to promote various EI programmes and events to build and engage an online community of students, faculties, and external partners. Led #EntrepreneuriALLFest campaign design and online promotion, resulting in 30% increase in online engagement.

  • President

    2019 - 2020

    Led team of 16 across 4 committee departments to deliver workshops and events to the 1500+ community of student entrepreneurs at King's College London. Developed 2019/20 strategy to achieve KES vision. Ensured effective cross-departmental operation and managed relationships with external sponsors and partners.

  • Marketing Associate

    2018 - 2019

    Supported expansion of 1.5k member network by developing and executing online digital marketing strategy. This included creating social media channels, promotional posts and event graphics.

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