David Rowan

Background

About David Rowan

NB For speaking inquiries, please email web [at] davidrowan.com. Thanks! I don't respond here to funding pitches from startups. I was founding Editor-in-chief of WIRED’s UK edition (2008-17). I’ve given more than 600 keynotes and channel my earnings from speaking into startup investing. I'm an early-stage investor in more than 80 tech companies, including Improbable (UK, simulation software), Grammarly (US/Ukraine, AI for writing), Unbabel (Portugal, translation with AI and humans), Maven Clinic (US, women's health) and Onfido (UK, identity verification). I manage the VOYAGERS Climate-Tech and Health-Tech Funds. I advise founders on brand storytelling. I'm the author of the Amazon #1 Business Best-seller “Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Minds” (Penguin, 2019), a 20-country quest for bold corporate innovation in the face of technology-led disruption. I run a not-for-profit project called VOYAGERS.io that organises weekend adventures and digital networking to build close friendships and community. We have communities specifically for people working in health-tech and in climate-tech. We run funds to back talent in our community. At WIRED I built a conference business,"consulting" business and digital/video businesses. I spent 10 years as an editor at The Guardian and trained as a journalist at The Times. I've been a technology columnist for The Times, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller and The Sunday Times. For speaking inquiries, please email web [at] davidrowan.com.