Barclays Black Founder Accelerator

2026 Cohort

Say hello to the cohort of the 2026 Barclays Black Founder Accelerator. Find out the amazing companies that made this cohort an absolute success.

The Barclays Black Founder Accelerator in Numbers

The Barclays Black Founder Accelerator is a dedicated 12-week programme designed to champion Black founder-led businesses through a series of masterclasses and one-to-one mentoring to help them accelerate and grow.
41.3%
Businesses outside of London
£623k+
Revenue earned
45%
Businesses led by women
7%
Businesses led by disabled founders
Clubbera
Clubbera
MindMap
MindMap
EdenFi
EdenFi
intotheopen
intotheopen
Ascendant Ventures LTD dba Focused Flow
Ascendant Ventures LTD dba Focused Flow
PalmVault Ltd.
PalmVault Ltd.
Shop Quick AI
Shop Quick AI
Thoth London Ltd.
Thoth London Ltd.
Driscop Ltd.
Driscop Ltd.
Linearlabs Limited
Linearlabs Limited
Oursisters Clinic
Oursisters Clinic
Haxo Labs
Haxo Labs
Tinkr Digital
Tinkr Digital
Ziphii Ltd.
Ziphii Ltd.
Steleo Publishing Ltd.
Steleo Publishing Ltd.
Kua HR
Kua HR
EducationUnite Limited
EducationUnite Limited
Yes Gurl
Yes Gurl
The CS - Certainlyours
The CS - Certainlyours
Harper AI
Harper AI
CostNav Limited
CostNav Limited
Bills Included
Bills Included
LEMP
LEMP
The Florence and Sylvia Collective
The Florence and Sylvia Collective
Sabon Salo
Sabon Salo
SustainWyse
SustainWyse
Prosomio
Prosomio
TechIT AppIT
TechIT AppIT

Clubbera

Promise Ofole is the Founder and CEO of Clubbera, a community and events platform designed to help people relocate and belong. Combining an MSc in Project Management with a BSc in Information Science, Promise drives lean execution and strategic growth, successfully expanding Clubbera’s MVP into multiple UK city pilots.
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MindMap

Opeyemi David Babatunde is the Founder of MindMap, an AI-powered mental health platform designed to make wellbeing support accessible and personalised. Driven by personal experience, David leverages his professional background to lead an international team, utilizing proactive AI technology to connect users with trusted, evidence-based mental health services and community support.
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EdenFi

Ezra Akran is the Owner and Director of EdenFi, a next-generation financial platform simplifying global cross-border remittances. Built for a digital-first generation, Ezra leads the platform in utilizing stablecoins to enable instant, low-cost international transfers and multi-currency virtual accounts, transforming how individuals and businesses across Africa move value.
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intotheopen

Emmanuel Lawal is the Founder of intotheopen, a content performance operating system designed for marketing and communications agencies. The platform provides data-driven insights that help agencies predict content performance before publication and optimize engagement afterward, streamlining the content creation process for maximum impact.
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Ascendant Ventures LTD dba Focused Flow

Kishia Wolfe is the Founder of Focused Flow, a London-based AI productivity platform built specifically for neurodivergent adults. Kishia leads the clinically-informed platform in combining adaptive AI scheduling, virtual body doubling, and friction-free task capture, designing a solution tailored to how the ADHD brain actually works.
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PalmVault Ltd.

Amarachi Clarke is the Founder of PalmVault, a decentralized, privacy-first authentication and entitlement platform designed to replace legacy access systems. PalmVault’s architecture is patent pending, which utilizes cryptographic challenge-responses and on-device biometrics to eliminate central databases, ensuring secure, offline-capable physical access infrastructure.
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Shop Quick AI

Ade Aina-Marshall is the Founder of ShopQuick, the UK’s grocery data infrastructure layer designed to help households save over £1,000 annually. Leveraging his IT project management background, the AI-powered platform in utilizes real-time pricing and receipt OCR to provide unbiased, shopper-first supermarket pricing intelligence.
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Thoth London Ltd.

Alan Hunte is the Founder of Thoth London, a pioneering Climate Tech venture accelerating the global transition to a clean energy economy. The Black-led enterprise delivers AI-driven environmental monitoring and sustainable infrastructure solutions, leveraging deep-tech innovation and international partnerships to decarbonize the built environment.
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Driscop Ltd.

Idris Ayoade is the Founder of Driscop, an AI-powered cybersecurity startup protecting individuals and small businesses from phishing and SMS scams. Utilizing his background in cybersecurity and AI, Idris leads the development of human-centered, real-time threat detection tools while actively improving digital literacy and resilience within underserved communities.
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Linearlabs Limited

Chris Felder is the Founder of LinearLabs, a London-based AI company transforming complex data into decision-grade intelligence. Chris leads the development of AgriOptic, a flagship platform utilizing AI to convert radar satellite data into cloud-free, verified optical imagery, supporting precision agriculture, crop forecasting, and soil carbon verification markets.
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Oursisters Clinic

Priscilla Addai is the Founder of MaternityLink, a maternity continuity platform addressing critical disparities in UK healthcare, where Black women face significantly higher mortality risks. Drawing from her medical background and personal experiences, Priscilla developed a digital passport system ensuring auditable care, seamless data sharing, and tailored cultural intelligence.
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Haxo Labs

Diana Evans is the Founder of Haxo Labs, a research and engineering company advancing intelligent software infrastructure. Diana leads the company in bridging applied AI research and real-world delivery, notably through boafuo, an entirely WhatsApp-based AI assistant optimizing order management and client communication for professional tailors.
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Tinkr Digital

Omari McCarthy is the Founder of Tinkr, an AI-powered bedtime support product helping parents of young children reduce evening stress. Omari leads the development of this adaptive behavioral storytelling system, which uses daily parental inputs to create personalized calming stories that ease children into sleep and improve family routines.
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Ziphii Ltd.

Nweike Onwuyali is the Founder of Ziphii, a UK-based technology company pioneering Software-as-an-Experience (SaaX). Nweike leads the platform in replacing fragmented tools with unified digital experiences, utilizing the iConnect Suite and Dual-Context AI to help organizations maintain continuous, context-rich relationships and support workflows with their customers.
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Steleo Publishing Ltd.

Stevie Hayes is the Founder of Steleo Publishing Ltd, building the UK’s only paired legal-technology platform for individuals facing civil regulatory penalties. Leveraging twenty-plus years of senior technical delivery experience, Stevie created trademarked Shield and Sword compliance tools to help private landlords prevent disputes and generate court-compliant evidence bundles.
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Kua HR

Oluwaseun Odusanya is the Owner and Director of Kua HR, a unified payroll, HR, and API platform purpose-built for the African workforce. Oluwaseun leads the platform in delivering automated compliance and instant cross-border payouts, driving Kua HR’s mission to become the default continent-wide payroll infrastructure by 2030.
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EducationUnite Limited

Adiva Peters is the Founder of Education Unite, an early-stage education startup tackling declining student wellbeing and low achievement in GCSE maths. Leveraging over 11 years of STEM tutoring experience, Adiva leads the platform in combining AI-powered EdTech with tailored student resources to improve academic engagement and performance.
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Yes Gurl

Annette Christian is the Founder of Yes Gurl, a friendship app and community helping Gen Z and millennial women make meaningful connections. Annette leads the platform in matching users by personality type, pairing the digital app with high-impact in-person events across London to foster genuine, real-life female friendships globally.
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The CS - Certainlyours

Joshua Burton is the Founder and CEO of Certainlyours, the UK’s first compliance-led tipping and portable reputation platform for client-facing professionals. Drawing from 15 years of industry experience, Joshua leads the platform in providing workers with a trusted, legally compliant way to receive tips and build a portable professional identity.
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Harper AI

TK Gondo is the CEO of Harper AI, a financial data platform designed to fix the systemic failures in Britain’s property development lending. TK, alongside a seasoned co-founding team, leads the platform in structuring fragmented data into real-time market signals, helping lenders efficiently fund the next generation of UK housing.
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CostNav Limited

Olabimpe Oladimeji is the Founder of CostNav, a financial operating system for the global creative food economy. Drawing from 17 years as a professional baker and extensive product leadership credentials, Olabimpe leads a five-person team in delivering a live platform that automates recipe costing, order management, and analytics for food entrepreneurs.
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Bills Included

Hussein Akins is the Founder of Bills Included, a UK proptech platform and social enterprise bringing transparency to the rental market. Hussein leads the specialized property portal in connecting renters, landlords, and local authorities, notably through council pilots designed to reduce expensive temporary accommodation placements by securing stable, bills-included housing.
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LEMP

Amber Idumwonyi is the Founder of Lyfebites LEMP Ltd (LEMP), a multi-division organization focused on talent development and digital product delivery. Amber leads the platform in combining intensive bootcamps with practical internship projects, successfully helping over 150 individuals secure employment while supporting startups to build and scale digital products.
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The Florence and Sylvia Collective

Cynthia and Dorcas are the Co-founders of The Florence and Sylvia Collective, a platform providing culturally inclusive therapeutic care for people of the Global Majority. Leveraging over 20 years of combined NHS and private practice experience, they address systemic healthcare barriers to empower Black female practitioners and clients.
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Sabon Salo

Dr. Zainab Mohammed is the Founder of Sabon Salo, a curated modest fashion platform bridging culture, style, and accessibility. Leveraging her expertise as a stylist and personal shopper, Dr. Mohammed leads the direct-to-consumer e-commerce brand in delivering premium, globally sourced designs to modest fashion consumers across the UK and international markets.
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SustainWyse

Oluwatobi Balogun is the Founder of SustainWyse, an AI-powered ESG infrastructure platform built for emerging market SMEs, startups, and accelerators. Originating from Oluwatobi's MBA research, the platform provides regionally calibrated ESG baselines, automated peer benchmarking, and portfolio dashboards to help businesses easily collect, assess, and report vital sustainability data.
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Prosomio

Dr. Olutosin Awoyemi is the Founder of Prosomio, a platform designed to help medical trainees improve their clinical consultation skills. Leveraging his experience as a General Practitioner and Associate Professor, Dr. Awoyemi developed the platform to provide realistic consultation practice, case creation, and progress monitoring for clinical assessments.
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TechIT AppIT

Suezette Asare is the Founder of TechIT AppIT Ltd, a healthcare technology company helping providers across England and Wales improve compliance oversight and inspection readiness. Suezette leads the company in delivering the Care Data Management Solution (CDMS), a digital system that centralizes audits, staff compliance, and governance to streamline operations.
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