Evaldas Girskus

Bedrokk

CEO & Founder

CBRX

GTM Advisor

Dena Startup Lab

GTM Mentor

Equipzilla

Trade Foresight™

SIZZL

Grape ID™

PlaySpark

Off U Go!

Advisory Board Member

Founders Sunday

Founded the global community “Founders Sunday”. 

It serves as a non-profit educational platform and support for founders in all continents of the world (1100 + start-ups/scale-ups) 

The community meets up every Friday at 1 pm CET on zoom for lively discussions related to the founder's journey (#founderscoffee☕️) 

For founders - By Founders 💡 

Co-founders/ founders: Ragnhild, Donnie, Sammy, Gunnvor and Håvard.

Co-Founder

Protecting Founder's Equity by Unlocking Revenue-Growth for Startups | Mitigating Investor Risk through Strategic Portfolio Support | Helped 300+ Founders Build Startups | 3 x Founder | Advisor | Board Member

We help founders turn their vision into reality. 

We are a team of founders and industry experts who understand the challenges startups face, and we'll teach you how to overcome them.

Here's how we can help:

Investors ↴

VC Funds, Family Offices, Syndicates and Angel Investors ↴

→ COMMERCIAL DUE DILLIGENCE 

Minimising VC fund Risk and Maximising Portfolio Value through Strategic Growth Support

Founders ↴

Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A ↴

→ CUSTOMISED GTM STRATEGY 

We do all the heavy lifting for you by putting together a Go-To-Market strategy that focuses on solving your immediate needs.

→ DONE WITH YOU (DWY) EXECUTION 

Teaching you the same thinking process, strategies, and skills that have helped us generate MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ARR.

→ STARTUP GROWTH ACCELERATION 

Streamlining your startup's growth by avoiding critical mistakes, focusing on the right things, and doubling down on what works.

We helped scale and grow companies such as VireUp, Ethiack, Equipzilla, Next Retreat, Tradeforesight, Sizzl, CBRX, Playspark, and many other startups.

Shoot me a DM if you're building a B2C/B2B SaaS, Marketplace, Mobile App, or AI startup.

Are you ready?

www.bedrokk.com

Endgame Capital

Founding team member at Endgame Capital, investing in 'climate-denier-proof' early stage climate tech startups. 

Hmu... thomas (dot) panton (at) endgamecapital (dot) vc 🔥

Founding Associate

hubble

Advising on everything startup fundraising, climate tech strategy, and early-stage founder therapy.

Advisor

Undaunted (formerly the Centre for Climate Change Innovation)

Advising and mentoring the next generation of climate tech founders 🌳

Startup Mentor

Techstars

Mentoring the world's best preseed tech startups 🔥

Queen Mary Social Venture Fund

Advising and mentoring students working for the Queen Mary Social Venture Fund - the first student-led social impact venture capital fund investing in student-led social ventures in the UK.

Business Mentor

Virgin StartUp

Advising and mentoring mission-driven entrepreneurs 🔥

Startup Advisor

Self

Active:
- Ecologi
- Crowdcube
- OxWash
- &SISTERS
- OceanSaver
- Ethosa
- Storiboard

Exited:
- Freetrade (exit to IG Group)
- Wearth London (exit to Veo World)

Closed:
- Circa5000 (closed)
- Beagle Button (closed)
- Novus World (closed)

Angel Investor

Public speaker at major events including London Climate Technology Show, Retail Without Borders, Blue Earth Summit, Ideas Fest, Full Charged Live, BBC Radio, and more.

Public Speaker

Intro

Offering founders and startups advice on various topics 📣

Expert on Intro | Book a 1:1 Session Now ⬇️

Canopey

The home for buying better®

Streamlining ethical consumerism.

Asset sale to BRiMM in 2024.

Founder & CEO

3 x Founder | Techstars Mentor | LinkedIn Top Green Voice | Ex-Greenpeace | MSc Climate Change | Ex-International Swimmer | Muslim Revert ☪️

Climate Tech VC | 3 x venture-backed founder | Startup mentor | ex-international swimmer | ex-Greenpeace

Views are my own and not representative of my company or any associated organisations. 

I don’t often reply to LinkedIn messages, better to connect with me via email or a mutual. If you send me a connection request, please add a note for context. 

Looking for mentoring/advising for your startup? Go here: https://www.hubble.social/thomaspanton

Read more here: https://www.thomaspanton.com/

TLDR:
- Climate tech VC
- 3 x founder
- Startup Mentor @ Techstars, Imperial College London, Virgin Startup, and more
- Climate is intersectional, and I talk about this
- Ex-international swimmer.

Worked for the world's largest independent environmental organisation Greenpeace for half a decade, and directly onboarded 10s of 1000s of people into the climate movement.

———

Currently:

💰 Climate tech VC @ Endgame Capital investing in near commercialisation, low capex, climate denier proof climate tech.

👨🏼‍🏫 Mentor & advisor to founders and students @ Techstars, The Greenhouse (Imperial College), Virgin Startup, UCL, and UEA Student Enterprise.

🗣️ Keynote speaker at events including London Climate Tech Week, Fully Charged Live, Blue Earth Summit, Retail Without Borders, BBC, and more.

Previously:

🌳 Founder & CEO of Canopey.com. The home for better buying™. The only platform to completely streamline the sustainable shopping journey.

💚 Greenpeace UK, experience with speaking, fundraising, events, and campaigning.

♻️ Founder & CEO of Festovers, upcycling leftover consumer waste. One of IQ Mag's Green Guardians. BBC Oxford's expert on festival tent waste and sustainability.

📣 Co-creator of The Topic, with Nadiah Arif. A podcast that talks about everything from climate change to human rights, raising awareness on these important issues and educating people on how to get more involved in challenging the status quo.

⛺️ NED for Pitched For You Ltd, the first circular economy solution to the festival tent crisis.

🎓 BA International Relations and Politics (2014-2018) // MSc in Climate Change and International Development (2021-23)

🤝🏻  Norfolk Business Climate Leader & Advisor for Norfolk Chambers of Commerce

💡 UEA student career and entrepreneur mentor

Thomas Panton

This is the best London coworking space you’ve never heard of.

And it’s a place founders, investors, and remote workers can support today to build a better world.

👉🏻 Shift your coworking space membership from WeWork (or similar) to Palestine House. 

🇵🇸 Palestine House was set up as a vibrant cultural and community hub in the heart of London, designed to embody the spirit and heritage of Palestine. 

Here, creativity meets advocacy, and every conversation, event, or project carries the spirit of resilience and heritage that defines the Palestinian story.

And they have a space that we should all be supporting.

✅ Flexible co-working and membership options 
✅ Bright, central London location
✅ Multi-floor workspaces
✅ Accessible phone booths
✅ Meeting rooms with presentation screens
✅ Ultra fast WiFi 
✅ Affordable Palestinian/Lebanese restaurant below
✅ Rooftop area with balcony for chill time

And of course the thing that keeps founders and investors going alike…

☕️ A welcoming café with proper coffee!

This is everything we need to focus and flourish; surrounded by a supportive, like-minded community.

Link in the comments - happy to connect you directly with the team for any questions! 💪🏻

#CoWorking
#OfficeSpace
#MissionDrive
#Ethical
#Founders
#Startups

📸 Palestine House @ Holborn, London

Thomas Panton 🍉

Climate tech VC | Stealth Founder | Techstars Startup Mentor

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It’s Islamophobia awareness month. And most people think I’ll talk about attacks on Muslims.

Don’t get me wrong…

❌ Islamophobia is rising in the UK, it accounts for 45% of religious hate crime and is climbing 20% YOY. 

And the reality is it’s massively under-reported. 

It’s not culturally normal to report hate crime for Muslims. Generally, it is prefered to keep it to ourselves, stay strong, and trust in Allah swt.

But even with this context, reports are rising, and the stats speak for themselves.

🤷🏼‍♂️ But Islamophobia can show in many ways.

It’s not just direct attacks on our hijabi sisters, or the assumption that an Arab man must be “terrorist”.

🕌 It’s the Friday events which completely ignore our commitment to Jummah.

🧎🏼‍♂️‍➡️ It’s the lack of prayer rooms/spaces in buildings showing respect for our privacy 

🐮 It’s the lack of Halal options on the menu meaning we are instantly limited in our choice 

Almost all my Muslim brothers and sisters experience these things weekly, and often daily. 

It’s unacceptable. It’s insulting. And it’s disrespectful. 

But most of all it’s Islamophobic.

We must do better.

#Islam
#FaithInVenture
#Muslim
#Inclusivity
#Diversity

📸 Me and my friend Mohd Azzad Aiman Bin Farish during my Shahada

I'll be sitting on a panel discussion tonight for Imperial Business School that looks at AI’s growing energy appetite and its role in tackling the climate crisis.

AI & the Climate Challenge: Hype, Hope, and Hard Truths
📍 Exhibition Road, Imperial College London
⏱️ Today, 6-9:30pm

I’ll be joined by Alexander Whyte, Trigya Singh, and Paisley Ashton Holt, and the session will be moderated by Luciano Rubén Lilloy Fedele, CFA 🔸 - people working on the frontier of climate innovation and AI. 

👏🏼 Thanks to Mirabelle Muûls for hosting us!

If you’re around, come for the debate, stay for the networking after. 

Link to the event in the comment section 👇🏼

#AI
#Climate
#ClimateChange
#CCMF
#ImperialCollegeLondon

📸 Climate scientists watching AI safety researchers struggle to be listened to

I was part of Playfair's Female Founder Office Hours, and I got told I was part of the problem for doing it...

🤷🏼‍♂️ And yet everyone I spoke to on the day followed up and said how valuable it was.

Someone in the community space I sometimes use overheard that I was contributing my time to Playfair's FFOH initiative.

👉🏼 For context: FFOH is where investors give their time to speak to female founders at all stages of startup - ideally in thesis to our funds, but not specifically. This sometimes leads to investment, but it's not the aim.

The idea is that you can ask the difficult questions to the investors, get some candid feedback and advice, and ideally push you forward along the lines to build great businesses.

But I was berated for this by someone who does not partake in the sessions. 

"We don't need advice, we need money"

And I hear you. 

Female founders, particularly non-white female founders, and particularly non-white, Muslim, female founders, are chronically underfunded.

🤔 But does this render Female Founder Office Hours pointless? 
🤔 Why do the two things have to be mutually exclusive?

The FFOH initiative is valuable. 

📣 Don't take it from me - listen to the founders who I spoke to. The candid feedback, the offer to open some doors, the ability to question a real investor.

These are things EVERY founders needs, not just capital. 

💰 So yes, we need more funding for female founders building great businesses.
👉🏼 In the same way we need more funding for non-white founders building great businesses.
👉🏼 In the same way we need more funding for Muslim founders building great businesses.

But just because that's an issue that needs solving, doesn't mean we should not offer time to give insights to founders from our perspective too.

Congrats to Playfair on another brilliant FFOH, and impressed by the calibre of  founders I spoke to pushing new solutions into important markets!

#FemaleFounders
#OfficeHours
#FFOH
#Mentoring
#Funding
#Startups

There are two ways to build AI agents. The true winner will be verticalised. 

📈 Route 1: Generalist agents - Explosive hockey stick.

These startups are building something quick, and growing quick. And that's the moat.

Get as many users as possible. Scale to millions in ARR, and hope it stays sticky. 

Sometimes these companies then innovate in the background and actually build moats, but often they don't. 

This is what we're seeing mostly at the moment. Most of these will be pushed out over time.

🪏 Route 2: Verticalised agents - Reversed hockey stick.

These founders come from the market they're building for, they understand the complexities, and build to reflect that. Their moat is in specificity and accuracy.

A tie of deep market expertise with exceptional technical expertise.

Build with a handful of users. It's slower, it's not immediately headline worthy. But every user is sticky, every customer feels integrated.

As more users come, the more scalable their platform and onboarding becomes. The flywheel starts. Then they scale - extremely quickly.

These are the startups which will knock generalists out of the market over time.

👇🏼 Let's use VC as an example. 

There are A LOT of startups building generalist agents to help with sourcing, screening, due diligence, memo writing etc. Almost all of them do exactly the same thing and are not built by sector experts (consultants>VCs).

That's not to say they don't work. They do a job, but don't expect the accuracy that an Associate at your own fund will hit.

I know one of the verticalised plays that is going to blow everyone out of the water in this market. They're testing with their first users and iterating quickly.

Happy to share with those funds interested in trust, accuracy, and true value-add.

#VerticalAI
#AI
#VentureCapital
#AIAgents
#Stealth
#StealthStartup

The lessons I carry from Islam into every deal, every pitch, and every room I enter.

📚 Narrated 'Aishah: "The Messenger of Allah was asked about this Ayah: 'It is He who sent down to you the Book. In it are Ayat that are entirely clear... (3:7)' until the end of the Ayah. So the Messenger of Allah said: 'When you see those who seek what is not entirely clear thereof, then it is they whom Allah has described, so beware of them" - Jamiat-Tirmidhi (2994)  

This Hadith is a reminder that not all knowledge is equal - and not all who claim to teach are sincere.

Some chase the unclear.
Not to understand it - but to manipulate it.
To confuse, divide, or distract.

The Prophet (pbuh) warns us to be careful of these people - not because complexity is dangerous, but because twisting complexity for personal gain is.

For me, this Hadith carries three reminders:

📖 Seek clarity over confusion
Islam doesn’t ask us to know everything. But it does ask us to seek knowledge with sincerity - and to stay close to the verses and scholars that bring us closer to Allah, not further from truth.

🧠 Respond with patience, not provocation
Whether in faith, business, or life - there are always people who provoke for the sake of chaos. This Hadith reminds us: control your emotions. Stay grounded. Keep character intact, especially when it’s hardest.

🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 Trust comes with responsibility
 If you’ve been given a platform - whether in leadership, teaching, or influence - use it wisely. There is amanah in guiding others, especially when the topics are complex or emotionally charged.

In the world of startups, investing, and leadership, I’ve seen how easy it is to posture as an expert in things you don’t fully understand. 

This Hadith reminds me to stay grounded. To ask. To admit when I don’t know. 

And to be cautious of those who use knowledge to build ego, not serve truth.

Jumu’ah Mubarak 🤍

May we be among those who seek clarity, hold firm to sincerity, and build our lives with patience and humility.

#FaithInVenture
#IslamicReflections 
#Hadith
#Knowledge
#MuslimVC

📸 Putra Mosque, Putajaya, Malaysia

We’re an exclusive club,

👉🏼 Climate denier proof technologies only.

Our belief is that the best way to solve the climate crisis is to build solutions that even the climate deniers would buy.

It’s a win win win.

🦄 Win for the startup: more clients
🚀 Win for the client: faster, cheaper, better
🌍 Win for the planet: action with or without intent

So, you think you’re part of the club?

Drop us a line and come join the party!

John Mairlot Jinna Li Endgame Capital  

#ClimateChange
#ClimateDenierProof
#EndgameCapital
#FutureProof
#ClimateTech
#VentureCapital

With the first close behind us, we’re actively deploying into commercial-first climate tech.

👉🏼 If you’re building something better, faster, cheaper than today’s incumbents…

👉🏼 If you’re within 2 years of commercialization…

👉🏼 If your tech can deliver 50+ million tons of annual decarb potential…

…then we should talk.

At Endgame Capital, we invest where climate meets execution. 

If you’re preparing a raise now or soon, or know a team that is, we’d love to connect early.

Founders, scouts, operators: DMs open.

#Decarbonization
#ClimateTech
#DeepTech
#Commercial
#NoGreenwashing

We’re Endgame Capital - backing climate-denier-proof startups that scale like software and hit like infrastructure.

Follow Jinna Li, John Mairlot, and Thomas Panton 🍉 for sharp takes on climate, venture, and what’s actually working.

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