Hanadi Jabado is a start-up advisor, angel investor and non-executive who is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation. She supports early-stage businesses across a range of sectors with a focus on healthcare and deep-tech. In 2012, Hanadi was the driving force behind the creation of Accelerate Cambridge, which contributed to the Cambridge entrepreneurial cluster by providing help and support to innovators and entrepreneurs. Hanadi has supported the creation and scale-up of over 180 early stage ventures, building a portfolio of an estimated collective value of £1.5bn and over £300m of risk capital raised. In early 2016, Hanadi was appointed Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Since January 2019, Hanadi has centred her work around the investment needs of early stage ventures and more specifically, the funding gap in the UK for ambitious life-sciences and biotech businesses. This led to the creation of CMS Ventures, and Hanadi’s appointment as its managing director. CMS Ventures is an early-stage investor based in Cambridge investing in Biotech & Life Sciences start-ups in the UK with a focus on the 4Ds (Drugs, Devices, Diagnostics, and Digital) and privileged access to international markets, in particular China. In September 2021, Hanadi was appointed to the Innovate UK innovation loans Credit Committee as an external member. Most recently she has become the Managing Partner for Sana Capital, an investment fund which aims to drive innovation that can heal the world, demystifying deep tech at scale to drive positive change.