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recipe.
Ingredients
- 1oz Rhubarb gin
- 1oz Cocchi vermouth di torino
- 1oz Campari
- Large ice cube
- Orange twist garnish
Instructions
- Combine gin, vermouth, and Campari in a glass
- Add large ice cube and stir
- Over the glass, pinch the orange twist and ignite the expelled oils with a lighter
- Garnish and enjoy
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Negroni Venture Studios works with scaling companies to get them to the next stage. If you're raising, growing your teams, looking for interim leadership, or wanting to strengthen your founder relationships, we can help.
We work across emerging technologies and legacy businesses. We really like embedded hardware. We've onshored manufacture in the UK, we've built big technical teams and businesses-within-businesses from scratch. Come and have a chat with us.
We work across emerging technologies and legacy businesses. We really like embedded hardware. We've onshored manufacture in the UK, we've built big technical teams and businesses-within-businesses from scratch. Come and have a chat with us.
OfferingS
- Investment
- Strategic consultation
- Interim leadership
- Relationship management
- Business coaching and mentorship
- Mixology
- Roadmap development
journal.
Forbidden donut
6 August 2026
A follow-up to Donut Lab: a study in deception in venture-backed technology, published 25 March 2026. If you haven't read it already, go and have a look (please do, it'll
Sovereignty is a substrate
28 July 2026
There is a company in Japan that makes the seasoning in your instant ramen and the insulating film inside almost every advanced AI chip on the planet. It is the
team.
We have founded and scaled our own businesses. We've managed multi-million pound raises for our own and other people's organisations, and we get a massive kick out of helping companies scale.
Liz Upton
CEO
Liz founded unicorn hardware company Raspberry Pi, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2024. She advises, chairs, and sometimes invests in scaling companies. There's a photo of her on the south pole of the moon, and she once provided the soundtrack for a French shampoo advert.
Alasdair Allan
CTO
Alasdair spends a lot of time gluing things together, or taking them apart, and sometimes those things are companies. As a recovering astrophysicist at one point he built a peer-to-peer autonomous robotic telescope network that detected what was, at the time, the most distant object ever seen in the Universe.