Wil Benton

Wil is the Cofounder & Director at Metta, an organisation supporting startups, industry and governments with sustainable technology-driven innovation. Before Metta, he was the Venture & Ecosystem Director at the ATI Boeing Accelerator and Programme Director at the Ignite accelerator. Across the programmes he has designed and delivered, Wil has directly supported over 100 early-stage businesses and helped invest over £4m into them. He is also a former co-founder and CEO of Chew, a music-tech startup acquired in 2017 after scaling to ~400,000 global users, and an alumnus of Ignite [Prog. 5, Winter 2014].  Wil is an active investor (40+ investments to date, both personally and via VC funds) and startup mentor/advisor. In his free time, he manages three chart-topping record labels, enjoys riding his bike and DJing around Europe.