Our Team

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. Her ability to act as a technology translator and to align vision and strategy with operational constraints are key to her high success rate. Hanadi’s experience in developing innovation clusters is globally recognised. She has helped set-up entrepreneurial ecosystems in the Middle East, Russia and China.

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. Her stakeholder management skills and her clear leadership make her an effective Chair allowing her to develop a portfolio of non-executive directorships alongside her executive roles. She is a seasoned start-up advisor, angel investor and non-exec.

Most recently she has become a Managing Partner for Sana Capital Limited, an investment fund adviser which aims to drive innovation that can heal the world, demystifying deep tech at scale to drive positive change. Born in Lebanon and raised in France, she is fluent in English, French and Arabic and speaks another four languages. She lives in Cambridge with her four children.