Duxford Prior — Strategic Advisory For Founders

Founders

Mollie D'Arcy Rice

Mollie D'Arcy Rice is a co-founder of Duxford Prior. She previously worked in Investment Banking at Berenberg, advising Technology, Media & Telecommunications companies on M&A, capital raises, corporate broking, and strategic partnerships. Her experience spans deal execution and investor communications across both public and private markets, working with companies including Darktrace, Trustpilot, and 4imprint. Mollie holds a degree in Biological Sciences from Durham University.

Luis Garcia

Luis Garcia is a co-founder of Duxford Prior. He was previously a ranked Equity Research Analyst (Institutional Investor) at Morgan Stanley and Berenberg, covering industrials, consumer, and technology companies. His experience spans company valuation, strategic analysis, and buyer dynamics in M&A. Luis has worked on several large IPOs and capital markets deals. He is a CFA charterholder and holds an MSc in Finance from the University of St Andrews. His thesis, written in conjunction with the Bank of England, assessed market-based measures of default probability in the financial sector.

Advisors

Paul Graham

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and investor. In 2005 he and Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell started Y Combinator (YC), the first of a new type of startup incubator. YC has since funded over 5,500 startups, including Airbnb, Coinbase, DoorDash, Dropbox, Reddit, and Stripe, with an aggregate value of over $700 billion. He previously co-founded Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which became Yahoo Store in 1998. In 2001 he started publishing essays on paulgraham.com. Paul is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters.

Jessica Livingston

Jessica Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator, where she helped launch many of the most successful startups of the past two decades. She is the author of Founders at Work (2007), a widely read collection of interviews with early-stage founders, and host of The Social Radars podcast. Jessica previously worked in marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness, where she managed an award-winning rebranding of the company.

Ron Conway

Ron Conway is the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel, and one of Silicon Valley’s most experienced and influential seed investors. Over the past three decades, he has backed hundreds of early-stage technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Twitter, and Stripe. He has been named among Vanity Fair’s “100 Most Influential People in the Information Age” (2010), TechCrunch’s “Best Angel” (2009), and Forbes’ Midas List of top “deal-makers” (since 2011). Ron is the founder and Chairman of sf.citi and a co-founder of FWD.US. He also serves on the boards of several philanthropic organizations, including the Salesforce Foundation and Giving Pledge.

Ron Conway is the Founder and Managing Partner of SV Angel, and one of Silicon Valley’s most experienced and influential seed investors. Over the past three decades, he has backed hundreds of early-stage technology companies, including Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Twitter, and Stripe. Ron has been named among Vanity Fair’s “100 Most Influential People in the Information Age” (2010), TechCrunch’s “Best Angel” (2009), and Forbes’ Midas List of top “deal-makers” (since 2011). He is the founder and Chairman of sf.citi and a co-founder of FWD.US. He also serves on the boards of several philanthropic organizations, including the Salesforce Foundation and Giving Pledge.