Oxford · Oxfordshire
Are you a high roller in Oxford?
Plenty of rooms will take your money. Very few filter who else is in them, which is the only thing that makes a room worth joining.
The Operator is a private, vetted membership for people building real things. Oxford is more research capital per head than anywhere in the country. University spinouts in biotech and deep tech, where the founder across the table is often an academic first and a commercial operator second, and the capital behind them is patient to a degree that would be unthinkable elsewhere.
Apply for membershipApplications are reviewed by hand. Not everyone is accepted.
What most high rollers in Oxford are dealing with
- Networks that sell access rather than curate it
- Rooms full of people selling to each other rather than building
- Paying for proximity to a name rather than to peers
What membership gives you
- Vetted membership, so everyone in the room cleared the same bar you did
- Small and deliberately capped rather than scaled for volume
- Operators with real businesses, not a mailing list with a price on it
Members meet online and, in Oxford, in person. Around Summertown, Jericho, the Oxford Science Park and the rooms you would expect: The Old Parsonage, Gee's, Quod.
Membership in Oxford is by application
Tell us what you are building and what you want from the room. The vetting is what keeps it worth being in.
Apply now