Emily Forbes

Emily Forbes is a British entrepreneur and the founder of Seenit, a collaborative video platform launched in 2014. Before founding Seenit, she worked in film production at Working Title Films.

Emily Forbes
Emily Forbes in 2016
Born	1986 or 1987 (age 37–38)[1]
Alma mater	Chelsea College of Arts
Employer(s)	Seenit Working Title Films
Awards	Forbes 30 Under 30[1]
Website	seenit.io

Early life and education

Forbes attended Chelsea College of Arts, where she studied film.^[2] Her father, David Forbes, is a director at Savills.^[3] She went on to study visual communication.^[4]

Career

Forbes worked on production of feature films for five years at Working Title Films.^{[citation needed]} She was working as a documentary maker in South Africa when she had the idea to create an app to encourage collaboration in filmmaking.^[5] In 2014, Forbes founded Seenit, an app that allows users to collaboratively create content with colleagues, usable only by invitation.^{[2][3][6][7][8]} She received support from BBC Lab UK and Rupert Hambro as well as £40,000 from Creative England.^{[9][4][10][3]}

Forbes is outspoken about the challenges that women entrepreneurs face.^[4][11] She took part in the Mayor of London's SVC2UK (Silicon Valley Comes to UK), which included a trade mission of women founders to Silicon Valley.^[12][13]

Awards

Forbes has won the TechCrunch Disrupt award as well as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016.^[14]