Emily Forbes
{{Short description|British entrepreneur}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Emily Forbes
| image = Emily Forbes.png
| caption = Emily Forbes in 2016
| birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|30|2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/emily-forbes/|title=Emily Forbes|website=Forbes}}
| alma_mater = Chelsea College of Arts
| employer = Seenit
Working Title Films
| awards = Forbes 30 Under 30
| website = {{URL|seenit.io}}
}}
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.
Early life and education
Forbes attended Chelsea College of Arts, where she studied film.{{Cite news|url=https://wearethecity.com/inspirational-woman-emily-forbes-founder-ceo-seenit/|title=Inspirational Woman: Emily Forbes {{!}} Founder & CEO, Seenit|date=2018-04-12|work=WeAreTheCity|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en-US}} Her father, David Forbes, is a director at Savills.{{Cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/entrepreneurs-crowdsourced-video-app-seenit-gives-access-to-red-carpets-and-big-matches-a3099406.html|title=Seenit - the app that gives one person a global film crew of thousands|publisher=London Evening Standard|website=standard.co.uk|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en-GB}} She went on to study visual communication.{{Cite news|url=http://www.eyedea.org.uk/2017/11/21/meet-seenit-powerful-film-crew-pocket-ceo-emily-forbes/|title=We meet Seenit, the most powerful film crew in your pocket, with CEO Emily Forbes - Eyedea - Female Millennials Network|date=2017-11-21|work=Eyedea - Female Millennials Network|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926014117/http://www.eyedea.org.uk/2017/11/21/meet-seenit-powerful-film-crew-pocket-ceo-emily-forbes/|url-status=dead}}
Career
Forbes worked on production of feature films for five years at Working Title Films.{{cn|date=April 2025}} She was working as a documentary maker in South Africa when she had the idea to create an app to encourage collaboration in filmmaking.{{Cite web|url=http://www.advertisingweek.com/events/eu/2018/speakers/?id=9925|title=Emily Forbes > Events: Europe 2018 {{!}} Speakers / Advertising Week|website=www.advertisingweek.com|access-date=2018-09-25|archive-date=2018-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926014404/http://www.advertisingweek.com/events/eu/2018/speakers/?id=9925|url-status=dead}} In 2014, Forbes founded Seenit, an app that allows users to collaboratively create content with colleagues, usable only by invitation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/audio/2017/mar/16/breaking-up-with-a-co-founder-is-like-a-divorce-confessions-of-a-startup|title='Breaking up with a co-founder is like a divorce' – Confessions of a Startup|last=Khan|first=Presented by Coco|date=2017-03-16|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-09-25|last2=Slaney|first2=produced by Rowan|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.lsnglobal.com/opinion/article/19403/emily-forbes-seenit|title=Emily Forbes: Seenit|last=Maxwell|first=James Maiki and Peter|work=Emily Forbes: Seenit {{!}} LS:N Global|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/the-edit/guest-edits/emily-forbes/19533|title=Emily Forbes of Seenit {{!}} My Web {{!}} The Good Web Guide|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en}} She received support from BBC Lab UK and Rupert Hambro as well as £40,000 from Creative England.{{Cite news|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/toffs-in-tech|year=2017|website=tatler.com|publisher=Tatler|title=9 toffs who are taking over the tech world|last=Carington|first=Francesca|access-date=2018-09-25}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/yoavvilner/2016/01/18/16-london-based-startups-ready-to-take-on-2016/#37c928bd4527|title=16 London-Based Startups Ready To Take On 2016|last=Vilner|first=Yoav|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en}}
Forbes is outspoken about the challenges that women entrepreneurs face.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14643/281703/video-a-celebration-of-the-female-tech-entrepreneur-finding-the-founder-in-you|title=[Video]A Celebration of the Female Tech Entrepreneur: Finding the Founder in You|website=www.brighttalk.com|access-date=2018-09-25}} 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.{{Cite news|url=http://gotogrow.london/insight-and-case-studies/female-founders|title=SVC2UK: Female Founders International Visit to Silicon Valley|work=Mayor's International Business Programme|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.londonandpartners.com/media-centre/press-releases/2017/20170519-londonbased-female-founders-join-silicon-valley-trade-mission|title=London-based female founders join Silicon Valley trade mission|website=www.londonandpartners.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-09-25|archive-date=2018-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926014628/https://www.londonandpartners.com/media-centre/press-releases/2017/20170519-londonbased-female-founders-join-silicon-valley-trade-mission|url-status=dead}}
=Awards=
Forbes has won the TechCrunch Disrupt award as well as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016.{{Cite web|title=Speakers-old version {{!}} The Times Tech Summit|url=http://techsummit.news.co.uk/speakers/|access-date=2018-09-25|website=techsummit.news.co.uk|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926014430/http://techsummit.news.co.uk/speakers/|url-status=dead}}
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Category:British women company founders
Category:British chief executives
Category:British graphic designers
Category:British women graphic designers
Category:British technology company founders
Category:Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
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