About Emily Forbes
Born 1985. Emily Forbes is a graphic designer.
Career Forbes worked on production of feature films for five years at Working Title Films. She was working as a documentary maker in South Africa when she had the idea to create an app to encourage collaboration in filmmaking. In 2014, Forbes founded Seenit, an app that allows users to collaboratively create content with colleagues, usable only by invitation. She received support from BBC Lab UK and Rupert Hambro as well as £40,000 from Creative England. 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.
Awards Forbes has won the TechCrunch Disrupt award as well as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016.
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Film and web entrepreneur
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