[19] In 2007, Hoberman took on the role of non-executive chairman of Wayn, a travel and leisure social network, and in December 2009, stepped down from the company's board.
[citation needed] In July 2009, Hoberman co-founded PROfounders Capital, a fund that invests in early stage internet projects,[20] with Michael Birch, Peter Dubens, Jonnie Goodwin, Rogan Angelini-Hurll and Sean Seton-Rogers.
[citation needed] Hoberman is the co-founder and was founding chairman of Made.com, an online furniture retailer that is a joint venture between mydeco.com and founder Ning Li.
[24] In 2014, Hoberman co-founded Founders Keepers, an executive search firm within the digital and technology space[25] and Smartup, a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and micro-learning platform.
[27] Corporate investors in Founders Factory include The Guardian,[28] L’Oreal, easyJet, CSC Group, Holtzbrinck Macmillan and Aviva,[29] Marks & Spencer[30] and Reckitt Benckiser.
[36] In 2016, Hoberman launched Founders of the Future which provides programmes, events and tools for aspiring entrepreneurs, and accelerateHER which is a network to support women working in technology.
[39] In 2019, Hoberman, Riya Pabari and Asha Haji launched Founders Academy, an alternative MBA programme to train startup leaders.
[6][7] In 2021, Hoberman launched 01 Founders, a free-to-access coding school with a job guarantee with a mission to train 100,000 diverse software engineers by 2030.
[citation needed] Hoberman says his mentors have been his father and South African grandfather Leonard Shawzin, who built an empire of over 650 clothes shops from a single store.
[49] Hoberman was a member of the New Enterprise Council, a group of entrepreneurs who advise the Conservative Party (UK) on policies related to the needs of business.