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Alex Macdonald

Co-Founder & CEO sequel, Co-Founder Velocity Black (acquired by Capital One)

London Area, United Kingdom

Skills

Business Planning
Restructuring
Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Strategy
Negotiation
Turn Around Management
Debt Restructuring
Supply Chain Management
Manufacturing
Strategic Alliances
Strategic Thinking
International M&A
Spiritual Warfare
Marketing Strategy
Deal Closure
Electric Guitar
mergers and acquisitions
Litigation
Closing Deals
Due Diligence

Work Experience

2022

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2022

    A community of the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups advancing humanity. Your legacy, made.

  • Co-Founder, COO & Chairman

    2014

    Founded and operated the first AI-powered digital concierge for HNWIs. Raised $50m. Exited to Capital One in 2023. Now fully exited from the business.

  • Angel Investor (Now retired)

    2014

    Investor (Now retired!) at pre-seed & seed in 50+ technology companies including: Eleven Labs, Atman Labs, Trustpath, Prematch, Rain (payroll financing), IONA, Harriet, Scan.com, FarmLend, Curio, Loci AI, Round, Ctrl Alt, Existent, Trumpet, Odin, Sellar, Xip, Honest Mobile, Code First Girls, Gigbridge, Playbook, Landscape, Lawhive, Mindset, Goodloans, Gama, Maeving, Azava, Panakeia. LP in 10 funds including 8 emerging managers.

  • Investor

    2022

    ‍The first platform for generating long format speech in any voice and in any language. We use AI to bring the most natural and compelling voices to creators and publishers seeking the ultimate storytelling quality.

  • Limited Partner

    2023

    Firedrop is an Angel Fund led by Pietro Invernizzi writing cheques of £100-250k in the earliest stage European companies. https://www.firedrop.vc/

  • Limited Partner

    2023

    We invest in UK based B2B software startups at seed stage. We want to learn about the journey that turned you into founders. We want to understand your insight that leads to a big idea. We want to help you build the business that big idea can become

  • Investor

    2022

    B2B marketplace in the agriculture sector.

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

    GigBridge is a marketplace connecting the construction industry with temporary and permanent talent.