Damian Routley
Building startups at Founders Factory
Greater London, England
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$600,000.00Target Investment:
$250,000.00
Skills
Education
- Pangbourne College
(1991 - 1996)
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Investments
Work Experience
2019
Chief Operating Officer
2023
Chief Commercial Officer
2021 - 2023
Managing Director, Consumer & Media
2019 - 2021
Founders Factory powers founders to go further, faster. We're a diverse and entrepreneurial team, who partner with the world’s best founders and corporates to build, fund and scale ambitious startups worldwide. We’re live in London, New York, Paris and Johannesburg. Proud to work closely with the founders of these great companies: https://bloomboxclub.com/ https://bowercollective.com/ https://www.oxwash.com/ https://grain.co.uk/ https://mpowder.store/ https://www.storyblok.com/ https://www.thismuchiknow.news/ https://www.allhailkale.com/ https://www.granolastudios.com/ https://beamm.co/ http://www.abydos.ai/ https://shop.shinebathroom.com/ https://www.sofi.health/ https://www.structureflow.co/ https://worldr.com/ https://metavrse.com/ https://www.helio.cloud/ https://www.getcamvas.com/ https://teams.gg/ https://temple.fans/ https://www.eterlast.com/ http://www.veople.io/ https://hellominahealth.com/ https://www.superawesomecare.com/ https://www.getwellen.com/ https://www.syndi.health/
2020
Chair
2020
2020
Non Executive Director
2020
2020 - 2024
Non Exec Director
2020 - 2024
2016 - 2023
Non Exec
2019 - 2023
Partner
2018 - 2019
WE ARE OTHERLY ENTERTAINMENT A forward looking IP development and production company. With an end to end approach, we focus on scripted content for television and emerging platforms. Our work is centered around ’IP thinking,’ designing big, ambitious, original story worlds from scratch, with more creative and commercial opportunities baked in from the start. AND OTHERLY LABS A media and entertainment consultancy. Using the same philosophy and cross disciplinary approach as our entertainment projects, we design narratives and experiences for creative businesses, helping them solve their most important challenges. We believe stories are at the heart of how companies operate, adapt and change.
Advisor
2016 - 2018
Otherly Entertainment tells original stories in original ways. We’re a multi-platform story studio. We develop other-worldly ideas with broad IP potential. This keeps things interesting. Our development portfolio includes projects spanning television, film, VR/AR, mixed reality & comic books
2020 - 2022
Non Executive Director
2020 - 2022
2018 - 2022
Founder
2018 - 2022
Good Remedy develops the finest CBD infused products for health conscious people and helps them find calm, creativity or focus in their hectic lives. goodremedy.co/discount/linkedin15
2019 - 2019
Advisor
2019 - 2019
Supporting the exceptional team at PUSH in their mission to help people, teams and companies work better by focusing on whole self development.
2016 - 2018
Regional CEO - UK, USA, Canada
2016 - 2018
Post acquisition & integration of Glow, I am responsible for revenue and operations (P&L) in UK, USA and Canada. Global partnerships with agency holding groups and platform partnerships with FB, Twitter, Snap, Amazon and Pinterest. Board member. Adglow is one of the world's leading social media technology and advertising services firms. The Adglow team currently comprises over 250 professionals around the world (17 markets) who use proprietary technology to manage advertising campaigns on social media for the leading brands and agencies. We believe that social media thrives on two pillars, brand building and tangible results. So we built our smart technology and service on this conviction: to run, optimize, scale and meet campaign goals, taking into account the full marketing funnel from branding to performance. With social media and analysis at our core and a full team of first rate marketing professionals, we help advertisers who need a data-driven approach to social ads, relying on our team’s expertise, technology and an unmatched ads management and reporting system, ADAM.
2008 - 2016
CEO + Founder
2008 - 2016
Founded and grew Glow from startup to global social tech/services business. Became strategic partner in the Facebook marketing partnership programme, listed in Deloitte Top50 UK Tech Companies and won TechCityNews pitch awards. Worked with incredible people, clients and partners over 8 years. Glow was sold to ADTZ, later Adglow, in February 2016. Glow helps brands engage and transact with their customers across social media. We do this by leveraging customer's 1st party data, alongside rich social data to identify when customers are most likely to buy. We work with leading brands across the world to help them on find their customers on desktop and mobile, including King, Spotify, US Bank, American Express, Booking.com and TopShop.