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Devin Hunt

Venture Partner @ Seedcamp, Making books better @ Useful Books

United Kingdom

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2020

    Creating the process and the tools to help authors and their books thrive

  • Venture Partner

    2018

  • Expert in Resident

    2017 - 2018

  • Volunteer

    2020 - 2021

    Leading the visualization team for www.covidexitstrategy.org

2015 - 2020

  • Advisor

    2015 - 2020

2014 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2014 - 2019

2013 - 2016

  • Partner

    2013 - 2016

    Founder Centric designs & delivers entrepreneurship education. FC works with many organisations - from accelerators to universities - to help founders gain the skills, attitude, and principles they need. Clients include Seedcamp, Oxford University, and Unilever. As one of the three partners at Founder Centric, I built and taught programs, curated new curricula with clients, and designed info products to grow our education’s reach.

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2013 - 2015

    My responsibilities as an EIR at UCL’s School of Management centred around supporting MSc students starting businesses as part of their dissertation. The majority of my time was spent directly mentoring students on product development, business model design, and market traction.

2010 - 2012

  • CPO / cofounder

    2010 - 2012

    Lyst is a leading online fashion marketplace that gives millions of people their own personalised shopping experience. I led product development and built the team that created the most technologically advanced fashion destination online.

2007 - 2010

  • Cofounder

    2007 - 2010

    Fuzzwich (aka Habit Industries) was a YCombinator & TAG (now LocalGlobe) backed startup that launched a series of products in online media, including the popular animation site Fuzzwich. Our clients included Universal Studios, Aardman Animation, and WPP.