Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Skills
Education
- TU
- Uo
- Uo
- BL
Lists including Ian
Investments
Proxima Fusion
Total Funding: $50M
Robin AI
Total Funding: $43M
Unitary
Total Funding: $25M
Fabric
Total Funding: $220M
Claimer
Total Funding: $4.4M
Condense
Total Funding: $6.1M
The Garden
Total Funding: $3M
Let’s Do This
Total Funding: $81M
Outverse
Total Funding: $7M
Heygo
Total Funding: $20M
Blloc
Total Funding: $4M
Oto Health
Total Funding: $3.7M
Phytoform Labs
Total Funding: $6.3M
Hofy
Total Funding: $36M
Lapse
Total Funding: $42M
Mojo
Total Funding: $85M
Numerade
Total Funding: $26M
Field
Total Funding: $14M
Medusa
Total Funding: $9M
The Lowdown
Total Funding: $3M
FabricNano
Total Funding: $16M
Thursday
Total Funding: $3M
Holy Grail
Total Funding: $3M
Dishpatch
Total Funding: $16M
Claap
Total Funding: $3M
Trilo
Total Funding: $1.4M
Quix
Total Funding: $16M
Ruka
Total Funding: $2.1M
Apheris
Total Funding: $12M
Omnipresent
Total Funding: $140M
Ryde
Total Funding: $910K
Puraffinity
Total Funding: $18M
Breedr
Total Funding: $3M
Second Nature
Total Funding: $24M
SonicCloud
Total Funding: $4M
Cuvva
Total Funding: $22M
Timekit
Total Funding: $2M
Tide
Total Funding: $190M
Charlie
Total Funding: $32M
Better.co.uk
Total Funding: $36M
Pact
Total Funding: $3M
Thread
Total Funding: $56M
Work Experience
2021
Partner
2021
Plural is an early-stage investment fund that backs the most ambitious founders on a mission to change the world through technology. Our aim is to have GDP-level impact on Europe, address systemic risks and reduce the opportunity gap worldwide through the companies we back.
Chair
2023
I was appointed in June 2023 reporting directly to the Prime Minister and Technology Secretary. The AI Safety Institute is the first state-backed organisation focused on advanced AI safety for the public interest. Its mission is to minimise surprise to the UK and humanity from rapid and unexpected advances in AI. It will work towards this by developing the sociotechnical infrastructure needed to understand the risks of advanced AI and enable its governance. This is a part-time and unpaid role.
2013 - 2021
Angel investor
2013 - 2021
investor in 100+ start-ups including: Academia.edu, Anthropic, Avidbots, Chorus.ai, Cleo, ComplyAdvantage, Cuvva, Disperse, Faculty, Helsing, Hopin, Incident.io, Kheiron Medical, LabGenius, Nested, Omnipresent, PostEra, Rossum, Second Nature, Tide Banking.
2007 - 2017
Chairman
2015 - 2017
http://soundboy.tumblr.com/post/136337729790/new-year-new-roles
Co CEO
2015 - 2015
http://blog.songkick.com/2015/06/04/songkick-crowdsurge/ Crash course in M&A! Very interesting and challenging to take two fast growing start-ups and combine their strategies, cultures, products, orgs. Really rewarding to see it all come together and speed up. http://blog.songkick.com/2015/12/17/songkick-triples-sales-in-europe-post-merger-raises-another-10m/
CEO
2007 - 2015
Co-founded Songkick when I was 25 with the two smartest and highest integrity people I knew (Michelle You & Pete Smith) & was CEO for next 8+ years. We hired & retained an incredible team who: - built the most comprehensive database of concerts in the entire world - developed the top rated Songkick web & mobile apps, used by music fans to discover concerts and buy tickets - unlocked various organic growth channels that scaled those apps to over 10 million monthly uniques - closed distribution deals with Spotify, MTV, Pitchfork, YouTube, SoundCloud etc - got us covered by NYT, FT, LA Times, WSJ, TechCrunch, CNBC, Billboard, Recode etc - grew ticket sales to over $100m, selling tickets for one in every 3 shows in London - tried some crazy experiments that were too early for their time, but I still believe...like Detour: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/arts/music/want-andrew-bird-in-your-town-try-crowdfunding.html?_r=0 - raised capital from world class investors including Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital (first ever London investment), Access Industries I’m proudest of the team & culture we built during this period and expect many people from that team to go on to start enduring companies of their own.
2006 - 2007
Associate Consultant
2006 - 2007
Mostly working with tech companies. Based in Asia and Silicon Valley.
2000 - 2005
Software Engineer (Technology Scholar)
2000 - 2005
Writing software. Sponsored through university as part of the Technology Scholarship scheme.