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(2008 - 2008)
(2006 - 2006)
2024
2024
Connecting the unconnected.
2015
2015
Quarter life crisis, minus the divorce and the sports car. Investing in startups. Geographically agnostic (~175 investments across 20+ countries and 5 continents, though concentrated in Europe and the US). Sector agnostic / jack of all trades (B2B, B2C, hardware, software, prop-tech, health/med-tech, fin-tech, sex-tech, clean/green/eco-tech, pet-tech, music-tech (all the techs...), crypto/blockchain, transport, IoT, nuclear, space). Typically investing along the seed stage -- pre seed, seed, seed extensions, pre-series A bridge rounds. ~30% of the portfolio have a female (co)founder, and ~50% have a (co)founder of colour.
2018
2018
Assist Ventures is the holding name for the investments I make with Tom James. We typically invest £/$/€ 25-50k into early stage technology companies, and a number of our portfolio companies have had successful exits at trade sale and at IPO. We are sector and geography agnostic, and typically invest at pre seed and seed.
2017 - 2017
2017 - 2017
Full-stack coding bootcamp, focused on Javascript. Junior full-stack developer. Vue.js, Node.js, Express, GitHub, HTML, CSS.
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017
Building the operating system for smart home security cameras. OWLR connects to more than 1M cameras and has the industry's highest iOS and Play store ratings (sorry, Nest...) Part of the #500Startups family.
2014 - 2016
2014 - 2016
Ecommerce development and marketing agency, working with a range of brands, including Soho House Group, Fenwick, and Joseph, and a number of fast growing SMEs .
2014 - 2014
2014 - 2014
Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Working with the ODI's commercial team as part of my work at Chinwag.
2013 - 2014
2013 - 2014
Part of team organising Social Media Week London, along with organising government sponsored 'Missions' to introduce UK startups to partners and investors in the Bay Area, China and Hong Kong.
2009 - 2012
2009 - 2012
Acquired by King.com (Candy Crush, NYSE).