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Board Observer
Jan 2020
Now part of Verve Group consumer-first advertising suite, Dataseat is an in-housing mobile DSP that gives app developers and agencies the software and tools to acquire high-quality new users and retarget existing and lapsed customers. Dataseat gives advertisers complete control, transparency and customization options, enabling them to leverage programmatic as a strategic advantage. Our in-housing philosophy means that we act as a partner with our customers, offering custom data and machine learning solutions.
Dataseat closed seed funding in December 2019 and raised $2,3m from Play Ventures, Backed.vc and Saatchiinvest.
Investor
Apr 2019
Vault is the Active Integrity platform; the operating system for corporate integrity. Employees can report via the mobile app, either alone or using GoTogether® as a collective. Your investigations team can resolve incidents in the Resolution Hub and actively assess your ethical health. By identifying patterns before they become problems and predicting issues before they manifest, you can fix misconduct issues before they get out of hand. For the good of your people and the good of your organization, consider a solution that goes beyond a checkbox; a centralized point for management that brings Speak Up levels up and reduces investigation time. It’s just good business.
Board Observer
Feb 2018
The Qriously product is no longer available. If you're interested in learning about consumer behavior, thoughts, and opinions, Brandwatch Consumer Research is what you need.
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Mar 2017
Mrs Wordsmith is the world’s silliest learning company. We combine proven learning science with Hollywood-quality animation and state-of-the-art game design to create books, card games, worksheets, and video games that improve the literacy outcomes of kids aged 4–11.
Guided by the conviction that educational resources should be every bit as exciting and hilarious as the movies kids watch and the games kids play, our products provide a premium, modern learning experience that is more motivating and more fun than any other.
Investor
Dec 2016
MAKING CITIES USABLE
Cities are complicated. We're using the power of mobile and data to help humans survive and master them.
We're building the best app (http://citymapper.com/apps), with the best routing, and the best data in the cities where we can make a difference.
We're a small dedicated team, with HQ in London, and some based around the cities (http://citymapper.com/cities) of the world, with backgrounds in transport, Google, startups, apps, design, investing and academia.
We're motivated by solving hard fundamental everyday problems that improve the quality of people's lives. We like simplifying complexity, reinventing user experience, working with data, shipping fast, and humanising a serious space.
We're venture capital backed (https://medium.com/@Citymapper/getting-from-a-to-series-b-883393164276#) by Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Balderton Capital, Connect Ventures, and various angel investors, including Yuri Milner, Xavier Niel and Michael Lynton.
We are interested in the person more than the role so do not let the job descriptions hold you back, some of the best opportunities are not listed. We pay competitively and provide equity/ stock options to all employees.
We get a lot of applications so our apologies if we are not able to get back to you. Finding quality referrals and recommendations is a better way to get our attention than just applying here.
To all recruitment agencies: we don’t accept agency resumes, and will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
www.citymapper.com/jobs
Investor
Dec 2016
Were building the complete stack for the Internets next act. Welcome to the Generative Web.
Investor
Dec 2016
Trusted by global brands, The EVRYTHNG Product Cloud® is the platform consumer product brands need to Run their Business Differently® by Knowing what their Products Know® - with real-time data-driven solutions for supply chain traceability, provenance, brand integrity, product authentication, direct to consumer (D2C) engagement and resale/recycling. EVRYTHNG provides an Active Digital Identity™ on the web for billions of digitized product items in apparel, beauty, personal care, food & beverage, home goods, tobacco and other industries.
EVRYTHNG is World Economic Forum Global Innovator, and EVRYTHNG’s founders originated the W3C Web of Things & GS1 Digital Link global standards. The company won the 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award.
EVRYTHNG was acquired by Digimarc in January 2022, uniting the world's most powerful product identification engine with the industry's most advanced product intelligence cloud platform.
Investor
Dec 2016
Kare Knowledgeware was acquired by Dialpad.
Kare is on a mission to make information understandable to every human, starting with being the first platform to fulfil the promise of Scaleable Smart Self Service by bootstrapping or converting and dynamically maintaining your legacy knowledge base instantly. We achieve this through our proprietary platform built through years of research using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language understanding.
Find out more at www.karehq.com.
Awards & Accolades:
'20 Most Promising CEM Solution Providers for 2018' - CIO Review
'Best Innovation In Deep Learning' 2017 AIconics Awards
'Best AI Startup' - 2016 AIconics Awards
Investor and board member
Dec 2016
Picasso Labs helps the world’s leading brands gain real-time insights into imagery and video. Today, brands communicate with their audiences using visual content, but many marketers still have limited data to interpret which visual properties resonate with their users and, more importantly, why. Picasso Labs leverages the powers of AI and machine learning to revolutionise the way brands understand their visual content. We bring data to creativity.
We’re proud to help our clients like Unilever, PepsiCo, Heineken, Twitter, and AB InBev redefine how their visual data is cultivated and understood.
We’re honored to be recognized as one of Unilever Foundry’s most ambitious and innovative startups of the past 5 years!
If you’d like to learn more, go to picassolabs.com.
Find us on Twitter @PicassoLabs
Or check out our blog on Medium: blog.picassolabs.com
Board Observer
Dec 2016
We’re a multi-award-winning wills, probate and funerals company, with a mission to change the way the world deals with death. We create beautifully designed and easy to use products - with customers at the heart of everything we do.
We’re a team of 65 people and since 2016 we’ve helped raise more than £800m in pledged legacy income for over 1,000 organisations. Our backgrounds are diverse; what brings us together is our passion for what we do.
Based in a beautiful office by the canal in Haggerston (East London), we’re backed by some of Europe’s most exceptional investors - from the founders of Transferwise and Zoopla to Kindred Capital, Augmentum Fintech & Highland Europe.
We’re changing the way the world deals with death by making it easy for people to plan ahead for their funerals or organise someone else’s. We want our customers to feel confident in making meaningful decisions. This is an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in. So if you’re up for a big challenge, we’d love to meet you.
Here are some of the things we’re most proud of since starting in 2016:
- raised over £800 million in charity pledges
- rated 4.9/5 on Trustpilot with over 14,000 reviews
- formed major national partnerships with organisations across the charity, insurance, and mortgage industries such as Macmillan, Cancer Research UK and Samaritans.
🏆 And we’ve won a few awards too:
- British Wills And Probate Awards, Will Writing Firm of the Year 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
- British Wills And Probate Awards, Probate Provider of the Year 2021, 2020
- Good Funeral Awards, Low-Cost Funeral Provider of the Year 2022, 2021 and Funeral Information Provider of the Year 2021
- Start-Ups 100, 3rd Most Disruptive and Innovative UK Start-Up 2021
- Best Employer & Runner Up Best CEO, Fintech Awards 2020
-Client Care Initiative of the Year, Modern Law Awards 2020
Investor
Dec 2016
Endource.com is the pinnacle of curated fashion. We scour the most influential fashion magazines, websites and blogs to bring you the ultimate directory of the latest trends and most sought-after brands.
Each and every product has been endorsed by leading editors and bloggers. It is the ultimate guide to the most fashionable wardrobe.
Investor (ex Verve, now Pollen)
May 2016
Pollen is a technology company on a mission to build, curate, and deliver the best experiences all over the world leveraging a data-driven, customer-led mindset, and a network of global partners.
We have two offerings: Pollen Presents and Pollen+. Pollen Presents curates experiences around your tastes and preferences you can’t find anywhere else. These experiences bring together music, sports, wellness and beyond to enable you and your friends to connect around one-of-a-kind itineraries in exciting destinations. Pollen+ always gets you more at music festivals and events when you book through us. Pollen+ partners with the biggest promoter brands and music festivals, including We Are FSTVL, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, C3, Electric Zoo, Live Nation and more.
Pollen was founded in 2014 by brothers Callum & Liam Negus-Fancey. Pollen is backed by prominent investors including Kindred, Northzone, Sienna Capital, Backed and Draper Spirit. Pollen has raised over $100 million in VC funding.
Board Observer
Aug 2015
Ometria is a customer data and experience platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue.
Our solution combines the data unification and customer insight of a CDP with a cross-channel marketing orchestration platform, letting retail marketers easily and efficiently create experiences their customers love across email, mobile, on-site, social, direct mail and more.
Ometria’s proven approach to accelerating revenue – our Retail Success Model™ – is a first-of-its-kind data science model for driving CRM growth in retail. It combines four proprietary AI algorithms that analyse a retailer’s CRM performance and deliver a bespoke marketing plan for reaching their revenue goals.
Investor and Former Board Member
Feb 2015
Kyra delivers end-to-end campaigns with the creators, content, and clarity your brands been missing. Powered by AI, curated by incredible humans.
From always-on programs to rapid brand activations, we help you launch faster, target smarter, choose creators who convert, and prove ROI without the stress or guesswork. Our services include strategy, creator sourcing, content production, campaign management, and live performance insights.
Our platform powers every stage of influencer marketing, using data from 1bn+ profiles and 20m+ videos to match you with high-performing creators, streamline operations and approvals, and track performance in real time so you can scale what works.
Trusted by global enterprise brands such as L’Oréal, H&M, Shark Beauty, Prime Video, Bvlgari, and The Weather Channel.
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LP | Advisor
Jan 2021
Climate change is an existential threat but also our greatest opportunity.
We are on the lookout to support and fund early-stage UK-based climate startups.
We make sure to invest in the long term, providing space and opportunity for the people at the forefront of innovation.
Potential Climate Ventures F1 Limited (PCV) is an appointed representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (‘FCA’) in the United Kingdom (FRN 736284)
2020
Board Observer
Jan 2020
Now part of Verve Group consumer-first advertising suite, Dataseat is an in-housing mobile DSP that gives app developers and agencies the software and tools to acquire high-quality new users and retarget existing and lapsed customers. Dataseat gives advertisers complete control, transparency and customization options, enabling them to leverage programmatic as a strategic advantage. Our in-housing philosophy means that we act as a partner with our customers, offering custom data and machine learning solutions.
Dataseat closed seed funding in December 2019 and raised $2,3m from Play Ventures, Backed.vc and Saatchiinvest.
2019
Investor
Apr 2019
Vault is the Active Integrity platform; the operating system for corporate integrity. Employees can report via the mobile app, either alone or using GoTogether® as a collective. Your investigations team can resolve incidents in the Resolution Hub and actively assess your ethical health. By identifying patterns before they become problems and predicting issues before they manifest, you can fix misconduct issues before they get out of hand. For the good of your people and the good of your organization, consider a solution that goes beyond a checkbox; a centralized point for management that brings Speak Up levels up and reduces investigation time. It’s just good business.
2018
Founder
Apr 2018
Our Mission.
We believe that society, business and science make giant leaps forward because of certain types of people who connect unrelated dots and create entirely new ways we live our lives – we call these people LinkyBrains™ .
However LinkyBrains can often be wired to operate in isolation, or be misunderstood by the institutions where they work.
It means vast amounts of their productive power is wasted and society loses.
We believe the more they are connected the more society wins.
Our mission is to give them environments where they can create exponential value in the world.
We want to discover, connect and empower LinkyBrains™ to work and collaborate with each other and the wider community so that their collective synaptic leads to a quantum leap in progress.
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