Andrew Gale

Investor at Marshall Wace

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
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12
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Board Observer
Mar 2024
Human Interest is founded on a simple idea: Affordable, zero-transaction fee, 401(k) plans for small and medium businesses. Businesses that, historically, never had access to these types of investment and tax-benefit retirement vehicles. Here are the big things weve done to shake up the retirement industry: 1. We eliminated all 401(k) transaction fees for companies and their employees. 2. We made it so easy to start saving that we see 2x the average industry participation rate. 3. We helped thousands of customers open their company’s first 401(k) plan and start saving. 4. We built end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance headaches for small and medium-sized businesses. Human Interest is leveling the playing field on retirement by making employer and employee retirement savings more intuitive, more affordable, and more inclusive. Human Interest is an affordable, full-service 401(k) and 403(b) provider that seeks to make it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to assist their employees with investing for retirement. Investment Advisory services provided through Human Interest Advisors, a Registered Investment Adviser. For more information, please visit humaninterest.com. This content has been prepared for informational purposes only, and should not be construed as tax, legal, or individualized investment advice. Consult an appropriate professional regarding your situation. Human Interest does not provide tax or legal advice. Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Investor
May 2021
Big Ticket is a global, neutral “API first” infrastructure connecting corporates to their brokers, insurers and the insurance ecosystem. We connect the industry to structured standardized data which simplifies and accelerates the renewal cycle and promotes scale, revenue growth, and margin improvement for all participants. Big Ticket was developed and incubated by leading global Financial Institutions, in partnership with principal FinTech investors using open banking principles. This global partnership is fast-tracking industry adoption of Big Ticket. With bank-grade security and transparent data permissioning, everyone controls their data and how it is used on our highly-scalable cloud infrastructure, all accessible via a single point of connection. For more information, please visit www.bigticketplatform.com
Investor
May 2021
Second Front is a public-benefit, venture-backed company delivering mission-critical software to the world’s democracies. We work with organizations to simplify and accelerate every step of software delivery to government and regulated networks, including development, accreditation, operation, and extensibility. Together with our customers and partners, were powering software for the free world. Learn more at secondfront.com
Private Investor
Dec 2020
Alaffia is a new kind of operations partner for health plans. Using expert clinicians and transparent AI, we deliver deeper insights, smarter automation, and consistently better outcomes across the entire lifecycle of claims. Our solutions support Utilization Management, Payment Integrity, and Appeals — giving teams the clinical context and operational intelligence they need to work faster and with greater accuracy. Founded in 2020, Alaffia has saved health plans $100 million and counting in medical costs. Visit www.alaffiahealth.com to learn more.
Private Investor
Dec 2020
ChalkTalk is a remarkable tool that helps every teacher ‘teach amazing.’ Using fully-adaptive technology, it generates a personalized ELA & math curriculum that has shown to dramatically improve student learning outcomes, including state test scores.
Private Investor
Mar 2019
Calm is a leading mental health company on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. Our flagship consumer app—ranked #1 in its category with over 180 million downloads and available in seven languages across nearly 190 countries—helps people sleep better, stress less, and live more mindfully through content and tools from experts and beloved celebrity voices. Since our launch, we’ve expanded our offerings with Calm Sleep, an app providing deeper, personalized sleep support, and Calm Health, an evidence-based digital solution offered through employers, health plans, and providers to expand access, boost benefits engagement, and drive positive health outcomes. Today, Calm supports more than 3,500 organizations and reaches over 26 million covered lives through Calm Health. Recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company and one of Fast Company’s Brands That Matter, Calm was co-founded by Alex Tew (Million Dollar Homepage) and Michael Acton Smith (Mind Candy, Moshi Monsters, Firebox).
Private Investor
Feb 2019
Broadband is broken. Complex deals. High Prices. Bad Service. The broadband ‘loyalty tax’ now stands at £1.8bn every year. But it does not have to be this way! Simple deals can work. Cheaper offers are possible. And smoother service is needed.
Private Investor
Jan 2019
Bippit is expert financial guidance for every employee, including one-to-one coaching from qualified professionals, and all the tools they need to manage their financial lives. After all, financial concerns are the No. 1 cause of workplace stress, and the No. 1 reason employees leave. Thats why Bippit provides the right support, at the right time, for everyone.
Private Investor
Mar 2018
Grind is a coffee company that lives in London. After opening Shoreditch Grind in 2011, the brand expanded across London with cafés and a production coffee roastery. 2020 changed Grind beyond recognition, and today Grind coffee is available online - through our direct-to-consumer coffee business led by the UK’s first compostable coffee pods for Nespresso machines - as well as around the world as the global coffee partner for Soho House.
late stageRestaurants
Private Investor
Jan 2018
Universal Diagnostics S.A. (UDX) is a Spanish in-vitro diagnostics company developing minimally-invasive, blood-based solutions for detecting cancer early when treatment options are more plentiful and survival rates are still high. UDX believes that the best way to fight against cancer is by detecting it early. The UDX diagnostic platform is designed to detect various cancer types, e.g. colorectal, prostate, liver, pancreatic lung, breast cancer (>50% of all new cancer cases p.a.) via one simple blood test. The assays rely on a curated set of proprietary methylation marker panels; a simple blood sample collected as part of a routine check-up, can be processed at a reference laboratory or hospital using standard equipment and then uploaded to the UDX Cloud for final algorithmic analysis. UDX’s first marker panel is a colorectal cancer screening test. The test identifies individuals who need to be referred for colonoscopy. Colorectal cancer is the 3rd most frequent cancer and 2nd deadliest cancer worldwide. The challenge is that colorectal cancer is mostly detected in late stages, with significantly decreased survival rates (11% survival rate in stage IV vs. 85% survival rate in stage I). To develop the test and execute its R&D and operations, UDX partners with international research institutions, hospitals, universities, and biobanks around the globe.
late stageBiotechnology
Investor
Jul 2017
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
early stageBanking
Private Investor
Jun 2017
Freetrade is an app that makes investing simple, and free. Our award-winning app was voted Best Share Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. With over 1,300,000 users, were growing fast. Get the app: http://freetrade.io Forum: http://community.freetrade.io
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2024
Board Observer
Mar 2024
Human Interest is founded on a simple idea: Affordable, zero-transaction fee, 401(k) plans for small and medium businesses. Businesses that, historically, never had access to these types of investment and tax-benefit retirement vehicles. Here are the big things weve done to shake up the retirement industry: 1. We eliminated all 401(k) transaction fees for companies and their employees. 2. We made it so easy to start saving that we see 2x the average industry participation rate. 3. We helped thousands of customers open their company’s first 401(k) plan and start saving. 4. We built end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance headaches for small and medium-sized businesses. Human Interest is leveling the playing field on retirement by making employer and employee retirement savings more intuitive, more affordable, and more inclusive. Human Interest is an affordable, full-service 401(k) and 403(b) provider that seeks to make it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to assist their employees with investing for retirement. Investment Advisory services provided through Human Interest Advisors, a Registered Investment Adviser. For more information, please visit humaninterest.com. This content has been prepared for informational purposes only, and should not be construed as tax, legal, or individualized investment advice. Consult an appropriate professional regarding your situation. Human Interest does not provide tax or legal advice. Investing involves risk, including risk of loss. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
2021
Portfolio Analyst
Jun 2021
Marshall Wace is a leading provider of alternative investment solutions. Operating as a single team across the globe, we are dedicated to creating long-term relationships with our clients built on trust and integrity. We define our culture as one of continuous innovation and a quest for improvement. We instinctively strive to do things differently, with fresh thinking that we believe enables us to create proprietary value and maximise the benefits to our clients.
Investor
May 2021
Big Ticket is a global, neutral “API first” infrastructure connecting corporates to their brokers, insurers and the insurance ecosystem. We connect the industry to structured standardized data which simplifies and accelerates the renewal cycle and promotes scale, revenue growth, and margin improvement for all participants. Big Ticket was developed and incubated by leading global Financial Institutions, in partnership with principal FinTech investors using open banking principles. This global partnership is fast-tracking industry adoption of Big Ticket. With bank-grade security and transparent data permissioning, everyone controls their data and how it is used on our highly-scalable cloud infrastructure, all accessible via a single point of connection. For more information, please visit www.bigticketplatform.com
Investor
May 2021
Second Front is a public-benefit, venture-backed company delivering mission-critical software to the world’s democracies. We work with organizations to simplify and accelerate every step of software delivery to government and regulated networks, including development, accreditation, operation, and extensibility. Together with our customers and partners, were powering software for the free world. Learn more at secondfront.com
2020
Private Investor
Dec 2020
Alaffia is a new kind of operations partner for health plans. Using expert clinicians and transparent AI, we deliver deeper insights, smarter automation, and consistently better outcomes across the entire lifecycle of claims. Our solutions support Utilization Management, Payment Integrity, and Appeals — giving teams the clinical context and operational intelligence they need to work faster and with greater accuracy. Founded in 2020, Alaffia has saved health plans $100 million and counting in medical costs. Visit www.alaffiahealth.com to learn more.
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