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Andrew Usherwood

CEO / Sales Leader / Technologist / M&A / Surfer

๐Ÿ“ San Francisco Bay Area, United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated November 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 3 investments๐Ÿ“… 11 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Aug 2022๐• @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel๐ŸŒ United States
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Board Member
Oct 2018
Mavericks'โ€‹ mission is to assist clients in designing, implementing and operating highly effective next generation Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructures. Our focus is limited to the most modern Hybrid IT infrastructure technologies, and our team of highly qualified, experienced engineers are dedicated to assisting our clients to design, build and optimize their Hybrid Data Center, Network Virtualization (Including, Hypervisor and Containers), Hyper Converged Storage and Multi-Cloud environments. Mavericks is a company built and run by Engineers.
Board Member
Jan 2015
Twigkit is a Cambridge-based software company with offices in London and California, whose products empower anyone to rapidly build full-featured search applications with a great user experience. Twigkit is used by companies such as Rolls-Royce, Qualcomm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Financial Times, Vodafone, Thomson Reuters, The UK National Health Service, and BASF. 1. Refined UX โ€” Applications should be crafted for the people that use them. We have distilled years of research, visionary design, and usability testing into a library of configurable user interface components for search applications. Whether highly configured or used out of the box, our components make it easier than ever before to build search applications that people love to use. 2. Rapid Dev โ€” Applications should be quick to build and easy to maintain. By abstracting data providers โ€” from search platforms to databases โ€” Twigkit delivers unified access to data, regardless of the underlying platform. And by a providing a suite of tools for everything from searching content, to annotating and saving records, to authenticating users, Twigkit enables developers and business users to build search applications quicker than ever before. 3. Enterprise-Grade โ€” Applications should be good digital citizens. We value interoperability, follow industry conventions, and have carefully designed Twigkit for tight integration with enterprise architecture. Twigkit is lightweight, compatible with any operating system, and runs in any standard Java servlet container.
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2022
Board Member
Aug 2022
Firefly was founded on the premise that education is the foundation of technology adoption. Since 2004 our journey has included training over 300,000 people in more than 16 different languages all over the world. We are expert educators and passionate technologists. Our core services are Content Development, Instructor-Led and Virtual Training Deliveries and our playing field is Information Technology.
2018
Board Member
Oct 2018
Mavericks'โ€‹ mission is to assist clients in designing, implementing and operating highly effective next generation Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructures. Our focus is limited to the most modern Hybrid IT infrastructure technologies, and our team of highly qualified, experienced engineers are dedicated to assisting our clients to design, build and optimize their Hybrid Data Center, Network Virtualization (Including, Hypervisor and Containers), Hyper Converged Storage and Multi-Cloud environments. Mavericks is a company built and run by Engineers.
2015
Board Member
Jan 2015
Twigkit is a Cambridge-based software company with offices in London and California, whose products empower anyone to rapidly build full-featured search applications with a great user experience. Twigkit is used by companies such as Rolls-Royce, Qualcomm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Financial Times, Vodafone, Thomson Reuters, The UK National Health Service, and BASF. 1. Refined UX โ€” Applications should be crafted for the people that use them. We have distilled years of research, visionary design, and usability testing into a library of configurable user interface components for search applications. Whether highly configured or used out of the box, our components make it easier than ever before to build search applications that people love to use. 2. Rapid Dev โ€” Applications should be quick to build and easy to maintain. By abstracting data providers โ€” from search platforms to databases โ€” Twigkit delivers unified access to data, regardless of the underlying platform. And by a providing a suite of tools for everything from searching content, to annotating and saving records, to authenticating users, Twigkit enables developers and business users to build search applications quicker than ever before. 3. Enterprise-Grade โ€” Applications should be good digital citizens. We value interoperability, follow industry conventions, and have carefully designed Twigkit for tight integration with enterprise architecture. Twigkit is lightweight, compatible with any operating system, and runs in any standard Java servlet container.
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