Ben Whately

Technology Entrepreneur | Investor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2022
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Angel Investor
Sep 2022
Ventures Together (VT) is a community of 150+ of Europe’s leading tech entrepreneurs and operators who angel invest and help companies together. We invest in ~2 companies a week at pre-seed and seed.
Experience · 5 entries
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2024
Co-founder, CEO
Sep 2024
Weve developed a unique algorithmic approach to creating personalised cancer treatment​s. Our approach is orders of magnitudes faster and lower cost than conventional methods of new drug development. ​
early stagePublic Health
2022
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
Ventures Together (VT) is a community of 150+ of Europe’s leading tech entrepreneurs and operators who angel invest and help companies together. We invest in ~2 companies a week at pre-seed and seed.
2021
Co-Founder, CEO
Nov 2021
Climate Action for startups, SMEs and families. Take meaningful action on climate change in a way you can see & trust and in a way that grows over time. Heres how it works: - Plant a forest in a specific square on the map. - Watch the trees grow over time. - The trees earn money from carbon offset sales, and that money plants more trees: then you see a new square of forest planted in your name.
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Oct 2021
Hola! Bonjour! Hallo! こんにちは! Memrise is an award-winning language learning system with over 50 million users. Specialising in combining cognitive science, powerful tech and entertaining content, Memrise makes language learning genuinely recreational. We offer 200 language combinations across 24 languages on our website, iOS and Android apps. By leveraging lots of brain science and plenty of humour, we’re striving to enrich people’s consciousness and help people achieve confident, real-world language skills in just a few short months. We’re exceptionally humbled to have been recognised for our hard work and dedication to transforming the way the world learns languages. We’ve been awarded: App of the Year 2017 at the Google I/O Awards From the Play store: - Best App of 2017 - Best of 2016 Self Improvement - Best Apps of 2015 - Top developer badge - Best Apps of iPad: Australia, Austria, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom - Best apps of iPhone: Austria, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom Runner up: iPhone App of the Year, Netherlands - iPad App of the Year Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden Our fantastic team is growing, so if this sounds like something you could get on board with check out our open positions: www.memrise.com/jobs
2020
Director
Oct 2020
Drawing on over a decade of experience building mass consumer products used by 100M+ people, we help entrepreneurs build new ventures from 0 to 1.