Ben Bodien

Product engineering and technology leader.

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor & Adviser
Apr 2024
Changing the worlds relationship with exercise, one paace at a time. By leveraging financial and social incentives, our app helps people unlock the value of their movement. Download the app, earn Paace Points and spend them on a range of amazing brands. Its time to get moving and get earning.
early stageRetail
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2021
We didn’t create Life Supplies after a life-changing experience. We created Life Supplies because we were fed up. We were stuck in the same old routine of buy, use, bin, repeat. And it didn’t feel good. Take the bathroom. There’s stuff it just needs – the essentials. But each time we dragged ourselves to the shop (yep, run out of deodorant, again), we were met by a sea of single-use plastic, harsh chemicals and shouty packaging. There had to be a better way.
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2025
Co-Founder & CTO
May 2025
Kyorla | Real-Time Engagement Intelligence for Sales & Customer Success Unlock growth targets like 95% retention, over 120% net expansion, and a winning customer experience by empowering your team to manage more accounts without adding headcount. The challenge is to ensure every AE and CSM delivers world-class results across a growing book of business. Scaling coverage often leads to dropped balls, missed renewals, and inconsistent execution. Legacy tools and CRM data are not enough. Where teams get stuck: 1. Limited Visibility: Leaders and teams lose time piecing together fragmented customer context, which leads to surprises at renewal and missed forecasts. 2. Coverage Gaps: Stretching team bandwidth turns proactive growth into a race to catch up. 3. Manual Bottlenecks: High-value reps and CSMs spend up to 40 percent of their week on admin instead of engaging customers. How Kyorla helps you win: 🎯 Real-Time Coaching gives your team actionable alerts and recommendations in every customer moment so they can advance, retain, and grow accounts with confidence. 🤖 Invisible CRM captures important insights, next steps, and updates automatically, which improves data quality and accountability without extra work. 📈 Top Performer Intelligence quickly scales your best practices across your revenue or CS organization and helps every rep perform at their best. 💬 Natural Experience means Kyorla empowers authentic engagement without bloat or extra tools, delivering better conversations and customer outcomes. Why now? As growth becomes harder and cost pressures increase, operational leverage is essential. Kyorla makes every team member more effective, ensures no opportunity slips, and gives you deeper visibility from pipeline to renewal. Ready to prove it? Kyorla Real-Time Coach is live and available for pilots. Partner with us to drive measurable gains in account coverage, retention, expansion, and CSAT without missing a beat.
2024
Investor & Adviser
Apr 2024
Changing the worlds relationship with exercise, one paace at a time. By leveraging financial and social incentives, our app helps people unlock the value of their movement. Download the app, earn Paace Points and spend them on a range of amazing brands. Its time to get moving and get earning.
early stageRetail
2021
Investor & Advisor
Apr 2021
We didn’t create Life Supplies after a life-changing experience. We created Life Supplies because we were fed up. We were stuck in the same old routine of buy, use, bin, repeat. And it didn’t feel good. Take the bathroom. There’s stuff it just needs – the essentials. But each time we dragged ourselves to the shop (yep, run out of deodorant, again), we were met by a sea of single-use plastic, harsh chemicals and shouty packaging. There had to be a better way.
2008
Co-Founder
Oct 2008
A web development agency specialising in agile production of cutting edge web sites and applications. We pay keen attention to graphic, interaction, and user experience design details to ensure that everything we produce is easy and enjoyable to use. We take on client projects ranging from small to large, and offer a variety of consultancy services in our specialist fields.