Donald A Gillies

earned your wings as a founder? start angel investing to stay relevant & give back Angelize is where European founders come together to write first cheques. Every year, we invest in ~50 pre-seed technology start-ups through our fund.

earned your wings as a founder? start angel investing to stay relevant & give back Angelize is where European founders come together to write first cheques. Every year, we invest in ~50 pre-seed technology start-ups through our fund.

In a world shaped by increasingly interconnected risks, Moody’s helps customers develop a holistic view of these risks to advance their business and act decisively. With a rich history of expertise in global markets and a diverse workforce in more than 40 countries, Moody’s unites the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Passfort is a Moodys Analytics company and we are on a mission to digitally transform the way compliance professionals work. We are transforming risk and compliance, creating a world where risk is understood so decisions can be made with confidence. We stop financial crime not good customers. Born in the cloud, Passfort’s SaaS solutions are designed for the digital economy. They are hardware-free, affordable, flexible to configure and easy to use, with constant feature innovation and a choice of deployment options. Our low to no-code solution thrives on complexity, such as multiple customer types, multiple product lines and multi-jurisdictions, solving challenges at scale without being costly to implement and evolve. We enable regulated financial services companies to rapidly onboard customers then manage risk and compliance standards throughout the customer lifecycle. Our integration model enables us to ingest datasets from any provider and interoperate with any system. We help you build a data ecosystem, with pre-built connectors to more than 25 data providers and growing. Passfort’s dynamic orchestration of customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB) and anti-money laundering (AML) workflows puts the weight of compliance activity on automation and our risk engine, not your customers. We layer automation to speed up manual processes and remedial tasks that can’t be automated, bringing your compliance team in where they add most value for analysis, judgement and decision-making. Compliance efficiency and greater customer experiences. No compromise.

Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers