Garry Larner

EVP Global Head of Growth at OSF Digital | Seed Investor, Business Scaler

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Oct 2025
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Gretel helps financial institutions to rapidly reconnect with gone away and dormant customers and addresses the root cause of disconnection via automated monitoring, ensuring that customers remain connected. It uses cutting edge technology to bring companies and customers together in a digital “hub”, which acts as a one stop shop to support customer reconnection, digital engagement, and the recovery of lost assets. Gretel is part of IntelliTeq, which focusses on helping companies to comply with regulatory challenges around data and governance, while improving outcomes and achieving cost reduction through process digitisation. Gretel has been designed with a particular focus on customer vulnerability, dramatically improving accessibility to the whole financial services industry in the UK. Gretel’s proprietary search and match capability enables customers to identify where they may have become disconnected across any sector of the financial services industry, then helping them to recover their unclaimed entitlements by reconnecting them with their provider. Importantly, membership to the Gretel platform and its use are free; our belief is that customers should be able to locate their assets easily and are entitled to receive all of the value due to them. Duncan Stevens, Tom Simmonds and Ashley Hollands, as the founders of Gretel, have over 60 years of experience in financial services and technology between them. They have run some of the largest financial tracing businesses in the UK, returning over £2.5bn in forgotten and dormant assets to over 1.5m people. They have been directly involved with the Government’s Independent Commission on Dormant Assets in recent years and, in response to the Commission’s recommendations, have built Gretel as a free to use platform for customers, transforming the ease and speed with which the public are able to find their money, regardless of where it is in the financial system.
Seed Investor
Mar 2020
Ohalo ‘creates order out of data chaos.’ We tame unstructured data chaos using Data X-Ray, a tool powered by Machine Learning and NLP. Data X-Ray helps organizations scan, discover, classify, and redact sensitive data from their unregulated, unstructured data sources, on-premise and in cloud. From creating metadata stores to executing DSAR requests, were honored to help our clients make sense of their unstructured data, at superhuman speed. Through our strategic partnerships, we enable our clients to automate the data discovery, classification, cataloging and reporting processes - offering in-depth visibility and protection. Feel free to schedule a quick meeting to get more insight: https://www.ohalo.co/demo We embrace inclusivity, encourage personal and professional growth, and celebrate a global team of passionate people that help people tackle real-world data problems. Join Ohalo and thrive. Ohalo identifies sensitive data and helps control access to that data both inside and outside of your organization.
Angel Investor
May 2011
Kochava’s Marketers Operating System empowers advertisers and publishers with a platform to help growth marketers. Kochava delivers what marketers need, when they need it, to establish customer identity and segment and activate audiences in a privacy-first world.
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2025
Investor
Oct 2025
Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions. We provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world’s leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. The Scale Generative AI Platform allows customers to build, evaluate, and control advanced AI agents and applications that continuously improve. The Scale Data Engine provides the technology to collect, curate, and annotate high-quality datasets. Through our Scale Labs, we test models with rigorous benchmarks and novel research to ensure breakthroughs translate into systems people can trust. Scale powers the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through RLHF, data generation and model evaluation. We work with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
2024
Investor
Nov 2024
Payward, Inc. is a unified financial infrastructure platform that powers a family of products advancing an open, global financial system. Built on a single shared architecture, Payward enables customers to hold, trade, earn, pay, and invest across asset classes without friction or fragmentation. At its core, Payward provides the infrastructure layer behind Kraken and a growing set of purpose-built products, including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, and CF Benchmarks. Payward separates infrastructure from product expression. Each product surface is designed for a specific customer segment, regulatory regime, and use case, while operating on the same global foundation: • One global liquidity pool • One unified risk and margin engine • One collateral and settlement system • One compliance and licensing framework This shared architecture allows Payward to scale efficiently, launch new products at low marginal cost, and serve diverse global markets while maintaining consistent risk management, regulatory integrity, and operational resilience.
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Gretel helps financial institutions to rapidly reconnect with gone away and dormant customers and addresses the root cause of disconnection via automated monitoring, ensuring that customers remain connected. It uses cutting edge technology to bring companies and customers together in a digital “hub”, which acts as a one stop shop to support customer reconnection, digital engagement, and the recovery of lost assets. Gretel is part of IntelliTeq, which focusses on helping companies to comply with regulatory challenges around data and governance, while improving outcomes and achieving cost reduction through process digitisation. Gretel has been designed with a particular focus on customer vulnerability, dramatically improving accessibility to the whole financial services industry in the UK. Gretel’s proprietary search and match capability enables customers to identify where they may have become disconnected across any sector of the financial services industry, then helping them to recover their unclaimed entitlements by reconnecting them with their provider. Importantly, membership to the Gretel platform and its use are free; our belief is that customers should be able to locate their assets easily and are entitled to receive all of the value due to them. Duncan Stevens, Tom Simmonds and Ashley Hollands, as the founders of Gretel, have over 60 years of experience in financial services and technology between them. They have run some of the largest financial tracing businesses in the UK, returning over £2.5bn in forgotten and dormant assets to over 1.5m people. They have been directly involved with the Government’s Independent Commission on Dormant Assets in recent years and, in response to the Commission’s recommendations, have built Gretel as a free to use platform for customers, transforming the ease and speed with which the public are able to find their money, regardless of where it is in the financial system.
2023
VP of UKI Sales and Managing Director/GM
Jun 2023
OSF Digital is a top digital transformation and leading global commerce solutions company, known for its expertise in data-driven AI-powered Salesforce multi-cloud solutions, enterprise CRM, CMS, OMS, connected commerce, online shop management, and cloud application development. Our agile approach allows us to scale global growth quickly, and deliver innovative solutions across channels, devices and locales to enterprises and emerging businesses across B2B and B2C sectors. As a certified Salesforce partner, we are consistently recognized for our innovative solutions, exemplifying our unwavering commitment to advancing digital transformation. Notable awards include the 2023 Salesforce Partner Innovation Award in Emerging Technology - Customer 360 and the 2022 Salesforce Commerce Cloud Partner of the Year for Best Go Faster with Commerce. Our core values—OneTeam, ResultsAnywhere, Outperform, OSFExcellence, Driven By Change, and OSF Strong—guide our client, partner, employee, and community engagements, underpinning our commitment to excellence and continuous innovation. Acknowledged for our dedication to our teams well-being and commitment to cultivating an environment where innovative ideas thrive, were honored to be a Great Place to Work® Certified™ organization in ASEAN and ANZ and listed among Fast Companys The 50 Best Workplaces for Innovators. We’re proud to celebrate our 20th anniversary with a team of over 2200 employees working from anywhere, and operating in various locations worldwide, including Canada, the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Ultimately, OSF Digital Foundation is actively involved in philanthropic, cultural, and educational activities to help people in the communities where OSF operates to build a better life. For more information about our services and expertise, or to speak with a digital transformation specialist, please visit osf.digital
2020
Seed Investor
Mar 2020
Ohalo ‘creates order out of data chaos.’ We tame unstructured data chaos using Data X-Ray, a tool powered by Machine Learning and NLP. Data X-Ray helps organizations scan, discover, classify, and redact sensitive data from their unregulated, unstructured data sources, on-premise and in cloud. From creating metadata stores to executing DSAR requests, were honored to help our clients make sense of their unstructured data, at superhuman speed. Through our strategic partnerships, we enable our clients to automate the data discovery, classification, cataloging and reporting processes - offering in-depth visibility and protection. Feel free to schedule a quick meeting to get more insight: https://www.ohalo.co/demo We embrace inclusivity, encourage personal and professional growth, and celebrate a global team of passionate people that help people tackle real-world data problems. Join Ohalo and thrive. Ohalo identifies sensitive data and helps control access to that data both inside and outside of your organization.
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