Gerard M.

Partner, The Venture Group | Investor | Advisor | Palantir Alum

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 11 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Angel Investor
May 2026
Rivan Industries is a synthetic fuels hardware manufacturer. Our technology turns abundant renewable electricity into low-cost, valuable synthetic fuels, anywhere on earth. Its our mission to make synthetic fuels cheaper than their fossil equivalents. Join us: https://rivan.com/careers/
Angel Investor
Dec 2025
We build AI agents that learn how a business operates, then automate the work. AI models are intelligent but generic. Every business runs on specific processes that live in peoples heads, stale documents, and ticket histories. Our AI agents reverse-engineer how a business actually runs from existing systems and create executable knowledge: structured, white-box instructions agents can act on. We’re a Series A startup, backed by Sequoia and other leading VC firms. And we’re hiring in New York and London.
Angel Investor
Dec 2025
The latest generation of AI models achieves breakthrough performance by spending vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. Demand is now compounding faster than the infrastructure beneath it can scale. The constraint sits in how tokens are made. Producing a token is not one operation but many, each placing different demands on hardware, yet every AI system in production runs them all on the same general purpose chip. Moving work between chips has always cost too much energy and time for anything else to be viable. That compromise is why the current approach cannot deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost, however large the single chip grows, and and why tokens remain scarce and expensive. Continuing AIs advance, and making it available to everyone, requires the datacentre to be rebuilt the way every great factory has been built: as a production line, with specialised machines and fast, cheap movement between them. OLIX is building that production line: the token factory for frontier AI. If you like working on the hardest and most consequential problems, we want you at OLIX. We are hiring across London, Bristol, Austin, Toronto and San Francisco. Check out our careers page at olix.com/careers.
Investor
Jun 2025
Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world. Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to. So we built something different: an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors and takes down impersonators and automates protection in hours, not weeks. Our goal is ambitious: become the trust layer of the modern internet.
Advisor + Investor
May 2025
Context changes everything.
Advisor + Investor
Mar 2025
Augur is the next-generation perception engine that turns legacy sensor infrastructure into real‑time operational intelligence. Augur’s platform fuses CCTV, IoT and spatial models to track movement across vast environments in seconds – leveraging your existing sensors and without relying on facial recognition. In short, we supercharge your operational capabilities by proactively delivering core security insights, maximising business efficiency and unlocking revenue opportunities.
Advisor + Investor
Jun 2024
Townhouse is elevating and redefining the nail salon experience with high-quality, reliable treatments in beautiful surroundings. Known for its celebrity clientele and exclusive brand collaborations, Townhouse’s speciality is nail art – beautiful looks that are elegant enough to be worn to a meeting, and stylish enough to be worn out to dinner. The Townhouse team are expert in their field, delivering flawless services all while adhering to industry-leading hygiene standards. With award-winning locations from the UK to the US, Townhouse is on a mission to elevate the nail industry. Awards: Best Nail Salon 2020/2021/2022/2023- Scratch Awards Best Nail Salon 2022 - British Hair and Beauty Awards Nail Salon of the Year 2021 - Professional Beauty & World Spa Awards
Angel Investor
Apr 2023
Nscale is building the engine of superintelligence — full-stack AI infrastructure powering the world’s most powerful systems, from ground to cloud.
Angel Investor
Apr 2023
Arkon Energy is a leading digital infrastructure company. We buy, build, and operate institutional-grade data centers that help power the Bitcoin network. Our portfolio is located across stable jurisdictions with access to abundant, reliable, and low-cost power with a growing use of end-use cases.
Angel Investor
Mar 2023
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. These platforms are powered by our leading AI research. We developed the first human-like AI voice model, then expanded into dubbing, transcription, music, sound effects, and speech-to-speech. We serve millions of users and thousands of businesses from the fastest growing startups to the largest enterprises like Harvey, Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
Angel Investor
Oct 2014
Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mental health coaching in addition to mindfulness and mental health tools for everyday life, like guided meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement, and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with EAP and work-life services, as well as therapy and psychiatry services – all in a single destination. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.
Experience · 15 entries
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Investments (11)
2026
Angel Investor
May 2026
Rivan Industries is a synthetic fuels hardware manufacturer. Our technology turns abundant renewable electricity into low-cost, valuable synthetic fuels, anywhere on earth. Its our mission to make synthetic fuels cheaper than their fossil equivalents. Join us: https://rivan.com/careers/
2025
Angel Investor
Dec 2025
We build AI agents that learn how a business operates, then automate the work. AI models are intelligent but generic. Every business runs on specific processes that live in peoples heads, stale documents, and ticket histories. Our AI agents reverse-engineer how a business actually runs from existing systems and create executable knowledge: structured, white-box instructions agents can act on. We’re a Series A startup, backed by Sequoia and other leading VC firms. And we’re hiring in New York and London.
Angel Investor
Dec 2025
The latest generation of AI models achieves breakthrough performance by spending vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. Demand is now compounding faster than the infrastructure beneath it can scale. The constraint sits in how tokens are made. Producing a token is not one operation but many, each placing different demands on hardware, yet every AI system in production runs them all on the same general purpose chip. Moving work between chips has always cost too much energy and time for anything else to be viable. That compromise is why the current approach cannot deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost, however large the single chip grows, and and why tokens remain scarce and expensive. Continuing AIs advance, and making it available to everyone, requires the datacentre to be rebuilt the way every great factory has been built: as a production line, with specialised machines and fast, cheap movement between them. OLIX is building that production line: the token factory for frontier AI. If you like working on the hardest and most consequential problems, we want you at OLIX. We are hiring across London, Bristol, Austin, Toronto and San Francisco. Check out our careers page at olix.com/careers.
Investor
Jun 2025
Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world. Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to. So we built something different: an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors and takes down impersonators and automates protection in hours, not weeks. Our goal is ambitious: become the trust layer of the modern internet.
Partner, Venture + Partnerships
May 2025
The Venture Creative Group is a strategic brand creation & investment firm founded by husband & wife duo Brydon & Sharlene Gerus. VCG develops and builds brands by deploying a global innovation NETWORK designed exclusively for visionary thinkers, founders and leaders in the business of building a better future.
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