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Seed Investor
Sep 2020
QLM Technology Ltd is a UK-based photonics technology and analytics company with operations in England, Wales and California. QLM has developed a unique, patented Quantum Gas Lidar that can detect, visualize, locate and accurately quantify emission rates of greenhouse gases (GHGs), enabling customers to identify their largest GHG emitters for remediation in the most cost-effective manner. QLM’s lidar technology is inherently scalable to low cost at high volume, enabling wide deployment.
Seed Investor
Jan 2020
Investing in web3 made simple. We seek out web3 protocols that disrupt financial & social markets creating arbitrage opportunities for our investors. We do business directly with protocols for predictable & scalable results. We finance our operations using the same tokens we produce avoiding exposure to token market prices.
Investor
May 2019
Playfinder is the UK’s leading search and booking portal for recreational sports.
The service helps sports players find and book sports facilities across the UK and Ireland. From football pitches to badminton courts, hire facilities for 19 different sports on a huge variety of playing surfaces.
Playfinder was set up in 2014 by passionate sports fans who have struggled over the years to find places to play sport across London.
The site and award-winning app (iOS and Android) allow sports players to find out where their closest sports facilities are and then instantly book online at no extra cost.
Sports facilities can list on the site to make it easier to attract new users. Playfinder offers a simple online booking system allowing customers to easily get in contact for single or block bookings, completely free of charge.
In April 2017, Playfinder launched its first iOS app with features including an interactive map, secure payments and a live bookings calendar. Daily Mirror features Playfinder's app as number one in its 'Best iPhone apps 2018'.
The service is also in Brighton, Dublin, Luton, Leeds, Manchester and selected sports venues across the UK.
Playfinder signed as London FA's official Bookings Partner and for the Middlesex FA to grow participation numbers. The partnership will provide a simple means for London FA’s members to search and book football facilities in London either online or through the app. Playfinder was nominated at the 2019 Yahoo Technology Awards for Best Technology for Participation.
At the start of 2018, Playfinder became the first London-based SportsTech business to raise more than £1 million and Graeme Le Saux joined the board of directors.
Last summer The Football Foundation, the largest sports charity in the UK, teamed up with Playfinder to revolutionise the way grassroots players access football facilities by delivering cutting edge technology to venues around the country.
Bedford Council joined the Playfinder community
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (3)
Founder (2)
2020
Seed Investor
Sep 2020
QLM Technology Ltd is a UK-based photonics technology and analytics company with operations in England, Wales and California. QLM has developed a unique, patented Quantum Gas Lidar that can detect, visualize, locate and accurately quantify emission rates of greenhouse gases (GHGs), enabling customers to identify their largest GHG emitters for remediation in the most cost-effective manner. QLM’s lidar technology is inherently scalable to low cost at high volume, enabling wide deployment.
Seed Investor
Jan 2020
Investing in web3 made simple. We seek out web3 protocols that disrupt financial & social markets creating arbitrage opportunities for our investors. We do business directly with protocols for predictable & scalable results. We finance our operations using the same tokens we produce avoiding exposure to token market prices.
2019
Investor
May 2019
Playfinder is the UK’s leading search and booking portal for recreational sports.
The service helps sports players find and book sports facilities across the UK and Ireland. From football pitches to badminton courts, hire facilities for 19 different sports on a huge variety of playing surfaces.
Playfinder was set up in 2014 by passionate sports fans who have struggled over the years to find places to play sport across London.
The site and award-winning app (iOS and Android) allow sports players to find out where their closest sports facilities are and then instantly book online at no extra cost.
Sports facilities can list on the site to make it easier to attract new users. Playfinder offers a simple online booking system allowing customers to easily get in contact for single or block bookings, completely free of charge.
In April 2017, Playfinder launched its first iOS app with features including an interactive map, secure payments and a live bookings calendar. Daily Mirror features Playfinder's app as number one in its 'Best iPhone apps 2018'.
The service is also in Brighton, Dublin, Luton, Leeds, Manchester and selected sports venues across the UK.
Playfinder signed as London FA's official Bookings Partner and for the Middlesex FA to grow participation numbers. The partnership will provide a simple means for London FA’s members to search and book football facilities in London either online or through the app. Playfinder was nominated at the 2019 Yahoo Technology Awards for Best Technology for Participation.
At the start of 2018, Playfinder became the first London-based SportsTech business to raise more than £1 million and Graeme Le Saux joined the board of directors.
Last summer The Football Foundation, the largest sports charity in the UK, teamed up with Playfinder to revolutionise the way grassroots players access football facilities by delivering cutting edge technology to venues around the country.
Bedford Council joined the Playfinder community
2012
Co-Founder and Chief Executive
Oct 2012
As an award-winning supplier of defence managed services and cutting-edge mission systems, Inzpire is a trusted partner of the UK MOD. We are a genuinely Joint-Services organisation with thousands of years of combined military aviation experience. Inzpire recognises that a truly great company – one capable of delivering to the highest expectations of both UK and global military and civilian sectors – is only possible with great people. Our team, drawn from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force has frontline experience in operations from Afghanistan and Libya to The Balkans and beyond, gained from tens of thousands of hours of combined military fast-jet and helicopter flying and an in-depth, real-world knowledge that we believe no other defence company can match.
Inzpire makes the world-leading GECO family of mission systems for both airborne and land applications; combat proven, safety certifiable and with fully integrated Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) functionality for a paperless cockpit, GECO (Air) is the affordable advanced digital cockpit upgrade.
Inzpire also train the British Army to fly Apache helicopters, we instruct RAF pilots in cockpit skills, we support UK Typhoon operations and we are experts in simulation and synthetic environments.
All of our products and services are delivered by experienced war fighters and we pride ourselves on instinctively understanding our clients’ needs; this is empathy forged from experience – our people have been there. We believe that size matters, but only when size equates to agility and responsiveness.
2006
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Jul 2006
As an award-winning supplier of defence managed services and cutting-edge mission systems, Inzpire is a trusted partner of the UK MOD. We are a genuinely Joint-Services organisation with thousands of years of combined military aviation experience. Inzpire recognises that a truly great company – one capable of delivering to the highest expectations of both UK and global military and civilian sectors – is only possible with great people. Our team, drawn from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force has frontline experience in operations from Afghanistan and Libya to The Balkans and beyond, gained from tens of thousands of hours of combined military fast-jet and helicopter flying and an in-depth, real-world knowledge that we believe no other defence company can match.
Inzpire makes the world-leading GECO family of mission systems for both airborne and land applications; combat proven, safety certifiable and with fully integrated Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) functionality for a paperless cockpit, GECO (Air) is the affordable advanced digital cockpit upgrade.
Inzpire also train the British Army to fly Apache helicopters, we instruct RAF pilots in cockpit skills, we support UK Typhoon operations and we are experts in simulation and synthetic environments.
All of our products and services are delivered by experienced war fighters and we pride ourselves on instinctively understanding our clients’ needs; this is empathy forged from experience – our people have been there. We believe that size matters, but only when size equates to agility and responsiveness.
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2019–2020 · 3 investments
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