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Games Founder ♣♥ FLICK SOLITAIRE ♠♦ Collect Beautiful Card Art

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Advisor & Investor
Apr 2024
The leading integrated & composable commerce system, connecting banks, merchants, suppliers, and consumers.
Advisor & Investor
Mar 2023
Cuvée’s iOS app is the ultimate guide to your wine country adventures. Answering “Where should I go when I visit Napa Valley?” Cuvée solves user acquisition challenges for wineries with a mobile-first platform that fosters discovery, loyalty, and customer engagement. Backed by world class investors: Josh Buckley, Dapper Labs, OKX, and Paul Heydon, Angellist and mobile industry angels. Stanford’s Alumni Accelerator, StartX | Summer/Fall 2023 Cohort
Board Member
Jan 2019
Series Q was established in early 2016 to connect and empower LGBT+ entrepreneurs and others in the startup world. We represent all industries, all over London. Within the first six months, we grew to over 400 members and ran our first 100+ attendee event in October 2016.
mid stagePhilanthropy
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2024
Advisor & Investor
Apr 2024
The leading integrated & composable commerce system, connecting banks, merchants, suppliers, and consumers.
2023
Advisor & Investor
Mar 2023
Cuvée’s iOS app is the ultimate guide to your wine country adventures. Answering “Where should I go when I visit Napa Valley?” Cuvée solves user acquisition challenges for wineries with a mobile-first platform that fosters discovery, loyalty, and customer engagement. Backed by world class investors: Josh Buckley, Dapper Labs, OKX, and Paul Heydon, Angellist and mobile industry angels. Stanford’s Alumni Accelerator, StartX | Summer/Fall 2023 Cohort
2019
Co-founder and Director
Nov 2019
OutMakingGames (OMG) is a non-profit dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ professionals in the gaming industry. Founded by passionate industry volunteers, OMG aims to foster an inclusive and diverse gaming landscape through community building, education, advocacy, and events. Our vibrant Discord community offers a safe haven for LGBTQ+ individuals to connect and support one another year-round. OMG hosts a variety of events, from professional meet-ups at industry conferences like Develop Brighton to casual gatherings in alcohol-free spaces, ensuring inclusivity and support. We collaborate with organisations such as BAFTA Games to enhance LGBTQ+ visibility and advocate against anti-LGBTQ+ content in games. By partnering with major studios and standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, OMG drives intersectionality and creates welcoming environments for all. Our ongoing commitment to education and community continues to make a significant impact in the gaming industry. Find out more, or join us now! Visit https://www.outmaking.games/ or simply click the Visit website button.
Founder & CEO
May 2019
We are building the ultimate card game platform with a thriving creator economy - all around art and artists. Since our launch in June 2020, we have partnered with amazing new artists - every single month - who have designed exclusive decks for players to love and collect. Diversity is core to FLICK as we wield our game as a platform to raise awareness and represent the beautiful range of communities, cultures and traditions from all over the world. Experienced, wise and unabashed, we are a small team reimagining solitaire for a new generation of lifelong players. Built on the brain-tingling genius of classic solitaire, FLICK is evolved in all the right places: a relaxing feel-good experience for positive mental health. We believe that games can do good. Players often share how FLICK has helped them through difficult times. This is what makes us tick and even more determined to build a bigger, better FLICK.
early stageComputer Games
Board Member
Jan 2019
Series Q was established in early 2016 to connect and empower LGBT+ entrepreneurs and others in the startup world. We represent all industries, all over London. Within the first six months, we grew to over 400 members and ran our first 100+ attendee event in October 2016.
mid stagePhilanthropy
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