Ian Cassidy

AI Trailblazer | Exited agency founder | Investor | Advisor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2022
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Investor | Advisor
Feb 2022
Golf Guru’s mission is to create happier, healthier-minded golfers who leave the game better than they found it. We are a non-linear, forward-thinking organisation from the content we make to the tech we use. Above all of that, Golf Guru is all about ‘feel good golf’. To us this means gratitude, openness, inclusion and mental wellbeing are at the forefront of the conversation. Were creating a community that thinks, feels and plays better golf.
early stageSpectator Sports
Investor
Dec 2021
Insurance for the unusual, non-standard and unique. Life’s not all about square pegs and square holes. So what happens when your insurance need doesn’t fit the norm? Policy Powerhouse does things differently. We take the hassle out of non-standard insurance, and jam-pack it with the right ingredients to fit YOUR need. Specialising in insurance products that are challenging to buy, where requirements don’t quite fit the norm, Policy Powerhouse creates innovative products for customers whilst delivering cost effective cover. Harnessing advancements in technology, Policy Powerhouse provides a faster buying process, using data enrichment, giving customers time back. Policy Powerhouse vastly speeds up quote to policy times from days to minutes by: - Automatically matching with a wide range of data-enrichments - Using deep learning and AI - Benefiting from years of industry know-how to get policies that protect you - Offering direct customer service where needed We’re changing the insurance market – to make it easier and less stressful to get YOUR right cover at the right price.
early stageInsurance
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2026
Founder
Mar 2026
We build AI tools that give creative agencies an unfair advantage. Weve spent 20 years inside agencies and know the operational challenges. So we built the technology to fix it. Defy Monitor: gives you always-on competitive intelligence - tracking what rivals are saying, mapping audience tribes, and surfacing insights that win pitches before the brief even lands. Defy Automate: takes briefs and runs agentic AI workflows that handle the repetitive, junior-level tasks - research, first drafts, asset prep, formatting - freeing your senior team to do the strategic and creative work clients actually pay for. Defy Report: replaces the end-of-month PowerPoint scramble with real-time dashboards and command centres that track campaign performance across every channel, live. We work with agencies as partners. Helping deploy AI tools for clients and internally.
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Founder
May 2022
We are Capture Intelligence, a global research agency focused on raising the standards of market research. We are part of Samy Alliance, a global ecosystem of specialized marketing solutions with over 400 professionals operating from 15 offices in over 55 markets. Samy Alliance develops socially and humanly impactful end to end campaigns aimed to build trust and community through our specialized solutions in Research, Social Media, Strategy, Creativity, Influencer Marketing, ePR and Paid Media.
Investor | Advisor
Feb 2022
Golf Guru’s mission is to create happier, healthier-minded golfers who leave the game better than they found it. We are a non-linear, forward-thinking organisation from the content we make to the tech we use. Above all of that, Golf Guru is all about ‘feel good golf’. To us this means gratitude, openness, inclusion and mental wellbeing are at the forefront of the conversation. Were creating a community that thinks, feels and plays better golf.
early stageSpectator Sports
Founder & Chairman
Jan 2022
Tyle is the UK’s leading installer of discreet solar solutions. We believe that solar can be beautiful. Our unique product integrates seamlessly into your existing roof to give you an alternative to the usual ugly and bulky solar panels that are seen on roofs across the UK. Each Tyle provides 100w of solar power and can be tiled in an array to create a PV system as large as your roof can accommodate. Contact us to book a no-obligation survey and we can help you build a Tyle solution that not only looks great, but also reduces your electricity bills.
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