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Placing elite level off-shore talent into UK, US, Aus and Middle Eastern teams ๐Ÿ“ˆ

๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 1 investments๐Ÿ“… 4 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Aug 2022
VC๐ŸŒ United Kingdom
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Seed Investor
Aug 2022
Clean Kitchen makes plant-based food exciting, clean and nutritious, allowing people to enjoy fast-casual classics with a clean conscience. We started with feel-good burgers on Brighton beach and have since expanded to 5 delivery-only kitchens across the UK and a flagship grab and go site on Camden high street. We have also have started manufacturing our own products including our bespoke sauces and have healthy meat substitutes including burger patties with only 0.5g of sat fat, zero palm oil sausages, and meatballs. Clean is fully committed to ensuring that all ingredients and packaging are environmentally friendly, sustainable, and of the best standard.
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2023
Founder & CEO
Mar 2023
Hello, weโ€™re Untapped. Get in touch with us to learn how we find you exceptional sales, marketing & recruiting talent (top 5%) that enjoy a 40% uplift on their local salary but cost you 50% less than UK equivalents. A true win-win.... Our vision is that every UK team leverages global talent to build sustainability, capacity and capability into their model. To achieve this, our founding mission is to level-up 1000 lives directly and 10,000 people indirectly, in Untapped regions by 2025. Were a passionate team of business operators with years of experience hiring & leveraging global talent and we can give you the unfair advantage too.
2022
Seed Investor
Aug 2022
Clean Kitchen makes plant-based food exciting, clean and nutritious, allowing people to enjoy fast-casual classics with a clean conscience. We started with feel-good burgers on Brighton beach and have since expanded to 5 delivery-only kitchens across the UK and a flagship grab and go site on Camden high street. We have also have started manufacturing our own products including our bespoke sauces and have healthy meat substitutes including burger patties with only 0.5g of sat fat, zero palm oil sausages, and meatballs. Clean is fully committed to ensuring that all ingredients and packaging are environmentally friendly, sustainable, and of the best standard.
early stageRestaurants
2021
Head of Growth & Partnerships ๐Ÿค
Oct 2021
In a unique time of rapid technological change, we are here to make a difference โœŒ๏ธ ๐ŸŒ Canda supports leading, fast growing companies across the globe in delivering their hiring plans. Weโ€™re inspired by ambitious CEOs & People/Talent leaders building the future of mobility, sustainability, education and healthcare through technology. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Weโ€™ve worked with public tech companies like UI-path, Trainline or Hellofresh to scale-ups like Lick, Allplants, Thriva, Mytutor or Ecologi and hundreds of start-upโ€™s funded by venture firms like Notion, Index Ventures, Techstars or Felix Capital. ๐Ÿงฒ Branded as you, our global Direct-to-Talent solutions allow you to leverage our sourcing technology stack, talent partners, and employer branding services to avoid recruitment agencies and directly hire the hottest perm & freelance talent in your market. ๐Ÿฆ„ From the inside, we are able to intimately understand (and challenge) your workforce strategy and talent needs. Then agree bespoke solutions and take away all the heavy lifting to execute at the highest levels. Our mission is to deliver Customer, Candidate and Global impact by design; ๐Ÿ’Ž CUSTOMER (ROI & Performance) - Hire high-impact talent, faster and save 60% on your hiring budget. ๐Ÿ’Ž CANDIDATE (Consumer grade CX) - Achieve 5* rated talent experiences & >75 CNPS ๐Ÿ’Ž GLOBAL (B-corp, balancing profit & purpose) - 5% of profit & time goes to our impact fund Since our launch in 2020, our +20 team has already helped 250+ ambitious technology companies hire 5000 people across Deep Tech, Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Design & Operations, and saved a huge ยฃ30m in recruitment agency fees. Intrigued? Excited? Pleased? Something else? Get in touch.
2020
Associate Director
Feb 2020
JSS Search has been founded by a group of high achieving recruitment industry experts who between them share more than 100 years combined experience.ย Headquartered in London, and with Global reach we differentiate ourselves through our people, their knowledge, tenacity and exceptional service delivery. Our diverse client portfolio ranges from FTSE 250, Nasdaq quoted and Fortune 500ย organisationsย to fast growing Unicorns and PE backed businesses across Consumer, Industrial and Global Financial Services markets. The common denominator beingย ourย in depth personal relationships and commercial understanding forged over the last two decades.