Matthew O'Kane Ma Bfp Fca Mcsi

Venture Investor | Board & Founder Advisor | Tax | PwC | Oxford

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer (& Investor)
Oct 2022
Bodyswaps is an award-winning VR platform that brings realistic simulations and AI-enabled feedback to soft skills training. Here, learners can practise and fail safely without repercussions, while building the communication, teamwork and leadership skills needed for successful careers. Since 2019, London-based Bodyswaps has helped a wide range of educational institutions and corporate clients to unlock human potential in the workplace.
Board Observer (& Investor)
Jan 2022
Maestro Media Ltd, t/a BBC Maestro, is an e-learning service, where courses are taught by the most experienced creators in the world. Launched in November 2020, in partnership with BBC Studios, the service offers never before granted access to the minds of some of the worlds’ greatest creative talents, who for the very first time are teaching their craft and their process through a series of digital tutorials. Whether you are a novice or an amateur enthusiast, BBC Maestro allows you to indulge in your area of passion from the comfort of your own home and learn from the experts. Each course is beautifully filmed in 4K and offers several hours of content, broken down into 20 to 40 easily digested lessons accompanied by downloadable course notes filled with hints, tips and a breakdown of each Maestro’s course.
Board Observer (& Investor)
Dec 2020
DynaRisk is giving ordinary people the ability to protect themselves online. We combine personal risk factors with external data and algorithms to determine an individual's level of risk online. Our solution not only tells someone what their risk level is but also what to do about it. Try it yourself at www.dynarisk.com. We help companies protect their staff, clients and supply chain from cyber threats by enabling these people to take action for themselves. Provide DynaRisk to your staff and clients to help: -Reduce fraud losses -Improve client retention -Reduce costs -Change risk culture -Enable board level reporting on your most important asset against cyber crime, people
Board Observer (& Investor)
Feb 2020
Kafoodle is an award-winning food tech company on a mission to improve health globally by connecting people with the food they need. Kafoodle launched in 2016 with a cloud-based B2B SaaS platform to help Hospitality clients digitise their recipes and menus to comply with the EU food allergen information legislation. Additional functionality was released enabling clients to analyse the nutritional make-up of their food, and communicate digitally with end customers. In Jan 2018, following an Innovate UK funded project, Kafoodle launched targeted Healthcare modules aimed at helping care homes and hospitals optimise patient and resident nutrition, by enabling them to provide food offerings based on allergies, preferences, dietary requirements and health conditions. Today Kafoodle is an integrated suite of easy-to-use food allergen and nutrition management solutions for commercial caterers, with sector-specific features and benefits for Healthcare, Food Retail, Contract Catering and Education clients. To find out more visit our website at http://kafoodle.com or give us a call on 020 3371 0450 Watch our video on #calorielabelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSpF6WHB_Y
Board Advisor / Observer & Investor
Apr 2019
ipushpull (https://www.ipushpull.com/) is a cloud based real-time data sharing and workflow automation platform. Used across sell-side and buy-side, and front to back office, ipushpull improves workflow efficiency by allowing cross application secure, audited, access-controlled live data sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation. The API first platform handles static, live, and streaming data with APIs, integrations, and connectors into many data platforms, applications and services. The platform has won numerous including the inaugural Symphony Innovation Award and FIA Innovator 2018. The company is also a member of the highly selective JP Morgan In-Residence Programme.
Board Observer (& Investor)
Apr 2019
B Corp certified global platform for creativity. Everpress is a global marketplace built to make the power of independent creativity come to life in the easiest, most ethical way. Here you’ll find a curated emporium of original clothing designs with the tools to help people promote, sell, manufacture and distribute their own creations with no risk and no waste; a genuine alternative to the tyranny and wastefulness of conventional retail. We’re on a mission to empower creative independence in a commercial world. Working together: We are first and foremost a community of creators who support each other. We learn together, we grow together. Behind the scenes, our culture thrives on trust and independence driven by our mandate to: Remove risk; Simplify production; Eliminate waste; Promote independent creativity; Elevate community. If you believe there’s a better way to make things, we want to work with you. Challenge us. Push us. Help us learn. One of Ottas top UK companies for salary transparency in 2023.
Board Advisor / Observer & Investor
Oct 2017
**We are crowdfunding** https://www.seedrs.com/purearth1/coming-soon Purearth makes and provides the highest quality certified organic drinks focusing on gut health. We've launched the 1st UK's water kefir ( Kefir is essentially a fermented drink made from a live culture of friendly bacteria, creating a sparkling dairy-free, gut-loving beverage ) We also specialise in Superfood enhanced shots, vegan broths, bespoke organic detox programmes and are on the forefront of developing innovative drinks.
Board Advisor / Observer & Investor
Nov 2016
HubBox works alongside global carriers to provide software for retailers to launch local pickup options at checkout, quickly and easily. Carriers, PUDO networks and locker banks want to accelerate the growth of their pickup solutions. Retailers want to offer their customers more flexible local pickup options. Both reduce the environmental impact of eCommerce. We are trusted by carriers worldwide including UPS, DPD and Collect+. We are proud to include Williams Sonoma, J.Crew, Charlotte Tilbury, Whistles, Phase Eight and Liberty as some of our retailer clients.
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Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (9)
Board (6)
2022
Board Observer (& Investor)
Oct 2022
Bodyswaps is an award-winning VR platform that brings realistic simulations and AI-enabled feedback to soft skills training. Here, learners can practise and fail safely without repercussions, while building the communication, teamwork and leadership skills needed for successful careers. Since 2019, London-based Bodyswaps has helped a wide range of educational institutions and corporate clients to unlock human potential in the workplace.
Board Observer (& Investor)
Jan 2022
Maestro Media Ltd, t/a BBC Maestro, is an e-learning service, where courses are taught by the most experienced creators in the world. Launched in November 2020, in partnership with BBC Studios, the service offers never before granted access to the minds of some of the worlds’ greatest creative talents, who for the very first time are teaching their craft and their process through a series of digital tutorials. Whether you are a novice or an amateur enthusiast, BBC Maestro allows you to indulge in your area of passion from the comfort of your own home and learn from the experts. Each course is beautifully filmed in 4K and offers several hours of content, broken down into 20 to 40 easily digested lessons accompanied by downloadable course notes filled with hints, tips and a breakdown of each Maestro’s course.
2020
Board Observer (& Investor)
Dec 2020
DynaRisk is giving ordinary people the ability to protect themselves online. We combine personal risk factors with external data and algorithms to determine an individual's level of risk online. Our solution not only tells someone what their risk level is but also what to do about it. Try it yourself at www.dynarisk.com. We help companies protect their staff, clients and supply chain from cyber threats by enabling these people to take action for themselves. Provide DynaRisk to your staff and clients to help: -Reduce fraud losses -Improve client retention -Reduce costs -Change risk culture -Enable board level reporting on your most important asset against cyber crime, people
Board Observer (& Investor)
Feb 2020
Kafoodle is an award-winning food tech company on a mission to improve health globally by connecting people with the food they need. Kafoodle launched in 2016 with a cloud-based B2B SaaS platform to help Hospitality clients digitise their recipes and menus to comply with the EU food allergen information legislation. Additional functionality was released enabling clients to analyse the nutritional make-up of their food, and communicate digitally with end customers. In Jan 2018, following an Innovate UK funded project, Kafoodle launched targeted Healthcare modules aimed at helping care homes and hospitals optimise patient and resident nutrition, by enabling them to provide food offerings based on allergies, preferences, dietary requirements and health conditions. Today Kafoodle is an integrated suite of easy-to-use food allergen and nutrition management solutions for commercial caterers, with sector-specific features and benefits for Healthcare, Food Retail, Contract Catering and Education clients. To find out more visit our website at http://kafoodle.com or give us a call on 020 3371 0450 Watch our video on #calorielabelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSpF6WHB_Y
2019
Board Advisor / Observer & Investor
Apr 2019
ipushpull (https://www.ipushpull.com/) is a cloud based real-time data sharing and workflow automation platform. Used across sell-side and buy-side, and front to back office, ipushpull improves workflow efficiency by allowing cross application secure, audited, access-controlled live data sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation. The API first platform handles static, live, and streaming data with APIs, integrations, and connectors into many data platforms, applications and services. The platform has won numerous including the inaugural Symphony Innovation Award and FIA Innovator 2018. The company is also a member of the highly selective JP Morgan In-Residence Programme.
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