Michael Ashworth

Strategic Fintech Leader | Angel Investor | Advisor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
3
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12y
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Investor & Adviser
May 2025
Access to great careers has always been a bit of a family secret 🤫 And by family, we mean the kind where someone’s uncle’s mate works in finance and explains what grad schemes are over Sunday lunch. Most people never get that. What’s actually out there? What jobs pay well? How do you get in? What should you say in the interview? That stuff’s gatekept - and we wanted to change that. Our mission is simple: To help people from all backgrounds find careers that dont feel like work. Jobs that pay well, feel purposeful, and don’t make you dread Mondays. We designed Hunch to make career discovery and job hunting smarter, fairer, and dare we say it…fun! Our AI native platform: ✅ Matches you to 20 roles a day based on your background, goals, and experience - no more manual searching on Indeed. ✅ Send CVs that *actually* get replies - powered by our AI tool CV Magic. ✅ Track all your applications in one easy dashboard - no more lost tabs or job board chaos. And when you’re stuck? Our AI careers mentor is on hand 24/7 to answer questions like: “What jobs suit my psychology degree?” “How do I explain a gap in my CV?” “What should I say when they ask about salary expectations?” It’s like having a careers advisor in your pocket - one that actually knows you, your history, and the secret ambitions you wouldn’t even tell your friends.
Investor & Advisor
Jul 2019
LUX Rewards promotes card-linked offers to over 105 million payment cards across the UK and North America. As a scale-up business, we combine the experience of consistently delivering value in enterprise partnerships for some of the worlds largest financial services companies, with the agility that comes with being a tech-first business capable of delivering at speed. LUX helps enterprises such as Mastercard, British Airways and Perks at Work to collate hundreds of merchant offers that are relevant to their audience, and build highly engaging programs with our technology. Simultaneously, LUX helps brands such as Toolstation, ATG Tickets, Red Carnation Hotels, Selfridges, NordVPN, Gino DCampos restaurants, Honest Mobile and more to reach millions of high spending customers. For both enterprises and brands, LUX can acts as an extension of your in-house team - we act as your sole and exclusive partner for all things card-linking. Operational efficiency is our USP: reliably and capably handling everything from contracts, to onboarding, to merchant IDs, to data dashboards, to invoices, to account management and more. Our goal is to make your life easier and enable you to capture the huge opportunity that card-linked offers provides. Please do get in contact if you would like more information: Website: www.luxrewards.co.uk For Enterprises: james@luxrewards.co.uk For Brands: tom.munday@luxrewards.co.uk
Board Member, Visa UK
May 2014
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Learn more at Visa.com.
Experience · 3 entries
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2025
Investor & Adviser
May 2025
Access to great careers has always been a bit of a family secret 🤫 And by family, we mean the kind where someone’s uncle’s mate works in finance and explains what grad schemes are over Sunday lunch. Most people never get that. What’s actually out there? What jobs pay well? How do you get in? What should you say in the interview? That stuff’s gatekept - and we wanted to change that. Our mission is simple: To help people from all backgrounds find careers that dont feel like work. Jobs that pay well, feel purposeful, and don’t make you dread Mondays. We designed Hunch to make career discovery and job hunting smarter, fairer, and dare we say it…fun! Our AI native platform: ✅ Matches you to 20 roles a day based on your background, goals, and experience - no more manual searching on Indeed. ✅ Send CVs that *actually* get replies - powered by our AI tool CV Magic. ✅ Track all your applications in one easy dashboard - no more lost tabs or job board chaos. And when you’re stuck? Our AI careers mentor is on hand 24/7 to answer questions like: “What jobs suit my psychology degree?” “How do I explain a gap in my CV?” “What should I say when they ask about salary expectations?” It’s like having a careers advisor in your pocket - one that actually knows you, your history, and the secret ambitions you wouldn’t even tell your friends.
2019
Investor & Advisor
Jul 2019
LUX Rewards promotes card-linked offers to over 105 million payment cards across the UK and North America. As a scale-up business, we combine the experience of consistently delivering value in enterprise partnerships for some of the worlds largest financial services companies, with the agility that comes with being a tech-first business capable of delivering at speed. LUX helps enterprises such as Mastercard, British Airways and Perks at Work to collate hundreds of merchant offers that are relevant to their audience, and build highly engaging programs with our technology. Simultaneously, LUX helps brands such as Toolstation, ATG Tickets, Red Carnation Hotels, Selfridges, NordVPN, Gino DCampos restaurants, Honest Mobile and more to reach millions of high spending customers. For both enterprises and brands, LUX can acts as an extension of your in-house team - we act as your sole and exclusive partner for all things card-linking. Operational efficiency is our USP: reliably and capably handling everything from contracts, to onboarding, to merchant IDs, to data dashboards, to invoices, to account management and more. Our goal is to make your life easier and enable you to capture the huge opportunity that card-linked offers provides. Please do get in contact if you would like more information: Website: www.luxrewards.co.uk For Enterprises: james@luxrewards.co.uk For Brands: tom.munday@luxrewards.co.uk
2014
Board Member, Visa UK
May 2014
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. Learn more at Visa.com.
Investment activity
2014–2025 · 3 investments
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