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Mike Duma

Co-Founder & CTO, Media Technology | Inventor of the world’s first full-colour desktop 3D printer | Building RSI autonomous AI systems in the digital and physical worlds

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated November 2026💼 4 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor & CTO
Jun 2020
myGwork is the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Our mission is to make the workplace more inclusive for all by providing individual users and partner organizations access to a wide eco-system of services, including job opportunities, training, mentoring, employer branding, and free community events. Joining the platform is free for individual members, which supports myGwork’s goal of ensuring that the platforms benefits are as accessible and as far-reaching as possible. Corporate members get a tailored service, with carefully curated product packages to help them achieve all their DE&I goals. myGwork organizes two annual events, WorkFair – the largest virtual global career fair for the LGBTQ+ professionals, graduates and students, and WorkPride – a week-long global conference for the LGBTQ+ business community and allies during Pride Month. The company also recently launched the myGwork Academy, delivering practical and relevant LGBTQ+ training education to help create inclusive workplaces for all. For more information, check out www.mygwork.com.
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2015
Flix Premiere is the world's first true online cinema for movie watchers around the globe - delivering New Movie Premieres - Anytime, Anywhere.
Advisor, Board Member & Investor
Jun 2009
Shopow is an innovative start-up which merges the online social space with a market leading shopping comparison engine. We work directly with over 22,000 of the internet’s leading retailers in the UK and this allows us to offer one of the most complete and accurate price comparison services on the web. The Shopow service is currently available in the UK and the USA, with further internationalisation in the company timeline. The depth of our retailer offering and our innovative features combine in order to allow us to offer the most value adding shopping comparison service on the internet. Shopow features a dedicated online shopping community which allows its users to make more informed choices. All of our core services have been personalised, meaning that peer-to-peer relationships are prioritised above anonymous posts. Users share deals, reviews, content and purchases with their friends and are kept up to date with their favourite retailers news via our retailer following model. Shopow was founded in January 2010 by Mike Harty and Kevin Flood. Following significant investment and over a year of development (conceptualisation and development began in Nov 2009), Shopow came to market for beta testing in December 2010. Shopow works with retailers in order to power their review aggregation and provide innovative Social-Commerce tools as well as with a wide spectrum of partners who monetise their online presence with our technology (www.PowerLinks.com).
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2020
Investor & CTO
Jun 2020
myGwork is the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Our mission is to make the workplace more inclusive for all by providing individual users and partner organizations access to a wide eco-system of services, including job opportunities, training, mentoring, employer branding, and free community events. Joining the platform is free for individual members, which supports myGwork’s goal of ensuring that the platforms benefits are as accessible and as far-reaching as possible. Corporate members get a tailored service, with carefully curated product packages to help them achieve all their DE&I goals. myGwork organizes two annual events, WorkFair – the largest virtual global career fair for the LGBTQ+ professionals, graduates and students, and WorkPride – a week-long global conference for the LGBTQ+ business community and allies during Pride Month. The company also recently launched the myGwork Academy, delivering practical and relevant LGBTQ+ training education to help create inclusive workplaces for all. For more information, check out www.mygwork.com.
Founder & CTO
Jan 2020
Changing attitudes to workplace mental health is more than our mission and purpose: it’s our whole Miindset. Miindset is an ‘always on’ first response platform to help employees manage their mental health and well-being, exactly when they need it most. Mental health accounted for 57% of days lost for businesses in 2018, yet 90% of people who take a day off due to stress cite a different reason for their absence. How do you solve a growing problem that is hitting your bottom line, whilst sensitively caring for your employee’s emotional needs and addressing stigma? Developed in collaboration with healthcare professionals, Miindset acts as a preventative mental health assistant, boosting mood, addressing ‘low’ periods and promoting well-being. In looking after the mental health of their employees, employers use Miindset to reduce absenteeism, meet their Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) obligations and nurture a happy and productive workforce. For the first time you can programmatically assess the mental health of your team, measure the impact your support is having and assist your HR team in modifying your approach over time. Miindset: instant wellness for your workforce.
2019
InTech Ventures
Founder
May 2019
2017
Founder
May 2017
Influence Ventures are a Business Accelerator and Incubator that help Entrepreneurs, Founders & C-Level Directors of Hardware & Software tech companies by having them join us and their peers for 3 days of workshops for their business and talks by highly successful entrepreneurs plus networking with active investors and other founders. Nestled high above the Peak District, Ifluence Ventures are hosting their next 3-day event where you can engage in discussions and practical workshops on Investment, Advisory Boards, Pitch Decks, business positioning, sales and marketing, branding, 3D Rapid Prototyping (Hardware Track), Software Frameworks (Software Track), Funding, Exit and more. The events provide unparalleled opportunities to connect with highly successful entrepreneurs who have first-hand experience raising funding at every level from Seed, Super Seed, Series A, B, C, IPO and Exit. Learn how to position your business to achieve the same trajectory from leaders who have done it before. "The people you connect with at this exclusive event will become trusted business advisors, colleagues and friends you can rely on for the rest of your life. It's like being handed a ready-made network that would otherwise take a lifetime to build, this on its own is truly phenomenal!"​ Harriot Rockey, CEO Influence Network. Alongside the daily sessions, there will be the opportunity to relax, unwind and enjoy the extraordinary surroundings; taking part in activities such as Archery, Falconry, Drone Flying, Segway Riding and more enabling you to free your mind and focus on your business. The evenings are catered by an award-winning chef that will tempt you with amazing local produce and wines to match each course. Hear from successful serial entrepreneurs and investors who have raised Seed Capital, Series A, B C & IPO's, Funded and Exited their own businesses and understand what it takes to achieve the same results in your business. We have developed a series of workshops and talks to help you at every level of your business, giving you practical input that you can begin implementing at the event with our on-site experts.
CEO & Co-Founder
2017
Think of us as the DoubleClick of Influencer Marketing - setting the industry standard, we’re using AI and technology that enables agencies and brands to: - Identify and work with the most aligned and engaged Micro-Influencers from the entire social web, working with different Micro-Influencers on each and every campaign (not a closed database) - Rapidly deploy and manage Micro-Influencer campaigns at an unprecedented scale (meaning you can activate always on campaigns or quickly ramp up for an unexpected event) - Drive better, trackable engagement and ROI than any other agency or technology out there (meaning you can measure and optimise you campaigns based on real data and success, not vanity metrics)
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