Nick Jones

Co-Founder and CEO of Zumo.

📍 Greater Edinburgh Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Portfolio

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Oct 2021
Gigged.AI solves tech skill shortages for enterprises through on-demand talent and workforce intelligence. Our two platforms - which can be deployed separately or in one blended workforce solution - help tech leaders to deliver projects faster by giving them visibility over what capabilities exist in their teams and using data to put the right people into the right roles. This may be an existing employee or a member from our global contingent talent network. Our On-Demand Talent Platform uses AI to create an outcome-based or time and material statement of work (SOW) for a digital project and instantly matches it with verified talent from our global contingent talent pool. The platform offers enterprises access to over 500 technical skills and the average time to hire contingent talent is just 5 days from SoW creation to starting onboarding. By augmenting teams with on-demand talent, enterprises keep projects on track and costs under control, all through a single, compliant platform. Our Workforce Intelligence Platform provides skills analytics within a workforce to help give leaders complete visibility over employee and agent capabilities and how these can be leveraged to meet changing demands. It harnesses AI to seamlessly match employees and agents to the right internal projects, gigs, or full-time roles in seconds, no matter their department or location. The platform is designed to help enterprises harness their skill data so they can deliver transformation faster, reduce the need for expensive external hires and promote internal mobility. It can be deployed in hours and delivers ROI within 4 weeks. We are members of TechPassport, with an 82% enterprise readiness score and have a rating of 5 / 5 on Gartner Peer Insights thanks to our trusted clients.
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Aug 2018
Get honest opinions from your target audience annotated on to your ideas in minutes, analyse it in a few clicks, then optimize your work so it truly resonates. - Access over 110 million people to test ideas with, or, bring your own - Capture qualitative feedback at scale and use AI to understand what it means - Integrate with design tools Figma or Adobe XD for a seamless workflow What takes days or weeks, Loops helps you do in minutes 👩‍💻 - No sign ups or logins make it easy for everyone to have a say 👌 - Keep feedback focused on the things you care about and in one place 👌 - Connect insights visually to ideas so there’s no ambiguity 👌 https://www.useloops.com
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2018
Stampede provides a range of digital tools for hospitality businesses to grow, by bringing back more customers, improving their reputation and saving them time along the way. Data-driven and cloud-based software that does the heavy lifting for owners, managers, operators and marketers. Our digital tools include compliant data capture, reputation management, gift cards, email and SMS marketing and presence analytics.
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Dec 2017
Focaldata works with leading brands like Virgin Media O2, Nestlé and Medtronic to simplify and accelerate their entire research workflow. Weve built the worlds first AI co-worker for consumer insight which harnesses artificial intelligence to automate key research tasks—from creating briefs and discussion guides to building audiences, moderating interviews, and analysing data. By dramatically shortening research timelines, it becomes your insight team’s secret weapon, uncovering answers to key marketing, growth, and product questions with unprecedented speed and scale.
Investor
Nov 2017
Creative AI makes it 2x faster for creatives to find the right image. Our cutting-edge content understanding and querying makes search and discovery more personalised than ever before.
Investor
Aug 2017
We harness the power of wireless technology and combine it with our endless passion for innovation to design and manufacture timecode hardware and software that’s shaping the future of production workflows. We’ve always promised a timecode revolution and we’re delivering it. Timecode Systems has set some of the most important milestones for wireless timecode and workflow technology in the past decade. When we launched in 2012, we offered the first wireless timecode solution to not just sync over RF but also incorporate the ability to share timecode and metadata via WiFi to multiple smart devices. We’ve continued to break the mould ever since. For example, in 2016 we released the SyncBac PRO – the first timecode solution for GoPro cameras and in 2017 we've developed a sync and control solution that allows the professional acquisition of 360-degree content, offering a new way to streamline virtual reality (VR) workflows. We’re now building on this experience by not only developing smarter solutions for our core user base in the broadcast community, but also exploring new applications of our professional standard solutions for prosumer, consumer and virtual reality filmmakers. Our trailblazing ideas are brought to life by a combination of ambition, pioneering spirit and unrivalled technical expertise. Having gained a reputation for setting the trends for the use of wireless workflow technology in the broadcast industry, wherever there is a possibility for timecode to streamline a production process or to find a new diverse application for our unique wireless protocols, we’ll be there. Our commitment to innovation is not only something we’re proud of, but also an achievement that has won us numerous industry awards, most notably the IABM Peter Wayne Award for Design and Innovation in 2012 and the IABM Game Changer Award for the SyncBac PRO in 2016. More information about Timecode Systems Ltd. can be found at www.timecodesystems.com.
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Aug 2017
Oodls is the online marketplace for finding, and licensing, real-time Instagram photos and videos for your online marketing. Stop spoiling your visual identity with stock photography, and join the user-generated content revolution!
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Investor & Advisor
Feb 2016
Jacquard is purpose-built tooling for on-brand messaging that resonates wherever people are. Calibrated by language experts and producing trusted content at speed and scale, Jacquard helps leading global brands drive sustained brand affinity by harnessing the benefits of generative AI.
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2013
Adimo integrates with any form of marketing to make it shoppable. FMCG / CPG marketing does a great job of helping shoppers choose products. But it does a bad job of helping them buy them. Adimo makes life easier by time-shifting the fuss of buying, allowing shoppers to add products directly to their online grocery basket for later purchase.
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2021
Investor
Oct 2021
Gigged.AI solves tech skill shortages for enterprises through on-demand talent and workforce intelligence. Our two platforms - which can be deployed separately or in one blended workforce solution - help tech leaders to deliver projects faster by giving them visibility over what capabilities exist in their teams and using data to put the right people into the right roles. This may be an existing employee or a member from our global contingent talent network. Our On-Demand Talent Platform uses AI to create an outcome-based or time and material statement of work (SOW) for a digital project and instantly matches it with verified talent from our global contingent talent pool. The platform offers enterprises access to over 500 technical skills and the average time to hire contingent talent is just 5 days from SoW creation to starting onboarding. By augmenting teams with on-demand talent, enterprises keep projects on track and costs under control, all through a single, compliant platform. Our Workforce Intelligence Platform provides skills analytics within a workforce to help give leaders complete visibility over employee and agent capabilities and how these can be leveraged to meet changing demands. It harnesses AI to seamlessly match employees and agents to the right internal projects, gigs, or full-time roles in seconds, no matter their department or location. The platform is designed to help enterprises harness their skill data so they can deliver transformation faster, reduce the need for expensive external hires and promote internal mobility. It can be deployed in hours and delivers ROI within 4 weeks. We are members of TechPassport, with an 82% enterprise readiness score and have a rating of 5 / 5 on Gartner Peer Insights thanks to our trusted clients.
2019
Chairman & Founding Partner
Jan 2019
Exits from Aquila Insight, Appsumer & Phrasee
2018
Investor
Aug 2018
Get honest opinions from your target audience annotated on to your ideas in minutes, analyse it in a few clicks, then optimize your work so it truly resonates. - Access over 110 million people to test ideas with, or, bring your own - Capture qualitative feedback at scale and use AI to understand what it means - Integrate with design tools Figma or Adobe XD for a seamless workflow What takes days or weeks, Loops helps you do in minutes 👩‍💻 - No sign ups or logins make it easy for everyone to have a say 👌 - Keep feedback focused on the things you care about and in one place 👌 - Connect insights visually to ideas so there’s no ambiguity 👌 https://www.useloops.com
CEO & Co-Founder
Jun 2018
Weve made our mission to sustainably build financial wellness for people everywhere. Our Zumo app, is a simple and secure way to get comfortable with buying, selling, sending and spending cryptocurrencies. Our B2B crypto-as-a-service platform, ZumoKit, empowers Fintechs and banks to embed crypto solutions into their existing infrastructure.
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Jun 2018
Zumo believes everyone should have access to sustainable finance, and that blockchain has the power to deliver this globally. Its mission is to provide a better planet for digital assets, delivering sustainable, accessible and secure ways to unlock the benefits of web3. As an enterprise-focused digital-asset-as-a-service platform, Zumo’s turnkey, API-based infrastructure offers a fast, flexible and compliance-sensitive route to market, empowering fintechs, banks, asset managers and brands to offer their clients the tools of the future simply, securely and sustainably while also opening up new revenue streams, attracting new customers and supporting customer retention. A values-driven business, Zumo has underlined its commitment to a fairer society and a sustainable planet with an ambitious 2030 net zero strategy encompassing its own business; the blockchains it works with; and the wider digital asset ecosystem. Carbon-neutral since inception, the business is committed to ongoing collaboration in the decarbonisation of the digital assets industry. Zumo was an early signatory of the Crypto Climate Accord, the first digital asset business to receive UK government funding from the UK’s national innovation agency, Innovate UK, to further its applied work on the decarbonisation of digital assets, and is now a key contributor to industry guidance on the energy consumption of blockchain, working in tandem with the World Economic Forum and the OECD. Zumo’s infrastructure also powers the direct-to-consumer Zumo App, launched in the UK and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
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