Nick Murray

Fan of People & Ideas - Startup Ecosystem Support Programmes & Project Management - Events & Engagement - Collaboration over Duplication - Lift As You Climb - Occasional Mindset Musings - Proud Girl Dad

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 1 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Jan 2025
"Ship Shape is the Venture Capital Search Engine. Ship Shape is a Search Engine that lets you search individual investors at VC firms, portfolio companies and investment entities. Our results compress the research time required to draw up a well-informed investor shortlist from 183 days to a matter of seconds, dramatically improving the chances of a warm response to outreach. Because we index unstructured data, you can find the investors interested in a specific field. Ship Shape provides you with evidence, in addition to the firms portfolio of other investments. This gives you confidence, clarity and certainty that you are speaking with the right person. Ship Shape is the Welsh Fintech Start-up of the Year 2021."
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2025
Investor
Jan 2025
"Ship Shape is the Venture Capital Search Engine. Ship Shape is a Search Engine that lets you search individual investors at VC firms, portfolio companies and investment entities. Our results compress the research time required to draw up a well-informed investor shortlist from 183 days to a matter of seconds, dramatically improving the chances of a warm response to outreach. Because we index unstructured data, you can find the investors interested in a specific field. Ship Shape provides you with evidence, in addition to the firms portfolio of other investments. This gives you confidence, clarity and certainty that you are speaking with the right person. Ship Shape is the Welsh Fintech Start-up of the Year 2021."
2024
Founder Catalyst & Startup Community Program Operations
Jun 2024
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
2022
Strategic Partnerships Manager
Jun 2022
Metanomic helps you take the guesswork out of game development. We help game studios simulate and deploy game economies in run-time with our Economy Engine. Thunderstruck, our data analytics platform, helps you better understand your players through classification and analysis based on how they behave in game.
Co-Founder
May 2022
We support high-impact, scalable startups, focusing on sectors where we can leverage our expertise, network, and capital to accelerate companies from early to growth stages, ensuring they become category-defining businesses. Our focus is founder-first, prioritising diverse, mission-driven teams with global ambitions. Part of our work includes running international, immersive programmes across the globe, around key conferences and driving investment and talent to the UK, a as launchpad for global growth. 15K+ global network and working with: Startups: Your launchpad for global growth and success Investors: Untap the next big thing before they’re mainstream Corporates: serious business can be driven, Impactful and fun Governments: driving economic growth through global opportunities Venture Builders: Hyperscale your startups’ global potential from day one Academia: Scaling university innovation without the hassle
2021
Partnerships Manager
Dec 2021
Ashia, now part of the Raiys family of services, is the wellbeing streaming platform that inspires, educates, breaks stigmas and supports people through lifes challenges. Proactive support will positively boost employee morale and purpose, and with it, retention, and company resilience.
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