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Jun 2015
The Founder and Lightning Group is a passionate team of more than 100+ software engineers, product managers, designers, business operators & venture capitalists. We have been building successful start-ups for 8+ years and have crafted a winning playbook.
Founder and Lightning Capital is the VC arm of the Founder and Lightning Group. We invest in non-technical B2B SAAS founders to finance venture building support from our product & tech teams. After investing, we support our founders with market validation, product development & future fundraising.
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Jan 2015
Founded in 2011, Plumbee is an ambitious social casino gaming startup in Shoreditch, London that is changing the way technology fuels entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating high-quality, polished games that stand out from the competition and offer a unique and premium experience to our users.
Our free-to-play Mirrorball Slots is one of Facebooks top ten highest grossing social casino games. More than 10 million people have downloaded our games across Facebook and Mobile. Weve attracted more than one million monthly players and 300,000 daily players.
Were redefining social casino games and using the best and the hungriest talent to do it. We have over 60 employees, made up of the top engineers, artists, analysts and marketers in London. We value innovation and creativity and reward talent, merit and passion.
If you want to challenge the norm, change the way people do things and create something truly groundbreaking, then we’d love to hear from you!
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2025
Co-Founder
Dec 2025
An Anthropic Partner that accelerates engineering teams with Claude Code, employees with Cowork, and co-builds agentic workflows with Claude models.
We help the enterprise compete and lead in the AI era.
Two fundamental shifts are reshaping the enterprise: how software gets built, and how companies operate. This isnt incremental. Its structural.
The Engineering Shift
AI-native development changes how software gets built, and individual developers using AI assistants are 2-3x more productive, but individual gains arent the prize.
The prize is scaling AI-native workflows across entire engineering organizations - and those that do this will ship faster, attract better talent, and compound velocity increases. Most of your competitors are still treating AI tools as optional. That window is closing.
The Business Model Shift
Agentic AI changes how companies operate and workflows are being rebuilt with AI agents that reason, act, and adapt - embedding intelligence into products, and adapting how value is created and managed across sales, service, and business services. This isnt automation. Its a new operating model.
We dont consult. We embed forward-deployed engineers and business change agents with your teams to co-build working solutions and deliver outcomes.
Our team brings:
Developer acceleration expertise from Anthropic, Heroku and AWS
Technology-led business and industry transformation expertise
Partnership with Anthropic with a commitment to build on trusted-AI
We embed to deliver:
✓ Claude Code adoption across development teams
✓ Agentic workflow deployment in production
✓ Business model pilots that prove ROI
Ready to build?
2023
Co-Founder
Sep 2023
The Whole Group is a pure-play partner dedicated to customer success using ServiceNow’s customer and finance workflows. We have hundreds of years of experience advising on and implementing solutions for customers of all shapes and sizes across multiple industries to deliver excellent outcomes.
We have deep expertise in and focus intently on the following areas:
Customer service management
Field service management
Configure, price & quote (CPQ)
Order to cash
Supplier lifecycle management/operations
Finance operations
Accounts payable operations
Integrations to multiple systems, including ERP
Our Cosmos Deployment Framework, optimised for ServiceNow, is highly composable to assure fast deployment, rapid time to value, low technical debt, and a clear path to leveraging future Product features.
The result is efficient user journeys, with data-driven insights and actions to get users quickly adopting and seeing real value from the platform.
We chose to work with ServiceNow because we love the technology, its agility, the speed of innovation, the vision of the Product Teams, and ServiceNow’s approach to retaining the core value of “one platform”. The notion of one platform cannot be understated. Where others claim to have the same, the Now platform truly is.
With talent hubs in the USA and Europe and a wide range of skills development programs, we want to hear from talented people with interesting backgrounds and experiences who are interested in building a fast-growth technology career and changing how global businesses work.
2018
Co-founder & CEO
Sep 2018
At Aventus, we provide consultancy services and technology solutions to businesses operating in the insurance industry.
With a background in supplying technology and services into some of the biggest names in the insurance industry, we understand the challenges and complexities of making technology work seamlessly across a business. We can help you leverage the right technology solutions to help drive sales, deliver operational efficiencies and create your point of difference.
2016
Founder and Chairman
Dec 2016
Moving home just got easier.
Fed up with endless forms and delays? When You Move is an easy-to-use app that makes the process of moving home faster and less stressful. Featuring essential checklists and notifications, handy price-comparison guides, and time-saving efficiency tools all in one convenient package, When You Move is your 24/7 pocket property assistant.
2015
Co-Founder and CEO
Aug 2015
Buying and managing insurance isn’t easy.
So we’re using technology to make insurance simple.
The right cover, at the right price.
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