Ray Duggins MBA

Serial Founder and Investor. Multiple exits over the last 20 years

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Feb 2024
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.
Board Member
Dec 2000
Bringing skilled people together to build the future SThree is the global STEM workforce consultancy. We fuse ambition, expertise, and technology to help dynamic organisations drive innovation and solve complex challenges. Since 1986, we’ve been pure-play specialists in STEM, building a global team of 2,700+ consultants across 11 countries who understand the goals of STEM professionals and the organisations that rely on them. We partner with companies to shape strategy, build expert teams, and deliver end-to-end project solutions through our seven specialist brands. Each brand brings deep sector knowledge to high-demand fields such as life sciences, tech and engineering, energy, digital and creative, and financial services. By combining global reach with local expertise, we push beyond traditional boundaries to deliver tailored, fully compliant solutions that help organisations outpace tomorrow, together.
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2024
Investor
Feb 2024
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.
2015
Quantum Response Network Ltd
Co-Founder
Nov 2015
2012
PALADIN STRATEGIC
Owner
Nov 2012
2010
Managing Director - New Ventures & International
Oct 2010
Founded in 1995, Jobsite is an award winning job board, serving over 120,000 jobs to 7 million candidates every month. With a mission to connect the most skilled professionals in the UK to high level roles, its key sectors are IT, Engineering and Finance. Jobsite takes pride in being a key source of innovation and insight to the recruitment market. Jobsite is part of the StepStone group, one of the world’s most successful job board businesses. To find out more about working with us, call 023 9245 7575 today or visit www.jobsite.co.uk/recruitment
2002
Founder and CEO (Jobboard Enterprises)
Apr 2002
Dice Tech UK is the unrivalled resource for connecting IT professionals with IT companies. We are the first choice job site for millions of IT professional and industry leading companies including Google, IBM, Oracle, Accenture and Cap Gemini. Only Dice Tech UK makes your IT job search simple.
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