Rod Banner

Co-Founder & Chairman, FishDog Synthetic Research

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member & Investor
Feb 2022
Did you know noise is the biggest complaint about today’s buildings? The sound of our buildings is intrinsically linked to our quality of life, so it’s important to carefully design that sound. Research has shown time and time again that the sounds of nature improve our relaxation, wellbeing, and focus. Moodsonic’s soundscapes are designed to do just that. They’re scientifically designed for a range of activities and people, all with your wellbeing in mind. Moodsonic combines the science of psychoacoustics with sonic engineering to deliver healthy, smart soundscapes to the built environment, while providing the flexibility and customisation needed to suit your existing designs.
Investor
Jan 2020
FLOWN is the new deep-work-as-a-service company by serial entrepreneur Alicia Navarro. We give you the tools and spaces for achieving deep work. Join our guided online deep work sessions. Listen to our productive meditations. Our deep work toolkit will make you more productive, creative and fulfilled.
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Jun 2012
Everyone Counts captures the voice of the voter in high fidelity to enable a better democratic process. We achieve this by providing elegantly simple software and exceptional services to upgrade the election process. The eLect brand offers unrivaled web-based voting products including Voter Registration, Online Voting, and Remote Accessible Voting (RAV). The product suite is designed to address challenges facing election officials today, including security, accessibility, cost, and sustainability.
Seed Investor
Oct 2011
Marigold is a global marketing technology company focused on delivering relationship marketing solutions for growing organizations. Through its portfolio — Campaign Monitor, Emma, and Vuture — Marigold provides intuitive, scalable tools that help teams personalize engagement, strengthen customer relationships, and drive measurable growth across the customer lifecycle.
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Oct 2011
The Zero-Party Data Platform The Wayin Platform makes it easy for non-technical marketers to create engaging, interactive experiences that collect zero-party data at speed and scale across all digital channels. Marketers can select from over 85+ different interactive marketing experiences with data capture mechanics that offer a value exchange in return for zero-party data. These experiences can be rapidly configured and published to any digital channel, whether owned, earned or paid, from websites to microsites, mobile apps to in-venue screens, social stories to ad units, and many more. The Wayin Platform captured over 1.2 billion zero-party data records in the last 2 calendar years alone. 1.2 billion preference insights, purchase motivations and intentions that empower marketers to deliver powerful, personalized campaigns that drive sales and conversions.
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Oct 2008
Based in Bath, UK, The Filter offers a unique, managed service approach to data science driven, on-screen and marketing personalisation. This helps streaming providers to continually increase consumer engagement with their content. The Filter’s customers include Joyn in Germany, EPIX in the USA and BBC Studio owned UKTV Play
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2008
Were Rock Content, we exist to make Marketing better, while having a positive impact in the world. Rock Content designs inventive marketing solutions that allow brands to offer premium content experiences to their online audience. Its workforce of +300 employees and 15,000 content freelancers fuel the strategies of more than 2,000 customers all over the world. The companys Content Cloud suite combines resourceful SaaS platforms, a global network of creative professionals combined with AI tools to help its clients generate more revenue and brand awareness. To know more about Rock Content, check our website: rockcontent.com Check our open positions to join our team: rockcontent.com/careers/
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2008
ScribbleLive provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. Companies such as Red Bull, Cisco, FedEx, Dell, Reuters, Deloitte, and American Express rely on ScribbleLive’s on-demand talent network, creative services, and collaborative SaaS platform, to produce visual and video content, interactive experiences, and real-time audience engagement. Using our talent, services, and platform, organizations spend up to 50% less and produce premium content 30% faster. For more information, visit https://en.rockcontent.com/
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Jan 2005
We design sound solutions to help people unlock their businesses potential. Founded by world-renowned sound expert Julian Treasure in 2003, we combine market-leading audio creativity with expert knowledge of brands and environments to help businesses to take control of their sound, as the right sound is capable of changing people's purchasing behaviour, their brand affinity and engagement, their positive or negative feelings about a brand experience, and their openness and willingness to interact. When your business becomes conscious about its sound, it can step out of the mire, move ahead of your competition, enjoy greater sales, increase customer satisfaction, increase productivity and motivation in its workforce, and increase brand asset value alongside more powerful marketing communications. Great brands are all about consistency, and today that means delivering an experience, in all five senses, that's consistent with your brand promise. Enhancing your brand with audio branding is no longer an optional extra. If you have not designed your sound, you can be reducing your brand impact by up to 86%. Take control of how your business sounds now, and watch your brand flourish. Another benefit of good sound is content, happy and positive employees do better work and make fewer mistakes. Research shows that improving your staff's auditory environment can raise their productivity by up to 200%, while at the same time improving morale, reducing downtime, strengthening culture and reinforcing group cohesion. DISCOVER HOW SOUND CAN TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS. Get in touch at info@thesoundagency.com / +44 845 500 2511 and discover how we can take your business to the next level.
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2026
Co-Founder & Chairman
Mar 2026
We build highly complex and detailed synthetic brain models. <b>Synthetic Humans</b> These models have complex personalities, backgrounds, occupations, and daily events. They watch television, read the news, go to work, and chat with friends. They react in real-time to world events. <b>Use</b> Customers use these models for market research. They give highly accurate answers to market , product and consumer research questionnaires. This allows our customers to perform accurate research in hours rather than weeks. Learn more at askditto.io
early stageMarket Research
2024
2022
Board Member & Investor
Feb 2022
Did you know noise is the biggest complaint about today’s buildings? The sound of our buildings is intrinsically linked to our quality of life, so it’s important to carefully design that sound. Research has shown time and time again that the sounds of nature improve our relaxation, wellbeing, and focus. Moodsonic’s soundscapes are designed to do just that. They’re scientifically designed for a range of activities and people, all with your wellbeing in mind. Moodsonic combines the science of psychoacoustics with sonic engineering to deliver healthy, smart soundscapes to the built environment, while providing the flexibility and customisation needed to suit your existing designs.
2020
Investor
Jan 2020
FLOWN is the new deep-work-as-a-service company by serial entrepreneur Alicia Navarro. We give you the tools and spaces for achieving deep work. Join our guided online deep work sessions. Listen to our productive meditations. Our deep work toolkit will make you more productive, creative and fulfilled.
2016
Founder
Oct 2016
JoyTech.org was created to help stem the epidemic in mental illness. We have learned it’s not enough to treat sick people, we want to explore the causes of depression and drivers of suicide to discover ways of coping and improving the way we all live. Technology is crucial to our cause and close to our hearts. The tech sector has the influence, the ingenuity and the money to alter humanity’s course. Our simple goal is to develop an unique understanding of what brings humanity joy and to discover technologies and strategies to create more of it. The JoyTech Organisation aims to satisfy four needs: 1. To establish an unique knowledge base and source of insight to drive measurable change. 2. To provide a smart source of content that helps people cope with the impact of technology. 3. To help the tech industry understand how it can change to have a more positive (or less negative) impact on society. 4. To identify, support and facilitate development. Our overarching ambition is to reconcile technological progress with its impact on humanity.
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