Steven Collins

CTO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member
Oct 2019
Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through your software supply chain, using the best of cloud-native artifact management. Operate at enterprise scale, reduce risk, and streamline builds. Cloudsmith just works, so your developers can, too.
Board Member
Mar 2019
MUSIC RIGHTS SUPERCHARGED. Simple licensing for hit music. Easily add great music to your app or platform with our digital licensing service. Say goodbye to complicated licensing agreements and hello to enhancing your user experience!
Board Member
Feb 2019
Board Member
Dec 2018
Search is changing. Digital maps, powerful computers in our pockets, offline sensors - the way in which customers find, choose and interact with real-world locations is changing. One in every three mobile searches we make relates to the local area around and 50% of those result in a store visit within 24 hours. The growing influence of online channels on offline transactions brings great opportunity and raises some important questions: -How can we maintain control of our location data and customer experience across the platforms our clients use to find and interact with us? -What local customer and area specific insights can I gather? What insights can I gain? -How can I optimise my store pages and advertising for local search? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Localistico enables physical location-based businesses to enhance their online-to-offline marketing capabilities and increase both local awareness and footfall, empowering brands to convert online engagement into offline sales, globally. Our platform helps both in-house marketing teams and agencies improve specific store performance with features including automated local advertising, store-by-store comparative competitive positioning and a secure, central store for location data that is synchronized with platforms such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Foursquare and Bing.
Board Member
Nov 2018
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 700 of the world’s leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io Apache® and Apache Airflow® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
We are Hopsworks - the Platform for Data-Intensive Artificial Intelligence with the industrys Python-centric Enterprise Feature Store. Launched in 2018 by the members of the Distributed Computing Group at KTH –Royal Institute of Technology and RISE SICS AB, aiming to provide the market’s go to Enterprise Data & AI platform. Our mission is to build the world’s most scalable, secure, reliable, efficient and human-friendly data-intensive machine learning platform to enable businesses to easily develop data and AI products that help their businesses thrive. Our vision is to enable the discovery of trustworthy, actionable insights in data and easily design and apply AI solutions to complex problems.
Board Observer
Dec 2017
We believe that AI is the most powerful tool our generation has at hand. At understand.ai, we make deep learning accessible for real-world applications like self-driving cars. Weve created algorithmic annotation tooling for camera, lidar and sensor fusion data. By introducing the automation engine for data annotation to UAI Annotator – our annotation tool, we deliver unprecedented automation rates cutting costs and accelerating the training and testing of assisted & autonomous driving technology. We are AI natives data annotation experts with 6 years of worldwide AD/ ADAS project experience and 80+ associates with AI, automotive & cloud background. We are your annotation partner for your autonomous journey.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Part of Genius Sports, Spirable empowers world-leading brands and agencies to attract, convert and retain customers through personalised video at scale. Only through Spirable’s self-serve platform, can marketers create, distribute and optimise video creative across social, email and messenger channels. Through hundreds of unique data integrations, video creative is dynamically changed to tell the most relevant and personalised story, at the right time, to drive engagement and action - optimised through machine learning and AI. Spirable operates in over 30 countries and is a Facebook Marketing Partner.
Board Member
Jun 2017
At Moltin, we believe that brand experiences should never be obscured by technology and that commerce development should be simple, lightweight and fun. Moltin is an API-first digital commerce solution that enables retailers to build distinctive shopping experiences and embed them into any consumer touchpoint. It combines an extremely flexible set of APIs, developer toolkits, pre-built applications and cloud infrastructure to make commerce development simple, lightweight and fast. Moltin APIs are the simplest, most powerful in the industry. Retailers can test new channels quickly, scale into new markets, and keep pace with ever-evolving consumer trends. With Moltin, commerce flows seamlessly across any channel, device and experience. Moltin has a rapidly growing community of more than 17,000 developers around the world, pushing the boundaries of traditional commerce.
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2020
Venture Partner and Advisor
Jan 2020
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline Growth is a fund for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
2019
Board Member
Oct 2019
Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through your software supply chain, using the best of cloud-native artifact management. Operate at enterprise scale, reduce risk, and streamline builds. Cloudsmith just works, so your developers can, too.
Board Member
Mar 2019
MUSIC RIGHTS SUPERCHARGED. Simple licensing for hit music. Easily add great music to your app or platform with our digital licensing service. Say goodbye to complicated licensing agreements and hello to enhancing your user experience!
Board Member
Feb 2019
2018
Board Member
Dec 2018
Search is changing. Digital maps, powerful computers in our pockets, offline sensors - the way in which customers find, choose and interact with real-world locations is changing. One in every three mobile searches we make relates to the local area around and 50% of those result in a store visit within 24 hours. The growing influence of online channels on offline transactions brings great opportunity and raises some important questions: -How can we maintain control of our location data and customer experience across the platforms our clients use to find and interact with us? -What local customer and area specific insights can I gather? What insights can I gain? -How can I optimise my store pages and advertising for local search? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Localistico enables physical location-based businesses to enhance their online-to-offline marketing capabilities and increase both local awareness and footfall, empowering brands to convert online engagement into offline sales, globally. Our platform helps both in-house marketing teams and agencies improve specific store performance with features including automated local advertising, store-by-store comparative competitive positioning and a secure, central store for location data that is synchronized with platforms such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Foursquare and Bing.
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