Tom Gooding

Founder / Investor

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2023
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Co-Founder / Investor
Nov 2023
We’re putting the fun back into bingo across the country, one club at a time. Backed by experienced entrepreneurs in the retail, leisure, bingo, gaming and hospitality sector, our vision is simple; ensure our colleagues and customers are having a real fun time!
Investor
Mar 2020
HeyCentric’s easy to use payment system allows organisations to manage regular payments in a multitude of ways, including online web payments, automated telephone payments, ‘in person’ payments and agent assisted telephone payments. This powerful suite of payment handling modules all feed into an optional Income Management component. This provides a highly effective overview of an organisation’s cash position and assists in both tactical and strategic decision making by giving a real-time view of the cash position at any given time.
Seed Investor
Jul 2017
Bean simplifies you personal finances, by letting you see all your bank accounts and automatically manage your recurring bills in one place for free.
Co-Founder and Investor
Sep 2016
Founded in 2016 in London, Samarkand is a cross-border eCommerce company focused on connecting international brands with China, the world’s largest eCommerce market. In the last 5 years, the Chinese eCommerce market has evolved at breakneck speed, yet our mission remains as relevant as ever – to make Chinese eCommerce simple, accessible, and profitable for brands and retailers of all sizes. Our proprietary software platform, Nomad, is at the core of delivering growth for our own brands and customers alike, covering commerce, distribution, logistics, payments, and analytics. If you’re looking for solutions to build a direct-to-consumer offering in China, get in touch and find out how Nomad can help.
Founder / Owner / Investor
Mar 2016
Black Spark Media was founded in 2016 and owns and operates the following websites: BingoIceland.com SafariBingo.com TheSlotsIsland.com WantTheLot.com
Investor
Aug 2014
uCribs is an apartment search engine designed for renters who are looking to live near college campuses. uCribs eliminates the frustration of finding places near universities by providing a comprehensive selection of apartments, user-friendly interface, and robust marketplace for searching renters to find their next home. Founded in 2013 with a mission to change how students find off-campus housing, uCribs has become the largest search site dedicated to rentals near universities. uCribs was acquired by 365 CONNECT in 2017.
early stageReal Estate
Co-Founder and Investor
Dec 2013
QuickThink Cloud (QTC) is a high-technology cloud innovator specialising in providing ‘cloud sourcing’ services to a wide range of sectors and organisations. Its core strength lies in the powerful and cost effective provisioning of Agresso ERP systems in the cloud (with full managed service support), as well as on-premises Managed Service offerings for the Agresso ERP solution (and associated technologies). Using a variety of highly agile cloud platforms, QTC provides a robust, secure, scalable, innovative and cost effective platform for both its partner organisations and customers. We also offer Agresso Technical Consultancy, Technical Project Management and Technical Training for organisations of all shapes and sizes. We don’t believe that one size fits all when it comes to hosting platforms, however we do expect that all platforms should be able to communicate seamlessly with each other and be completely transparent to its users. It is for this reason that the 'QT-Cloud'​ encompasses a number of enterprise cloud hosting platforms to ensure that it maximises resilience, availability and performance in parallel with preserving a highly competitive price-point. Whilst maintaining a significant cloud presence, QTC also understands that many organisations are keen to keep all their hosting / co-location options open. This often includes the need to integrate with their current on-premises infrastructure in addition to ensuring the products / services that exist in the cloud today have the potential to be brought back ‘in-house’ should their circumstances change in the future. Against this backdrop, QuickThink Cloud have a number of solutions that also support on-premises installations and configurations. Contact us now to find out more about our products and solutions.
Co-founder & Shareholder
Aug 2013
Gaming Realms develops, publishes and licenses next-generation mobile gaming content. Our market-leading mobile technology powers content distribution and monetization across real money and social gaming markets. Gaming Realms used to be a hybrid bingo operator and game provider but after divesting our B2C assets, we are making the most of the brand that makes us unique – Slingo™. As the creator of a variety of Slingo™, bingo, slots and other casual games, we use our proprietary data platform to build and engage global audiences that are expanded even further via strategic lottery, media and platform partnerships. We won the 2020 Which Bingo Award for "Best Slot Game" with our smash-hit Slingo Rainbow Riches game, which is also nominated for a 2020 EGR Operator Award in the "Game of the Year" category and an award for "Mobile Supplier of the Year" in 2022 - we can't wait to see what the future holds for our games!
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2023
Co-Founder / Investor
Nov 2023
We’re putting the fun back into bingo across the country, one club at a time. Backed by experienced entrepreneurs in the retail, leisure, bingo, gaming and hospitality sector, our vision is simple; ensure our colleagues and customers are having a real fun time!
2022
Founder / Investor / Director
Oct 2022
Logun Composites is an engineering-led manufacturer of exceptionally high quality composite products.
early stageManufacturing
2020
Investor
Mar 2020
HeyCentric’s easy to use payment system allows organisations to manage regular payments in a multitude of ways, including online web payments, automated telephone payments, ‘in person’ payments and agent assisted telephone payments. This powerful suite of payment handling modules all feed into an optional Income Management component. This provides a highly effective overview of an organisation’s cash position and assists in both tactical and strategic decision making by giving a real-time view of the cash position at any given time.
2017
Seed Investor
Jul 2017
Bean simplifies you personal finances, by letting you see all your bank accounts and automatically manage your recurring bills in one place for free.
2016
Co-Founder and Investor
Sep 2016
Founded in 2016 in London, Samarkand is a cross-border eCommerce company focused on connecting international brands with China, the world’s largest eCommerce market. In the last 5 years, the Chinese eCommerce market has evolved at breakneck speed, yet our mission remains as relevant as ever – to make Chinese eCommerce simple, accessible, and profitable for brands and retailers of all sizes. Our proprietary software platform, Nomad, is at the core of delivering growth for our own brands and customers alike, covering commerce, distribution, logistics, payments, and analytics. If you’re looking for solutions to build a direct-to-consumer offering in China, get in touch and find out how Nomad can help.
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