Working on ML, product, and sales.

Angel Investor, shareholder & advisor in 25+ startups since 2016. Commonly providing the first cheque for a startup. My investment thesis is supporting startups that solve operational and consumption inefficiencies and problems grounded in lack of access to information. This has led me to make diverse investments, including transaction processing (Ntropy), health sensors (Cloudcath), robotics for lab automation (Automata, first cheque) and smart meter integration (Pylon). I do a combination of investing personal money, leading syndicate deals and acting as a venture partner to early stage funds.I also occasionally act as a hands-on advisor, helping with fundraising growth rounds, building data products and teams, and in capturing the necessary network effects for growth.As of May 2023, my investment portfolio has achieved an IRR of 47.3%.

Part of the founding group of Ada Ventures. Involved with the founders prior to and post deployment of their first fund, in which I acted as a venture partner.

At DueDil, my role revolved around building the company’s data science capabilities towards building data sets and understanding user behavior. Joining the company when under 10 people in size, I helped steer its growth to one of the leading Fin-tech Startups in Europe, growing the team by 10X, users by 50X and launching our paid offering in the process.Things I did;- Led the team that built DueDil’s core in-house proprietary datasets including company-website matches, company’s trading names, keywords and industry classifications, by collecting, processing and normalizing data gathered from third parties, the web and public records.- Designed an end-to-end analytics infrastructure involving daily collection of data generated within the company and from user activity, and serving that data for interactive querying by analysts, dashboard users and engineers across the business.- Attracted top data science, analytics and credit risk talent from leading universities like Cambridge, Oxford and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and companies like Facebook and Morgan Stanley.- As a member of the executive team, I played a key role in;o Creating series A and series B fund raising materials, and securing investments from Tier 1 VCs in the US and Europe. Helping raise a total of $22 million.o Devising our business plan and go to market strategy.o Securing key partnerships with third party providers of proprietary, untapped sources of transactional private company information.o Leading various high-profile research projects related to issues of public interest, including aninfluential research piece on Migrant Enterpreneurs and an analysis of UK digital businesses sponsored by the Cabinet Office.