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London, England, Gb

Investing in and advising IP-rich high-growth companies that focus on B2C and emerging tech with a particular focus on transformative technologies. We advise companies with $1M to $100M in revenue on inorganic growth strategies, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, and IPOs.By actively partnering with entrepreneurs, INFLUENCE by The London Fund combines several critical disciplines: brand strategy, marketing, product design, social marketing, financial structuring, IP strategy, and channel creation. This enables the effective launching of products and technology we can identify, extend and defend through our echo chamber methodology.In addition, INFLUENCE by The London Fund investment vehicle can boost growth by providing from $2 mm to $100M in early-stage and growth capital.

The coupond™ platform combines cutting-edge promo planning technology with point-of-sale data and deep learning, allowing brands and retailers to collectively plan, execute, track, reconcile and optimize promo activity in a unified platform. The coupond team is comprised of couponing, cannabis, and CPG industries leaders.

New York, New York, Us

Companies struggle to find and retain successful hires for frontline and hourly employees.engin sciences incorporates decades of data science, psychographic, industry, and recruiting expertise to solve this costly ongoing problem with an engin – an easy-to-use, AI-powered software widget.The engin plugs into existing job boards, giving companies access to a virtual talent management system for hourly jobs, allowing HR managers to gamify the job application process on any site, quickly evaluating applicants, engaging and routing viable candidates to the jobs to which they’re best suited.Saving time and reducing churn, engin acts as a 24/7 virtual talent manager – saving companies thousands of dollars in HR personnel expenses.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston-based solo sciences provides next-generation anti-counterfeiting technology fused with a direct communication system between brands and consumers via solo*, its proprietary technology offerings, comprised of solo*TAG™ for supply-chain validation, a consumer-facing solo*CODE™ cryptographically secure trust mark, solo* mobile app, patented solo*ID®, and AI-driven backend system.solo sciences acquired by Akerna (Nasdaq:KERN) in 2020. The solo sciences mission is to build confidence and establish trust among consumers, while enabling retailers and distributors to close the loop with creators and producers. For more information, visit solosciences.com.

San Francisco, California, Us

Good&Co is a San Francisco based Techstars-incubated company creating a bottom up, employee-first solution to fix hiring and retention. Think OKCupid meets LinkedIn.Roughly 50% of new hires won't last more than 18 months due to a bad culture fit, costing companies on average $50,000 and 6 months of time. Good&Co is fixing hiring and retention using a scientific, people-first approach to personal strengths identification as a way to quantify workplace culture fit.Employing research-driven psychometrics with provocative design mapped to the social graph, Good&Co aims to help employees thrive in their careers and help employers develop better workplaces.Good&Co is the only company that solves this with a disruptive consumer-first approach--through social and viral quizzes, Good&Co has crowd-sourced what is now already the largest quantified culture & personality database in the world.Unprecedented levels of churn and employee-employer mismatch have created a $100 billion employee engagement & social recruiting market with solutions that have not caught up with the internet age .A gamified, employee-driven experience enables individuals to find their unique, 360-degree validated profile and FitScore™ with their workplace, manager and other contacts, in an experience best thought of as LinkedIn meets eHarmony.Today Good&Co’s database represents one of the largest psychometric databases in the world with millions of rated users.Good&Co's gamified all-mobile experience has rapidly gained 100,000s downloads and continues to grow.Good&Co acquired by StepStone/Axel Springer in 2016.

New York, Ny, Us

Draft.com (DRAFT in the app & play Store) is fantasy for the people We provide the best mobile apps in the industry, and allow players to do snake-drafts -- just like what you do at the start of your season long fantasy league - whenever they want, for real money. DRAFT is the most fun, fair and simple place to play.DRAFT acquired by Paddy Power Betfair in 2017.

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, Us

Muninsight is an independent advisory company based in Boston, focusing on the markets for energy efficiency and renewable energy in the US – especially in the Northeast.Muninsight can help you 1) allocate resources to optimally focus your sales and marketing effort, 2) find, assess, and help negotiate larger projects such as district energy, 3) do due diligence on political risk of projects, and 4) scout for innovation in energy.Muninsight delivers insights into market demands generated by the legislative/regulatory structure. Muninsight inspires thinking in new business models.

In from the beginning - taking the company from an idea to a launched company where we enabled users to make real money off their sports knowledge.StarStreet acquired by Draftkings in 2014.

New York, Ny, Us

Led the creation of RealCME’s suite of online applications which allow medical education providers to create unique, collaborative, virtual patient-based CME programs and curricula, supported by an intuitive course authoring system, a powerful learner self-assessment system, and a robust data analysis tool set.Created a launch strategy which took the company from product concept to first customer launch in 5 months, enabling a rapidly growing business which generated more than $1MM during the first year of operation.

Burlington, Ma, Us

SOLD for $565 mm Nov 2017. Instrumental in growing the company from an idea to the leader in managed use of open source and third-party code (Red Herring 100, SD Times 100) with 100 employees, over $30MM investment from VCs and industry leaders (Intel, SAP, Red Hat), and rapidly growing revenue from 100+ blue chip customers in 20+ countries.Led the creation of products from idea to launch.Created patent strategy and author of patents with more 200 claims.Evangelized the company vision through speaking at conferences and speaking with customers.Black Duck Software acquired by Synopsys 2017.

Led the productization of a flexible payment/loyalty platform designed to help organizations improve customer loyalty, stimulate transactions and unify payment offerings without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades.Co-inventor of PLEJ’s patent pending payment/loyalty system technology.Investors included: Draper Fisher Jurvetson New England (DFJ NE), CommonAngels, Navigator Technology Ventures and Tim Litle (founder of Paymentech, and Litle and Co.).

Provided the technology leadership for one of the key wireless startups of 2001 (voted Wireless Top 10 by Wireless Internet Daily). The company raised $3.7MM in 2001, had operations in Europe, the US and Latin America with offices in Boston and Galway, Ireland, and had strategic relationships with IBM, CMG, Reuters, Accenture and ESPN.Deployed solutions in several major wireless carriers including Cellular One and Telenor.Co-author of three patents and over fifty claims in network proxy systems, telecommunications, and security solutions for the wireless Internet.

Established a global hi-tech venture catalyst employing over 20 professionals focused on concept actualization, business development, marketing and technology creation.Grew client base to over 25 companies on three continents (Europe, North America, and South America), received $MMs in investment from and formed strategic relationships with WPP Group (www.wpp.com), Merrill Lynch, and IBM while maintaining a profitable business model.Advisor, board member, or interim executive for several companies, including: Justa Technology, Lydstrom, DoUWantIt.com, giftcertificates.com, Lineabox, and Vantage Technologies.

Drove the technology changes for that enabled fully brandable ASP (SaaS) social media functionality – resulting in establishment of relationships that grew Delphi’s reach from 10,000 members to a network of over 25 million in 18 months. Delphi (later Delphi Forums and Prospero Technologies) became the 15th stickiest ASP on the web and a MediaMetrix 100 ASP. Company acquired by Mzinga in 2008.

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Created the leading online health content syndication platform specializing in online video content. The content was branded and served from Healthology servers to appear in the health section of 3000+ of web-sites.Company acquired by iVillage/NBC Universal in 2005.

Instrumental in growing the company from a small start-up with 2 employees to a leading supplier of video special effects products with $8MM invested by Sega, Marubeni, and Compaq.Responsible for the technology strategy and parallel processing architecture, which turned a radar processing technology licensed out of MIT into a video special effects hardware/software product bundle working within standard video applications (Avid, Adobe After Effects, etc.).Managed a 40 person hardware and software development group.Co-inventor of the patent pending Compaq/ICE Internet acceleration technology.Company acquired by Media100 in 2000.

Created new parallel algorithms and designed parallel compilation techniques exploiting multi-level memory hierarchies.Established multiple world record benchmarks – including capturing the top 3 entries on the Top500 site of fastest supercomputers in the world (top500.org).Company acquired by Oracle in 1999.

Skive, Skive, Dk

Company acquired by DEIF in 1990.