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Min Investment:
$500.00Max Investment:
$10,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000.00
Skills
Education
- TU
Lists including David
Investments
Seedrs
Total Funding: $12M
Picfair
Total Funding: $2.5M
SimplyCook
Total Funding: $4M
Crowdcube
Total Funding: $64M
Citymapper
Total Funding: $50M
Thread
Total Funding: $56M
Monzo
Total Funding: $1.7B
Rentify
Total Funding: $3M
Work Experience
2012
Lead QA
2012
First hire by CTO after raising Series A. Started as junior developer, now part of the tech management team and Lead QA. Epic adventure from 10 to 300+ employees and still loving it! 🏔
2005
Founder
2005
Primarily social shopping concept wishli.st. Conceived in 2005. Built first version myself - it was beautiful! Launched May 2007. Raised pre-seed funding March 2008. Relaunched with professional help June 2008. Relaunched as a Facebook app December 2009. First cohort of The Difference Engine accelerator March-May 2010. Used as holding company for various side hustles since.
2012 - 2012
Developer
2012 - 2012
Short-term contract to build the first PHP client library for the GoCardless API. Company consisted of only founders and first employee. Awesome energy. Alas long-term they needed experienced Ruby devs!
2003 - 2003
Intern
2003 - 2003
Work experience at age 16; met founder at an event and requested a placement; introduced to all depts; built an internal on-call rota that showed profile pictures to the whole office; PHP/MySQL.
2001 - 2001
Intern
2001 - 2001
Work experience at age 14; cold outreach to web design agencies in Newcastle and arranged two weeks with Presence; first experience of broadband (stream a movie trailer!); made useful contributions to multiple client projects; HTML/CSS/Javascript.