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24 London-based startups that have raised $10M or more in Oct ... - Silicon Canals

University of Liverpool

Co-founder at 11:FS & Monzo  -  Consultant  -  NED  -  Speaker

We've assembled an all-star team of digital Banking, Insurance and FinTech experts to provide deep industry insight, drive digital transformation, and invest in next-generation banking infrastructure. 

We offer:

Insights
We offer a range of research, benchmarking and transformation programmes for bank execs. In addition all of our team are no stranger to keynoting a conference or two. We'll help change the way you think about the future of financial services and put the right insights at your finger tips. 

Action
From strategy and direction through to establishing core teams to deliver next generation digital programmes, we have the right people to make it happen.

Investment
Through our "Banking on Blockchain" fund in partnership with Life.SREDA we are looking to help banks raise their understanding of Blockchain through continual education and engagement... leading to investment in early stage and promising Blockchain startups that will address their key needs.

11:FS

Co-founder / Deputy CEO

Rabobank

Innovation advisory board

Xinja

Board Advisor and Investor

Non Executive Director

In Feb 2015 I co-founded Mondo (now Monzo) - a next generation digital bank - that is taking a radically different approach to financial services. It's time to build a bank directly with your customers, aiming at instant, effortless, powerful personal banking that makes personal finance easy. 

As Chief Customer Officer, I led customer and product development, brand, social media and community development. I built the product team, named the bank (twice!), launched the acclaimed alpha banking app, and wrote and defended the value proposition to the UK regulators.

I've now taken a step back from day-to-day delivery at Monzo to build 11:FS (see above) working across the industry to help banks, insurers, lenders, retailers, and tech companies build next generation financial services. 

Highlights: 
* 100,000 people waiting list for our alpha app
* Breaking the Crowdcube platform with demand for our crowdfunding
* Breaking the world record for equity crowdfunding (£1m in 96 seconds)
* Building a world class product team
* Successfully defending our proposition at the FCA/PRA challenge session

Monzo Bank

Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer

As co-founder of Starling, I spent a year designing and developing the proposition and product around this exciting new digital bank. 

Responsible for Brand, marketing, and product, I personally interviewed customers, defined our customer proposition, recruited a product team, developed prototypes, named the bank, and wrote a substantial portion of the regulatory application and business plan.

Starling Bank

Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer

I bring together and lead small startup teams in tackling corporate challenges around digital disruption. Through awareness of tech, connection with customers, and speed of approach, we do great things really fast. It's all about impact.

Working with small agile teams I've created projects and prototypes for Nectar, Sainsburys, and BP - driving digital innovation in the retail space.

Corporate Startup

CEO & Head of Product

I co-founded Free:formers - a digital transformation company with a unique mission to help corporate executives rapidly get to grips with digital - while creating real social change for disadvantaged young people who learn first hand that the tech. sector isn't only for computer scientists.

Over 18 months I created the product and secured a fantastic set of clients (including Facebook, Google, Sky, Barclays, Aviva, Aimia, and ASOS) grew the team to 16, and secured major investment to power our expansion.

I created our 1-for-1 model, where for every corporate workshop we deliver, we run an equivalent social workshop for unemployed early twenty-somethings, and in turn work with some of these young people to become trainers for our corporate clients. 

And the real measure of our success was the digital training we delivered to over 1,000 young people, just as part of our day to day business. Freeformers has been recognised with a number of national awards: including two "Stevie's", and Biggest Social Impact at the O2 Smarta 100 awards.

Freeformers

Founding CEO & Product Director

As Managing Director of HeartShift, I created and delivered large corporate programmes that share three common factors

1) Technology driven change
2) Tight deadlines and difficult challenges
2) Engaging staff in leading and shaping that change

From the engagement of 1000's of staff on massive systems programmes like The UK Power Networks divestment, to large logistic system implementations, and the integration of a new Power station for EDF. I've lead teams across industries, working with C-level stakeholders, and the shop floor to make big change happen.

Behind every great programme are a group of people who really make it happen. It's all about them!

Heart Shift

Managing Director

Beaufortes helps our clients develop better project leadership skills in order to reduce the risk of project underachievement and failure.

As a director Jason has responsibility for Direct Sales, Thought leadership, and consulting with our top tier clients on the development of project leadership to balance their often excellent project management abilities.

From Supply chain strategy at Tropicana, through a complete business change reporting to the COO at Xafinity Paymaster, to the divestment of Birds Eye from Unilever, I've worked on tough assignments for C-level executives.

Beaufortes Ltd.

Director

I lead a technology startup attempting to disrupt the freelance / interim market with an online professional network - I created and coded the platform in PHP and worked with two other founders on creating a prototype, fund raising, and launching the platform with an innovative affiliate marketing business model.

FreeProNet Limited

Director of Product

Trained and worked as a Systems Architect, designing and developing technical solutions with clients needs in mind for Aon, British Gas, De Beers, Telewest, and UPC (Netherlands).

Enjoying the tougher social and political problems that were key to project and programme success, Jason moved into the European Ventures and Alliances group, and worked on complex multi-stakeholder programmes.

Jason Bates