Portfolio

These are a some of the businesses and services I’ve founded and/or helped to build.

• LoveKnitting

  At LoveKnitting we are building the world’s leading online store for knitters, providing inspiration for new projects and selling the knitting yarn, needles and patterns to make them.

• PaymentBrain

  PaymentBrain is a guide to UK merchant accounts and payment gateways.

• Boudoir Privé

  Boudoir Privé was a subscription service offering monthly luxury beauty boxes containing deluxe samples of beauty products. The business was bought by a French company in the same space which, in turn, was bought by Birchbox, a US company with $11.9 million in funding and backers including Accel Partners and First Round Capital.

• DealBunch

  DealBunch was a group-buying website to help you do fun things in London for less. Our business was acquired by a VC-backed competitor which was itself later bought by TimeOut.

• ReceiptFarm

  ReceiptFarm was an expenses mail-in service to take the hassle out of doing your expenses. It is now operating under new owners as Receipt Bank.

• VouChaCha

  VouChaCha is a mobile app helping you find special offers from nearby businesses. I presented this as an idea at Launch48 and led the team that worked on it for its initial two months. Ben Brown and Julian Polzella subsequently took the project forward and it became part of MyVoucherCodes.

• Localmouth

  Neighbourhood forums for every town, village and suburb in the UK, receiving around 30,000 unique visitors per month.

• PACES Courses

  A directory of PACES courses – training courses for doctors preparing for the MRCP(UK) PACES exam.