Andy Gibson

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Founder & CEO, Thistle Systems - compliance · consumer fintech · growth

Thistle Systems
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
15+ years experience
University of Manchester
English
Raising
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Thistle Systems, working on consumer finance. Took Thistle Systems from zero to $9 million ARR. Before that: Salesforce and Unilever. Most at home with consumer fintech and marketing. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Questions about consumer finance
  • Second opinions on consumer fintech decisions
  • Early customers and design partners
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Offshore staffing offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
growthlendingmarketingconsumer fintechcompliance
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M seed for API security for university students

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$182k MRR after 28 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$182k MRR after 28 months. Looking for investors who know agritech and can help with hiring.

London, UK · remote OKcompliancemarketinggrowth
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Thistle Systems · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Raised $10 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
    • Took Thistle Systems from zero to $3 million ARR.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
    Salesforce · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 5.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
    Unilever · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Sit on 7 boards.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2014 - Feb 2018
    Salesforce · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 4.
  5. Staff Backend Engineer
    Jul 2011 - Jul 2014
    Amazon · 3 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 8 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Moved 64% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University of Manchester
    BSc, Economics
    1998 - 2001

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