Annabel Robinson

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Founder & CEO at Beacon HQ · Edtech

Beacon HQ
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
11+ years experience
UCL
English
Raising
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Beacon HQ, working on edtech. Signed 335 paying customers, 9 of them enterprises. Took Beacon HQ from zero to $4 million ARR. Before that: Amazon and Rightmove. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
mobileeducationcontentgrowth
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - invoice financing for freight forwarders, $54k MRR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$54k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$54k MRR after 27 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$54k MRR after 27 months. Looking for investors who know travel and can help with enterprise sales.

London, UK · remote OKcontenteducationmobile
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Sep 2022 - Present
    Beacon HQ · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Signed 159 paying customers, 22 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 22 people across 2 countries.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
    Amazon · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 22 minutes to under 4.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2017 - Feb 2021
    Rightmove · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  4. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    May 2015 - Jul 2017
    Sainsbury's · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for data platform down from 28 a week to 1.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2026

Built with content and growth. 3005 people used it last year.

Write-up: edtech in practice
2023

A long-form guide to edtech for people starting out.

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Education

  1. UCL
    BSc, Economics
    2011 - 2014

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