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Co-founder & CTO at Verge Bio · Edtech

Verge Bio
Dublin, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)
15+ years experience
University of Edinburgh
English
Raising
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Overview

I started Verge Bio to fix edtech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Verge Bio from zero to $11 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small edtech company. I coach a junior basketball team.

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Series A round open - micro-pensions for LatAm marketplaces, 68 paying customers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$775k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
68 paying customers after 29 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

68 paying customers after 29 months. Looking for investors who know supply chain and can help with hiring.

Dublin, Ireland · remote OKmobileeducationcontent
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Apr 2022 - Present
    Verge Bio · 4 yr 6 mo · Contract · Dublin, Ireland
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
    • Signed 235 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 18 people across 3 countries.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
    Sainsbury's · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Dublin, Ireland
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 40 a week to 2.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 6.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Feb 2017 - Jul 2020
    ASOS · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Led the migration of 49 services to education.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    May 2015 - Oct 2016
    PwC · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Wrote the mobile service that now handles 28 million requests a day.
  5. Staff Data Engineer
    Jul 2011 - May 2015
    AstraZeneca · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Taught SQL to 130 non-analysts.
    • Cut forecast error from 26% to 10% across 1987 SKUs.

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Education

  1. University of Edinburgh
    MA, Economics
    2009 - 2011
  2. London School of Economics
    BSc, Economics
    2006 - 2009

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