Cerys Smith

Co-founder & COO at Basil Finance | ex-Rightmove

Basil Finance

London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

11+ years experience

University of Warwick

English, Mandarin

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Founder of Basil Finance (developer tooling). 11 years of building before that. Grew the team to 22 people across 5 countries. Raised $25 million across 3 rounds. Most at home with open source and Rust. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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developer toolsopen sourceproductRustcommunity

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Raising a $4M pre-seed for data labelling for CPG brands

Stage: Pre-seed
Raising: $4M
Instrument: Convertible note
Committed so far: $760k from angels
Lead investor: Lead in place
Traction: $98k MRR after 12 months
Use of funds: Engineering hires and the first sales team

$98k MRR after 12 months. Looking for investors who know energy and can help with regulatory approvals.

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Experience

Co-founder & COO
Aug 2024 - Present
Basil Finance · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Took Basil Finance from zero to $7 million ARR.
- Signed 332 paying customers, 19 of them enterprises.
Associate Product Manager
Mar 2022 - Aug 2024
Rightmove · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Took creator activation from 18% to 42% in three quarters.
- Ran 185 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
Principal Product Manager
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Standard Chartered · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Backed 59 founders at pre-seed and seed.
Product Manager
Jan 2017 - Nov 2019
AstraZeneca · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 13 days to 3.
- Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
Director of Product
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Revolut · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Launched the creator product in 12 markets.
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

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Education

University of Warwick
BSc, Business Administration
2012 - 2015

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