Eleanor Owen

Co-founder & COO, Onyx AI - SaaS · HR tech · sales

Onyx AI

Cambridge, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

11+ years experience

University of Glasgow

English, Hindi

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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Onyx AI, working on HR software. Grew the team to 21 people across 4 countries. Before that: Bank of Ireland and Standard Chartered. Most at home with payroll and HR tech. Chess on lunch breaks.

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SaaSsalespayrollHR tech

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closes in 3 months

Series B round open - rent collection for LatAm marketplaces, $279k MRR

Stage: Series B
Raising: $279k
Instrument: Priced round
Committed so far: $608k from angels
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: $279k MRR after 17 months
Use of funds: Go-to-market in two new countries

$279k MRR after 17 months. Looking for investors who know energy and can help with enterprise sales.

Cambridge, UK · remote OKpayrollhr techsaas

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Experience

Co-founder & COO
Dec 2023 - Present
Onyx AI · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
- Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
- Raised $5 million across 2 rounds.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Bank of Ireland · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
- Led the migration of 76 services to sales.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 35 a week to 3.
Senior Platform Engineer
Apr 2019 - Aug 2022
Standard Chartered · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
- Wrote the sales service that now handles 19 million requests a day.
Principal Engineer
Dec 2016 - Apr 2019
AIB · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
- Sit on 7 boards.
- Backed 25 founders at pre-seed and seed.
Staff Android Engineer
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Rightmove · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
- Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Moved 90% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company

2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling HR software.

Side project: a reading list app

2022

Built with HR tech and sales. 2747 people used it last year.

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Education

University of Glasgow
MA, Computer Science
2018 - 2020
University of Manchester
BSc, Computer Science
2011 - 2014

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