Owen Price

Overview

30 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Backed 34 founders at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 36 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Kainos and Goldman Sachs. Most at home with due diligence and venture capital. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Experience

1. General Partner

   Dec 2023 - Present
   Meridian Growth · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
   • Led or co-led 8 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 32 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Site Reliability Engineer

   May 2020 - Dec 2023
   Kainos · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 41% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the due diligence service that now handles 69 million requests a day.
3. Android Engineer

   Aug 2016 - May 2020
   Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
   • Shipped 15 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
4. Principal Engineer

   Jun 2013 - Aug 2016
   PwC · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
   • Backed 43 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 10 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
5. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2010 - Jun 2013
   Wise · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Cambridge, UK
   • Led the migration of 37 services to healthtech.

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Education

1. King's College London

   BSc, Computer Science
   1993 - 1996