Samuel Hayes

Founder, Slate Energy - product · community · developer tools

Slate Energy

Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

8+ years experience

University of Cambridge

English

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I started Slate Energy to fix developer tooling for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $7 million across 3 rounds. Previously built and sold a small developer tooling company. Before that: Booking.com and Bank of Ireland. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Raising a $2M Series A for customer support automation for property managers

Stage: Series A
Raising: $2M
Instrument: Convertible note
Committed so far: $318k from an existing fund
Lead investor: Lead in place
Traction: 86 paying customers after 18 months
Use of funds: Go-to-market in two new countries

86 paying customers after 18 months. Looking for investors who know travel and can help with enterprise sales.

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Experience

Founder
Jul 2024 - Present
Slate Energy · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Grew the team to 70 people across 5 countries.
- Took Slate Energy from zero to $9 million ARR.
Engagement Manager
Nov 2021 - Jul 2024
Booking.com · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Designed the operating model for a 16 thousand-person transformation.
- Delivered 28 engagements across 8 countries.
Consultant
Dec 2018 - Nov 2021
Bank of Ireland · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
- Ran commercial diligence on 10 deals.
- Led a cost programme that saved a client $170 million.

Projects

Open-source community toolkit

2025

A small library for developer tooling that 732 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a habit tracker

2022

Built with open source and product. 3827 people used it last year.

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Education

University of Cambridge
BA, Economics
2014 - 2017

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