The Parent Payment Revolution TEAM YEAR FOUNDED: Ben Prouty, CEO 2020 (launched 2022) A seasoned entrepreneur, involved in three successful start-ups including Shepper, Lovespace and Streetcar (now Zipcar). TEAM SIZE: Ben holds an MBA from Oxford. 6 I built Shepper from the ground up. Today nearly 200,000 people are signed up to this data collection TARGET CUSTOMERS: service, putting millions of pounds into pockets across the country. Providers of Childcare / Parents Vijay Raghavan, COO RELEVANT INDUSTRIES: Following his MBA, Vijay worked for Bain in India & the USA for 5 years. He then moved to Copenhagen, Payments, check-out, retail where he worked within Maersk's internal consulting arm. Vijay spent the last 2.5 years at Kamet Ventures. banking, retail finance, insurance, government Working at Kamet Ventures, I had the opportunity to develop a number of start-ups from the ground up, many of which are now very successful late stage ventures. David Adams, CTO / CPO David has spent the past 10 years as a product and engineering lead with startupsand enterprise, including as a founding member of Hummingbird Technologies (raised £22M, acquired). David was Product & Technology lead in residence at Kamet Ventures. COST OF LIVING I was a founding member of Hummingbird Technologies. A precision agriculture company that used aerial imagery to assess crop health and optimise performance. It was an incredibly complex process, taking terabytes of data from the field, uploading over a patchy connection, to crunching the imagery and producing actionable data insights to the farmer.
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