Richard Muirhead's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Co-founder and Managing Partner Firestartr, a seed stage investment platform with deal sizes averaging £250k. We currently invest around a deal per month and have backed more than 20 companies including YoYo, ClusterHQ and Adbrain. Partnership with Pantera Capital around Blockchain/Bitcoin. In December 2013, led for them the due diligence on the third largest venture deal in crypto currency to that point at that time. (Co)-founded 4 companies (Orchestream (IPO then: ORCL) ; Nexagent (Now: EDS) ; Tideway (Now: BMC); Fanatix) to a $1.4Bn IPO, 2 Trade Sales with one still growing. Co-founding advisor and/or angel investor to (Rightster, Sportev, Tritto) with 1 IPO and 1 Trade Sale. Investor in Citymapper. Advisor to Evolven (Pitango, Index) and ClusterHQ. Advised Radiant Minds (now Atlassian) and Acunu (now Apple). Closed enterprise software deals from $50k for pre release software to $7.25m for an enterprise license. I wouldn’t dare to claim I am a sales professional, but I believe in leading from the coal face. Negotiated intricate contracts with AT&T, Interoute, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, Cap Gemini, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia amongst many others. While representing Orchestream at the IETF, secured inbound OEM agreement with Intel for their COPS protocol stack, while raising venture from Intel Capital. €70m the largest M&A transaction of 5 I have led or driven. Well over €100m in venture and public markets capital raised from investors including Accel, Apax, Celtic House, Intel Capital, Deutsche Bank and Atlas. Learnt from many mistakes over the years how: - FOCUS is to company building what LOCATION is to building. - That a great market often trumps a great team which in turn often trumps a great product. Built or assisted in building management teams from scratch on 4 or more occasions. Major investor in recruiting and nurturing key individual contributors on the sales, development and corporate development. Hire better than yourself at all times.Co-founding Investor @ Elegantly disruptive food-rich technology-powered start-up delivering high quality, delicious, and nutritious food in less than 30 minutes with the aim of creating this a convenient, healthy habit for busy professionals and parents. Helped bring the co-founding team together, close the first round of investment and mentor the senior team. From January 2015 to Present (10 months) London, United KingdomSeed Investor, Board Advisor & Interim CTO @ From May 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) LondonManaging Partner @ From July 2012 to Present (3 years 4 months) London, United KingdomSenior Industrial Advisor @ Sourcing, developing, securing new deals. Defining and executing on post-deal value creation at Board level. From June 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Munich Area, GermanyCo-Founder @ www.londonlabs.co From August 2010 to Present (5 years 3 months) London, United KingdomAdvisor to Board @ An Index Ventures and Pitango deal in the IT Operations Management space. Brought in by Index to assist out with go-to-market strategy, securing large clients and building key partnerships. From January 2010 to Present (5 years 10 months) New YorkAdvisor to CEO @ From September 2010 to January 2015 (4 years 5 months) London, United KingdomInvestor, Director, Interim CEO @ From October 2012 to November 2014 (2 years 2 months) London, UK; Bellevue, WA; Paris, France and Vienna, Austria.Advisor @ From July 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 2 months) ViennaAdvisor @ From May 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 4 months) Co-Founder & Chairman @ From November 2009 to May 2012 (2 years 7 months) London, United KingdomTechnology Pioneer @ From September 2008 to October 2009 (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomFounder, Chairman & CEO @ From November 2002 to October 2009 (7 years) Entrepreneur-In-Residence @ From July 2001 to November 2002 (1 year 5 months) London, United KingdomCo-Founding Officer, President & SVP @ From January 1996 to May 2001 (5 years 5 months) London, United KingdomStrategy Consultant @ From August 1994 to April 1997 (2 years 9 months) Trainee, Gulf Eternit, Dubai, UAE @ From July 1993 to September 1993 (3 months) Composites Production Engineer @ From July 1992 to September 1992 (3 months) Mechanical Engineer @ From August 1990 to October 1990 (3 months) MA, Engineering @ University of Cambridge From 1991 to 1994 Westminster School From 1985 to 1990 Richard Muirhead is skilled in: Fundraising, Product Management, Product Development, Start-ups, Business Strategy, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Cloud Computing, Go-to-market Strategy, Strategy, Mobile Applications, E-commerce, Angel Investing, Business Modeling, Product Marketing, Big Data, Private Equity, Mobile Devices, SaaS, Management, Professional Services, IT Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Leadership, Business Planning, Corporate Development, Telecommunications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, Online Marketing, Email Archiving, Digital Media, Mobile Technology, PaaS, Venture Financing, Start-up Ventures, Analytics, Executive Management, Team Management