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Charlie Songhurst

Angel

Recent investments

Seed
€2.2M

The seed round was led by LocalGlobe with backing from Global Founders Capital and angel investors.

"During our research we spoke with hundreds of teams who were struggling to move quickly because of the limitations of their data infrastructure. The teams making the most progress were having to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, across separate solutions, to help them get their data under control and it was taking them up to 12-18 months to purchase and implement it all."
— Oliver Hughes, Co-founder
Series A
£7.0M

The Series A round was led by angel investors including Charlie Songhurst and will fund new platform features and international growth.

"Learning should be accessible for all, but unfortunately, the economics of the publishing industry means that this isn’t always possible. With Perlego, we can change this. Our platform widens access to educational materials at an affordable rate while concurrently driving profitability for the publishing sector. This means that more people will be able to enjoy the opportunities afforded to them by education."
— Gauthier Van Malderen, Founder and CEO
Seed
£1.9M

Pentech Ventures led the round with participation from Stanford Angels of the UK, Ascension Ventures and Charlie Songhurst.

"Our goal is to accelerate product development, from race cars to spaceships and everything in between. We believe that traditional engineering will soon change dramatically. Our dream is to work alongside engineers to enable them to bring exponential growth to product development. We are building the world’s first AI Platform for Engineers – we like to describe it as the J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man."
— Richard Ahlfeld, CEO and founder