Alan is a founding partner at Launchbay Capital and the founder and managing partner of Digital Horizon. His background includes serving as chairman of the board at ANNA Money and director at Mail.ru Group.
Digital Horizon led the Series A round for the financial stability platform, with participation from Ascension Ventures and the UK government.
"This investment allows us to create financial stability for 100s of thousands more customers in the UK. We will offer more products to eliminate financial stress for our customers and partners."
The funding round was led by XTX Ventures to support intraday trading integration and European expansion.
"Despite its challenges, the past year has seen our business and sector thrive, demonstrating the increasing demand for investment services from businesses and their customers alike, and the growing shift to digital wealth. The new investment will help us bring our product to a wider audience and expand our platform and help us to achieve our goal of becoming the leading provider of API-based wealth and investment infrastructure across Europe."
The workplace learning platform has raised a Series A round led by Beringea with backing from several new and existing investors.
"An increasingly competitive hiring market and the rise of the ‘great resignation’ mean employers worldwide are concerned about how they recruit and retain top talent."
The Series B round was co-led by Insight Partners and Dawn Capital to support platform innovation and hiring.
"When we launched Ably five years ago, we had a clear vision that realtime interactions would underpin rather than just augment our everyday digital experiences. Today, our most important daily and digital experiences happen in realtime. It’s business critical now, and organizations realize they must keep up and transform to remain relevant,"