LocalGlobe Notes

Ten lessons from building and selling a company to McKinsey

In 2004, my business partner Doug Wilson and I co-founded Finalta, a financial services benchmarking company. In 2011, we sold the business to McKinsey. I then spent three years as CEO, scaling the business globally.

Our journey from pre-seed to Series A with Otta

Our investment in Gotrade

There is a hidden superpower behind many of the most successful global fintechs. Yes you’ll find product…

Our investment in Pixaera

Ask anyone who has grown up playing video games what their most profound memories are and certain game moments…

What is Product-Market fit?

Ask any entrepreneur or investor about achieving product market fit, and they’ll tell you that once they’d done it, their company started to grow like crazy. They’d built a product or service that resonated with people, and those people were turning into evangelical customers of…

Making banking open - our investment in Yapily

For fear of revealing my age, I first authored a report on “The Future of…

Getting your foot in a VC’s door

This post first appeared in the Financial Times on Saturday 2nd June 2012 and was written specifically for the FT. I’ve re-published here because in the current market, there are more companies being formed/started than ever. Records are being set in every geography for…

Our investment in Sirona

How this Direct Air Capture team addressed our traditional concerns for this…