RE: Price15 Jan 2025 13:38
Great link @smkr
It's good to see the quality of the people involved here:
"Mike Edwards
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Mike Edwards has started and invested in technology companies for over 20 years. Mike invests in smart people with big ideas, and thrives on helping other entrepreneurs turn a napkin sketch into a prosperous business. He has invested in more than 40 technology start-ups including Punch’d, which was sold to Google, Summify, which was acquired by Twitter, Wander, which was acquired by Yahoo and PasswordBox, which was acquired by Intel. Mike has co-founded several companies including AreaConnect, which was sold to Marchex and Wylie Interactive, which was acquired by Zynga.
Mike is actively involved in growing and supporting the cryptocurrency start-up community and connecting local entrepreneurs with the right investors, mentors and influencers in Silicon Valley, New York, Europe and Asia. Mike co-founded Growlab, a seed stage accelerator focussing on consumer facing digital product, which later merged with Extreme Startups to create Canada’s Highline accelerator, and co-founded and is a board member of Creative Labs, a venture capital backed start-up foundry that builds consumer technology companies by leveraging the Creative Artist Agency’s access to talent and audience.
Mike was the co-founder and president of Argo Blockchain plc, a company established to provide cryptocurrency mining services and which was admitted to the Official List (by way of a Standard Listing) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market for listed securities in August 2018 with a market capitalisation of £48m] Argo had a market capitalisation of £1bn in February 2021. Argo was the first cryptocurrency company to be admitted to the Main Market.
Mike was also the co-founder of: Guild Esports plc, the first esports business to be admitted to trading on the Main Market; and Cellular Goods plc, the first producer of biosynthetic cannabinoids to join the London Stock Exchange."
"Nick Lyth
FINANCE DIRECTOR
Nick Lyth is a UK based, experienced finance director and qualified accountant with extensive experience advising quoted companies including AIM listed companies Univision Engineering Ltd, Altona Energy PLC and Taihua PLC. For two years, Mr. Lyth was Group Finance and Purchasing Director of Belle Group, a manufacturer of engineering equipment operating across Europe, the US and Asia. He was also Head of Finance at Fothergill Group, a UK manufacturer of technical industrial fabrics, between 1996 and 2003. In his early career, Nick was a management accountant at Courtaulds plc and Rotunda plc."