Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

Chatterbox is a refugee-powered online language-learning platform for professionals. It was founded by Afghani refugee Mursal Hedayat MBE and Y Combinet Y Combinator alumna Guillemette Dejean and emerged from Brent Hoberman’s Founders Factory accelerator programme. The company serves corporate clients including Unilever, FTI Consulting and the British Red Cross. Chatterbox raised over £1.5m in a pre-seed round to develop its “diversity as a service” offering and to build new products and services. The funds will also be used to make strategic hires across product development, learning, sales and marketing. The startup has received funding from Mustard Seed MAZE and RLC Ventures, and Softbank invested in a previous round.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

Founded in 2020, Cloaked provides a bundle of consumer privacy and security products such as multiple digital identities (emails, phone numbers, passwords), data removal services, identity theft insurance, VPN, and dark web monitoring. It has added AI-powered call screening and is expanding that screening to text messages, email, and browsing, while testing an AI agent that can take actions like changing compromised passwords. The company reported 10x growth last year, more than 350,000 paying customers, protection of over 10 million identities, cleanup of more than 1 billion records from data broker sites, and processing over 50 million scam or spam phone calls since launching call screening. Cloaked is beginning to roll out enterprise offerings that provide employees alerts, and give CISOs aggregated risk and remediation visibility. The startup has nearly 70 employees and intends to expand hiring across product, engineering, enterprise sales, and international markets, and competes with companies including 1Password, Gaurdio, Firefox, Proton, and Mozilla.