Simon Menashy

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Mr. Simon Menashy serves as a Partner at MMC Ventures. He also serves as Board Observer at StorageOS, Ondat, MUBI, and Appear Here. He serves as Board Member at Signal AI, Ably, Masabi, Inspection2, DigitalGenius, and Lookiero. He is an Angel Investor. He joined MMC in 2011. He is a member of the Investment Committee and co-leads the investment team. He is one of the most active investors in the European early-stage venture market, having led, sponsored, or worked on close to 100 deals with more than 40 companies over the past decade. He focuses on AI- and data science-driven businesses across multiple sectors, typically with a SaaS or subscription business model, and supports them in scaling up. He served as Board Member at Senseye. He leads new and follow-on investments and supports a number of MMC portfolio companies. He sits on the Board at Brightpearl and works with a number of other MMC portfolio companies including Admedo, Interactive Investor, and Opal. He served as a Board Member at MUBI. He is especially focused on SaaS and other B2B companies solving large real-world business problems. This takes him across a variety of markets including fintech, information and analytics, retail, media, and advertising. He also served as Board Member at Sky-Futures. He believes AI technologies and cutting-edge data science will bring increasingly rapid change to all of these, and spends a lot of his time meeting companies leading the charge or creating the tools. His background is in tech and media consulting at Deloitte, working with clients including the BBC, Virgin Media, BT, Thompson Reuters, and Ofcom as part of the TMT Strategy team in London. He has a BSc in Physics and Space Research and a postgraduate diploma in Business Administration from the University of Birmingham.